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littleowl
03-03-2006, 05:15 AM
When you take frosted pics how long does it take to frost up? 1min 5 min 30min ??
[XC] MarioMaster
03-03-2006, 06:56 AM
It's a 90 watt that I got for $3 + shipping. I later bought two more because of the great price. Here's mine running off my custom power supply I made. It's being cooled by an Intel Xeon server cpu heatsink and a 120mm Papst fan. It took about 5 minutes to make this heat sink frost up like this. The heat sink is normally black.
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/1790/dsci01637qu.jpg
littleowl
03-06-2006, 11:53 AM
thanks mario that is what I needed to here!! I see your post else where but I couldn't remember how long it takes to frost up!! I have a tec and when I put it on my new amd 64 3200 I went into cmos at boot up and it had me running 39C I didn't know if I just didn't have it seated on the cpu right or not! I took it off. I started running it thought I would take a frost pic seems how I never remember! I went in to take a shower and heck it still was not frosted up! I think my tec died on me! it still gets cold but not cold enough to frost! I found 2 cracks on either side of the tec, so I broke the one side on off and resoldered the red connector still the same. Any one have any ideas on if I can fix it!??
littleowl
03-06-2006, 12:00 PM
another problem I am having with conformal is I see me to be getting it everywhere!! that sucks makes for a lot of cleaning!
[XC] MarioMaster
03-06-2006, 12:54 PM
You might've cracked the peltier when mounting it on your processor somehow, the problem is once you break a peltier, there isn't much you can do if it is cracked. I would imagine something is wrong as mine frosts quite easily. I took a picture once mine reached the lowest temp. Yours should at least frost.

Edit: That's F on the thermometer, it works out to be -18.1 in celcius.
http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/9783/dsci01894ni.jpg
littleowl
03-06-2006, 05:17 PM
I was going to post a couple pics of it, or I should say where I know it is cracked! but I took them with my phone on the way out the door and well they are way too bad for me to post!! I will try and take some in the morning when I get home!!
littleowl
03-08-2006, 09:20 PM
sorry I only have 2.0 mega pix and it will not take a very good pic so you can see what I am talking about!
Revivalist
03-08-2006, 11:16 PM
This happened in about 2 minutes. . . .

http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/4753/06frost8og.th.jpg (http://img345.imageshack.us/my.php?image=06frost8og.jpg)
littleowl
03-08-2006, 11:36 PM
rev do you think I could make the tec I have start working again! I think it is just the corner that is cracked some
Revivalist
03-09-2006, 08:55 AM
rev do you think I could make the tec I have start working again! I think it is just the corner that is cracked someHonestly, I have no clue. . . . But they're really not that much to just replace it. Thermal Enterprises on ebay (http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZthermalenterprises) has them for $7-$20.
snipper_cr
03-09-2006, 08:31 PM
As far as getting frosting, it really depends on the relative humidity in the air. For example, over the summer here in chicago, it was a few seconds before i had frost. With in 5 minutes it was a very thick layer of frost.

Yet in the dead of winter, i had barely a thin layer of frost after 30 minutes.
littleowl
03-10-2006, 10:44 PM
so snipper maybe my tec is not too bad!! I ordered a new one from dd and was spossed to get it today but fedex is late!! I hate them!! :(