If money was not an object, what would be the absolute best liquid cooling setup? (that fits with a Thermaltake Armor case) (and ignoring useless components for ram and etc)
Are you just looking at water cooling for for sub zero cooling such as phase change and peltiers?
Storm G5 Silver base waterblock, DD MCP655 pump, a triple 120mm rad of your choice, 1/2" ID tubing and so on.
Are you just looking at water cooling for for sub zero cooling such as phase change and peltiers?
Are you just looking at water cooling for for sub zero cooling such as phase change and peltiers?
BTW, you NEED liquid cooling for petliers, because air would only be able to cool an 18w petlier...
I went the watercooling route becuase I already had all teh gear...
if i didn't the Amanda is a sweet cooler...
i wonder what would happen if we changed the TEC in it to 80W or 120W?
I don't know about you but that thing is a monster. I'd rather stick a 200w+ peltier under my current water cooling and get better results.
If you are starting from scratch and have the space and don't plan to water cool anything else such as video, nb, ram... etc then the Amanda works well.
I went the watercooling route becuase I already had all teh gear...
if i didn't the Amanda is a sweet cooler...
i wonder what would happen if we changed the TEC in it to 80W or 120W?
I plan to liquid cool my cpu and gpu in the future. A fan can cool more than enough for northbridge, and ram heatsinks are fine. So cpu and gpu is all I would ever need to worry about.
Frankly now that the Amanda is out, I dunno why anyone would go liquid for 90% of systems out there. Sure, if you're trying to squeeze the very last Hertz out of your CPU you might wanna go for all the plumbing, but for realistic usage, (I never OCd and never will) the benchmarks I've seen are damn impressive.
Ok, then, a quick question. What about running the WC tubes into a small bar fridge and plunking the 2x120mm Rads in there? They wouldn't freeze as the bar fridge would be set up to keep beverages cool but would they provide a similar cooling effect to a 200W Peltier? Would you have to worry about condensation?