> There are better ways of transferring heat from a hot IC to a heat sink nowadays Peltiers were always a bad way to move the heat. What they offered was the a

> There are better ways of transferring heat from a hot IC to a heat sink nowadays Peltiers were always a bad way to move the heat. What they offered was the ability to go below ambient, which at the time could improve overclocking. Peltiers of course lacked the capacity to actually take you there with any decent load, but in theory it could. It never really made much sense for consumers, and once consumers realized that, the market went away.