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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
For those that are little left field, check out some of the integrated mini-ITX offerings…for example, the Cooler Master NR200P MAX or NZXT H1 V2.
These combos usually come as a case with power supply and water cooler installed. All you do is drop in a CPU+motherboard, drop in some memory and a SSD and you’re away!
FWIW, mine is running a Ryzen 5950X practically silently…
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Dunk, you may recall, i used these PC liquid cooled components to build a DSLR cooler some years ago. I attached the CPU cooler component to a copper cold finger running behind my 450D sensor (which ran out the side of the camera). It worked ok. I had a TEC on the cold finger to cool and the PC cooler was used to extract the heat from the hot side. I could easily pull the sensor temp down to -7C. The only problem was the mass of the coolant in the tubes, and the complexity of the support arms needed to allow freedom of movement of the scope and camera on the mount. You need a small radiator and fan to extract the heat from the coolant and a pump to circulate the coolant back to the camera. There are gamer PC component suppliers that have all the components you need to build it.. A real Rube Goldberg invention, but it did work. And it was fun putting it together, but far from practical compared to simply putting a fan on the TEC hot side.
You can see it all here:
https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...Liquid+cooling