Airflow on a P6831FX

Just want to make sure I'm right here. The air flows in the bottom of the laptop and out the side vents right?

I'm thinking about getting a Zalman NC2000 or CoolerMaster Notepal Inifnite. Anyone try these with noticeable success in keeping temps down while gaming?

 

I just prop the back of mine up with a book or something, and it stays cool, but I've considered getting a notebook cooler as well. But yes, all the vents on the underside are where the air flow comes in... if you look closely you should see where exactly the fans are.

 

this have been chewed and spat, chewed and spat 1000s times
but he|| i use the zalman, the most significant things it does is keeping the hdd temp down.

 

I'm mostly concerned with where the airflow comes in. So thanks for that info.

So the Zalman doesn't do much for you in games huh? I do the same thing as Citizen86, I use something to prop up the back end. So far I haven't had any heat problems, and I don't really want to buy a cooler just to try and push that extra OC from my system. I'd rather keep it in safe limits. I just thought the cooler would be nice to a) prop the system up, so I don't have to use something b) extend the lifetime of my components and c) perhaps keep my GPU cool.

 

Well it WILL work and look better than propping your laptop up with a book It should run at least a little cooler since air will be being pushed up and not just sucked up.

 

Any advice on what fits the 6831 best? Zalman 2000 or NotePal?

 

I have the Zalman NC2000 which I use for my Alienware m9750, and will also use for our P-7811FX when I get it tomorrow. It works well. It's pretty quiet, has provides an extra USB port, and fits a 17" laptop comfortably. Adjustable fan speeds, and you can really feel the cushion of air it creates.

There are only a few minor downsides: The USB ports have a slight, and I mean slight amount of lag, so best not to plug in a mouse to those ports while gaming, but browsing is just fine. Also, there's the blue LED power light on the side is bright and can't be turned off...but you can just cover it with a small piece of black electrical tape. You can hold it in your lap if you want because it has large intake fans that are hard to block, but the back bottom "ledge" is kinda sharp and uncomfortable on the knees.

It provides good cooling to my m9750 while gaming because it creates a cushion of cool air for the laptop to gradually feed off of, but in order to be effective, the fan ports on both your laptop and the Zalman will need to be cleaned from time to time, although the Zalman's are really easy to dust out.


But still, the best way to cool a laptop without spending any money would be to undervolt. I undervolted, applied AS5, and used the NC2000 for my Alienware, and that dropped overall temps down by 14 C. Under 6 hours of load in Crysis, not once did I hit the core temp threshold, and not once did my CPU or GPU ever throttle back.