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Is water-cooled laptops possible? (and other cooling techniques)
kureshii:
Better question: Why the hell would you want a water-cooled laptop?
What laptops really need are heatsinks with a larger cooling fin surface area, and better/more robust cooling fans. Water-cooling isn't going to do anything for them. They already have heatpipes for transferring heat from the CPU block to the heatsink, and water-cooling is no improvement on that.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: kureshii on April 03, 2011, 01:38:36 PM ---Better question: Why the hell would you want a water-cooled laptop?
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1 To be the cool kid among pc-nerds
2 For shits and giggles
Micharus:
--- Quote from: CRxTRDUDE on April 03, 2011, 12:46:32 PM ---It just occurred to me... I saw this CPU in a mall from where I'm situated. It's watercooled on the CPU and 2 GPUS (Which I guess that were over-clocked). It's kinda nice 'cuz I experienced destroying my comp many times due to overheating. And water can be a nice heat disperser for heat emitted by these processors...
Now the question to you techie guys out there... Can water-cooling for laptops be possible? (it might be nice...)
If it does, on what extent? Just curious...
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At this point in time.....not possible.
There is simply not enough room to run a water cooling system in a laptop, not too mention that it would be one more item drawing power from the battery.
This is before we start thinking about exactly where the water reservoir is going to fit, not to mention a possible radiator system to help keep the water/liquid cool.
Maybe sometime in the future it will be possible, but now, no.
On the subject of your computer overheating and frying itself, a liquid cooling system is something you should look into if it happens to you as often as you say it does.
I live in Western Australia and it gets fairly warm here in summer on a regular basis.
I've thought about fitting a liquid cooling system to my PC, but I figure I don't really need it.
Nothing is overclocked, so the only time it even starts getting hot is when the temperature goes over 35' C.
Plenty of fans installed, the 'stock' fans that come with the case and two aftermarket fans that have speed controllers on them.
When it gets hot, I crank them up. It sounds like a jet is trying to land in my room, but it keeps things from bursting into flames.
AceHigh:
Oh it is possible to fit a water cooling system in your laptop, it's just that after the modification your laptop will look like a small suitcase ;D
nstgc:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on April 03, 2011, 01:50:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: kureshii on April 03, 2011, 01:38:36 PM ---Better question: Why the hell would you want a water-cooled laptop?
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1 To be the cool kid among pc-nerds
2 For shits and giggles
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Thats why I water cooled the CPU on a computer with a POS video card. Overclocked it by 66%. Could have gone higher, but the chipset cooler wasn't good enough (even though it was a DFI board).
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