can someone explain this?

XenogearedXenogeared
edited November 2003 in Hardware
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/subzero/subzero4g.htm

i was looking at this and wondering, how this thing works and how well this works. reading the info just got me confused.

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    TEC cooling is a step higher than w/c'ing (extreme wise) but Thermaltake n00bified it. What that thing basically does is that it allows for the fans to run slower and for the TEC to take the load. Has 3 levels of cooling. The PCI card thing controls the HSF fan, case fan and the tec/pelt. So Everything runs on 3 levels. So I guess depending on the temps, it functions at those 3 levels. You can read a review of it here.




    Disclaimer: If I put something incorrectly, spelled something wrong, bad grammer or basically ****ed something up; Blame it on the sleeping meds. They've been pwning me all night.
  • fuxorfuxor i live in a giant bucket
    edited November 2003
    TEC + Heatsink != worth it

    Even the 226w pelt with the Swiftech MCX462+ barely did better than a plain heatsink.

    Peltier units are notoriously inefficient, and are only worth using when you have something that can really remove the heat they produce.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited November 2003
    Also you can burn up your pelt (and your CPU) if you don't remove enough of the heat.

    Stay away from them unless you know you can move the heat off the pelt.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Without getting into details (it's midnight, and I'm tired... if you want a detailed explanation, remind me tomorrow)

    TECs are basically solid-state refrigeration units. The Thermaltake ones are temperature controlled, so as long as the system functions properly, no condensation will form.

    Be aware, however, that if you exceed a pelt's power moving capacity by even a little bit, the thing effectively stops working. It is not thermally conductive; it is a heat pump. If you saturate the thing, it won't be able to keep up, and you will kill the cpu.

    For the $130-$200 they go for new, they're not worth it. Newegg has them refurbished for $60 though. The next time they have one, I may pick it up, just to try it out.
  • XenogearedXenogeared
    edited November 2003
    ok thanks :) i wasn't going to buy it, i just didn't understand what it did.
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