Sandy Bridge Tec Water Block

[mindchill]

Well here is my newest water block

Figured Id give xtremesystems tec forums some love.

Pros:

1. No insulation required. The controller is set to user selectable from 15-25ºc with an ambient hold. Just turn the dial to max, and it will hold ambients

2. No special power supply to deal with, just plug it into your 6 pin pcie cable

3. This thing has no problems being cooled by a cheap $150 Rasa Kit.

4. The tec intercepts the heat load and sets the duty cycle to what is needed to cool the block to hold a very precise temp and increasing efficiency.

Basically its setup is no harder than a setting up a standard waterblock.


Display shows the following AT = Ambient Temp BT=Block temp TT=Target Temp and DC= Duty cycle the tec runs at.

[pby5cat]

Excellent set up!

[Kayin]

Will these be available for purchase?

[TJ TRICHEESE]

Wait, what happened to to all the other posts?

Or am i thinking of another thread?

EDIT: Nvm just realized it was in a different sub forum

[aussie-revhead]

Will these be available for purchase?

As above, can we buy these? Any results available? What powers the TEC? Just a plug off the psu?

[earthwormjim]

As above, can we buy these? Any results available? What powers the TEC? Just a plug off the psu?

There's one up on ebay.

[aussie-revhead]

Where? Linky please ...

[Pestilence]

There's one up on ebay.

Couldn't find it as well

[ying]

Want buy one of this ! is avaiable internationally?

[chaotic]

http://www.arqtik.com/index.html

[Hondacity]

wow thats awesome

i hope our aussie friends gets one, and start benching

[nickbaldwin86]

SHWEET... never owned a TEC... always wanted to play with one though

[Pestilence]

http://www.arqtik.com/index.html

So ordering it

[mav2000]

Looks good, and not very expensive....is there an AM3 version?

[zoob]

How does it perform with the TEC completely off? Just out of curiosity for worst case scenario planning.

[aussie-revhead]

How does it perform with the TEC completely off? Just out of curiosity for worst case scenario planning.

I have wondered about this too, probably act as an insulator and overheat the cpu even faster.

Ultra - does your controller throttle back on the TECs when your on light load? ie reduce power consumption when your not benching or gaming? I reckon the dual pelt will get more attention than the single as people wanting this will want to overclock it as far as they can and still have cold temps. When the TEC's cooling capacity is exceeded do temps skyrocket or just slowly creep up?

[Ultrasonic2]

I have wondered about this too, probably act as an insulator and overheat the cpu even faster.

Ultra - does your controller throttle back on the TECs when your on light load? ie reduce power consumption when your not benching or gaming? I reckon the dual pelt will get more attention than the single as people wanting this will want to overclock it as far as they can and still have cold temps. When the TEC's cooling capacity is exceeded do temps skyrocket or just slowly creep up?

umm this isn't my block or controller Aussie

however i will answer on mindchills behave

yes the controller will throttle back at light loads

Sure more plets /TEC = more Qmax which is pretty much always better

According to mindchill he has managed to cool an overclocked i5 as it's wattage is relatively low when overclocked.


if for some reason power is lost to the TEC's the TEC will still conduct heat , though poorly. so your pc wont explode if this happens. mind you if it happens when the cpu is loaded the temps will go crazy causing a crash. if you buy a QUALITY it's unlikely this will happen . not sure if the price included the TEC or not. i assume not based on it's cost.

[mav2000]

I just went thru the site and the price with a controller would be in the region of around 240-250 USD...which is still not bad.

[aussie-revhead]

umm this isn't my block or controller Aussie

Yeah sorry Im reading multiple threads and replied incorrectly.

Arent all pelts made in China anyway? Maybe your US source just tests them before selling them?


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[Pestilence]

Emailed the seller with the email provided on the site to no response.

[aussie-revhead]

he replied to me, give him time.

[Pestilence]

he replied to me, give him time.

He replied to me as well.

[owikh84]

He said there are some more blocks will be ready by next week.
So let's just wait

[Pestilence]

He sent me a PM yesterday about working on a new block. Believe i'm going to go with this one instead

[Kayin]

Same seller or different?