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    cooling mods for clevo w370st

    Discussion in 'Notebook Cosmetic Modifications and Custom Builds' started by metalrage, Oct 15, 2013.

  1. metalrage

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    Ok, so i've recently got my clevo w370st, and first game i ran the turbo boost kicked in and temps were high as 80-90, since its a no brainer that those kind of temps would short the life of this laptop by plenty.
    So i turned power managment to 99% and clock speeds went down .
    Playing this same game resulted in temps going 60-70 sometimes 75 which is a bit better.

    then i thought about , hey , maybe i think somthing up using my tech skillz ,and i did! found all the parts too...

    thinking about a blower fan to blow on extruded fan sinks and another fan to suck out the hot air from inside the case (ofcourse some height would be added to the laptop using rubber feet and special 3mm thick 3V fans would be used, its a laptop after all)

    This could deminish the effectiveness of my main fan though. if this mod only supplement my main fan's work it would be awesome....
    but there could be a problem with the fan not working at all because of the fan sensor getting low temps...
    this could be overcome with some electronics: added resistor to main fan (calibrate it so the max speed is quite!) and splitting the original voltage to some diode array that would lower the voltage coming out of the fan to acceptable 3V and linking that to my fans (please tell me there is a PCB for that lol) ... of course this is theoretically possible and im probably missing out somthing since electronics aynt my specialty and doing that would possibly fry something because of the loads (didnt actually calculate this.)

    what do you think about the overall project? would this work ? or should i just pad stuff up and repaste some more and add some more copper mass and such ...?
    :D :D :D :D