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    Best cooling pad for XPS 13

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hah2110, Jun 16, 2009.

  1. hah2110

    hah2110 Notebook Consultant

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    I am looking at cooling pad for my 1340. Most of them have the fan in the center (like the Belkin, with great reviews) but my laptop gets hot at the very top left above the "studioXPS" logo and power button. To me, this means I need a 3 fan-cooler with fans at the top corners as well as the center. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

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    I can recommend Zalman 1000. Using it on M1730 and seems to be rather efficient. It has a single large fan in the middle at the bottom, the insides of cooler are hollow and the top is drilled. It's made in such a way that it doesn't blow air to the single point but spreads it evenly throughout whole area. The cooler is made for 15/17 notebooks so might be a bit big, but you would get good coverage. Connects via USB and you can regulate the speed of fan. On max speed it's quite audible, but not loud. You can hear it when computer is idle and its own fans are on slow speed, and you dont have any sound playing. But it's definitely not annoyingly audible, just noticeable. You can always turn down the speed for less noise if you are too sensitive to sounds.

    Also, if the top of the laptop gets hot, im not sure if laptop cooler will help. If it's same as on M1730 then it won't. There is quite big aluminium plate in there which acts as heatsink and only way to cool it down is by getting a normal fan and point it on top of your laptop. My cooler pushed the temps down by roughly 4-5 degress and i'm generally using it just for hardware health measure, cooler hardware lasts longer and doesn't throttle. But the area above keyboard seems to have same temperature no matter if i use cooler or not when under full load. It's just hot, but it seems to be made that way so i wouldn't worry.