well, seeing as a 24V power supply good for 12+amps was a bit more than I could afford, I sold the 172W, and bought a 156W 15V peltier...I'm scouring the auctions, but i'm going to buy a 12V 25A power supply...I've got a few ebay auctions I'm watching...but they're going for under $100...
Now I've just about got delivery of all my components, except my waterblock(Swiftech) and my radiators(OCWC)...
But i'm trying to figure out a way to get rid of the heat from the peltier...I was planning to use an aircooled radiator just after the waterblock, and then another radiator submerged in liquid inside a little dorm fridge...I figured the first radiator might pull about 100W of heat away, and then the radiator in the fridge would do the rest...
I thought it would be a good plan, but people are telling me that it will still be too much heat for the dorm fridge(would be about 120W for the peltier, +80W for the cpu, -100W from the first radiator = about 100W of heat)...they say the fridge MIGHT pull the heat off, but it will be running 24/7, and will destroy itself quickly...
so I don't konw what to do now...I"m searching for lab chillers and stuff, but they're really expensive...I probably have MAYBE another $200 I can spend for chilling the water....any suggestions?
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