Cooling w/ a "Peltier Heat Pump"

NILL · Post by **NILL** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:03 pm

Has anyone ever heard of this? http://www.sciplus.com/recommend.cfm?re ... 6start%3D1 When I saw this I started thinking that this would work great if you sandwich it between the processor and the heat sink. It says it can "quickly create a 65° C temperature differential in a no load situation." It seams like such a great idea that someone else would have done it already.

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltier_de ... ier_effect

Post by **Digger[NJLP]** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:10 pm

It looks like it could work but the statement

Please note: you must use a heat sink on the hot side or the junction will fry itself, since it can quickly create a 65° C temperature differential in a no load situation.

How much higher is the temperature differential going to go in a high load situation. Like an overworked CPU running a first person shooter?

NILL · Post by **NILL** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:16 pm

I don't know. I order one to test it out. I how think that it would have to make a positive difference considering it can bring the temperature against the CPU below room temperature which not even a water cooled system can do.

Does anybody have a old computer that we could put this in and run 3DMark. Have a temp gauge on both side of the pump would be necessary. Maybe a setup meant for a duel CPU motherboard.

If not I could just take some other heat source and use a inferred sensor to see.

War_Ghoul · Post by **War_Ghoul** » Sat May 05, 2007 10:10 am

There are several commercial products out that use this technology, some with a heatsink / fan combo. Others that use it as part of a water cooling setup.

A heatsink/fan setup was reviewed in Maximum PC this month with good results.

This is the model:
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_de ... ductID=571

NILL · Post by **NILL** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:29 pm

War_Ghoul wrote:There are several commercial products out that use this technology, some with a heatsink / fan combo. Others that use it as part of a water cooling setup.

A heatsink/fan setup was reviewed in Maximum PC this month with good results.

This is the model:
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_de ... ductID=571

Damn. I knew thus would have been a good idea and if it was someone else would have done it already.