Phononic HEX 2.0 Thermoelectric CPU Cooler Review @ HWS

Several companies have tried adding TEC (Thermoelectric coolers) to their heatsinks with little success.  The one that comes to mind is the V10 from Cooler Master.  This was a monster heatsink that included a small TEC to help keep things cool. 

Problem was the TEC was undersized and really didn't increase the cooling performance but did increase the heat output.  I wonder what Phononic did differently?

You have probably seen some of the news around the internet about the Phononic HEX 2.0 CPU cooler. We spotted it a while ago and from a cooler point of view at least, this really did spark our interest. We were lucky enough to catch up with some of the guys at Phononic and they sent us over a sample to test. We are familiar with the background technology; Peltier extreme CPU coolers have been dabbled in for some time. In the past they generally were for the extreme overclockers, before things like dry ice cooling pushed Peltier into obscurity.

I like how they referenced extreme overclocking and Peltier usage.  It's true that nobody uses them for CPU cooling anymore and that was simply because they were not affordable and processors started producing too much heat.

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