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Originally posted by Phuzun
Right, you are cooling water that is only sitting in the water block for a short amount of time. It wont be able to cool as effectively. If its in the closed loop and has water in a res then its just cooling water that cant go any where. If he had a metal res that had a gallon of water or whatever and it wasnt going through a pump with no time to cool down, then it would do something. The reason why we pump water through a block so fast is to make sure to get alot of water to cool a processor. But if you are trying to run the entire sink through that, then it wont cool down. It will just keep cycling to fast to do anything effectively.
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This is completely wrong. The same principles apply when heating water with a waterblock, or chilling water with a TEC.
If the TEC is, "just cooling water that cant go anywhere", then all heat removed by the TEC will have to conduct through that 'stagnant' water. Water is not a particularly good conductor of heat.