I have a very HOT laptop
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My laptop is a very hot item. Literally. It has a long history of overheating itself and shutting down in the middle of what I’m trying to do. Some time ago I found a program to monitor the CPU temperature and adjust the fan speed accordingly. This helped a little bit, but the main advantage was simply that I can watch the temperature graph and when it crawls up past 95C I can do a controlled shutdown.
I also invested in a cooling fan, but that’s been almost no help whatsoever. It has two fans, but one of them has quit working. Even when I position the working fan so that it’s blowing in the vent holes for the laptop’s case fan, the cooling fan is best at just taking up a USB port.
What I’d like to do is find a way to make a grating out of some hollow tubes, fill them with liquid nitrogen, and blow a fan through that into the bottom of the laptop.
Seriously though, I need to get something done about this problem before I find myself searching the internet for the best buy on a used laptop.
Anyone who’s had similar experiences (and a solution!!) please leave a comment telling how you fixed the problem.
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The tube of liquid nitrogen is very volatile, though. Liquid-to-gas expansion has a very rapid increase in volume, which is probably why tubes of it are so difficult to come across, seeing as how they’d crack or even explode if they got enough heat to vaporize.
Still, I feel you about the HOT laptops! I can’t use mine for two hours before it burns my lap, and one of the crappy plastic desks has deformities where my cousin’s laptop sits. It’s terrible.