On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:01:22PM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
I agree with this but I did once cool a laptop with a bag of frozen peas, at least until I got power management sorted out, so I'm kind of willing to try just about anything.
Many laptops have lacking cooling and when they get a lot of dust in them start to have problems. So you clean the dust out of the fans and heatsinks once in a while and they run much better again. On some models this is easy (Pretty much anything that says thinkpad on it), and on others it is a complete nightmare (Compat R3240 for example)
I just posted a bit of an update and question on where to sourcing cooling stuff. I use to overclock quite a bit, mostly before the jumper free days, so to find that the bios defaults to auto in overclocking, makes me wonder about the effectiveness of the default settings.
I was literally blowing cold air from my AC right into it at one point, but after the firmware update and graphics tweaks, I put the unit back in place and so far so good.
The little copper headers on the heat sinc kill me, I can't believe they transfer heat better that just blowing air across the fins.
I am not a cooling design engineer. :) I hope whoever designs the cooling system is. -- Len Sorensen