Intercoolers For Laptops?

I read this thread and I do find it interesting; I might buy one actually, but I want to follow-up on some intercoolers.

Does a laptop version of any brand of intercooler exist? I'm worried about my Dell I'll be buying because a lot of reviews say the harddrive physically Melts and the motherboard fries easily. I'd like to keep it cool to avoid this.

Just wondering.

 

What do you mean by an intercooler?

Your notebook cooling system? a notebook cooler within your notebook? or a notebook cooler?

 

An "air conditioner" for the laptop, if you want. It exists for desktops (it keeps track of the temperature and you can press buttons to lower the temperature and turn it off, etc.) but I'm not sure about laptops.

 

Really... You mean a cooling pad, right?

You can try do a heat sink mod, but that's just custom and as far as I know, no company sells pre-made kits because the cooling systems of laptops are all proprietary.

 

Cooling pads are virtually proliferating on the market already, so it's no new news for some of us.

..unless you're thinking of making customized "intercoolers" pretty much like those in cars--taking in air and cooling it before blowing it to the thermal assembly or something? That would be outrageous!! But effective if possible lol.

 

Like, you wouldn't need a fan. It's an air conditioner inside a computer. I already had a cooling pad and it was a piece of crikes; I'm looking at the one posted in the first post as an option.

An intercooler is inside the laptop (thus, "inter") and cools ("cooler") the laptop down like an air conditioner would. You can select the temperature, turn it on and off at will, etc.

Cooling pads are different; they're external, nyaa?

 

Check out this :
Evercool fit
Im thinking of getting one of this, so goodd

 

There is no such thing for notebooks as every notebook has a different thermal system. Thus there can be no standard inner solution for a notebook.

Furthermore such a system that would work like an air conditioner would be large unportable and furthermore require maintenance and may cause issues with moisture.

Are you sure you are not referring to liquid cooling?

Do you have any examples even desktop ones (links/images) of what you are thinking about as what you have staed so far doesnt really make sense.

By the way I believe you are thinking of an INTRAcooling system rather than Inter. Inter would mean outside as well while intra is within.

I would not recommend it. Very few notebooks, heck mainly netbooks will notice a difference by sucking air out the vent. It is proven that notebook coolers that are chosen right according to vent alignment is far more effective.

 

It is possible, with some custom manufacturing
Say you buy a 1U heatsink for a server. You could cut it to the proper dimensions, and machine out some mounts, so that it can be bolted into the laptop. You can drill a hole through the fins and run a copper tube, or solder a copper tube to the base. You can have say a 3/32" or 1/4" inside diameter tube running in and out of your laptop. Than a coolant reservoir even 8 fluid ounces and a very small inline pump could be used to cool the laptop. Screw type conduit could be used to keep whats internal internal, and the external off, if desired. A fan could always be employed as well, as a backup

Anything can be done, no is never the right answer

K-TRON

 

Thats liquid cooling, not AC. Ac would require compressing a gas, letting the gas condense in a condenser, run the gas to an expansion valve, and then run the gas to a evaporator mounted on the part being cooled.

 

intercooler is nice project to apply.

in cars it cools the air first and sends it to a turbo or engine so the air will be cooled first and then sended to the engine or turbo.
1-because cool air will reach to engine:better performance and less heat on engine.cool air has more density which means a big explotion in chambeer.

same things apply to notebooks.a air that is cooled first and then sended to notebook will do a lot change because cooled air has more density causing more heat transfer better cooling.

 

in zalman nc2000 coolers there is a space under holes between the top of the cooler which is aliminum and the bottom of the cooler which is plastic.i am planning to open and reach that space and put some ice there for extra heat loss to the air will be cooler more density,more cooling.better...

 

DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING THAT.

You will short out the fan control board within the cooler and furthermore as the ice melts you will end up with a mess on your desk.

I think you are mistaking AC for liquid just as aussiek2000 stated.

Furthermore, take the extra minute to think before you type K-TRON. Not everybody has the resources and knowledge to do constant unstable DIY projects. If the person has to ask about it and apply it desktop terms he or she likely does not have the adequate background knowledge and experience which can lead to safety issues.

TO OP

Which cooling pad have you tried with your notebook? could you provide a picture of the bottom and the hard drive location and the rough avg temperature of your hard drive.

 

Geesh, I was offering a simple solution, water cooling or a compressor type intercooling system could be deployed. I called for tube in my example with pressure type conduit, so you could hook whatever you wanted to the outside of the laptop.

I worked on something very similar to actively cool a microcontroller for a 5 arm mill. They need to be cooled, and when the oil coolant fails from a leak, a simple means can be done to cool it, by using a copper tube full of fluid.

The only tools required are:
a spare heatsink
a plumbers soldering iron,
some plumbers solder (stuff is like 3/32" thick)
and a drill/dremel.
and of course imagination and time.

K-TRON

 

Which kinda means a bigger rig than your laptop. so yeah.

This equates to a heap of steaming plastic and silicon. Well, unless dry ice is what its name means--if dry ice doesn't let off water or moisture, and you could like put a reservoir of it there...but IMO not a risk worth taking.

What's more viable is a mini-intercooler sort of thing, with a USB-powered contraption and some conventional-cooling pad-looking thing that is the cooler, minus the moisture. I mean if there's a way to cool air such that it would be as cold as, say, a rainy day-type cold air and get it into the laptop even if it's a scorching summer day, then maybe...

But yeah, I'll leave it to the custom builders here, since I really don't know squat about this lol.

PS K-TRON is such a scratchbuild master! Woot!

 

lol i am gonna put ice on my laptops heat sink and the ice will melt and laptop will die. what a great fantasy.i would have a lot of fun if i did that.well i can put the ice on a plastic bag and try it

 

Water can still appear on the outside of the bag because of moisture in the air.. please be careful.