Laptop Cooling
Monday, July 14th, 2008 - 8:57pm
My laptop gets reealllly hot. I don't think it's safe I think I should get it a cooling mat. What I want to know is - do these things actually work, and how well do they work? They seem pretty damn cheap.
http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=ca&l=en&cs=&k=laptop+cooling...
I really need to know, this thing could fry me up some eggs and bacon after an hour or two of gaming. Please help, thanks!
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I had a co-worker who used one for an out of warranty for a laptop that kept blue screening and shutting down randomly. It got dangerously hot. I don't remember the exact model, but it did keep it from blue screening and shutting down.
I've been using a cooling pad for about three years for a very hot, very badly designed, Alienware Sentia.
I ended up buying a cheapie Chinese 3-fan cooling pad that has a very nice extra feature- 4 USB ports on the side. The pad helps me a lot.....
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One of the best things I've found was to take some plastic bottle caps and rest the lappy on those (flip the caps upside down and place them where the laptop's rubber feet touch the desk). Cheap as free.
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I've heard good things about the iXoft pads from Thermaltake. It's completely passive, no noisy fans or anything. It has some kind of gel or crystals or something that turn from solid to liquid to help absorb the heat, which can then turn back to solid after use when you let the pad cool.
I use an older Targus cooling pad with 2 fans. It works great, but the pad is pretty flimsy, and is useless anywhere besides the desktop.
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