Ars Technica heeft een review gepost van de Swiftech MC1000 peltier cooler. Het ding verbruikt 72Watt en voegt dus behoorlijk wat warmte aan je systeem toe. In ruil daarvoor krijg je een CPU temperatuur van rond het vriespunt, maar of dat ook hogere kloksnelheden mogelijk maakt?
But there is a caveat: the MC1000 is, in some ways, like any other Peltier. It may cool that CPU down to arctic temperatures, but it's not going to take a CPU where it can't possibly go. Most CPUs are not ridiculously overclockable. Despite what so many websites claim, if you've got, say, a 366MHz Celeron that won't even do 512MHz, a Peltier cooler is not likely to take you to 660MHz. I'm not trying to get people down on Peltiers--not at all! What I want to make clear is that a Peltier can't change the fact that you might have a bum CPU. Most of the mail that Ask Ars! receives about Peltier cooling lacks this fundamental understanding: a CPU that can't overclock worth a damn with conventional cooling is not going to overclock to the celestial heights just because you bought a Peltier.
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