Make it cooler?

Is it at all possbile to install an internal cooling system in your notebook? Ive heard that Toshiba P100-ST9012's can get very hot and as i am considering it i was just wondering about thie possibilty of this.

 

Besides apply Artic Silver 5 on the CPU and GPU aswell as getting a cooling pad, not really.

 

probably not, though you should never doubt the case modder who will take the keyboard off, expose the internals and set up fans... The cheapest way to do basic cooling is keep the vents clear of dust and raising the back of it by putting it under altoids tins, deck of cards, whatever. Simply raising the back puts it at a better angle and increases the airflow under the machine to give the fans more space. the final thing to do is get a cooling pad but they vary greatly on ability to cool depending on where the vents are relative to the fans on the pad as well as which direction they blow.

Software wise, you can undervolt the cpu with notebook hardware control (NHC)(chaz has a good article on laptop cooling somewhere) and that drops the temp a lot. my idle temps went from 100F to around 89F.

 

You could also undervolt the CPU, although it doesn't make much difference on Core Duo's due to Intel's limit on the lowest voltage at 0.95... it will help a bit with the heat. I found it reduces my temps by 1 or 2 degrees... (it'll especially help a lot at the higher multipliers, ie. when you're using it at mid-high CPU loads, since there's where you can lower the voltage usage by quite a bit)

 

There isn't much you can do inside because there isn't much space .

There was an article here about ways to cool your notebook , search it for details .

Basicly you can undervolt like said and clean the fans / grills from time to time , after a year of heavy use cleaning the notebook inside grill lowered the temps by about 5c idle and more underload .