Owners of stationary PCs often complain that the video card is very hot, the processor is very hot, and the cooler can not cope with all the tasks. Many are starting to look for the perfect cooling system. Someone prefers to buy a new, but more powerful cooler, someone decides to switch to nitrogen cooling, and someone is experimenting with a water system. One way or another, the choice of the owner of the PC is large. But additional cooling for a laptop is much more difficult to find.
For whom?
In general, you need to think about how to "cool the ardor" of your laptop immediately when buying a device. Sometimes it’s too late to solve a similar problem when the processor on the integrated board burns out or the whole system crashes. Therefore, to understand whether additional CO is needed, you need to decide on the purpose of your device.
If you purchased a simple laptop that you will use for surfing the Internet and sitting in office programs, then most likely you will never feel problems with overheating. If you decide to purchase a gaming device or a serious device for multimedia, then you need to immediately think about first aid.
Exceptions
But you do not always need an additional cooling system for the laptop, if you have a powerful device. Often manufacturers focus on this system, create special technologies, and all you need to do is periodically clean the inside of the laptop. Also, everything can depend on the structural component, because developers are always trying to create a high-quality and productive system.
Time to think
What to do if you didn’t immediately think about acquiring CO, and relied on the manufacturer, but, strangely enough, let you down? Here you have to think about diagnostics. There can be many reasons to buy additional cooling for a laptop. Firstly, you realized that this is a powerful system that generates too much heat, which means you need to help it deal with overheating. Secondly, you decided that you should try to improve performance, and engaged in overclocking. To make it safe for the device, it is advisable to immediately acquire CO and experiment.
It happens that the user begins to notice how the system becomes braked. He immediately sins on the operating system, which could catch viruses, and reinstalls it. When the situation remains the same, he begins to think that one of the components has failed. So grief users are beginning to appear who are looking to put a new processor or change RAM in the integrated system.
But many forget about the prevention and diagnosis of the device. You can’t just buy a laptop and forget about it forever. Over time, he asks for care. This can happen one year after the purchase, or it can happen 5 years later. But the user must understand that the system needs cleanliness. If you do not know how to disassemble the device yourself, clean the cooler, heatsink, change thermal grease, then bring it to a service center.
If you are not sure that the problem is in the cooling system, try to monitor the temperature indicators through the utility. Do the testing, and when the system tells you that the CO is not quite doing its job, then go to clean the board and all components from dust.
Manufacturer's Tips
Few of us have read the instructions for using a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Probably no one knows that there are warnings in the user manual, ignoring which, you can ditch the device ahead of time. So, for example, there is information that the laptop cannot be used on a soft surface, to work with it on your knees, to prevent air from leaving the ventilation hole, etc.
It is also important to understand that any device is short-lived, especially given the current competition and marketing, it is unprofitable for manufacturers to make devices that would live and please the user for decades. It is much easier to release a ton of new models every year, which differ in color and arrangement of buttons, so that customers change their laptops due to outdated configurations and the fact that they are worn out.
As a result, there are real centenarians - devices that have been working for more than 10 years, they are not quite relevant today, but still perform standard functions. There are also such devices that five years later noticeably “get tired”. Including the cooling system wears out. Therefore, if you began to notice overheating, and your laptop a hundred years in the afternoon, then you should think about buying a new one.
Danger
What are coolers for laptops for, additional cooling, various ventilation methods? It is clear that the system does not overheat. But what happens to her when she works at elevated temperatures? First of all, hot air reaches not only all the elements on the board, but even affects the keyboard and touchpad. When the load is high and the temperature exceeds the boundary norms, the CO is very noisy, which makes the user uncomfortable.
Options
Besides the fact that it is possible to do additional cooling for the laptop with your own hands, there are also better options to improve the CO. So, in the market it is easy to find air cooling in the form of a support. This is the most common way to protect your system. It is possible to install a vacuum cooler, which has recently been popular among those who are not happy with the coasters.
Decision
Before considering options for which you need only money, we learn about a creative alternative. It's about a makeshift device. In general, the Internet has a huge number of examples and answers to the question of how to make additional cooling for a laptop. Not all of them, of course, are reliable and high-quality, but there are already more or less standardized options that are used by more than a dozen people.
So, the essence of this experiment is that a home-made system does not cool the case, but helps to divert warm air from the radiator. For this, in addition to the internal cooler, an external cooler is installed. There can be many options for its design, as well as materials. If you decide to create such a miracle, it is better for the ventilation grill to go back, since such a design can interfere on the side. Well, you have to come to terms with the static device.
The case is made of cardboard or whatever comes to mind. A regular fan is bought in an average size of 120 mm. The cooler must be designed for the system unit. But naturally, it will be used in a makeshift design. Therefore, it should work at 12 watts. For such additional cooling, the laptop PSU is not suitable. To energize the fan, it will be enough to connect it via USB or buy it a simple 12 W power supply. We make a pyramid-shaped structure that will taper to the edge: on the one hand we have a built-in fan, and on the other there is a gap the size of a ventilation hole. It should fit snugly to the hole so that there is no air leakage and the structure is airtight.
The experiments
Of course, the above option is not dangerous, but still all such experiments can lead to irreparable, especially if you do not own enough information. In general, there are many similar methods. Another option is to make additional cooling for the laptop instead of the DVD drive. Some users understand that in the era of flash drives and other information media, the optical drive is losing popularity and is taking up extra space in a laptop. They begin to think what can be installed instead.
So thoughts lead to the installation of an additional hard drive or, depending on the design, a fan. The latter option is more suitable for people who understand this topic, because you need to understand where in this case the air will go and where it will come from.
Official devices
As mentioned earlier, one of the devices that can serve as additional cooling for a laptop is a stand. This is the most popular method that not everyone loves. Nevertheless, it is believed that to bring down the heating temperature, you need to raise the laptop above the surface. To do this, users put in pencils, books, coasters and more. Using a similar principle, manufacturers have developed stands with integrated coolers. They differ among themselves in the size of the fans, their number, the location of the stand, its size, etc.
Another additional cooling for a laptop is a vacuum cooler. This is an option for those who are negative about coasters. This device "sticks" to the ventilation grill. It has the form of a box on which there is a temperature indicator. It works approximately as a home-made device, but more efficiently and automatically. It takes a large amount of air, quickly absorbs and cools. Compact and comfortable. The only drawback is noisy work.
Output
As practice shows, additional cooling of the laptop requires only in the case of powerful systems. This option is suitable for gamers, since there the devices are heated to crazy temperatures. Although in such devices the CO is usually configured much better than in the same ultrabooks. Also, owners of obsolete devices that cannot part with their laptops are thinking about an additional cooler. Due to the system becoming worn out and losing its original performance, it needs additional help.
But the most important thing that you should not forget about is the prevention and cleaning of the laptop. This is the reason for overheating and burning of the board, which occurs most often and can ruin the device just a couple of years after purchase.