*Enermax Aeolus CP001 Cooler Review + Pics*

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Thx for your opinion but the Zalman costs at least 60€ but the Cryo 67€. What heared (and saw) the Cryo is better and it does also have a USB Hub! so IMO the Cryo would be better, wouldnt it?

Do you watched the photo of my laptop?

 

Not to interject myself into the conversation but the added USB ports on Coolers generally lag a great deal, and are not reccomended for using for much. I have a Black NC2000 and i absoulutely love it. The Air distribution is 100% even, with the enermax it seems focused dead Center so it doesn't cover the Corners all that well.

The Zalman cooler is far better reputed on the Forums here and pretty much any review iv'e read. So it would take a miracle to make me buy one personally. From a brand prespective too Zalman is far more associated with Cooling then Enermax In my mind. Iv'e really yet to find a website with User reviews that people that purchased the product were HAPPY with the Enermax Meanwhile the Zalman seems to sport 4/5 and 5/5 Reviews from every reseller out there.

Reading the users review the main component of my Laptop i worry about is the GPU. And his numbers only showed a 6C cooling difference (Which my Zalman cools the GPU in my laptop for more then that.) So for the money I'm not really impressed with the product. I was considering the Unit as a secondary cooler but after looking at the hard numbers I'm VERY glad the Original poster took the time to write this review.

I'd like a 100% confirmation though If that wrist Rest is detachable or not on the Enermax That could really make or break it for alot of folks, +Rep for review.

 

No, wrist rest is not detachable. Sorry.

The Aeolus doesnt really center it on the middle. It directs air to the whole surface area of the fan. Which only leaves small corners uncovered. Where most notebooks dont have major components.
I agree, that the Zalman is good, but i definitely think the Aeolus Compares and can beat it in some situations. It depends on the laptop itself.
BTW, enermax does alot with cooling. Mainly with Desktop fans. AFAIK, this is their first Notebook Cooler.

Anyway though, thank you for the rep.

 

Thanks for that confirmation there bud. That Sealed it for me =p Still again good review.

 

Your Welcome.

Thanks.

 

Great review. I will place a review for one if I can't find anything better than this

 

Very nice review! +Reps !

 

Bump.......

 

I figured I would come in here and mention that I got my $35 rebate check, if there was anyone who bought it the same time I did who is still waiting for it.

 

nice and detailed review!!

 

Thanks.

I Hope it Helped You!

 

good review, thanks a lot!

because i found "only" one coolingresult of the CP001 combinated with a clevo m680tu (the one in the first post), it would be nice if others could post their temperatures here.

i'm going to buy a m680tu (with this configuration: P8700, GTX 260M, 5400rmp hdd) and hope to get roughly similar results as the one in the first post!

thanks a lot & best greetings from switzerland

@link1313
could you post some more pictures of your m680tu and the cooler? especially from the sides and behind & a "overview" (from a little farer away)
would be very nice!

 

I bought this cooler today and tested it on my Clevo m665sru.

It's a very quiet cooler (I had to SEE the vent myself to be sure that was running), but it couldn't drop my temperatures to acceptable values.

All these temps were measured with the Aeolus cooler @ max speed.

My temps on idle:

• CPU (both): 62ºC
• GPU: 79ºC
• HDD: 38ºC

(the laptop internal vents are at min speed)


After a little browsing (Youtube):

• CPU (both): 75ºC
• GPU: 81ºC
• HDD: 39ºC

Then the laptop (internal) vents go to max speed (noisy) for a little, until CPU temp drops below 65ºC.


Playing a game:

• CPU (both): 88ºC
• GPU: 87ºC
• HDD: 39ºC

Anybody knows how to make the vent go faster?

 

really? are you positive on those temps?

what are you using to get temps?
that is serious overheating.
clean out your vents with compressed air. and follow the Undervolting Guide.

 

You're welcome

yes, you should get the same or simmilar results

 

Hey im new,

 

Ok now done with the formalities.

PEOPLE BIG INFO COMIN UP.

U see the enermax aeolus is as u all know made up of aluminium and steel. There is a 2.5mm coating of aluminium or something like that. SO lets cut to the chase.

