Air chiller WIP ..

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Originally Posted by Stigma

Well... I beg to differ. In a 30-45 days or so I can probably give you some proof ~_^

And please note however, I did say I'd beat -some- (EDIT: well no, to be presice I said "a lot") of the people using phase cooling. Not -most- and certainly not -all-. I am quite aware of the limitations of TEC cooling, but I do expect to be able to hit full load temps of somewhere between -15 to -25 (calculating with an overclocked conroe as load). I've seen plenty of DIY phase cooling projects that don't hit sub-zero temps at load on the other hand.

Theres more to my new cooling system than just a regular water loop + a TEC, otherwise I wouldn't be mouthing off ~_^

-Stigma

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good luck !

Boldy spoken stigma... please let us know of your results :) Maybe those 400w tec might do the trick :)

Stigma, best of luck! Been thinking abot pelts a lot, but found them to be a little powerhungry.

did some testing yesternight , and going from 5v to 12 in the exhaust fans dropped the load temp to -15. I then upped the voltage and fsb to 1,75 and 222, and the temps got stable in the - 10 area . Cpu temp did a big jump, abot 10 degrees.

When I get the cpu load resonably stable, Im gonna start optimizing the gfx card.

Also gonna put in a couple of extra fans, and run them on low woltage to get up air flow.

Thanks for the support. I'l try my best to put my money where my mouth is =P As I said, hopefully in a little over a month I should have most of the stuff in place. if not, then there will atleast be put up a worklog detailng the stuf I have ready so far.

mindnumb1: Yea, they ARE power hungry. Not only that but also terribly inefficient hehe. I would have gone for direct phase-cooling for my CPU if not for the fact that it isn't possible for me to physically fit the stuff through my wall. You see on the other side I have my server and all the stuff that makes noise, and breaking the perfect silence (Project Freeflow will have no moving parts except for the heavily padded harddrive), with the buzz of a compressor is just not an option.

Maybye at some later point I will take the step up to phase-cooling some day(In fact the likelyhood of that is quite high), but that will require a bit of "modding" to my wall hehe, and I'm not quite ready for that just yet =)

-Stigma

Well how about a quazi phase change, Heat pipe cooled pelts? I am planning to do some experiments on homemade heatpipes, ( wich is phase change cooling, Woo hoo!) Ill let you know if its possible to make it work eficiently.