Thinking of trying pelts...

[BrianH2O]

I thinking of trying to PeltCool my system. Currently I have
Asus P4B533-E
Intel 2.66 oc 3.1
Radeon 9700Pro

Parallel Dual Loop water cooled with 2 x ViaAqua 1300, 2 x BIX rad, DD Maze 3 and DD GeForce4 blocks.

I was thinking of an 80w for the GPU and around 170w for the CPU. The problem I have is that neither of my blocks are made for pelts. I would need cold plates between the GPU/CPU and the pelts.

How do I attched the pelt to the blocks?

For the CPU, the Maze 3 is 76x54mm. If I made the bottom cold plate the same size, can I tap holds into the maze 3 to hold it tight? Would 4 holes be enough?

For the GPU, it is 41 x 41mm. An 80w pelt is 40 x 40mm. It would seem that I cannot use the same trick here. Could I clamp glue, using AS expxy, a 50x50mm cold plate to the bottom of the GF4 block. Then use another 50x50 mm bottom cold plate screwed into the top one?

I know that a lot of pressure on the pelt is necessary for it to work well.

[nunez1980]

For the CPU, the Maze 3 is 76x54mm. If I made the bottom cold plate the same size, can I tap holds into the maze 3 to hold it tight? Would 4 holes be enough?

thats a great idea and the 4 holes would be enough.


Parallel Dual Loop water cooled with 2 x ViaAqua 1300, 2 x BIX rad, DD Maze 3 and DD GeForce4 blocks.

you must try it and found out if it works, and also you could try one pump, rad, with ddmaze 3 and the other pump, rad with dd geforce 4 block, but again the best way is by trying out and finding out which one looks good and works good too.


Could I clamp glue, using AS expxy, a 50x50mm cold plate to the bottom of the GF4 block.

no, don't even try to glue anything, that will kill performance and your equipment very easyly, never glue thing with peltier because when it gets real cold, the glue will loose is power...:(

I know that a lot of pressure on the pelt is necessary for it to work well.

so true, experts suggested 100-150 pounds of pressure, for optimum performance.

also don't forget about condencesion, and about a power supply for tec, and I guess other will give you more advice, and also try searching ther forum and other forum, most questions had already been answered, and good luck, right now I'm putting my together just waiting on finals parts from case-mod.com the dammi* are going for a vacation, I hope they send my stuff, and take care and wish you good luck...:D

[Warlord2]

go with the 226watt pelt for the cpu, the powersupply is much easyer to find and I even think there is a ATX sparkle 400watt psu that gives you enough amps on the 12v line.

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also, ditch the BIX, those things are Pieces of ****, they can barely handle the heatload of an Athlon, let alone a Pelt.

[2ntense]

I have great temps with my 226w tec with my BIX. So far so good. I really don't think that it's a piece of ****. I guess a heater core might be better with a shroud but the BIX kills for its size I think.

[BrianH2O]

nunez1980

I currently am running the dual loop setup. That is why I am thinking of pelts also.

That is good news about my thoughts for the CPU.

For the GPU, I could attach the top 50x50 mm cold plate to the block with 4 recessed screws that would be within the 40x40mm pelt. Then attached the bottom 50x50mm cold plate to the top cold plate with recessed screws outside the pelt such as in the attached pic.

I was thinking of running the 80w pelt from my 520w Vantec stealth PSU. Then getting
MEAN WELL S-320-12 (http://www.dangerden.com/mall/peltiers.asp) to power the CPU... probably a 225watt.

I think that all this should work?

[BrianH2O]

Oops, the file did not attach.... now I do not have the option to attach one. Strange?

Oh, well, hope you understand what I meant?

[Newguy123]

If you use a 226Watt TEC is that only good if u use it with a water cooled system or could i use my Alpha Pal 6035 Heatsink and fan for that kinda TEC?

[BrianH2O]

I believe that a water cooled system would be required to properly cool a 226w pelt.

Or live in Canada for the winter and duct -20C air from outside over your CPU (lol)