4-pin Y splitter

Does anyone know of a laptop cpu/gpu fan splitter. I have a dv5t and when I first bought it, it was very very cool when gaming. Today I cleaned it and even after dusting it out (dv5t is very tough and a pain to open btw) it got up to 85 degrees Celsius. I didn't even have it oced at the time. I used to have my gpu oced 650/1550/570 and it only got to 72 degrees MAX!

SOOOO I am feeling like doing some mods.... I want to add another fan for my 9600m gt but I am assuming that I will need a 4-pin Y splitter to two 4-pins. Someone please help. I checked google and newegg and stuff...

Thanks

 

please don't cross post.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=409182

 

BUMP!!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME! My idle temps have increased from 43 degrees to 51!!! This is ridiculous. I will also buy new thermal paste and reapply that stuff. But I want another fan anyway.

 

There is more to adding a second fan, especially in a laptop, than just getting a splitter. If your fans are drawing 100mAH say, and your port can supply... I dunno, 115mAH, then you add a second... know what you'll have? One burned out fan port and zero running fans....
And that's before considering space.

I think a cooling pad would be much better suited for you.

 

I second Hep!'s suggestion. Forget about adding the second fan due to the reasons he listed. You would likely be just fine adding the thermal compound, and if that was not enough, try undervolting. There are other things you can do, but I would start simple.

I've done a little modding to my Portege to reduce it's temps. The link is in my signature (Added Thermaltake...)

 

k guys, thanks. I wanted to be able to have the additional cooling wherever I go without carrying around a laptop cooler. I guess I will just get a cooler pad. For some reason I read in the forums of another site for the asus g51 you could just add another small fan without reducing the amount of electricity to the original fan in place... Also I was planning on making space for the second fan but I will just put in new thermal paste. Thanks guys!

 

what u can probably do is buy a small case fan about 40mm x 10mm and solder the fan to a USB port.....and for the new thermal paste i suggest u buy IC DIAMOND 7 can be found here: http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/ic-diamond-7-carat-thermal-compound-15-gram-p-16605.html also undervolting the CPU can help up the situation in cooling.

 

Thanks for the undervolting tip. I've never exactly known what that would do. I'm used to overclocking desktops but never undervolting laptops. Will it decrease performance in gaming? Also the usb fan idea is pretty good. I never thought of that . Thanks again guys!

 

Undervolting does not adversely effect performance. If you are going to do the USB fan idea, there may be a couple of issues. I've got a Toshiba docking station that I modded with a couple of fans wired to a USB port and it works great, HOWEVER you need to make sure that you are using 5v fans, not the more common 12v and I found that I lost the use of the USB port when I was done with the mod. It wasn't a big deal as there were 3 others that I could use and it wasn't on my laptop directly, but it might make a difference to you.

*edit*
Also, remember that a fan wired directly off USB will be on full speed all the time and will kill your battery life. If you have the skills you might want to make a throttle to control fan speed based on case temp, or a simpler solution might be to simply solder a switch so you can turn the fan on when you need it (playing games, CPU intensive applications) and off when you don't (typing up a paper, doing email).

 

I was actually thinking about the fan speed controller just for noise anyway. But thanks for the heads up. I will need to buy a soldering iron since I moved a couple weeks ago. I think the guys that helped me move stole my soldering iron haha.