I made my own laptop cooler. How are these temps?

Edit: Pics in post #8.

I took a big plastic 1st aid kit, cut off most of the top and put a ThermalTake USB fan into it's side. I overclocked the GPU on my 7805u to 660/1650/899 and ran 3dm06.


I maxed out the temps as follows:

ACPI: 52c
CPU: 47c
GPU: 62c
HDD: 36c


I'm now idling at:

[Edit: {Min}]

ACPI: 42c {39c}
CPU: 35c {32c}
GPU: 45c {40c}
HDD: 35c {N/A}


So, what do ya think?

 

hey could i see a picture?

 

Its sitting inside a refrigerator.


Just kidding.

 

It's gonna have to wait till tonight. I took one with my phone, but the stupid thing won't transfer it over with my data cable... and I don't have a microSD... and I never set up the account to upload it from the phone... and I don't have a real digital camera.


*I'm so prepared*


I'll have to bring it into work and get a friend to take a picture with his iphone then deal from there.

 

Good temps! On my 7805 without a cooler, after 3 hours of intense gaming I MAX at CPU's 50 degrees and GPU 73 degrees so your temps are ideal given you have the cooler! Good work! Now look out for dust bunnies...laptops with coolers need to be cleaned out more often than laptops without for obvious reasons

 

yeah i want to make one as well and i need to see a picture as a blueprint lol

 

yeah theirs actually pretty good ideas in youtube and on google u can also use those as a blueprint.........................nice temps their very nice and overclocked thats amazing...

 

I know I'm late, but here are the pics. As you see it isn't pretty, but it is pretty effective. The desktop shows GPUz and HWmonitor, I ran 3dmo6 once on the overclock 660/1650/899 [as seen in GPUz] to get the highs listed on HWM.





It's a bit small and blocks some of each of the vents. I'm going to keep an eye out something a little bigger so to not block the vents as badly as they are right now. [Each is about 50% blocked at the moment]

...but it's working

 

what is the fan powered by?

 

USB

http://www.xpcgear.com/thermaltake-a1888-usb-fan.html

 

do u think they just sell the usb to fan adapter somewhere?

 

Fill that "cooler" with some ice and see what your temps are then!

 

DO it!
(TenCharacters) =P

 

Yeah i think ice would go insanely cool

Put 3 more fans in! LOL That is a pretty good idea though, it would be very very direct at the notebook.

 

No, I'm not using ice.

I have considered putting one of these though, but I'm not buying it at the moment.

http://www.thetechzone.com/chiller.php

 

Im glad your temps are really low, but doesn't this defeat the purpose of a laptop being mobile?

 

Yes, this obviously is not something that is going to tag along with me everywhere I go. It is good enough for home and mobile enough for vacations though.

Now if I could only find something that I can carry my laptop in that I can do this to I'd be all set.

 

You can just splice a USB cable and hook up the power connections to the fan wires, but it will only power the fan with 5 Volts so if it's a 12 Volt fan like most case fans it will spin slower than normal.

 

I have a antec cooler S which does a great job for being mobile and easy to pack.... check it out

 

Thanks Thegreatsquare, I had wanted to build my own cooler but did not have the time or tools to make it out of wood. Yours inspired me to do one similarly though. Here is what mine looks like:




Its still incomplete as I wanted two intake fans on the side but I already see nice results from just the two fans alone. I may possibly put a 3rd fan on, but I want to work on the intake fans first.

 

My Zalman NC2000 is very portable as well, I take it wherever I take my laptop.

 

Cool..heres how I have setup mine. My gpu idles anywhere from 37 - 45