Koolance + Peltier idea!

[Thingi]

I've got a Koolance Mk2 case, and it works really well, however I want it to work even better........

My idea is to get one of those heatsinks which attach to an 80mm fan, attach a peltier to it and then attach a waterblock to it, then finally cover the whole waterblock and peltier in silcone sealant to prevent condensation.

I want to put the unit between the Video Card cooler and the CPU cooler to reduce the impact of heat from the vid card.

p.s. The fan will sucks instead of blow, I want to have the heat exit the case so I don't increae the ambient temp. I plan to put my 'unit' in the space where the extra 80mm fan goes in the case. Luckily there's enough room for my unit due to not having a massive heatsink on my CPU :)

Has anybody else tried this kind of thing yet?
If so what were the results like?

regards

thingi

[Thingi]

oops wrong forum, damn bloddy cordless stuff :(

[SpeeDj]

*Moved to cooling, might get some better responses here! :cool: SpeeDj*

[ButcherUK]

Chillers of that nature don't tend to work well. Direct peltier cooling is a much better method, I'm not sure if a koolance will cut it or not though.

[Holst]

So you planning on building a waterchiller.

I wouldnt expect it to work very well.

Even using a high powered 220watt peltier you wouldnt drop your water temperature by very much.

Especially as you will be adding another 220watts of heat to the air inside your case (unless you make the chiller external)

A peltier wont work efficently unless the hot side is colled sufficently and a normal HSF wont be able to cope with a big peltier.

You might get a slight performance increase, but you probably wont.

Then you have the problem of powering the peltier. You will need a external PSU for it unless you use a smaller pelt and have a monster PSU.

If you want to use a peltier in your system put it on your CPU.

Sorry if im sounding negative. I just dont want you to go to allot of trouble only to acheive a small performance gain.