Peltier cooling

[DerReisende]

Hi!

I want to make my PC more quiet. If I use a peltier cooling without a cooler (don't know, if this is the right english word, I mean that thing which makes the air circulating), what temperature do I have to expect on my Athlon 900?
Did anybody try this out already?

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DerReisende
TheTraveler

[killem1x1]

If you are `suggestingthat you will use a pelt without a HS or a waterblock, you will burn up the chip, along with the pelt. Pelts have a "hot-side", and require some form of cooling as well.

[YMAN]

If you mean With a heatsink and without a fan
your better off NOT using a peltier!
(I would not try it though especially on an AMD cores)

I would possibly try wattercooling!

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[train22]

peltiers really prove themselves useless, lol, they are powersucking creatures yet they still need to be cooled like crazy, people are really over-reacting, it's not that big of a deal. It's like making electricty by riding an electric-making bike... great you can make it, but you are really killing yourself to do it and you spend a whole lot more body energy trasforming it into electricity. Sorry if that was a horrible analogy but I hope I still came through.

[Phil]

Originally posted by train22
peltiers really prove themselves useless, lol, they are powersucking creatures yet they still need to be cooled like crazy, people are really over-reacting, it's not that big of a deal. It's like making electricty by riding an electric-making bike... great you can make it, but you are really killing yourself to do it and you spend a whole lot more body energy trasforming it into electricity. Sorry if that was a horrible analogy but I hope I still came through.

A peltier used to be quite practical, until chips started throwing out like 100W+, for example on a coppermine you can get away with using a mid powered pelt and a heatsink and get sub ambient cpu temps. But with p4's and tbirds you need to use such good cooling on the hot side that you would be better off using that cooling straight on the cpu.

[train22]

Originally posted by Phil


A peltier used to be quite practical, until chips started throwing out like 100W+, for example on a coppermine you can get away with using a mid powered pelt and a heatsink and get sub ambient cpu temps. But with p4's and tbirds you need to use such good cooling on the hot side that you would be better off using that cooling straight on the cpu.

I understood that, but I wouldn't even do that on the old systems because I like to know that what I use in my cooling is dependless and doesn't have any requirements and would have linear effects on all systems if you know what I mean...for example the SK6 will always cool to a certain extent and gradaully and slowly heat up as it comes by hotter cpus, but with these wattage suckers, you can't be sure and once they pass they fall like dominos.

[Colin]

A more cost effective solution to speed would be to buy a new 1.4 gig chip and overclock it with aircooling. When you hit the wall you can try watercooling and only when that's not enough play with pelts.

That said, if you want to play with pelts for the fun of it, a 156 watt or a 172 watt pelt with good watercooling would probably get your temps close to -10C at idle and between 10C and 20C at full load. With a volt mod and the extra cooling your 900 would be a little more peppy.