Anything better than watercooling?

[happy medium]

Recommendations or links are helpfull .thanks

 

[HeaterCore]

Better than water-cooling? Phase-change, if you're willing to shell out $600-900 and put up with compressor noise. Look into Asetek's Vapochill line, or Chip-Con's Prometeia Mach II series. Might be better off with Asetek's solution, if only b/c they're a bigger company with better support.

-HC-

 

[canadageek]

try a peltier cooler witha water block on it. it uses an electric current to draw heat away from one sode, and dissipates it from the other. they're fairly cheap, and can cool below zero C (not sure of actual numbers) they should run on 12V too, so you can plug it right in to the power supply. the watercooler dissipates exces heat from the hot side of the peltier.
they should be cheap, aroun 30-50 dollars, i think

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: canadageek
try a peltier cooler witha water block on it. it uses an electric current to draw heat away from one sode, and dissipates it from the other. they're fairly cheap, and can cool below zero C (not sure of actual numbers) they should run on 12V too, so you can plug it right in to the power supply. the watercooler dissipates exces heat from the hot side of the peltier.
they should be cheap, aroun 30-50 dollars, i think

Peltier isn't as easy as that. It requires a powerful PSU (good TEC rigs use a second PSU), you have to go to great lengths to isolate your CPU, the ZIF it sits in, and mb away from possible condensation. In many cases, people use water-cooling to pull heat from TEC blocks anyway. While phase change and evaporative cooling can get you extremely low temps, a well designed water-cooler can take you quite a ways towards muscular overclocks.

 

[arnosmith]

My watercooling gets my winnie to 3G's, a 50% overclock With a peltier on the other heand, I guess it would be awesome... I just can't find any good guides on how to mount and maintain the peltier...

 

[HardWarrior]

Most TEC units come with complete instructions. Check out the Swifttech units at frozenCPU.

 

[ribbon13]

I have a dually, so going phase change wasn't an option without a lot of time I didn't have. So I got dual TECs, and each one takes a PSU.

http://sidewindercomputers.com/dopro36.html
http://sidewindercomputers.com/bldopro43for.html
http://sidewindercomputers.com/blicextiiitr.html
http://sidewindercomputers.com/mese6024vsio.html

 

[arnosmith]

Well, if mounting and maintaining the Peltier is a lot of work, I won't bother... I just wanted to roughly see how it is done...

 

[Kremerica]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
I have a dually, so going phase change wasn't an option without a lot of time I didn't have. So I got dual TECs, and each one takes a PSU.

http://sidewindercomputers.com/dopro36.html
http://sidewindercomputers.com/bldopro43for.html
http://sidewindercomputers.com/blicextiiitr.html
http://sidewindercomputers.com/mese6024vsio.html

do you have a pic of your case with all this ?
wondering how big it would have to be, I mean the radiator is 3 120mm fans alone!