I'm ur ordinary college kid obsessed with computer games. dont get me started on how games reduce college stress. Need a whole new thread for that .

I have a DELL INSPIRON 1520 with the following specs

2.2ghz t7500 processor
a seriouslyt "super-clocked" geforce 8600m gt graphics card which I, with tlc, overclocked frm 475/400 to 555/570 running at 1425mhz shader speed.
160gb hdd

Now, I bought the aeolus 6 months back as my parents new-year gift to me, along with a whole list of other things .

In college i was so psyched to use my cooler. I mean it does hav a sleek, stylish look to it. Well, here's how my lappy performed when playing Mass Effect on ultra-high with anistropic filtering enabled and native resolution of 1280 800

w/o cooler

cpu - 82 degrees
gpu- 69 degrees
hdd- 44 degrees

with cooler

cpu-77 degrees
gpu-64 degrees
hdd-41 degrees

So I wasnt so impressed with my notebook cooler. I mean, my parents had paid gud money for THIS !!!!

Now, in college my hostel does not hav air conditioning. So the average ambient room temperature is around 32-38 degrees celcius.

Since the aeolus is made of metal, particularly aluminium which is extremely susceptible to heat exchange, using ur laptop in a room with an average temperature of 33-35 degrees is not gonna make ur lptop much cooler !!!

HOWEVER, when i used this same cooler in an air-conditioned room, with an ambient room temp of 24-25 degrees average, my temperature results were pretty different.
(playing mass effect)
w/o cooler

cpu-76 degrees
gpu-67 " "
hdd-40 " "

with cooler
cpu-65 degrees
gpu-60 degrees
hdd-34 " "

Now it doent take a MATH whiz to understand wht happens here-

1) cool ambient room temp = cool cooler = cool laptop
2) the aeolus cools almost as cool as any top-notch cooling pad, with the difference that it can cool w/o making as much noise and at a cheaper price(in comparison)
3) The bottom of my laptop is cool thanks to the huge fan that covers almost the entire area of my laptop that generates heat (aka cpu and gpu and ram)

Now if all u viewers can go to a site called techpowerup.com, and check for cooling pad reviews, it sez that if u can even cool a laptop by 5 degrees celcius, it can make all the difference between a laptop that hangs and a laptop that crashes.

MORAL OF STORY

Stay in a cool room of 25 degrees celcius and watch aeolus work its magic.
Out of 10, the AEOLUS deserves an 8. Pretty gud.
For further details, pls post queries.

 

Are you sure you are not mixing the cpu and gpu temperature?? because even at 70 degrees the cpu is verrrryyy high. Clean the dust bunnies?

 

I'm considering getting this for my new Dell Studio XPS 13; how well do you think the results are gonna be? >_< Cuz for some reason I'm seeing abit of mixed reviews here, although most are positive.

 

Hey Rambo5501

Shockingly no. My GPU is one real COOL bug. ANd yes, I AM freaked wid the whole cpu thing.


But i did my research with the cpu temps. Apparently, inspiron and xps notebooks with installed t7 sereis cpus all had similar temperature experiences.

Also this is when im really maxing out my notebook.

However, I'm trying this new thing...... heard it works wonders for basic performance boosts ...... increasing THE PAGING FILE.

So far its 2 thumbs up !!

In Mass Effect, there are times when the frame rates wud go down to 25. By increasing the paging file size from 3500mb to 10000 mb( YEAH BIG BOOST ) the frames stay at 30fps . AND NOW THERE S NO SPUTTERING during start up and during multimedia tasking and all.

AH, I LUV my DELL .

And to top it up, when i was re-doing all the temps, for some strange reason, the gpu temperature fell by 2 degrees to 58 degrees. Not sure if that's due to increasing the paging file though. Will check it out and inform those who are interested .

Any other queries, pls feel free to ask ....

 

OH AND HELLDEMON

Buy the Aeolus IF UR GONNA BE STAYING SOMEWHERE WHERE THERE'LL BE AN AC OR WHERE THE TEMPS DONT GO ABOVE 30 DEGREES.

This IS a gud laptop cooler, but like all laptop coolers that are made of l, if u cant cool em, they cant cool ur laptop .... Simple as that.


