Water Cooled laptop mod

http://folk.ntnu.no/bardlund/hack.jsp


Check out the above, someone managed to create an external water cooler for their laptop.

If a commercial version was available i'd certainly buy one. (although it seems to need a bit of cosmetic work)

 

Hey, nice job!

Sorry for your damaged screen. I know a firm in Germany which repairs NB screens
(it should be cheaper than in Norway, though I think they'll ask for at least 300 Eur for the screen and job, they don't agree just to sell the screen). I hope you'll find a solution!

 

weren't me mate. i struggle to put new batteries in a tv remotev let alone build a custom notebook cooler

 

That's awesome, I hope this idea catches on. I would definitly buy one if they become available to the public.

 

Great engineering! I was always keen on having internal fluid cooling system - much better than air. This is also good.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

It's the same cool and my old Professors' ambition not to learn how to use email.
He failed finally (perhaps under my bad influence), but only in the third millenium!

 

Sort of defeats the term laptop But, as others I would like to see a way to mess with mother physics. Maybe a lid top passive radiator? As long as we don’t have to pull a broken slimy green notebook out of a book bag, lol.

 

Yeah, why isn't the whole lid a radiator? Too expensive I guess.

 

Hmm interesting but how good is this watercooling? Until then I am going to use my Spire Pacific Breeze Cooler.

Charlie

 

I'd like to design and building something myself, but lets face reality here; it's just plain stupid. Not even practical for desktop replacement notebooks, let alone a mobile workstation.

 

Dude, if we only had room in a notebook... Great find!

 

well, one reason I can think of is that most people have the screen open enough that the back is facing somewhat downward, so heat wouldn't rise off a heatsink too well. There's the fact you would need some tubes that were very flexible and tough to take the mothion. And unless you want it ribbed, there isn't that much surface area.

JVC at one point made an amp with an optional water cooling system. I would think something like that (optional standalone unit with the reservoir, heatsink, and some tubes with quick-disconnects) would be better for liquid cooling - obviously no liquid-cooled unit would be very portable anyway due to the weight.

 

Definetly cool. I've seen a modded xbox 360 with internal water cooling so a large laptop could handle internal water cooling also but it'd need to be pretty thick and expensive, complicated and possibly dangerous/risky

 

I think that it is a cool piece of engineering, how practical is another story.

 

The day they make it affordable/practical/protable is the day that will revolutionize laptop performace in terms of cooling and performace.

 

It is easy to implement this in a docking station. It is not cost effective however, as the laptop would have to have both air and water cooling components built in. What the guy did was pretty "cool" though .

 

He has a graph of the effects of the cooling. The temperature lowers substantially.

As for the practicallities of the project, it isn't at all portable but is a good idea for a desktop replacement lappie. (the idea of building it into a docking station, i think is a very good one.

As an alternative coolant i don't think its going to be too long before some nut decides to seal his laptop and fill it with mineral oil.

 

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We used 3M Fluorinert here at work for motor compensation. A bit expensive but you could set your laptop in a shallow tray of this stuff and overclock the crap out of it...very quite!

Someone around posted PC in a fish tank full of this stuff. There was a TV show on way back that had a Mac 512 running in a tank of Fluorinert for Ooohs and Aaahs.

I think most of us will stick with stinky old fans for now