I have a relatively worthless laptop right now. Why might you ask is it worthless? Because it is a Dell. To be more specific, a Dell 5100, which has a horrible tendancy to overheat like a mofo and kill the computer. Usually within 5 minutes. This is a known bug / "feature" in 1100, 5100, 5150 line that dell spews forth from their diseased loins. I spent a hour and a half sending documents and even an admission by Dell that this is a defect and they still refuse to admit the problem exists. (no joke) google: 5100 overheat
You might ask why Dell doesn't fix this. Well, if you are asking that, you A.) don't own a dell 2.) Have never dealt with dell Epsilon.) you assume they care.
Ok, done ranting. But now to my question. Has anyone made a usable mod for laptop cooling? The laptop would be used quite a bit so it can't be a duct-taped mini-water cooler on the back. I am looking to crack it open and replace the heatsink / fan with something more powerful so that it doesn't continually overheat and die. As is stands now the only time I can use the laptop is when I manually set the fan (thru a nice little hack program someone made just for this laptop model because of the defect that doesn't exist) to high and have it sitting on a laptop cooling pad.
Without the fan on high and the cooling pad it tops out at 145 deg. F and quite literally dies. One of these days it is going to permanently damage itself. On the cooling pad with the fan on high, it is an acceptable 95 deg. F.
(both temps are reported at idle processing)
You might ask why Dell doesn't fix this. Well, if you are asking that, you A.) don't own a dell 2.) Have never dealt with dell Epsilon.) you assume they care.
Ok, done ranting. But now to my question. Has anyone made a usable mod for laptop cooling? The laptop would be used quite a bit so it can't be a duct-taped mini-water cooler on the back. I am looking to crack it open and replace the heatsink / fan with something more powerful so that it doesn't continually overheat and die. As is stands now the only time I can use the laptop is when I manually set the fan (thru a nice little hack program someone made just for this laptop model because of the defect that doesn't exist) to high and have it sitting on a laptop cooling pad.
Without the fan on high and the cooling pad it tops out at 145 deg. F and quite literally dies. One of these days it is going to permanently damage itself. On the cooling pad with the fan on high, it is an acceptable 95 deg. F.
(both temps are reported at idle processing)
