Zalman NC1000 good for these computers?

Hey guys!

I am borrowing my friends antec cooler and has helped my computer (2.5 yr old Dell E1505) from dying (my CPU temps were 80 and Hard drive around 60) and this brought it down a lot.

Unfortunately, I have to give it back to my friend soon. I am looking to get the zalman 1000 since it has amazing reviews. I don't mind getting another one like an antec cooler or whatever.

I will be getting a new laptop pretty soon though, so I want the laptop cooler I get now to be good with the laptop I may get in the future. The ones i am looking at to buy in the near future is the

1)Aluminum macbook/macbook pro
2)Lenovo Thinkpad T400 or x200
3)Sony Z or SR

Would the Zalman nc1000 work well with all these laptops taking into consideration the placement of fans etc on these laptops?

Would you recommend any other laptop coolers to look at that will work well with these laptops?

Thanks guy! I really appreciate it!!

 

I've had that same computer since it first came out (in sig), and I have had no problems with temperature whatsoever... except for the screen, which I cracked.
CPU - 29C to 76C @ 100% usage
HDD - 39C

I would suggest you take apart your laptop and clean it for dust and re-apply thermal paste on the CPU.

 

Macbook and Macbook pro doesnt have airflow in the bottom of the machine so having a cooler or not will make no difference since there is no air going in or out.

 

Oh, so for the macbook or macbook pro, it would not help then eh?

So would the zalman nc1000 be good for the Thinkpad T400, X200, or the Sony Sr/Z?

 

Coolers are not that expensive to buy, so why dont you more concern on what latop will satisfy your need rather than having a laptop that suit your cooler?
The laptop cooler comes after the machine. got it?

 

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+1 to that.

 

Well i understand, but I am saying if the zalman will work for the thinkpads or sonys, then I do not need to buy a new cooler for my currently dying E1505.

And $50 is quite a bit for me...

 

I personally believe the cooler will work well with any of those machines. Someone did a great review here > http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3620

 

Wrong and right Macbooks and MBP both do not have airflow but especially with the metal chassis by cooling the base, bottom of the chassis it should cool down the notebook.

Apple designed the macbook and MBP chassis to be a heatsink. If you look at CPU heatsinks (for desktops) what do they almost always have attached?



A fan, that fan is to move air through the heatsink to cool off the metal.

So basically a cooler that cools the chassis should do something.

It should be a good cooler for those.

 

Sir, I havent received that rep . Thanks.

I mean that unlike other notebooks, there is NO hole in the bottom that actually let airflow out.

You mention that the temp for your notebook is currenty is 60 C. IMO, that is a very high temp. I prefer having my notebook does not go over 60 C. Eventhough Intel design their chip to handle even more. So I strongly recommend you to buy it NOW.

Money you have spent is the past is long gone. If you concern about it, you will make a bad decision. Dont fall in sunk cost trap.

 

exactly.. please read the rest of the post..

 

Read this for more information about +1 ...but rep given.

 

I have tried using a decent brand notebook cooler before and it had no effect whatsoever with the core temps. Come to think of it, all it does really is to MANAGE the flow of air. Basically, when you put your notebook's end to a book (or anything else that would make your notebook inclined so there is space for air to move) it's just the same as having a "notebook cooler" below the notebook itself.

 

But after borrowing my friends notebook cooler, my cpu temps is around 64C not 75 or 80 anymore, and my hard drive only runs about 40C. So supposedly these are good temps?

So what I have gathered from this thread is that the zalman will work for the laptops that I have mentioned...even the macbook as it would help keep the aluminum temp down...

 

yur first mistake was to go with a "decent brand" cooler, and not the correct cooler that matches with yur vents.

no, a book that adds an incline to yur notebook is not the same as a proper active cooler. a book could be compared to a passive cooler. i can guarantee u that if u put yur notebook (or any notebook up to 19") on my cryo LX, there will be temp drops that a passive cooler cannot produce.

 

I have to agree with X2P, while no where near as effective as a laptop that has vents and or a cooling fan to pull air through the bottom. Getting cool air to the bottom of the note book should cool the chassis overall.

Unfortunately the over all cooling effect wont directly cool the vital components we can actually check temperatures on more than a degree or two as a few degrees on the chassis doesnt do a whole lot for some components depending on the design.

I remember reading the macbooks use the metal part above the keyboard as a heat sink? I havent kept up surely the new unibody is a bit different.

 

Those holes are really too small for air to be forced thru with just a basic cooler setup. You'd have to seal the bottom of the computer to the cooler to force air thru the holes. The cooler built into the laptop already does this with tight tolerances. Also look at a few radiators in cars. My Corvette has a sealed radiator box that forces air to flow thru the radiation instead of around it. Same concept. I will admit that I'm only saying the holes too small because one of the major aftermarket radiator designers said the spacing between the fins determine the speed at which they're effective. The fins on all radiators seem pretty close, but some work better around 40 mph and some don't do all that much till well above that speed. That tells me that air would have to move pretty fast to get into the holes in the bottom of a laptop case. Having a tight seal is one way to get past that restriction.

Anyway, short version is that cooling the bottom panel is effective as previous posters said.

 

by cooling the aluminum chassis you are cooling the heatsink as well, it is actually more beneficial to other notebooks with only vents at the bottom since dust can get in faster and thus reduce the efficiency in long term.

as long as the fan or the outflow air is located near the end where the hinge is it will help.

 

I personally have good experience with the NC1000 with the XPS M1530. It drops idle temperature by about 5 to 8°C while load by 10 to 15°C.