What is a Peltier

[Garfield]

What is a Peltier? I know it is some sort of cooling device. But, what is it specificaly?

[UnseenMenace]

On the front of overclockers.com there are articles all about Peltiers perhaps these are worth a read

http://www.overclockers.com/topiclist/index21.asp#PELTIERS

[Yodums]

It can be desribed in a paragraph here it goes:

Peltiers is a pad, containing two sides: a hot side and a very cold side. You will put the cold side on the CPU and the cooler you cool the hot side the cooler the cool side will get.

Although there's a risk of condensation involved with peltiers and you might have to buy a new PSU if you want to utilize it since there are some which are very powerful 172 watts. Although peltiers shouldn't be used with air cooling mainly water cooling and you'll see some extreme results of near 0 Celius.

[AntmanMike]

A peltier is a ceramic pda that contains a medium that when charged, it has one VERY COLD side and one VERY HOT side. Personally, i would stack them out of the case and into a fridge, but i dont have any .:beer:

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by AntmanMike
A peltier is a ceramic pda that contains a medium that when charged, it has one VERY COLD side and one VERY HOT side. Personally, i would stack them out of the case and into a fridge, but i dont have any .:beer:

and you have money to waste it seems :)

[AntmanMike]

No i just dont have any peltiers. Im strapped for cash on Project Condensation.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by AntmanMike
No i just dont have any peltiers. Im strapped for cash on Project Condensation.
heh, they are pretty costly :(

[AntmanMike]

Im saving up my money for a motherboard and CPU to test on it.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by AntmanMike
Im saving up my money for a motherboard and CPU to test on it.

now and days u can get a ghz setup for under 250 :D

[AntmanMike]

Project Condensation is a project where we are going to cool a Pentium 4 system without any waterproofing materials present on electrical components.

:)