Cooling your laptop

[Net]

Besides the laptop cool that goes under your laptop is there any special things you can do to reduce the heat, hardware wise. Like for instance on my desktop computer I bought artic silver 5 thermal compound. Can you remove the factory thermal compound and add your own? Has anyone done this. Is there special low dBA fans that cool better that you could switch out in place of the stock cpu fan?

 

[ssvegeta1010]

I have heard that using Arctic Silver on most laptop heatsinks (esp. Dell) will lower your temps at least 2-3C. But, of course, it voids the warranty.

 

[0roo0roo]

so little air goes through i'm not sure it would make a difference. laptop stuff is custom anyways..just don't fool with it. it should last atleast long as the warrantee..the engineers should have cooled it to spec.

 

[Net]

holly post king. 0roo0roo you have 26270 posts!

 

[Paperlantern]

What kind of lappy do you have, all laptops have specific heatsinks designed to efficiently cool the particular CPU they have installed. The only thing that usually hinders this is a clogged heatsink, as long as you keep it clean, and the fan operates normally, the unit will work and perform as it should, with no loss, or prolonged damage to the system, there is nothing to save, or gain by trying to TWEAK the cooling system of a lappy, some run hotter than others, it all depends on the machine, and the cpu involved. Best to leave well enough alone