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Where do you install them? Also do you guys think it'll make a big performance increase without it? THanks.
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Cold Plate Description
A cold plate is one of the components of a cooling system utilizing thermoelectric coolers (TECs or Peltier Effect modules) to reduce CPU temperatures. Because TECs of a useful heat capacity are physically larger than the die being cooled, it is necessary to insert a so-called "cold plate" between the small hot die and the much larger cold side of the TEC to utilize the heat pumping capacity of the overhanging area.
This is precisely the same function that the base of an air-cooled heat sink serves - to distribute the heat to the fins from which it will be removed by forced convection. And for this reason, the cold plate material and thickness considerations apply generally to air cooled heat sinks as well.
sup3rcarrx8 said:What's a peltier? (sorry i'm a noob at watercooling)