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    Problem with choosing chill mat for my laptop....plz help me

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by abdullah_mag, Jul 12, 2010.

  1. abdullah_mag

    abdullah_mag Notebook Evangelist

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    i bought a sony vaio vpea16fa 5 days ago.
    really good specs for a middle class laptop
    i5 520m 2.4~2.93ghz
    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1gb DDR3
    4gb RAM
    Windows7 64bit
    500gb HDD
    14" screen

    but the problem i'm having is finding the right chillmat/cooling pad for it

    i have very limited variety of cooling pads so i found this ( targus cooling pad), however i dont know if it will work as i'm thinking it will or not, i get very high temperatures on my laptop when gaming (79 degrees celsius at peak).

    how useful will this be??

    like how much temperature reduction will this provide (or may provide)?

    P.S: please do not lecture me about laptops being not for gaming, these specs are for gaming...so it should do its job.
     
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    Nick Professor Carnista

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    abdullah_mag Notebook Evangelist

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    its a new laptop, so the temperature will go up with time.
    and i saw your cooler....wow man, titan indeed.....but if it's that great...why did it only cool 2 degrees on your laptop??......this gives me the idea that cooling pads are useless, also considering that the one i linked has 2 fans and its 11" means that it will be even more useless

    so what now!!!
     
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    Actually, if you clean out the fan/heatsink every 3 months it won't get any hotter. If you replace the thermal paste with some good stuff it will get cooler. My favorite thermal paste is Antec Formula 5. It dropped my CPU temp by 8C. Who told you laptops get hotter with age? About the temp: I meant to say it dropped my temps by 3C or 4C. Maybe 5C max.
     
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    get a zaltman NC2000... its for 15.4 inch laptops but should be super good for cooling ur laptop... my cooling pad is quite useless lol even with 3 fans... temps hit 85C on GPU and similarly on CPU even with undervolting although i did overclock CPU lol..