EK Water Blocks May Be Preparing a Thermoelectric CPU Cooler

[BorgOvermind]

I used TEC when I super-overclocked my Q6600 years ago.

Good times when we had Abit and DFI around.

 

[MpG]

Wow, this takes me back. Giant Mountain Mods case with 4 triple rads on a Stinger waterblock, with an auxilliary 24V PSU powering a TEC, all to cool my Q6600 a couple degrees cooler. My wallet never did forgive me.

This should be amusing if it gets released. As stated already, the failure of peltier cooling was never a question of immature technology, but in how unsuitable they are for high output/small area applications like CPU cooling.

 

[maxfly]

Theres a dude at ocforums thats been running tecs on his rigs for years. If memory serves he uses a combination of wcing and heatsinks to run his rig with them 24/7. If i remember ill link his latest system.

My Chilled Water Cooling Obsession Is Now Version 4.0.

A friend called my chilled water cooling a hobby but actually it is absolutely an obsession! In one way or another I have been Chilled Water Cooling my CPU for a higher overclock threshold since 2011, it all started with 10 gallons of water in a Coleman cooler. Using gallon jugs of distilled...

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[silentbogo]

Theres a dude at ocforums thats been running tecs on his rigs for years. If memory serves he uses a combination of wcing and heatsinks to run his rig with them 24/7. If i remember ill link his latest system.

Well, that looks more like a realistic TEC setup. Thermalright Ultra 120 can easily dissipate >200W, that's exactly what I used with my X5650 with all of my overclocks, and I always hit the power barrier or instability before reaching anywhere near critical temps. It's perfect for cooling something like a 200W TEC. Add 3 of those, and you'll get around ~600W cooling capacity for hot side, which will give you a decent headroom on the cold side w/ reasonably overclocked 8700K at 1.35V. Plus, he went with the safest variant - chilling water instead of chilling CPU directly, which in case it fails, still runs as a decent (but slightly gimped) LC loop.

It was probably easier, cheaper, less space-consuming, and more aesthetically pleasing just to buy an aftermarket chiller. Someone here on TPU also ran a chiller.
@Knoxx29 , paging Knoxx29... What's your take on this?

 

[Zach_01]

Curious what EK are doing about condensation. Regardless of what tech they're using, Linus posted temperatures at or just above freezing, so condensate is by far the biggest concern I have (and my concerns over the ridiculous energy cost of TEC or the complixity/environmental concerns of pressurised refrigerant loops aren't exactly minor concerns in the first place).

We really don’t know what they’ve done with that block, I suspect that TEC plate is in the center of that block plate surrounded by water (hot side). Any exposed TEC cold plate/side would only be the area touching the CPU IHS ( only center of the entire block plate) and may not be from side to side.
Did you notice the thickness of it?

I’m not sure I explained it right...