Upgraded laptop.. overheating

[digitaldurandal]

(tl;dr = I need a very effect, portable, quiet laptop cooler to see if it will counteract the heat.)

Okay so I took an old laptop I got for 250$ in a 2002 black friday sale and upgraded it from a celeron 420m to a t2250 core duo and from 512mb to 2048 mb of ram. I also grabbed an ssd while I was at it.

Everything does work, and the laptop is far more responsive as the celeron was really showing its age and would lag when faces with any type of video at all.

The t2250 doesn't flinch - but it does put off a lot of heat. The heatsink/fan does not seemed to be programmed to response well to the amount of heat it puts off.

I need a very effect, portable, quiet laptop cooler to see if it will counteract the heat. Does anyone have a good suggestion?

 

[lsv]

Get some fan controller software and see if you can crank settings. It probably wasn't designed to cope with the excess heat...

 

[digitaldurandal]

There is a program that will monitor the heat but there is no program I can find that will control the fan on the laptop. I thought I would be able to find some and it stinks because the fan barely blows ever on the thing - I think if I changed the settings even 10 - 15% that it would be fine.

Correction: the two programs I have tried have not been able to control the fan.

 

[WoodButcher]

Can't control the fan from bios? or speedfan?
If software won't do it my first thought would be hardwire the fan to a 12V source. I'm sure you can find something that is always hot 12V when you hit the power button. Wire that to the positive wire on the fan. Be sure to cut only the positive fan wire off the mobo and leave the neg and sense wire so that you don't get a no fan / startup error.