Thanks alot dude .
I'm using this tec calculator app now and from what I can tell.
I can get away with cooling say 2 mem sticks down with these cheap tec's if I plan and do it right.
That is, without wasting to much energy.
Using the 5v or 3v rail (better probably to use the 5v to be safe).
2 tec's for 2 sticks, or 8 tec's for 2 sticks.
Not likely to beable to fit that many 40mm tec's and still have room inbetween the sticks to cool them correctly.
Probably the best idea would to use a tec block, 2x tec's, that goes on top of both sticks, attaching the block to both sticks on there custom heatsinks.
Seems like it might be possible to cool them decently, 10-20c, with either the 5v or 3v rail.
And only use from 10-30w's of power, plus a fan(about 5w's or so, 12v at say 0.6a, or less on pwm controller).
The only real issue is the heatsink assembly I think.
Other then that I'm wondering about chipset cooling.
I'm guessing they use about 45w's of power, and can get up to 48c in some configs.
I'll have to do some research and stuff.
Seems like to me that you can cool some things, excluding cpu, gpu.
And not waste a bunch of power doing it.
Past what fans could do alone, fans at best are only gonna get you on the edge of the ambient temp if that.
Tec's on the other hand can get you 10c or 20c lower with the same amount of energy you'de waste on the fan (example, if you run a delta fan full speed trying to super cool mem, it's never gonna happen and you're gonna waste 20 watts+ of energy trying).
I'll have to do alot more research though.
Alot more, to make effective use of these cheapo tec's without wasting a huge amount of power cooling my system.
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