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- Jan 7, 2001
I got this idea from the theory of cooling pressurized water reactors (nuclear, that is). I've never heard it mentioned anywhere, so either a) no-one's thought of it or b) it's crap and doesn't work. The symbol sums it up... I'm probably smoking crack. 
Anyway... here's how it might work...
You put a heavy-duty peltier on your CPU (say 150-180w) and watercool it. But instead of it going to a radiator, it goes to a reservoir with more peltiers on it, which cool the water in the reservoir and transfer the heat to a second watercooling jacket, which then goes to a radiator or whatever.
Now, my theory is that the primary circuit would be much colder than a traditional single-circuit system, but the secondary circuit would run much hotter. This wouldn't matter though, because you could keep the whole secondary circuit outside your case where it wouldn't really matter how hot it got (so long as the temperature stabilised somewhere that allowed the primary circuit to remain effective).
The problems I can see are:
a) the secondary circuit might actually exceed 100C, and if it did you'd have to keep it pressurized, which is difficult to engineer and would need a lot more than a few hose clamps to hold together.
b) nuclear reactor cores are a lot hotter than CPUs and at this temperature level, it just might not be worth it.
What do you guys think?
Anyway... here's how it might work...
You put a heavy-duty peltier on your CPU (say 150-180w) and watercool it. But instead of it going to a radiator, it goes to a reservoir with more peltiers on it, which cool the water in the reservoir and transfer the heat to a second watercooling jacket, which then goes to a radiator or whatever.
Now, my theory is that the primary circuit would be much colder than a traditional single-circuit system, but the secondary circuit would run much hotter. This wouldn't matter though, because you could keep the whole secondary circuit outside your case where it wouldn't really matter how hot it got (so long as the temperature stabilised somewhere that allowed the primary circuit to remain effective).
The problems I can see are:
a) the secondary circuit might actually exceed 100C, and if it did you'd have to keep it pressurized, which is difficult to engineer and would need a lot more than a few hose clamps to hold together.
b) nuclear reactor cores are a lot hotter than CPUs and at this temperature level, it just might not be worth it.
What do you guys think?