Cooling Pad does not work with Asus n56vz-ds71??

I was looking for cooling pad for my Asus n56 and I notice that ventilations are on the side. Does that mean cooling fan would not be doing much help to lower the temperature? If it does what brand recommend? I was looking at Thermaltake Massive23 LX , Cooler Master Notepal X2, Cooler Master NotePal U2.

 

The exhaust is probably on the side, but I'm sure the intake grills are on the bottom right? I don't have your laptop so I can't comment much other than to say that if there are no vents on the bottom it is pretty poor design.

Please double check your bottom vents.

For suggestions, I have the coolermaster u3 and it is great. I'd opt for the u2 for a 15" laptop though

Edit. I found a picture on xoticpc and there are grills on the bottom plate it seems. That's where you'd want to direct cool air. Also note a notebook cooler only lowers 3-8 degrees C, with 8 if you're lucky.

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U3 has 3 fans? Since I have my ventilation access on the bottome but i don't think 3 fans would fit. I'm trying to find the right location fans for this laptop.

 

No vents on the bottom. The cooling is works with "vacuum" as many other new models.

 

Thanks for clarifying. That's pretty interesting.

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What Kir said was right. Most ASUS laptops have their fans blocked off from any vents in the bottom, and sucks air trough the keyboard. The vents that you see in the bottom is just for show and does not actually aid in cooling.

I would say that this is an idiotic idea. Because with a vent large enough positioned below the fan's direct intake, can make a 8~10 degree drop (celcius)

 

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Pretty silly idea. Open ventilation is important to cooling. Im surprised they are doing this. I haven't worked with any recent Asus laptops so I was unaware. Thanks again

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And if you mod the bottom case you'll void the warranty ._.

 

What did you guys end up doing about this? I guess on a year is up on the warranty, then ill open it uo the bottom, would opening it up even work?

This design can be aided, what have you guys done to eeduce heat? 7-10c is allow. The keybaord is not enough room will build up dust over time.

 

I've added a cooling pad to my hp nc8430 a while back, it also sucks air tru keyboard. While playing world of warcraft i did notice temperature drops. (specs: c2d t7200, x1600 mobility, 3gb ddr2)

Max temps without cooling pad were 71 cpu and 84 gpu (after cleaning the heatsink and applying ac mx4 paste, also cpu was undervolted). With my homemade cooling pad cpu never reached 70, new maximums after 2-3 hours of wow were 66 for cpu and 74ish for gpu.

After adding cp i decided to do some drilling of the bottom enclosure. Holes underneath fan did give me lower cpu temps by 10C, but my gpu was overheating then - due to pressure lost in that part of the chassis and hot air was not moving out of there, so i just took duck tape and "closed" em up. Reason for GPU overheating is not only the lost pressure but the fact that gpu heatpipe in nc8430 is not directly connected to radiator fins and when i opened adittional holes fan wasnt sucking the hot air from the plate that heatpipe was attached to.

Holes underneath GPU chip netted me a loss of 5C in max temps while on cooling pad. While gaming cpu was around 60ish and gpu around 65ish after that mod. My notebook had no warranty at that point.

I wrote this wall of text so you can get better understanding of how notebook cooling works.

TLDR;

Cooling pad should help regardless of bottom enclosure perforations.

If you still have warranty you can probably take of bottom cover off, get a cooling pad that will blow air exactly where bottom cover is/used to be and check temperatures it might help your case and cool off your notebook dramatically.

 

Thanks for posting this, I am a bit disappointed with the N56VZ and can't recommend it because of this.

 

The same with my HP DV6. Summer program is to make a fan intake below the fan.

 

Wont that cause the fan to lose pressure in the pipe sink?