Cooling stands for Optimus IV?

Pagey

Pagey

Bright Spark
I suggest you make your own for cheapness.

My Inspiron 1520 uses a similar cooling method to the Optimus IV, basically air is sucked in from underneath and blasted across the two radiators and out of the chassis.

For this I just use a simple piece of thin-ish plywood that has been lacquered black. Effectively it's the same as using it on a desk.

Although doing it this way you can customise it for however you want to use it and what you want to use it for.

Couple of ideas:

On the laptop board, drill a few 10mm vent holes where the fan sits to allow for better airflow if it's sat on your lap. If the holes on the board are covered the air will flow in from underneath the laptop.

You could even make a hole big enough for a fan and sandwich that between another board, but make sure you leave enough space under the fan to allow air from between the two boards to reach the fan easily.

Damn, think I'm gonna draw one up in sketchup now. XD
 
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LJMnx

Member
@ Iroquois Pliskin - right Ill keep an eye out for anything in that sort of spec! thanks :)

@Pagey - Good idea! only problem is my DIY skills are not exactly great XD but if I dont find anything I will consider this :)

@tom_gr7 - this looks like it will fit in well but it just a little bit more than I wanted to pay so Ill have look if I can get it any cheaper else where. But thank you for your help :)

Ideally I want to pay less than £22.50 so that I can fit in any extra stuff that I buy for the laptop so I will keep my eyes open for anything I find!
 
Tiger Feet

Tiger Feet

Silver Level Poster
I never knew that you should use one of these gadgets with a laptop. I've been using my Dell 17.3" laptop for over 3 years without any such device and I am normally on it from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on some days. In that time, I have never had a problem with overheating or noise problems with it.

I will be buying my next machine from PC specialist with a much higher spec. In that regard, is it a necessity to have a cooler or just advisable?

Cheers
 
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LJMnx

Member
I would say it depends on the components and what you do on the laptop, more CPU or GPU needing programs will cause them to work harder causing it to get hot potentially causing it overheat if not stopped. what are you considering getting and what are you goin to use it for? :)
 
steaky360

steaky360

Moderator
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Tiger Feet said:
I never knew that you should use one of these gadgets with a laptop. I've been using my Dell 17.3" laptop for over 3 years without any such device and I am normally on it from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on some days. In that time, I have never had a problem with overheating or noise problems with it.

I will be buying my next machine from PC specialist with a much higher spec. In that regard, is it a necessity to have a cooler or just advisable?

Cheers
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Depends how you use it, as tom mentioned above if your using the laptop on your lap or on a bed or whatever it may be advisable to guarantee you wont block any of the fans on the laptops base. Saying that however, it is unlikely that using one would stop a laptop from overheating per say - it may reduce the temps but not massively (again as tom said above) :). The laptop itself should not overheat.

You may prefer actually using one if you have the laptop on your lap (or even if its just in-front of you on a desk) but that would be simply up to you.
 
Iroquois Pliskin

Iroquois Pliskin

Enthusiast
expatinegypt said:
Any alternatives to that Zalman posted above that do not have the speakers built-in?
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The NC-3500 non-Plus version is identical to the one posted, doesn't have the speakers.

Specs, click on "Product Details":

http://www.zalman.com/global/product/Product_Read.php?Idx=490
Compatible Notebook 12”-17” Notebook
Dimensions 363(L) x 404(W) x 56(H) mm
Weight 1.2 kg
Material Plastic, Steel
Fan Type / Quantity Actual Fan / 1EA
Size 220 mm
Bearing Type Sleeve Bearing
RPM 620 - 720 rpm ± 10 %
Noise 17 - 23.5 dBA
Fan Control Volume Knob, On/Off
USB Ports 5EA (4 x USB Ports / 1 USB Power Unit)
Auxiliary Power Adaptor Supported (Sold Separately)
Function Fan Power / RPM Controlor O
DC IN 5V O
Turbo Button 800 rpm
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Quite an elegant solution, the features and fan performance are the best I've seen.
 
Tiger Feet

Tiger Feet

Silver Level Poster
LJMnx said:
I would say it depends on the components and what you do on the laptop, more CPU or GPU needing programs will cause them to work harder causing it to get hot potentially causing it overheat if not stopped. what are you considering getting and what are you goin to use it for? :)
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Hi,

Sorry for the late response. The laptop I will probably end up going for is as shown below with all the spec. I will be using Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition which is a bit of a resource hog. (I know 24 GB of RAM is over the top but I want to be as future proof as possible.) I am not a gamer but I do play some games on the computer and maybe looking into other games to play in the future. I do a lot of writing using Microsoft Word and I do have a lot of applications open at one time. The Dell I have at the moment is only 4 GB and a dual core processor and it has served me well and is still going strong. Unfortunately, having too many applications open on this computer, it sometimes dies and cannot cope in this respect.

So with the new one when I get it, would you advise a cooling stand and if so, what one for use with a 17.3" laptop?

Cheers

Product Category Product Description
Chassis & Display Optimus Series: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3740QM (2.70GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 24GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (3 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE
(7200 rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N135 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options 3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery Optimus Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£109)
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard & Mouse INTEGRATED UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Mouse INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty 3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
(£69)
Insurance 1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Price Ex VAT £1136.67
Price £1364.00
Quantity 1
Total Order Price EX VAT £1136.67
Total VAT Amount £227.33
Total Order Price £1364.00
 
Iroquois Pliskin

Iroquois Pliskin

Enthusiast
A cooling stand is only useful if your whole system is running into the 85s-90s across the board, while you play Crysis at 1080p, Enthusiast settings with 2x MSAA on top. ; ) Multitasking in 2D/web browing/Office will not bring the extremes of the aforementioned case.

Optimus IV has one fan for two heatsinks on the GPU & CPU - for office use, light-medium gaming I would say you won't find the need to use a cooling stand.
 
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LJMnx

Member
I agree with Iroquois Pliskin :) , I would need one since I will be using the CPU and GPU more for mid - high gaming and CAD so it will need to be kept cool.
 
Tiger Feet

Tiger Feet

Silver Level Poster
Thanks for the advice guys. The cooling stand with the speakers; does that in fact cool down your computer and at the same time gives you external speakers for better sound than a normal laptop sound?

Cheers
 
Iroquois Pliskin

Iroquois Pliskin

Enthusiast
Tiger Feet said:
The cooling stand with the speakers; does that in fact cool down your computer and at the same time gives you external speakers for better sound than a normal laptop sound?
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It probably operates as two additional speakers, they are 4W each tho, so it's an aesthetic feature more than anything else.
 
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