Overheating in the z81sp

I am seriously considering ordering the z81sp a week from now and was just wondering if anybody knew if it has anyproblems with overheating to the point that it risks damaging the hardware.

My current laptop is a a 3 1/2 year old gateway 600 series desktop replacement and while it does get pretty hot, it has never interfered with the performance, and i can usually keep it pretty cool when it's sitting on my desk by elevating it on 4 dvd cases and haveing a small bed fan blow underneath it.

 

For sure, z81sp is a very hot machine because of a P4 socket 775 desktop CPU and nvida 6800 256MB video, totally 3 cooling fans inside, 1 for cpu, 2 for video. I'm very impressed about its' performance, it is very fast. If the heat is a concern on you, you can put a cooling base on a bottom.

 

If heat is a huge concern - you're looking at the wrong laptop. As Iter mentioned - the cpu and the gpu make this unit very high performance, but that comes with a lot of heat. The chassis is huge - large enough to house the larger thermal envelope the specs require.... but in terms of the system being "hot", it's either in the system or it's blow out the back..... it creates a lot of heat, but it does do a good job of getting rid of it...... any external solution - like a cooling plate is certainly recommended.

 

If heat is a huge concern - you're looking at the wrong laptop.
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Well it's not really that i mind a hot machine, i just want to know whether the machine is designed well enough to not self-destruct from regular use and halflife2 modding.

And i'm qute confident that my ghetto rigged cooling setup will do the trick. It keeps my current laptop cool to the touch even when i've been doing heavy halflife2 modding, which is probably the most demanding task that this aging peice can perform as it usually turrns my laptop's surface into a stove (not that it's ever really had any major problems with crashing).

But yes i have been looking at cooling pads because the dvd case and deskfan setup is very limited in mobility.

 

Without a doubt it's cooled sufficently.... Asus hasn't made a laptop that didn't exhaust more heat than it needed to....