CES 2011: Digital Storm's Ice-Cold TEC
CES 2011: Digital Storm's Ice-Cold TEC
Posted 01/08/2011 at 4:33pm
| by Gordon Mah Ung
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Serving up another dose of hardware hotness from CES, Gordon Ung talks to digital storm about their new, proprietary thermal-electric cooling system. How cold is it? So cold that if you remove it from the motherboard, it'll start to freeze the water in the air solid! Check out the video:
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CentiZen
January 09, 2011 at 11:29pm
Peltier coolers have been around for a long time. And there are two very good reasons why they have never taken off as CPU coolers, and why they aren't about too. First, is power. How many amps are on your 12v rail? Peltier coolers need anywhere from 8 to 12 extra amps to run. Not many people have that kind of headroom, especially in a gaming system. Second and more important, is condensation. These run so unnaturally cold that they will cause condensation to form in the air, and literally rust the CPU and motherboard to the breaking point over a course of just a few months.
YoshiHNS
January 09, 2011 at 5:43pm
Problem is the high amp requirements for TECs. Wonder how many amps they're actually pumping to that thing.
Dexter243
January 09, 2011 at 1:23am
also known as a peltier we use them to cool ink for high speed printers in extreme heat environment and they have many other use to they will get ice on 1 side wile the other side will burn you when you apply 12v dc to them but there are many kind out them there very inefficient but have a place in carton applications
Baer
January 09, 2011 at 12:32pm
I was at the Digital Storm Suite yesterday and saw this. Very impressive, not only the cooling but the overall workmanship of the entire rig.
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