The Incredible Notebook Cooler

January 25th, 2009 Category: Fun, General

When my Dell notebook Latitude D820 warms up (means running for a few hours) I hear the fan louder than in the beginning also there is not much CPU load. It seems the whole notebook warms up. Cleaning the notebook with a vacuum cleaner did not help. I got this tip from a woman, for her notebook this works. Ok, a noisy fan is disturbing.

Before purchasing a notebook cooler I decided to check if such a external cooler with fan could really cool down the notebook. I tried several positions with a simple PC fan and finally found one position which cools down the CPU temperature in idle mode from 50°C to 38°C. Now the fans of the notebook are almost noiseless.

A incredible result! But I think I will purchase a more nice looking notebook cooler soon. Cooling down your notebook will also improve it’s life time since all electronic components really don’t like heat. You can read this e.g. from official statistical data from some hard disc vendors, which show how life time increases with higher environment temperature.

Putting the slow rotating fan as shown in the picture below decreased CPU temperature from 50°C to 38°C. Unbelievable!