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will peltier hurt my videocard?
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By not putting the hot side of the peltier facing your gpu, lol.
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Ah, you need to setup some insulation with neoprene and grease. You can find out how atwww.phase-change.com
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Basically, to prevent any water or condensation touching your videocard you need to insulate the board itself, and any exposed surfaces of the peltier or cold plate to make sure everthing's sealed together pretty much. Check out the guide at phase-change.com as VisEtVirtus said.
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what were your temps with that pelt?
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I remember it, the guy was running his system overnight and his pump failed. The pelt was heating the card for hours before he was able to shut it off.
I just cover everything with like 3MM of dielectric grease and I havnt had a problem with condendation. (Its still there, but it cant touch anything because its all sealed up)
If you want a perminante soloution use some Dow Corning conformal coating spray and that will pretty much preminatly seal it.
I just cover everything with like 3MM of dielectric grease and I havnt had a problem with condendation. (Its still there, but it cant touch anything because its all sealed up)
If you want a perminante soloution use some Dow Corning conformal coating spray and that will pretty much preminatly seal it.
naw that black crap is mold from condensation ain't it?.If it is I've heard to keep it from building up on ur pins and crap back there is to smear alittle silicon on them to keep them from getting wet and corroding.The silicon won't let the air or moisture get to the cold on the back to condensate.
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I dont think the card wouldve ran long enough for mold to form before he realized condesation was forming......
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If you cool the pelt that won't happen. That doesn't look like it was caused by condenstation. Looks like something probably happened to the cooling loop, and that pelt + gpu heat burnt the hell out of the card.
If you cool the pelt properly, and insulate that won't happen. The card won't get all that cold, so all your probably need is neoprene around the block, like the mcw50-t, and some dielectric grease around the gpu, and on the back, and a foam gasket on the back. If you put a serious cooler on there you might wanna cover the card in seal string or neoprene, and put some dielectric grease in the agp socket.
btw...in the background there is a girls gone wild infomerial on...those guys have the best job ever created. I should take classes on how to do that for a living instead of calculus.
If you cool the pelt that won't happen. That doesn't look like it was caused by condenstation. Looks like something probably happened to the cooling loop, and that pelt + gpu heat burnt the hell out of the card.
If you cool the pelt properly, and insulate that won't happen. The card won't get all that cold, so all your probably need is neoprene around the block, like the mcw50-t, and some dielectric grease around the gpu, and on the back, and a foam gasket on the back. If you put a serious cooler on there you might wanna cover the card in seal string or neoprene, and put some dielectric grease in the agp socket.
btw...in the background there is a girls gone wild infomerial on...those guys have the best job ever created. I should take classes on how to do that for a living instead of calculus.
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