I am building a home theater PC and am trying to figure how to keep it cool at quiet at the same time?

Question

Can you use a peltier cooler attached to a heat sink without a fan or will i fry the system? I am also consider using a 1.5 athlon to run it, and then lower the voltage and clock speed to reduce heat.

It's primary use will be for playing divx movies and acting as a media server. I don't want to hear this thing humming alot while I am watching a movie

I considered water cooling, they still seem to require a fan and are very expensive.

Another Idea that I thought of was just custom building a cooler using a heatsink and a small lower db graphics card fan.

Answer 1

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