groovetek's 172w (currently 80-90w) watercooled peltier progress thread!

[groovetek]

Just realised something else that minimize condensation... If I have airflow over that area... it lowers the rate at which condensation occurs is this correct???

Just like moving water is less likely to freeze... lol, or am I totally wrong...

edit: hehehe, got bored, and realised i HADN'T YET done this - MAKING ICE

g0t ICE????



imma go have breakfast... while the ice melts... ehhe (that's why i got the sponge there)...

[eva2000]

indeed

[KingYubbo]

Omg Hacky!

[psy^]

Never heard of RTV sealant.
Is that better than dilectric grease?

Your setup looks interesting groovetek, but i'm surprised you're actually getting any lower temps with the pelt running @ 90w.

My old 3400+ @ 2.72GHz with 1.7v through it put out over 130w of heat.
Could just be a .13 thing though

[groovetek]

um, i don't know... i bought rtv sealant AND di-eletric grease... the RTV is mainly to seal gaps... the dilectric to cover pins and mobo components and stuff....

here are some more pics (my new block insulation - works a charm):






edit: wtfomgbbqzors... didn't realise i had left the molex unplugged til looking at that pic, rofl.. FFS... clearly it's not an important one... ahah, since i've been stresstesting it with no problem...

edit2: i've got that piece of paper under the block just in case something starts dripping... not a single drop of water yet tho... and i've given my case a couple gentle knocks just to make sure, so far so good...

i CAN however, see very very slight condensation on the nuts that are holding down the neoprene to the copper plate (ie, the ones pictured above). not much of an issue I guess... still... it's a computer after all, and any water won't mix well.

yeah about the wattage thing, thanks for that, i'd say the 90nm would be a fair bit less... once i get the 24V PSU the Qmax ought to be close to doubled and with a larger deltaT, since it is doubling the voltage. so, hopefully it can tolerate my cpu at beyond 3ghz... cos at the moment it cannot.

edit3: i just did 2 1M runs, and got 28.360... that's surprisingly quick - considering my mega tweaked optimized, non-app-flooded win xp sp2 install back when i did the 1M runs on the superpimod challenge thread i scored 28.218...

this windows has everythign installed, lots of things at startup, network connection enabled/connected, not a fresh bootup, wallpaper and visual effects and what have you all turned on... and i get a time likethat?!?!?

if i ran it another few times it might even break 28.3s...

[kayl]

very nice groovetec.
one think you will need looking if going to the 226w pel and full 172w is that the radiator is going to struggle.

[ZoKi]

nice job there dude looks like alot of time and effort has been put in...

[psy^]

By kayl

very nice groovetec.
one think you will need looking if going to the 226w pel and full 172w is that the radiator is going to struggle.

I was wondering about that too actually, a single 120mm rad isn't going to be much to cool down the 172w of heat generated by that peltier.