water PC cooling project

[Hugejack]

Has anyone tried using a thermoelectric cooling system instead of a fan to cool off a PC? This would be useful in very warm areas with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Kilrah]

Do you want even more heat out? Because that's how you do

[Hugejack]

Combine both of them? Insert the thermoelectric cooling in the pump for extra cooling.

[Kilrah]

A TEC only allows moving some heat a little further away and unlike a fan can bring the temp below ambient... but at the price of multiple times the total heat output you still have to get rid of. 

[Isuck Assimov]

pretty sure there are LTT videos about this.

It's way too inefficient and the TECs can't get rid of the heat quick enough.

There are other solid state cooler prototypes though.

[RONOTHAN##]

11 minutes ago, Hugejack said:

Has anyone tried using a thermoelectric cooling system instead of a fan to cool off a PC?

No, because its a bad idea. Thermoelectric coolers have very poor efficiency and are easily overwhelmed by the ~200-300W of a gaming PC under load, even if you actively cool the hot side. 

 

13 minutes ago, Hugejack said:

This would be useful in very warm areas with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Because of the above, it's actually worse for these areas since I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have my gaming PC heating the room even more in the summer just to save a few degrees. If you're really worried about high temps in high temp environments, get more power efficient components instead.