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Water to water heat pump anyone?

No matter how much you try to fool the sensors, you won't fool the compressor which will draw liquid any moment there - not having enough thermal load, will make the refrigerant not completely boil inside the vaporizer (CPU block) and you'll get liquid inside the compressor. You won't notice it first, just after you burn out the motor's coils.
Ex-AC service engineer speaking from experience 🙂

As an old member of another IT forum, I love seeing the invasion of 1 post accounts during giveaways (or drops in this case).
 
Anyway.
 
Did the drop take place on the LTT store or where? (just finished watching the WAN vod and didn't catch any clear info on this)

As an old member of another IT forum, I love seeing the invasion of 1 post accounts during giveaways (or drops in this case).
 
Anyway.
 
Did the drop take place on the LTT store or where? (just finished watching the WAN vod and didn't catch any clear info on this)

@AlexTheGreatish, TECs are mostly used for transferring heat fast from one side to the other.
That rating you find on it is usually their power consumption, not transfer capabilities.
For starting, if you get a 545W peltier and want to transfer 200W of heat from an Intel CPU, you need to have, on the hot side, a cooling system of AT LEAST 545+200W (for better results take in consideration a 30% margin of error, so around 970W of cooling is a minimum).
 

The smaller you go in size, the higher you go in price - even though you're using less material.
The price is because these kind of cases (Dan's for example) are made in small number. 
When making a really small HTPC you are the one who delimits the budget: DanCase would be ~15% of your system cost, which is high indeed. But if small footprint is more important than choosing best buys, then the choice is clear.

Came here for the actual aliexpress links.
I am displeased with you, people.

Sorry, didn't like this video at all. 
He used 8 minutes of video without saying any useful information.

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He used 8 minutes of video without saying any useful information.

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He used 8 minutes of video without saying any useful information.

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You don't have to install that shit After installing "magic actions" it promts you to install the other shit and you cand simply close that tab. 

Nice :) Yet another awesome giveaway from youtube's best reviewers.
https://twitter.com/MADobre/status/353955359179800577
Also posted on facebook (fb.com/bestbattle) via twitter.

EDIT: Items will not be shipped until after September 1st or when all winners reply to Slick - whichever comes first!

Announcing our HUGE Computex giveaway powered by WD. This is a bit of a special giveaway. The more you watch our Computex videos from the Western Digital booth in Computex the more stuff we're going to give away. You can see the latest updates from WD at Computex here: http://www.wdc.com/computex/
 
EDIT: BONUS for readers/viewers from the USA/EU - Get 15% off internal hard drives until June 16th, 2013 (US & EU only) with promocode "COMPUTEX2013" - http://wdstore.com & http://bit.ly/12qcLsk
 
 
This thread will be updated daily from June 4th to June 8th to give you the links to the videos. In order to enter, all you have to do is post in this thread, but make sure you check back daily and watch all of the videos so that we can hit our targets and give away ALL the coolest stuff!
 
 
If you want to play through all of the videos you can see them here:   
 
Here are all of the eligible videos individually:
 

 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41LukUo-Yk&list=PL8mG-RkN2uTwEIByWErWuJ6OMBI-MQQ9K&index=3
 

 

 

 
 
 
This video thumbnail announcing the contest should give you some idea how crazy this is:
 

 
The contest closes June 30th and it's open to residents of the planet Earth.
 
TLDW: 
 
25,000 views average per video - 5x My Passport Ultra, 2x My Book Studio external hard drives
50,000 views average per video - 2x 1TB Velociraptor, 2x 4TB Black, 2x 3TB Red hard drives
75,000 views average per video - 2x Puget Systems Core i5 GTX 660 gaming systems
100,000 views average per video - 1x Steiger Dynamics LEET gaming grade HTPC worth over $2000
 

 
Here are the full specs of the Steiger machine. Please be sure to follow them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 

 
Subscribe to this thread so you'll see the updates!!
 
1 entry for posting in this thread
1 bonus entry for sharing this post on your Facebook. Post a link to your Facebook page showing the share.
1 bonus entry for sharing this post on your Twitter. Post your twitter handle and a link to the tweet showing your share
5 entries if you do all three things!!
 
Also please like Steiger Dynamics on Facebook. These guys are building very cool systems, and they're working towards getting gaming and performance computing into our living rooms. Would you rather have one of these or an Xbox One... https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 
Good luck everyone and stay tuned!

SPONSOR MESSAGE (please read)

HTC has been making massive waves with their HTC One Android smartphone, and while unfortunately we are not able to bring you any HTC Ones in this giveaway, the available options are absolutely rockin'. My wife has been using a DROID DNA for quite a while now, and with its S4 Pro processor and gorgeous 1080p screen it is a head-turner in spite of, or perhaps BECAUSE of the fact that most people don't recognize exactly what phone it is, particularly here in Canada.
 
TLDR: HUGE thanks to HTC for making this giveaway possible. You guys freakin' rock and the support you're showing for our brand new community is overwhelming!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PHONE GIVEAWAY RULES & REGULATIONS 
 
Guys, this is one of the biggest giveaways we've ever done. HTC is making it all possible by providing us with not one, not two, not three, not four... Oh wait actually four.
 

 
FOUR phones to give away!! ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.....
 
Not only that, but you get to PICK your prize! Read on for more details.
 
This is a Linus Tech Tips giveaway, so I'm keeping it "unofficial" and opening it up to the world. With that said HTC is going to cover helping me ship TWO of the phone globally, while the other two will only be shipped to the USA only. We will draw four winners and in a case where more than 2 winners are outside of the USA will we re-draw.
 
Now for the really cool part. You actually get to PICK the phone you want from the list of available phones! With that said, the phones available in the different regions vary a little bit.
 
 
Prizes: 4 HTC smartphones with a "pick your prize" approach!
 
USA winners can pick between the following: 
 
DROID DNA
HTC 8X
HTC One S
HTC EVO 4G LTE
HTC One X+
 
International winners can pick between the following:
 
HTC One X+
HTC 8X
HTC 8S
 
 
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
 
1x entry - Post in this thread. Anything is fine. We will be tabulating entries based on the posts in this thread. Double posting will DISQUALIFY you. If you decide after you've posted to share to social networks EDIT your existing post rather than creating another one.

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing a link to this giveaway announcement thread on your personal Twitter or Facebook account

1x bonus entry - Include a link in your post of you sharing a link to this giveaway announcement thread in some other community (forums, social networks, super-active community websites other than linustechtips.com like Digg... etc). We aren't trying to spam so make sure you are sharing with people who you genuinely think will care about it!

You can get a maximum of 3 entries by including links in your post to the two eligible sharing places. Here is an example of what a maximum entry (3) post would look like:
                                                                                                                                                                                     
1. Thanks for the cool contest, Linus. HTC rocks for making this happen.
 
2. Facebook share from (Name Goes Here): (insert verifiable link here)
OR
Twitter share with Twitter handle @example: (insert verifiable link here)
 
3. Community Site share with nickname (nickname goes here): (insert verifiable link here)
                                                                                                                                                                                    
 
 


The contest closes June 30th and the winners will be contacted before July 31st. Good luck everyone! Thanks for participating, and a big thanks again to our sponsor, HTC!