Comments on: Laptop Cooling – A Worst Case Scenario

By: Air Vents

Air Vents — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:27:50 +0000

We really liked your writing, keep it up!

By: Carmen Hines

Carmen Hines — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:29:03 +0000

hi what is up?

By: jim.richmond

jim.richmond — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:25:47 +0000

My laptop idles at about 58-60 and spikes at about 76 (especially on video sites like youtube). I think you’ve upgraded all you can.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:56:53 +0000

Going on 4-5 years on my 9100. I’ve had multiple components replaced by dell over the years.

Warranty expired last august.

The laptop has been running exceedingly hot. I’ve done the fans multiple times in the past. I took a vacuum cleaner to it with very little reduction in heat.

I’ve been running i8kfan for years. Idle it runs 56C under load it spikes to over 70-72C.

Last week I pulled the laptop apart. Replaced the cpu thermal paste with artic5 put it all back together.

No change. Same temps.

I bought a laptop cooling fan a Zalaman nc1000. Sigh the cooling vents on it were placed to low. Even when I moved it over the cooling vents. There was no reduction in temperature.

Sigh i’m running out of ideas. Not sure if a cooling fan is going to help this beast.

I might of missed some dust in the bottom fan but i blew everything out with compressed air.

The next step is a customzied heat sink?

I’m at a major loss on this one.

By: Christie

Christie — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:24:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip! My Dell has been running really hot. Though replacement time is around the corner, avoiding an interim explosion would be a good thing. LOL…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:49:46 +0000

“I half-jokingly wonder if this would of caused my laptop battery to explode.”

Should be “would have caused”. Sorry, pet peeve, had to respond.