Zalman NC2000 help with M1530.

My Zalman NC2000 just came today, and I'm having trouble understanding how to use it. It doesn't seem to be working too well, and I'm checking HW monitor to see the difference. Maybe I'm just positioning it wrong, but it doesn't seem to help that much. I'll post test results pretty soon.

 

Move the M1530 a little bit towards the front, so that around 1 cm of the laptop is sticking out of the Zalman at the front

 

Or see here...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3727627&postcount=1677

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3727632&postcount=1678

 

Do you put the front rubber feet on the laptop below the bumper on the cooler (closer to the front edge of the cooler)? I've positioned mine so that the feet are just behind the bumper (toward the rear of the cooler) since this prevents the laptop from sliding forward.

In truth, the cooler doesn't make a huge difference for the GPU/CPU temp -- only a few degrees.

 

What are you using to make the M1530 go off the Zalman like that? Is that necessary?

 

if u notice on the nc2000/1000, the airflow is focused towards the front area of the cooler. the m1530's more important vents (GPU & CPU) are positioned in the mid/rear area. u just have to position yur notebook forward more, to try to line it up with the cooler's airflow.

 

In this case, as in the pictures, I positioned the front rubber feet of the laptop on the front rubber strip of the cooler to prevent it from sliding down. But in any case, even when I placed it on the normal part of the zalman the laptop' front rubber feet were doing their job very well and they were not sliding or moving. They held on pretty strongly as they are meant to be.

I have tried your position too (and at the moment I am actually using it like yours, partly because of some minor desk space issues since I got an ext keyboard and I needed to accommodate it, and also because I am not doing heavy duty work now on it) and even this is fine. And still I see the effects of the cooler... its better than without one.

Death Ro: Houstoned has answered your query perfectly. And I did that because of that reason. But still, as I mentioned before, even moving it back and having the front rubber feet of the laptop *behind* the front rubber strip of the Zalman still has good results because if you look more carefully, even in this position the main intake of the laptop of still sits around 50% within the cooler vents.. and given the tilt (if you have a 9-cell) along with the good spread of the air from the Zalman, it still takes in the cool air and the temp' are good.

 

I was just playing FEAR with it, and it got to 78 degrees celsius. Usually when I play games my Laptop gets to 75. I don't get it, the Zalman cooler feels cold when I touch it, and it's not working well.

 

It does feel cold because of the material used to make it... And fiddle around with it, Zalman DOES lower temperatures Search around because there are some Zalman specific threads with temp reports..

As for positioning, did you bring it forward?

 

I just got the Zalman NC2000 to use with my XPS M1530 and I couldn't be happier.

The primary reason I purchased it was the components in the front of the laptop were getting ridiculously hot. The palm rest, the hard drive area, basically all the components with the passive grates, but only when gaming for an extended period of time.

I don't think any notebook cooler will shove more air into the GPU / CPU air intake. But my laptop over all is so much cooler now.

 

This might sell me. I was getting skeptical from the bad reviews concerning the M series line with the Zalman coolers.