slightly OT, but does anyone know anything about these cases?
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i’ve been wanting to pick one up (obviously night bright green) but i am worried about it trapping heat.
thoughts?
I think it would trap a lot of heat. Wonder if there’s any way to make something like that with miniature heat sinks in it?
Blowing air in is just paying to cover your fans and circuitry with dust, to me. The idea is to help a radiant structure radiate heat. Moving hot air out of the unit dissipates heat. With a laptop fan blowing air out, a laptop cooler blowing it back in doesn’t make sense to me.
I’m not saying that blowing coolers aren’t effective. But I’ve done 110-degree marathon gigs using a high-volume cooler pad that sucks air, and the laptop has performed flawlessly, and I’m going to continue to swear by that approach.
tried turning my stand over so the fans blow inwards, made things worse
hey guys, i realize this thread is a bit dated, but i recently finally figured out why my lappy was suffering cpu spikes, turned out it was overheating, it was getting HOT! (i mean really really hot, over 90c) so anyway, i been doing some research as to which cooling pad to get…
its strange that nobody here has yet mentioned this, but the design of the cooler should differ depending on your lappy… for example, my inspiron e1505 has a grill on the bottom and another on the back, and from i can tell from my tests is that the bottom grill is used to draw air into the case, while the grill in the rear is used to blow air out…
to me that means the the airflow direction on the cooler is pretty important, i DONT want a cooler that will try to suck air out from underneath the lappy because that makes no sense, instead i DO want one that will blow cool air to the bottom grill where it can be picked up by the internal fan.
so for macbook type lappy that has no bottom intake grill probably either in/out fan direction will work, though id assume that pulling the hot air out would be more effective. on the other hand, just about any non mac lappy will have the bottom intake grill, so providing that with cool air sounds like a better option.
thoughts? ideas? comments? arguments? keep the flames plz.
+1 i think that’s all something that needs to be considered, and i agree with it.
my ‘intake’ and fan is located near the back corner, with the ‘outlet’ being right next to it. the heatsink travels across the inside to the corner from the middle. so the majority of pads (working on that) are placed wrong for my little acer as nothing lines up with the vents. so i could have fans that push or pull air. though i found pull to be more effective, even though it’s on the casing. there are some other vents, but no fans nearby.
this is why i ‘installed’ some new ‘vents’ in the casing. so the fans on my stand can pull air away right below the heatsink. seems to work