Cooling the beast! Keeping the M17x R4 Cool

Hey guys! Been loving my M17x R4 for gaming so far! I purchased the CoolerMaster U3 to keep it cool. Me and my “always want more attitude” want to upgrade the fans to be a little stronger (the 5v usb fans don’t really move a ton of air). I have 5 of these 120mm Rosewill fans ( Rosewill RCA-1204BK 120mm Sleeve Black Case Fan, 4/PK - Retail - Newegg.com) laying around and 2 of these 60mm Evercool fans ( EVERCOOL EC6025 60mm Case Fan - Newegg.com) from old builds. Basically trying to figure out what you guys think would be the best setup/fan placement?

Should I place the 2 60mm fans directly under the back vents blowing a ton of air directly into them (kinda scared to do that without knowing if it will mess up the internal fans that are in the laptop…anyone think it will?) These fans move a TON of air and are loud but that can be controlled with a controller. On the flip side do you think I should just line the bottom of the U3 with as many 120mm fans as possible? The Evercools move a ton more air but are much smaller. Just looking for opinions from folks out there. I’m wiring a 12v molex connector directly into a $2.50 coaxle female plug and then plugging the fans in with the controller or splitter. The wall plug I have is a 12v 4A plug so I’m sure I would have plenty of power.

Thanks guys!

 

I would use a couple of fans the same size as the vents in the bottom of the laptop to blow air up into those vents. You want some kind of barrier so that those extra fans suck their air in from below the sides of the laptop, instead of recirculating hot exhaust blown out of the rear of the machine.

You don't want to blow so much air into those vents that you're causing a sizable increase in the laptop's normal fan RPMs, as that will probably put stress on the laptop's fans, causing them to have a shorter life. So your fan speed control can come in handy for that. If you turn it up too high, you may end up blowing your laptop's splintered fan blades out the rear of the machine.

The only other thing you can do is cool the air going into those extra fans, and a thermoelectric cooler [ 1, 2] might do a good job of that if interfaced properly with the airflow. NASA has developed a lot of that type of cooling, so you might slap some NASA stickers onto your cooling assembly
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Throw in a subwoofer and an outboard pair of stereo plasma speakers (the sound is created by modulating a plasma flame). Keep the plasma flame out of the air intakes.

And if you're going to spew sparks, then you probably want an appropriate background screen.

 

Now that would make your AW cool! lol

 

You can replace u3's fans with standard 80mm? (Not 100% sure on size) fans. Then just run external adapter to then.

But even then u3's design for aluminium will not let huge amount of airflow, you will need to position fans and then cut the aluminium out to have better airflow.