boardsportsrule
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hey man...dont give up...there are ways around it..just hang in there...im still workin on my stuff so when i am thru ill give u what i have found...this is not the end!
Originally posted by: boardsportsrule
ya get a swiftech waterblock(mcw-5002 peltier) i thought u were an amd guy
Originally posted by: pelikan
IMHO using multiple pelts on a system that you use for anything more than bechmarks and testing is not a good idea. They are a pretty severe fire hazard. If the pump stops or you get a leak the pelt can easily burn your house down.
Originally posted by: pelikan
Even if you do live in 40C temps plain watercooling will work fine. A very good watercooling system will keep your water within a few degrees above ambient. You only need to cool your cpu and video card. Good case ventilation will take care of everything else. If you are worried about your hard drive then you could watercool that too.
Originally posted by: joseangel
Originally posted by: pelikan
IMHO using multiple pelts on a system that you use for anything more than bechmarks and testing is not a good idea. They are a pretty severe fire hazard. If the pump stops or you get a leak the pelt can easily burn your house down.
Is that so? I mean, when pump stops, the hotplate gets extremely hot, but, hot enough to make it burn? I guess the best way would be using temperature sensors on both cold plate and hot plate. On cold plate to avoid condensation and on hotplate to stop the system when overheated.
Are not watter cooling systems usually including a water temperature sensor so when pump stops and water overheats the PC receives an alert or is powered off?
The more I learn about this, the more I think this cooling technologies are not mature enough.
Originally posted by: pelikan
Even if you do live in 40C temps plain watercooling will work fine. A very good watercooling system will keep your water within a few degrees above ambient. You only need to cool your cpu and video card. Good case ventilation will take care of everything else. If you are worried about your hard drive then you could watercool that too.
Do you think so? Would the radiators be able to dissipate heat from, lets say, 45ºC into 40ºC ambient? That means that chips would have a top on almost ambient temperature, and all of them can handle that. Have you seen it anywhere? I mean a cooling test with that ambient temperature?
Cannot remmember if 40ºC is too much for a hard disk. I'll check that.
Thanks for the warning and the suggestion, pelikan.