Custom laptop cooling pad

Since i travel a lot, i wanted to get a laptop cooling pad that would be as small as possible so as to not take up a lot of suitcase space. Something the exact size as the base of my G51. I decided I would probably need to make one since all the small ones are not very strong at all, with their 5v fans.

I threw this together with some scrap aluminum we had laying around, and a 120mm 12v fan. I then found a 12v "wall wart" and installed a plug on the cooler. A switch probably would have been a good idea...or even a potentiometer to control the speed, but im really only using it when i game, so if its on its at full speed.

Just thought id share with you all.












With no mods done it has helped drop temps under load about 5-6 degrees C. May go ahead and do the bottom panel mod.

 

Cool. +1 rep for you, vaeevictiss.

 

I'm going to do something similar, but mine will be directly over the fake fan grill for when I remove it

 

Wow looks really nice.

 

A nice cooling, pad. I like the way you made it look like a factory one i.e the screw covers etc. Good job.

PS: I'm nearly done with my own custom cooling pad, check mine out, when I finish I will post pics of my creation.

 

i actually thought about that afterwards lol. I probably could have put the fan where the computer fan is...but it still blows a lot of air, and hard, so im sure it will still help a lot when the cut is made.

Im just so paranoid to do it again because less than 24 hours of doing it to my last one the GPU baked and i had to exchange it lol. Although, i think what that was from when i stupidly removed all those soft little thermal pads off the GPU ram when I put AS5 on it and never put them back on. So it may have been the ram that got cooked more than the actual GPU chip.

 

Well since there are a bunch of you here that have done the bottom panel mod, im fairly certain that it wasnt the cause of my last GPU frying.

So i decided to redo it on my new one...







EDIT: so oddly, running 3dmark b4 the cooling pad i made, my GPU hit 93C. Afterwards, it topped at 88C. Now with this bottom panel mod im hitting 90C. Any ideas why it would go back up. How have people been getting such drastic drops with their bottom panel mods?

 

You did a nice job with cutting out the hole. I wish I hadn't done mine so quickly because I ended up scratching the silver. I'm not sure why your temps are higher after the mod, that shouldn't be the case. With mine, I noticed a 7C drop in furmark and 3-5C drop in 3dmark06 when highly OC'd. Try propping it from the back when running a benchmark to see if that drops your temps more. If it does, you could always attach thicker plastic pads on the back to raise the machine up from the rear.

 

I know my drilling gave me lower temperatures.

Well, it was also in conjunction with copper blocks.

 

Awesome job. I am in the same boat as you. In hotels M-F so I may look into trying to fab one myself. Thanks for the pics and +1 rep from me as well.

 

yea, i have no clue how it was running hotter. I actually left it at work last night with HW monitor open and it hit a max of 73c on the GPU and 61c on the GPU. That seems high just idling.

 

Did u notice any increase in the temperaure of the palmrest (I think some other people mentioned that), do u confirm this?

 

it feels about the same...that or i havnt really noticed.