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"Laptop Cooling"

OK, I'm really getting angry now. I buy a £1200 laptop and it's the noisiest thing in the world, ever. When running at full fan power it's just plain stupid, I'll get a sound clip of it 'taking off' next time.

Anyway, what good (AND QUIET!!) ways are there of cooling this thing further? It's so 'ing noisy it's doing my head in, I can't play music quietly as I can't hear it over the fan sometimes!

I sooooo want to get a desktop.

And my sister helped a bit too, by providing the hairdryer!

It was a good team effort.

Go team!

phi11ip wrote:
> And cookie helped me a bit, but I'm still amazing because I
> managed to unscrew it and all that stuff.

Yes, I was more bowing at you than taking a bow myself.

If it was choc chip flavoured, I'd rather

I < cookie

poopots wrote:
> The CPU copper block in normally the one to the centre of the laptop,
> the one with the biggest copper block on, the other one/two is either
> the motherboard chipset cooler or the GPU block. Clean the copper
> pipes that connect them all together, and also clean the fan. That
> should just about do it.

All I did was to take out the heatsink, remove the huge amount of dust that had created the 'power-filter' and screw it back in again. It's working fine now.

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The only thing that the heatsink is connected to is the CPU, I haven't opened the HD panel, but I'm guessing there won't be anything in there cooling wise, I think the HD is just left to itself. It's only at 49 deg at the moment though, it has been idling for aaages but it will never be as bad as it was.

The CPU is under 60 deg though, which is slightly better! The laptop now sits silent with the fan coming on and off for about 30 seconds every few mins. It's a hell of a lot quieter than it used to be!

And cookie helped me a bit, but I'm still amazing because I managed to unscrew it and all that stuff.

I > Cookie

/Bow.

OMFG!!1 Halo works again!!

I might get Half Life 2 now, seeing how the graphics card isn't dying anymore!

Now to test Halo!

Well done, you filthy bas.

Wow, I've finally done it. All I can say is WOW!

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The fan comes on for 30 seconds and goes off for another few minutes, it's also super quiet!

Then again, I think anything would be noisy if it was being power filtered through that! It's a few dog hairs that have got stuck, the dog hairs have gathered dust, and it's created a lovely filter!

Processor is running at 51 deg now, HD is running at 42! Woooooo!

Wooo, just had a new record! Hard drive hit 61 and processor hit 77!

Thank God I can get at it tomorrow!