Sure it's possible. "Back in the day" before water, air cooling was all there was. And plenty of people were running peltiers then.
I'd suggest a hole in the side panel, with some sort of duct running down to the HS fan. Personally, I'd say have the HS fan blowing out through the duct out into your room.
But I'm sure others will tell you to have the fan sucking cool air in from the duct and blowing down onto the HS.
Yeah it is, but I do not think its wise.
1) Condensation
2) Air can not dissipitate enough heat from the peltier to make the peltier effective, but this depends on what peltier you use.
If you use a peltier that is too small it might be worse than standard HSF.
To cool a modern CPU that puts out 60-80W (at stock speed and voltage) you'll need a hellacious-sized peltier, probably about 200W or more, and there aren't many heatsinks that can effectively dissipate that kind of heat from the hot side. Ever seen an old-school Swiftech MC2000? Four 80mm fans on the heatsink... :Q and that was for cooling a CPU that put out less than 60W. I'd go with straight aircooling or straight watercooling.
Peltiers create a delta T. Therefore if the heat sink is hotter, then the differential is that much hotter. The cooler you keep the "hot side" of the Peltier, the cooler the bottom side will be. So fan cooling or other method would give you the best results. don't cut corners.
Wow, thanks for the input. I was about to purchase a 80W peltier (or something like that). Now I guess it won't come even close to cooling my o/c pentium 4.
Originally posted by: Blurry
Gasp..almost choked on my carrot
Yes, where can I get one of those ThermalTake SubZero coolers? 26 C idle temp sounds might nice to me?
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