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    Free Cooling Pad for notebooks (with images)

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by MaxBerry, Jan 30, 2009.

  1. MaxBerry

    MaxBerry Notebook Geek

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    I want to tell you how to keep your notebook COOL for free with the help of any rectangular boxes. In this example i am using visiting card holder box which is about 4 inch x 3 inch in size.

    1) Take visiting cards box
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    2) Remove visiting cards
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    3) keep it on desk bellow laptop
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    4) mount laptop on top of card boxes so that i stays above desk, this will give tons of ventilation to fans bellow laptop and your laptop will run atl east 8 degree Celsiuses about 15F?) COOLER.
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    I always keep my laptop like this and it runs allot cooler

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    please comment. :)
     
    MaxBerry, Jan 30, 2009
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    ntot exactly a new method, is it? on a side note, your vents could do with cleaning :)
     
    whizzo, Jan 30, 2009
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  3. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    That laptop screen looks like... It will suck you in o.o
     
    Baka, Jan 30, 2009
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  4. Manic Penguins

    Manic Penguins [+[ ]=]

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    How do you work with such blurry screens ;)

    Unfortunately this has already been done. But I would like to say thanks for the effort youve put into it. :cool:
     
    Manic Penguins, Jan 30, 2009
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    He photochopped it to blur

    Good ol' DIY cooling...
     
    flipfire, Jan 30, 2009
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  6. ratchetnclank

    ratchetnclank Notebook Deity

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    They knew they were kidding.

    And yes he needs to clean dust.
     
    ratchetnclank, Jan 30, 2009
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  7. VAIO_FZ

    VAIO_FZ Notebook Consultant

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    Meh its ok but to really cool your laptop, clean out your heat sinks and dust inside the laptop then replace with fresh thermal paste.
     
    VAIO_FZ, Jan 30, 2009
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  8. frodobagins

    frodobagins Notebook Geek

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    frodobagins, Jan 30, 2009
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  9. D3158

    D3158 Notebook Consultant

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    Also, on the side note, the second obvious thing would be to have a hard cover book on both sides below the laptop, of course. We all knew that though!

    D3158
     
    D3158, Jan 30, 2009
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  10. RoGuE1230

    RoGuE1230 Notebook Consultant

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    I use plastic soda bottle caps on each corner under the rubber foot.
     
    RoGuE1230, Jan 30, 2009
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  11. houstoned

    houstoned Yoga Pants Connoisseur.

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    where's a slapmyhead icon when i need one...?
     
    houstoned, Jan 30, 2009
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  12. avanish11

    avanish11 Panda! ^_^

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    I use DVD boxes instead. Same basic principle.
     
    avanish11, Jan 30, 2009
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  13. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

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    mine just hovers half an inch off my table...
     
    vinceboiii, Jan 30, 2009
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  14. Bungalo Bill

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    I prop the back of my laptop up with my wallet. I've been thinking of using one of the thousand fans I have sitting around to make a DIY cooler.
     
    Bungalo Bill, Jan 30, 2009
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  15. BaldwinHillsTrojan

    BaldwinHillsTrojan Notebook Evangelist

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    Nice but seems "ghetto"
     
    BaldwinHillsTrojan, Jan 30, 2009
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  16. houstoned

    houstoned Yoga Pants Connoisseur.

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    thats not ghetto, thats just cheap. :)

    using a pencil as a TV antenna is ghetto.
     
    houstoned, Jan 30, 2009
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  17. flipfire

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    I tried them before, it slips.
     
    flipfire, Jan 30, 2009
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  18. MidnightSun

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    I made a laptop stand using Knex pieces ;)
     
    MidnightSun, Jan 31, 2009
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  19. MaxBerry

    MaxBerry Notebook Geek

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    yeah, i am too lazy to clean my laptop ;) typical geek thing.

    it is still accumulating dust from top :D
     
    MaxBerry, Feb 2, 2009
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  20. Nocturnal310

    Nocturnal310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    just to remind all..this form of cooling is Passive and not very effective during extreme gaming.

    if your laptops chassis is not that well designed which is common ..u need an active cooler with fan..which pulls out air from the bottom.



    somewhat like good old chimneys and modern electric chimneys which suck out the smoke in the kitchen.

    a fan cooler can be bought for $10 also and $80 also...

    AND expensive doesnt mean good....i tried zalman..and its design was not effective for my laptop..and surprisingly a $10 cheap cooler worked wonders for me..reducing temperature by 10 to 15 Degree Celcius
     
    Nocturnal310, Feb 2, 2009
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  21. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    I use two styrofoam (polyestirene, n. rigid white material used for packaging and insulation) blocks of 5-6 cm high, on the back of my laptop.

    Increases air circulation and also gives it a nice incline... plus they are totally non slippery.
     
    agusman, Feb 2, 2009
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  22. highlandsun

    highlandsun Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey, I used plastic bottle caps too...

    My dv5z is a real oven. It has turned the clear rubber feet on my Bytecc cooling pad yellow/brown from the heat by the fan exhaust. (They used to be clear/transparent.) And I've only had it since August. I had my M6Ne on the same pad since July 2004 and it never did this.
     
    highlandsun, Feb 2, 2009
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  23. ashsyd

    ashsyd Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm primarily gonna use the laptop on a wooden TV stand while my butt is on the couch so I'm gonna take a router and put five or six large slots in the table the width of the lap top then a larger slot directly under where the fan is
     
    ashsyd, Feb 2, 2009
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  24. MidnightSun

    MidnightSun Emodicon

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    Passive cooling on my current laptop takes me down a bit more than 5 degrees C while gaming. Quite effective, actually.
     
    MidnightSun, Feb 2, 2009
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  25. Mambate12

    Mambate12 Newbie

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    Dear guy, you are so smart... but it looks to ugly..
     
    Mambate12, Feb 3, 2009
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  26. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    beware. i heard horror stories with cheap coolers that will burn your usb port and sometimes the entire mobo.
     
    tianxia, Feb 3, 2009
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  27. roosta

    roosta Notebook Evangelist

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    dunno about cheap fans toasting laptops... maybe if it shorts out. they cant draw more power than the usb provides.

    ive just taped 2 lucazade bottle tops together and put 2 of those under the back 2 feet. with a bit of blutac under them they are non slip too. raises it about the same as 2 dvds stacked up.
     
    roosta, Feb 3, 2009
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  28. AppleUsr

    AppleUsr Notebook Deity

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    hey is that a samsung 172t monitor in the background. i got one of those like 8 years ago and it still wont die.

    my buddy did a similar mode with spikes. he said they came from speakers to lift them up off the ground.

    anyway he velcro mounted them on the bottom of his laptop. kind of extreme but it never moved anyway so.
     
    AppleUsr, Feb 4, 2009
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