Hello ladies and germs... my first post here.
I have an older laptop that I bought in dubai on deployment (navy), and it worked great for a long time, but now it just over heats to the point its unusable. I fresh installed new hard drive, cleaned the fans, modded the case for better airflow, new thermal paste, nothing helped (just a poorly designed case is what Im assuming)...
So, in the months its been setting and collecting dust, I pulled it out, and it shockingly works great, just still has the heating problem.
My solution ->
- Gut the entire thing
- install into an aquarium for oil cooling
- use it as a standalone audio box to house all my music and videos and connect it both to the standard monitor and have HDMI out to TV for streaming audio and video to the tv and sound system
- Will be doing a simple design based on wireless solutions (minus hdmi of course)
Basically giving this laptop a purpose other than a glorious paper weight.
I will be updating this as I go along with pictures, and Im 10000% welcome to ideas and criticisms.
I have an older laptop that I bought in dubai on deployment (navy), and it worked great for a long time, but now it just over heats to the point its unusable. I fresh installed new hard drive, cleaned the fans, modded the case for better airflow, new thermal paste, nothing helped (just a poorly designed case is what Im assuming)...
So, in the months its been setting and collecting dust, I pulled it out, and it shockingly works great, just still has the heating problem.
My solution ->
- Gut the entire thing
- install into an aquarium for oil cooling
- use it as a standalone audio box to house all my music and videos and connect it both to the standard monitor and have HDMI out to TV for streaming audio and video to the tv and sound system
- Will be doing a simple design based on wireless solutions (minus hdmi of course)
Basically giving this laptop a purpose other than a glorious paper weight.
I will be updating this as I go along with pictures, and Im 10000% welcome to ideas and criticisms.