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And thank you. You've been of great help :).

Well in terms of electric power consumption peltiers are ineficient... in terms of actual cooling when you get to OC temps when your CPU start's to thermal throttle, it can and will bring down the temps... I'm trying to show a proof that with this you will increase the efficiency of cooling... this means that since you are not limited to the actual size of the processor you can make better water flow through the water cooling element... it comes at a price of increased cost of the water block and higher power bill

In that case option to make the water cooling more efficient is to pump out the heat to a bigger surface and make custom block to increase the area from which the water will take away the heat.... Any engineers who could give me some feedback on this? Thank you

Hello. I'm currently trying to do a peltier-water all in one cooling with pwm control to avoid condensation. I'm studying mechanical engineering and I want to do this as a project.. However I'm bit stuck right at the beginning of the calculations... Any engineers who have experience with peltiers? I know that they act as heat pumps, transferring heat from cold to hot side when you run some electric power into them... Am I just imagining that it can make the cooling more efficient? Theoretically speaking, if I overclock the CPU, put a peltier element on top of it and try to pump away the heat, the watercooling will still be my bottleneck and will still transfer the same amount of heat it normally would ... It would just make the peltier element warmer and that's it right?

I know that there is a relation, but for my project I need precise values... and there can be as mentioned big difference between power draw and heat power output.

I'm not trying to be an ahole, but I specifically said and people who replied didn't bother to read what they've shared in their answers...either google it or copypasta from wiki... which in 2 lines under states exactly what I said: TDP doesn't always state the heat output but many times the power requirement... I'm trying to get a reliable information, not questionable. If there is even 1% doubt that it may not state the heat output of the processor the information is useless. That's why I'm asking for RELIABLE source of information. Thank you for your understanding.

ALSO, each manufacturer has a different measuring approach and TDP on AMD processors doesn't have to be comparable value to TDP on INTEL processors as even the measuring techniques are different. TDP is not a STANDARD from a scientific point of view

People who can use google and wikipedia but can't read further than first two lines: "However, the TDP is a conventional figure while its measurement methodology has been the subject of controversy. In particular, until around 2006 AMD used to report the maximum power draw of its processors as TDP, but Intel changed this practice with the introduction of its Conroe family of processors.[4] A similar but more recent controversy has involved the power TDP measurements of some Ivy Bridge Y-series processors, with which Intel has introduced a new metric called scenario design power (SDP)." AGAIN MANY SOURCES STATE TDP AS POWER REQUIREMENT AND MANY AS HEAT POWER OUTPUT... EVEN MANUFACTURERS STILL MAKE THIS "MISTAKE"

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on custom cooling. I was wondering, what does TDP actually mean? Many sources state different things... most commonly I see it as "heat power the processor dissipates at base clock speeds" but other sources state it as "electric power consumption" ... I need to find out the actual heat output as I'm designing the cooling system myself. Problem is that since it's not really a standard for all manufacturers, TDP can mean anything. Does anybody know a GUARANTEED RELIABLE source where I can find the heat output of processors? Also, I would like to ask, if anybody knows about a source where I could see TDP (heat power output) curve when you're overclocking processors. As I don't have the finances to test it myself it can be the only source of my information. If the curve itself is a problem, maybe just some values on classic OC settings on processors.

Thank you kind sir.

I will make it easier for everyone to understand my problem.... I'm working on my bachelor project in mechanical engineering with specialization on innovation and design. My project is a desk with computer inside and I've noticed comments on Lian-Li's DK-04 desk that people would love to have eATX boards inside. I plan to water cool it with addition of something which I'm working on which will increase the efficiency of cooling of processors for better overclocking. However that something of course increases cost and power requirements. eATX boards are new thing to me and I've noticed that most of them have slots for 2 processors. That kind-off messes up my plans as the cost would increase, maybe a lot, maybe not. As Doc said: Are then video editing stations better with 2 processors? or why do people prefer eATX boards over standard atx ones? Thank you

does then for example video editing require different processors than standard let's say i7? I've noticed that most of the eatx boards have 2 processor slots, and in guides about eatx boards pretty much everyone says it is used for servers or video editing stations.

Ok thanks a lot to everyone for the answer

Let's say mild overclock of i7... in terms of temperatures, would be a passive radiator in water circuit better than a smaller let's say either 120 or 240 radiator with fans? My guess is most likely not, but question is how big the difference would be?

To be precise I'm interested in stuff like these: https://modmymods.com/radiators/passive-radiators.html