Laptop cooling

Laptop cooling (cool blower fan thing too + heatpipe)

Currently, there's a thermal pad on an ?aluminum? plate that a heatpipe runs through. Then the heatpipe goes to a rad with a fan blowing on it. Is this sufficent cooling for a 1.3 ghz celly? Anything I can do to improve the cooling? Thanx, cyrix

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A better pic hosted off my own machine I just set up apache!

That looks like decent cooling. Its better than may laptop coolers i've seen. Im sure it will be fine, just put some artic silver on it, maybe lap it.

yup, first thing to do would be to get rid of that thermal pad.

Ok, I'm going to apply some generic (ouch!) thermal grease for the time being as I ran out of AS3 . Should I be worried about the thermal grease because of the vibration laptop's are subject too, though?

Just asking where would they sell one of those blower fan things? I was looking into one for my Gf FX cooling mod.

If you want one of those blowers, e-mail this guy. He's selling the HSF off his solo 1450 (the lappy I have) for 10 bux. He might still have it.

How big is it? Is it powerful, I am gonna email him.

It's about 60mm and draws air from both sides. I can feel a good deal of air being pushed, but you may want to undervolt it as i has a "whine" to it. Personally I think you should go for it. You ecen get a heatpipe set-up as a bonus. If it's not what you need, I'd guess you could sell it on e-bay.

also, the thing it's sitting on a little to the left "labeled panasonic is a 3 1/2in floppy. The thing the blower is sitting on is a PC Card slot. The red thing in the background is a Radioshack desoldering bulb. That should give you an idea of big it is.

If you email him, try to get it cheaper than his listed price as that thread's 3 months old and he'll probably be willing to drop the price.