This place will contain information on my work building my first TEC chiller. The reason I find a water-chiller usable is that I use my computer for several stuff like work, games, overclocking experiments and benchmarking. The last couple of things benefits from a cool system. Ambient temperature in the winter are in my living room around 26C, and some days even hotter. In the summer its can be even worse. Since I dont want to argue with my wife about it, I build the chiller to keep my computer below ambient, and thats ment to be below ambient for 24/7 usage.
Goals
24/7 setup
Keep the CPU below ambient in idle, close to ambient when gaming.
Go below freezing point in idle when benchmarking
Low maintenance
Small, have to be sitting inside a normal tower chassis
Noise-level should be less 35db at normal usage
I am not sure I will be able to achieve all these, but I will do my best and comment it here.
Source of inspiration
For a very long time, I walked around to think about an idea on how to make proper cooling, that could be used in a build in TEC chiller. After a long time I found out that CoolIT did something many years ago, and that was called "CoolIT Boreas". The idea kept nagging me, and I started to find out how I could get one, or at least build something with similar functionality. So.... Now I am going to make my own, improved, CoolIT Boreas copy based on stuff I can buy around on the Internet.