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Originally Posted by Neuromancer View Post
Yeah, you pretty much have to use water with them.

Its basically transfers heat via electricity from one side (the cold plate) to the other (hot side)

You place it on your CPU cold plate down, then drop the waterblock on it. plug it in.. and go.

But they use a lot of enegry. Generally not regarded as anything special. Was a simple way to subambient temps back in the day though.

i was watching some video on youtube about it, it seems really nice
this guy got his down to somewhere around 15F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fYUVsydMmA

-------------HEATSINK--------------
========PELTIER========
----------------CPU------------------

should i just hook up the PELTIER pad's power line to like a molex or something?
molex is flat out 12V right?
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