Notebook coolers

Anyone using notebook coolers here? Being rather paranoid about temps I'm thinking I'm gonna pick one of these up. Any success stories (or not) are appreciated.

 

I am using the Coolermaster Notepal aluminum laptop cooler and it works great for me. I bought it from Compusa for $24.99+tax prior to them going out of business.

 

I use the pacific breeze cooler

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834996501

which is no longer sold. Great little thing, cool lights and lots of air flow.

 

I personally dislike the use of any laptop coolers because:

1) They marginally affect the temperature of the laptop
2) The laptop is usually within temperature range for every single component, except for the HDD which *may* get hot but today's HDD technology is good enough where that's not a concern
3) They're noisy...or it will be quieter without them
4) They raise the laptop's height, making it a little more akward to type and use the touchpad
5) Most importantly of all is the fact that extensive use of laptop coolers will actually introduce dust into the all of the holes and crevices of your laptop's base, forcing you to have to clean them in agony every now and then (normally dust wouldn't be in these holes/crevices without a cooler)

 

Agree, the Targus made such a racket, back it went. I find my trusty ceiling fan quiet and cools the whole room, not just the laptop

I'll have to say the pacific Breeze with adjustable speeds made more sense that the Targus, plus it raises only the back.

 

if you use an external mouse and keyboard I would suggest doing what I did. I am rather tall so I bought a laptop stand ($15) to reduce next strain and the part the laptop sits on is wire mesh and I then bought a cheap cooling pad from Newegg for less than $10, and it has three usb powered fans and an on/off switch. I simply took the fans off of the cooling pad and screwed them onto the wire mesh and placed them directly under the components that generate heat. (CPU, RAM, and HDD). Many coolers suck air away from the laptop but I have mine blowing across it to draw in cool air. And as someone else said they can introduce dust to the laptop so I only use mine when I was living in a dorm and it was hot in the summer months and when now that I am home I only use it when playing a game or doing video editing. In a quiet room the fans are a little loud but with the TV on or music in the background the noise is all but gone.

 

The pacific breeze does its job very well. However with the battery in, you can't just rest it on top of the cooler like you're supposed to. The battery sits on the grate and doesn't stay still since it's not on the rubber part.

If the battery is out, it CAN sit properly on the cooler but needs to be positioned exactly.

I'm going to try removing the grates and see if that helps. (on the cooler that is)

 

I want a pacific breeze. they don't sell them anywhere though. wanna sell me one?

 

Lol, you don't want mine, it's like 2 years old. But I did unscrew the metal grate and it works well with the gateway fx even with the battery inserted. Just gotta position it centered with the battery.

 

2 years old? Does it still run well? i'll give you 4$ for it.

 

I don't remember which brand of cooling platform I use, but it's good for 10-25°C depending on the notebook.

Every extra 10 degrees of heat halves the life of a NVIDIA GPU (roughly speaking). This probably affects the lifespan of other silicon the same manner. Any thermal help is worth it.

 

Sorry mate, I still use it everyday. I'm sure it's sold SOMEWHERE out there.

 

checked everywhere i knew. it's not.