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Should I be making a laptop cooler?

dr rockerdr rocker Regular
edited January 2011 in Tech & Games
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Its running quite hot and the fan is on quite a bit - at the moment I have it resting on a freezer pack .

I have taken it apart and given it a good clean - also what do people think of taking the processor out and sanding the bond between that and the heat sink so get a better contact?
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2011
    Jesus christ, that's hot. Take it apart, clean it all out. Remove any old thermal paste from the CPU/heatsink, and replace it with some new stuff.

    Put it all back together, and try tweaking it a little. Get any unnecessary shit off of there, anything which creates CPU cycles will create additional heat.

    Also, which OS are you running? Have you tried something different, like a lightweight Linux distro?
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  • KatzenklavierKatzenklavier Regular
    edited January 2011
    Fuck that's hot. Pretty much this ^, clean it out.
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  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited January 2011
    I cleaned it not so long ago - only had the problem the last couple of days since I installed VLC and Ant - lots of tabs opening and closing and ant getting vids - although I have had both programmes installed in the past it was before I took the laptop apart to clean it.

    Probably have not fitted the heat sink flush. I have ripped a PS2 and a USB mouse so I have an external fan keeping shit cool - the part of my house my laptop is in is around 24c anyway.

    Running low of 55c and a high of 65c now, no matter how hard I push it. Cant be arsed to go to the shops to buy things to make a propper cooling stand but am back at work tomorrow - lots of shit lying around there so I will nab some gear.

    I will also take the laptop back apart and make sure it is all together correctly.
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2011
    Make sure you check that thermal paste! It's incredibly efficient at dissipating heat to the heatsink correctly.
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  • KatzenklavierKatzenklavier Regular
    edited January 2011
    You need new stuff every time too
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  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited January 2011
    That will be it then - I did not use new paste when I took it apart last time. I have ordered some.
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  • fanglekaifanglekai Regular
    edited January 2011
    Arctic Silver 5 ftw
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  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited January 2011
    Thats what I got, and some cleaner to get the old stuff off and a couple of fans.
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  • fanglekaifanglekai Regular
    edited January 2011
    Good. How old is that laptop anyway? I had a shitty HP I got for cheap and it was always running hot like that, 60+C even idling. I got a new Acer and it idled in the high 30s, low 40s C.
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  • KatzenklavierKatzenklavier Regular
    edited January 2011
    dr rocker wrote: »
    Thats what I got, and some cleaner to get the old stuff off and a couple of fans.

    All you need is isopropanol to get it off.
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  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited January 2011
    The cleaner is iso - its as cheap from the place I got it online as anywhere. The laptop is around 15 months old.
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  • fanglekaifanglekai Regular
    edited January 2011
    dr rocker wrote: »
    The cleaner is iso - its as cheap from the place I got it online as anywhere. The laptop is around 15 months old.
    Damn. Was it always running that hot? What brand is it?
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  • DaktologistDaktologist Global Moderator
    edited January 2011
    Sounds like my laptop a few weeks ago, never dropping below 90c, cleaned out 2 years worth of dust and lint and it idles at around 30c now
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  • HellishHellish Regular
    edited January 2011
    Thanks for reminding me. I wrote something on my hand to do something but it got faded.
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  • MayberryMayberry Regular
    edited January 2011
    Hellish wrote: »
    Thanks for reminding me. I wrote something on my hand to do something but it got faded.

    My my, you've got a sweaty penis.
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  • KatzenklavierKatzenklavier Regular
    edited January 2011
    Any heat problems can be solved with a suitable application of liquid nitrogen.
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  • dr rockerdr rocker Regular
    edited January 2011
    Well, I took it to bits, cleaned it and put it back together with new paste. It is still running around 53C (althought it is quite warm in the room - maybe 25 - 26 c).

    On top of that, I must have been a little more forceful with the keyboard than I should have been - keys 3,4, E, D and C now do not work - luckily I have wireless keyboard but its batteries so thats bitch.
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited January 2011
    It's possibly just a bad quality Heatsink then. Laptops generally run much hotter too, but 53 is still quite hot. Have you tried a different OS to see if it runs any cooler?
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  • RemadERemadE Global Moderator
    edited January 2011
    My new Toshiba Satellite Pro is hot as fuck so I have to put it on a cooling stand with a fan. Fucks me orff.
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