Oh yea I forgot the FX has different mounting holes :p:
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Oh yea I forgot the FX has different mounting holes :p:
It fits ok with some copper removal and a little rotation on the mount. Here is a pic I found:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/humann/5900U.jpg
That's either a Maze1 or Maze2 by DangerDenQuote:
Originally posted by Hiwayman
Well, I use one of these, with a little grinding on the 5mm copper coldplate, and carefull positioning, with a home made hold down. It's 50 x 50 with 1/2" fittings. I also have had a silver coldplate, but it was thinner, and is now turned into bling things for my other gf.
http://www.dangerden.com/images/wate...on%20Large.gif
Maze1.
No insulation hiwayman?
i was going to use my dd4 for this, im thinking it will fit a 5cm tec if i dont use the bolts to bolt the cold plate to the block, will i need to fill my agp slot with dieletric grease and maybe cover the card with conformal coating?
Not recommended,Quote:
Originally posted by TARZAN
i was going to use my dd4 for this, im thinking it will fit a 5cm tec if i dont use the bolts to bolt the cold plate to the block, will i need to fill my agp slot with dieletric grease and maybe cover the card with conformal coating?
TEC's require a large clamping force to operate well. You can't provide this without bolting the cold plate to the block.
8-ball
but hiwaymans block looks like its just clamped through the board?
It will work, but it isn't recommended if you want good results.
8-ball
i guess, but its that or nothing, the 80w tec that came with the block is pretty useless - and a bit of a dissapointment, it'll be fun to do.
~ erm, dielectric grease in the agp slot or what?
You can get 172W pelts that are 40x40mm.
However, they are ~24V compared to the 16V of the 80W TEC.
You would probably get slightly better performance, and I would imagine it wuold also be more efficient at 12V than the 80W variety.
8-ball
yes, ive seen them at dangerden, but the cost with shipping and import tax is too high, cant find them in the uk (anyone in the uk know where to get them?) erm, 24v psu? maybe 2 psu's in series, could be done, but without the tec theres no point. Im looking at a 13.8v 20 amp power supply on ebay, the seller selling has been selling these for ages, they go for about £30 at auction, if a tec will draw 20 amp at 12v, but say 23amp at 13.8v, will it be ok with 20a at 13.8v?
NO.Quote:
Originally posted by TARZAN
if a tec will draw 20 amp at 12v, but say 23amp at 13.8v, will it be ok with 20a at 13.8v?
You need a power supply which can supply slightly more amps at the desired voltage than the TEC will draw.
You can't just supply less amps for a given voltage than it normally draws, it will just draw tomany amps from the psu and fry it.
8-ball
good job i asked, im going to scratch that idea anyhow, too many holes in the block + im not sure it would quite fit, ive asked at a store here who said they would get them (172w tec) on the next order from DD, im going to put one of those 274w bad boys on my cpu instead.
Ok, this makes no sense... how can it draw only 216watts of power (12v * 18a) but output 252watts of cooling power?!? I thought it was impossible to achieve 100% efficency...
Is this 274w tested yet?
I mail them and offered my help to test it on my A64 rigg, but zero response from them.
Probably because they don't want to give them away for free. On another topic, I saw a 320W 50x50mm tec on ebay, im bidding on it now. Maybe itl get me better temps than the 226w i have now.. :D
I was not intended to get it for free, only a fair price to test it for them.
But i found THIS on Google, so maybe this 274w is not that great?
I think that the quality of the 274W and 232 watt may be lacking, or it may be that the waterblocks don't have the capacity to cool it. With my 226W tec and 25C water I get -6C idle and 7C load @ 2400mhz, but I can take my 1700+ all the way to 2.8 and get ~17C load.
It is simply due to the nature of TECs and physics behind it.Quote:
Originally posted by HKPolice
Ok, this makes no sense... how can it draw only 216watts of power (12v * 18a) but output 252watts of cooling power?!? I thought it was impossible to achieve 100% efficency...
Electrical energy is not used to 'move' anything, no work is being done as such.
It creates a potential allowing electrons of different energetical states to move creating temp difference between sides.
TECs are thermocouples and can work the other way round as well. If you put a heat source to one side and had the other side colder (ambient) then a TEC module would create electrical potential difference =>electricity.
TEC could be put to great use in hybrid engines but as they are atm they are to inefficient...
That's a maze 1 pictured above. I still have a maze 2.2. That will run either 2 40mm pelts or a single 50mm pelt man it was heavy with the big coldplate. The thing was 2.5x 4 inches long. I found it in a drawer last week!!!
Man i got to much old stuff.
Build something nice of it then m8:)
Or donate it for a prize in some sort of competition or whatever :D
Or give it to me :D