Quote Originally Posted by zLynk View Post
How can a triple-fan ThermoChill dissapate ~500W of heat with roughly 20W going to fans? The 375W specification on that chiller will be to run the compressor. If the chiller drew 800W, yet could only dissapate 790W of radiated heat, the darned thing would overheat itself!
Dude... you need to rethink what you just said.

The guy is correct. There is no way a something that consumes 375W can disapate 790W of heat. If that was the case, then you would have created energy. Using 375W to burn off 790W of heat.

Were also talking about compressors here. Compressors superchill a liquid to below freezing. This liquid is then transfered to a heat exchanger where the liquid is cooled. If you look at REAL chillers, you'll see that this is a TOY.

This reminds me of a Salt water tank chiller. These units ARE VERY BAD in the computer world. Why? because when you have over 1.5gl/m flow, it takes roughly 350W of heat to raise or lower the water temp by 1C.

Now how these units work in salt water tanks is this way. Large masss of water, with evap conditions going on, and also adding a chiller, you can bring your tank serveral C's below ambient and actually keep it there for a while.

On a PC system however thats completely changed. There is no evap, and in a sealed loop without a radiator, the water temp has no direction but to climb.

Now if that chiller cant keep up with your heat load, and im sorry, but if you ever seen a real unit that can do 790W, and THERE NOT SMALL, You'll laugh and say nice one.

In short, you'd have to be almost an idiot to pick this unit over a custom builders, and even more stupider to hook it up to a quadcore with tri sli.