TC

 

and that 'l' mens metal --- ALUMINIUM.
Sorry for that booboo.

 

Yeah im not gonna be moving the cooler from my desk; so i'll always be around an outlet so that's not an issue.

But what do you mean by "if you cant cool em they cant cool your laptop?"

Basically are you implying that if my room isnt cool, it's pretty muc hgonna be blowing hot air at my laptop then right? Or am I misinterpreting?

 

no that's what he wants to say with his 10000lines-posts

by the way, I got my cooler today - now just waiting for my notebook which should arrive 'till the end of this week!

 

All I meant was that if ur room is gonna be hot, then the laptop cooler can do little to change the temps in ur laptop.

U wont see the big 10 degree differences or the sudden "oh my GAWD!! My laptops bottoms like ice... WHOO" !!

Bottom line - No matter wat laptop cooler u get, if the environment u live in is above 35 degrees( and thats celcius ... duh), then the laptop cooler can only do so much. Kapeesh !!!!

Oh and thank Gawd someone realized. I do give a long reply dont I

Righteous !!!!

 

Sorry ... Got one more reply ..

Hehe

HELLDEMON - jUST To clarify

If room is warm
then air in room is warm
when cooler fan blows in warm air to laptop
laptop gets cooled(cause the laptop blows out MUCH hotter air)
but laptop not cooled to its max

AND THIS HAPPENS IRRESPECTIVE OF COOLER U BUY.
IM SICK AND TIRED OF READING BLOG AFTER BLOG SAYING THIS COOLER'S BETTER THAN THAT ONE OR THT COOLER SUX OR WATEVER ...

STAY IN AN AIRCONDITIONED ROOM AND ANY DECENT COOLER CAN COOL ONES LAPTOP.

 

Ahaha yeah that's what I thought you meant; well as you mentioned, that pretty much holds true for anything that isn't air conditioned.

 

Yeah but since u WANTED to be clarified.

And i did want to clarify one important notion that seems to be flying around... Dont buy a more expensive cooler on the pretext that that "since its more expensive and since everyone sez its so gud, it has to kick the other coolers bases".

It varies frm person to person. All im telling u is that if ur laptop is gonna be in a cool air-conditioned room, then the AEOLUS will work just fine.

Ciao

 

Ahaha thanks man

And i never follow that consensus; the reason why im interested in the aeolus is because the fan is monsterous and covers all the vents on my laptop as opposed to something like the Zalman NC1000 or the NC2000, while both extremely good (and more expensive than the aeolus by alot) do not sufficiently supply air to one or two of my vents on the laptop's base.

 

Gud gud.

Hope the Aeolus does those words justice.
And yeah the zalman IS expensive !! But also worth the buy .... if u wonna pay .... sigh decisions decisions .... What is the world coming to

TC

 

hmmm hearing different sounds regarding this cooler it looks cool tho imo and a good review props for that.
Read a german review which said it didnt make much difference temp wise and it is quite loud.
I 'm looking for a good notebook cooler for my 17 " sager 5797 (xxodd) not sure if anyone has experience with this combo.

 

A 17"? I think you might have to stray from this cooler, as it pretty much fits up to 15.4" laptops; 17" would stick off from the sides; if anything you should check out Cryo's laptop coolers; there are mixed reviews, but a VAST majority of them all say that it's one of the best laptop coolers out there, esp for such a large laptop and such a powerful gfx card that would undoubtedly generate alot of heat

 

darn ... why didn't i saw this review before i eneded up ordering the ZALMAN for myself lol ... well hopefully the zalman is OK 2

 

Seropi

The Zalman is a gud buy.


Here's a Q for everyone ...

There was some new laptop cooler developed by ARCTIC COOL or some company that sounds like thta. IT also had a 25cm fan cooler thing. I manage to see its customer reviews, and frm notebookcheck.com, but as such, ive not seen A PROPER REVIEW, like the one ahl395 gave on the Aeolus.

Why is that? IS it gud/bad/ok/gudish/greatish/.........

HELP !!!

 

I'm really interested in this cooler, it looks amazing.

