[Tfug] peltier?

[johngalt1]

What is the relationship of this reservoir to the radiator?
Maybe the CPU thermal package,  radiator or reservoir is
malsized...

How much heat can the 120 mm radiator with fan of 120 mm
sink, considering efficicncies? Compare this to the CPU heat
rate and efficiency. Then, is the fluid mass and associated
transfer sufficient or overboard?

>From Sean, I continue to hear about quantities & units like
120 mm and 5000 frags and 320 gph. What about the heat
balance? That's where the rubber meets the road.

eg: the cooling thing attached to the CPU under particular
conditions can sink so much, and so on for each component in
the system.

Or, you could do this empirically by measuring the
temperature on each side of the CPU and then on each side of
the radiator. What is the temperature difference across each
unit as a function of time? (for the worst case)

This gives you a clue about how much heat each component
transfers.

If you are at the UofA, consider finding a Mechanical
Engineer candidate that is going though or had
Thermodynamics training.

It's too bad the UofA discontinued the environmentally
responible regimen of nuclear recycliing. I blame that
anti-environmentalist, Jimmy Carter for this.He discontinued
recycling of nuclear fuels. That is nutty.

Before you flame me, consider that nuke plants do not plan
for you to breathe in their waste, unlike fossil fuel
bastards.

Is the CPU simply jacketed by cooling fluid, or is the CPU
attached to some type of heatsink that the cooling fluid
flows through?

If you can't or don't care to work out the calculations, Why
not put an additional radiator/fan in series or parallel
with the existing one?

Between the (computational) egghead analysis method and the
(empirical) shadetree mechanic method, this problem is
doable with existing pieces of hardware, IMO

just mess with it a little.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Warburton" <>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] peltier?


>I do indeed have a radiator. It's a 120mm unit with
>a...120mm fan...on it.
> Quiet is nice, but I would be more than happy to sacrifice
> noise for
> performance. I have heard of that project with the cooking
> oil:) I don't
> have a cool Plexiglas case, though:( And besides, wouldn't
> that be odd
> saying "oh, time to change the oil on my computer. Every 3
> months or 5000
> frags, whichever comes first" :) And upgrading. If I
> wanted to get another
> couple gigs of ram, I would have to drain it and clean all
> the contacts for
> the ram. Don't get me wrong, if I had a lot of extra money
> laying around and
> I became eccentric, I would totally do this. But using the
> convection
> currents of a heating liquid to cool a CPU is genius. Not
> to mention that
> fact that you could overclock your north bridge, RAM and
> video cards to
> insane frequencies, too.
> My setup is as follows: 320gph pump, radiator, CPU,
> reservoir, back to pump.
> So, a larger reservoir is in order? or a bigger radiator?
> or both? The only
> problem with upgrading both is I would need to start
> chopping my case to fit
> them.
>     Sean
>
>
> On 9/29/07, Robert Hunter <> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/27/07, Sean Warburton <> wrote:
>> > I have been contemplating the use of alternate cooling
>> > systems for quite
>> > some time now
>>
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/
>>
>> --
>> Rob
>>
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