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peltier
- Thread starter Blueface
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It should work straight away. What were your temps before installing the TEC and were you using the Alpha? If your HSF is not good enough you will get higher temps than you would without it as it now also has to dissipate the heat generated by the peltier as well as what is produced by the CPU.
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Thanks, the temp before is 34 c and using alpha heatsink. I disassembled the cpu and peltier and clean up the artic silver that I used on the peltier. It start to get cold but not very cold. Like Wild Andy said to get sub zero temp needs water cooling.
Hi , The peltier should cool much more if it is correcly installed and gets the power it needs! I have had a simulair setup and the idle temp was 3 to 4 celsius, and full load was about the 20's celsius. what kind of fans do you have on the HS ? The best way to power a peltier is by giving it it's own powersupply!!
Good luck
Good luck
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Okay, try couple of things. Lapp your heatsink. Use a cold plate. If you can, clamp your cold plate directly to the heatsink, then use clip/bracket to mount to HSF/TEC/Coldplate to CPU.
For a TEC to work properly it needs several things. Sufficient power, sufficient cooling and sufficient mounting pressure. This latter item often gets overlooked but a TEC requires around 150~300 lbs/sq inch of clamping pressure, depending on it's specs. If you tried to achieve that against your cpu you'd have one dead puppy - hence the cold plate being directly clamped to the HSF with the TEC in between.
One other advantage of a cold plate is that it acts as a reservoir and prevents wild temperature fluctuations which can cause thermal shock and mechanical failure.
For a TEC to work properly it needs several things. Sufficient power, sufficient cooling and sufficient mounting pressure. This latter item often gets overlooked but a TEC requires around 150~300 lbs/sq inch of clamping pressure, depending on it's specs. If you tried to achieve that against your cpu you'd have one dead puppy - hence the cold plate being directly clamped to the HSF with the TEC in between.
One other advantage of a cold plate is that it acts as a reservoir and prevents wild temperature fluctuations which can cause thermal shock and mechanical failure.
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I used delta fan on the heatsink, with al cold plate, right now idle at 10c and load at 26c, But when I benchmark with sandra the dhrystone only 873 mips and the whetstone only 336 mflops on p3 700 mhz. what might be the problems now ? I used kingmax 128 pc150, annihilator 2, cdr,cdrw, 1 hd and 1 scsi cheetah 15000 rpm with adaptec 29160. Is it not enough power to run the cpu? thanks again
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Its enough power for the CPU, but not enough for the pelt. It could be that you need to get a better grade PSU or add a second to power the pelt.
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Pull your peltier and see what your cpu benches come to, if they are much improved then likley it's the psu. I'm running a P3-550E @ 850 Vcore 1.9 "original panaflow orb" HSF, no peltier and my cpu does 2313D/1148W so I'd say your scores are not too good.
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Hello again, I took the peltier a part and reassemble again, this time I did not screw it very tight and it is back to normal again. Last time, I screwed the cpu and backplate to hard(luckily did not kill the cpu) that's why the score is very low in sandra. Right now, the score is back to normal and the temp at idle around 15c. I'm happy with it now. It definitely need second psu but I'm done, tired already! Thank you guys!