Does it replace the USB port it uses up, and aswell how audible is it? Is it as loud as blowing air out of your mouth as fast as you can, or slowly?

 

This is perhaps my worse purchase..

I really should have done more research, I didn't know I had two small exhaust fans on the bottom of my laptop pushing air out (I thought it was mostly from the side vent)

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P200 (HD2600/1.7 Core 2/3GB RAM/17" display)

This cooler actually pushed up my temperatures a few degrees C (from 57 both cores to about 59-60)

So before you buy this make sure your laptop doesn't have any exhaust pushing air out from the bottom and you should be fine..

 

Wow, havent checked my own thread in a while.

Thanks for your thoughts/review zayralover.

...And yes, with all coolers, theyll work better in a cooler invironment. Because the air is cooler its blowin up. But a fan can only make teh air so cool . Maybe one day we will have mini AC's on our coolers.

@dancom96: Its silent. But no, it doesnt replace te USB port.

For a 17 inc, it will work fine, but it will hang off a little, as you see, in my review...

 

@dancom96: haha, nice to meet you here . I think this cooler will work fine for G50Vt, but don't hope it to overwhelm Zalman NC2000, since G50Vt's vents is really stupid. There will be temp drop, but don't expect huge drop.
At my location, I cannot find any Enermax's stuff. But there's a generic cooler like this. Sorry for the Vietnamese page, but I cannot find any page about it in English , it's generic. It costs 109000VND~6.155USD. Do you think it will work?

 

Well I have just ordered the cooler online, hoping to receive it on Tuesday. Do you think drops of 5C is reasonable to expect? And do you think this is better than the NC2000, worse or same?

The cooler you linked me to doesn't look very good, looks all plastic, but for $6 which is barely anything compared to the NC2000, I would try it out.

 

I think is will a bit worse than NC2000. It's 200mm fan will produce lots of airflow, but the air don't come to GPU's vent, and since air pressure is low, there's no chance the air will come through the inside of the laptop. NC's fans are centrifugal fan, which produce less airflow, but much higher air pressure. Additionally, their vents cover all G50's vents.
I just post that generic cooler for reference, generic coolers don't have name, so finding them it a little job.

 

Hmm, what do you think about taking off the bottom of the laptop, then having something (not adhesive) to get the laptop and cooler to stay together?

 

recommend this for an asus g50? 15.6 inch laptop

I have been looking at the zalman nc2000 also

lol i posted this then read up a couple of posts

 

You mean throwing the bottom part away? That will cools your lappy a lot, yes, huge temp drop. But you will end up cleaning your lappy weekly. Your lappy also doesn't have enough protection anymore.

 

Hmm yea, never thought of that, think I'd get something like 5c off the GPU without taking the back off?

 

Eventually, I don't know what do you want. You said that you don't want outside cooling method. Taking the back off without cooler will not cool you lappy a lot, because there's still little airflow. Without taking off the back, some coolers like Zalman's or Enermax's still cool you lappy, more than 5C. With me, 5C drop for 70USD is a waste of money.

 

I meant, I have already ordered this cooler on Thursday.

I'm just asking if you think that I would be able to get 5c of a difference on the G50VT?

 

yes but don't you think it's worth it if you spent a ton of money on a laptop when the gpu is at 95 c?

i need my gpu to last 2 years at least, can it last 2 years with temps of 80-950 c every time I game?

will the zalman save my gpu?

 

I'm sorry . I think the Enermax can cool more than 5C on G50Vt.
95C is totally acceptable, but it still can make us worry.
I also want my love last at least 4 years (maybe 2 if I get enough money to buy an Eee by part-time job), so I build a huge cooler for it. And in next weeks, I also change my house for a cooler, air-conditioned one.
And one thing you may want to know: temp is not the primary enemy of chips, heat circle is. You boot up your lappy, do some stuff, gaming and let it idle, that is a heat circle. The longer the heat circle, the more frequent it happens, the sooner your chips die. So I suggest when you want to game, just game freely, and than give your love a chance to breath. Don't game for just 30 minutes then idle and another 30 minutes repeatedly.

 

It probably will last 2 years, but not much longer. Aswell it's going to be extremely uncomfortable on the outside if the inside is 95c.