Mini Fridge TEC Cooler

[GigaHz]

Hi ,

I found this little fridge in the bins outside my house 1 day , and dismantled it to find what looks like a TEC ( Thermoelectric Cooler )Cooler plate .

Theres pics below , i was wondering if anyone else had modded anything like this , or if they know if it could be modded to cool a CPU or something ?

You can see the White silicon goop thats the same as CPU paste.

That little square plat just attched to the bottom of the fridge floor.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/markuk23/TEC1a.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/markuk23/TEC2a.jpg

The underside of the big silver bit , a massive Alu heatsink that i was going to use to cool my HDD , :lol:

[XyBeRz]

That little TEC on that mini fridge unit would do almost nothing to cool your CPU down. It's simply not powerful enough for todays processors. I'd recommend purchasing one, probably a 172W if you want to overclock your CPU and see any type of benefits from it.
Honestly, I'd just throw it back out to where you got it from. Plus a 172W TEC isn't all that expensive nowadays. But on the other hand, you also have to think about how you'd cool it down and with a 172W pelt, watercooling would be best.
You could use it though, if working to experiment to learn more about the effects of using a pelt, but that's as far as I would go with it.
:mrgreen: