Question on cooling down PC's.
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I... uh, what? Putting it in a fridge? Well, I don't really see the point in doing so unless you intend to use it in a fridge. Secondly, I wouldn't try it. Hardware is just as sensitive to other extremes such as cold/frost as it is heat.
No. For one, the cpu will generate all its serious heat when under load, and you can't really use the laptop in a fridge! Secondly, you risk forming a shitload of condensation on all the important internal electrical components when you bring it out and back to normal room temperature.
Probably not, it would make very little difference and almost certainly be quite impractical. Mounting it on some sort of stand so that fresh air can circulate (you can buy stands with fans & LEDs) is a better idea, but not great. The best way to siphon off heat is using water, but mixing that with electrics is a dangerous game.
I haven't really had any weird ideas to improve performance, I just run CCleaner and Defraggler regularly and go to services and make sure nothing is running that shouldn't be at startup. I remember someone once told me that they met a kid who had built his own computer and was perplexed at the amount of noise the fans were making. He had four fans in there to keep the CPU cool but it was still hitting a temperature of around 88 whilst idling.
Anyway, it turns out that the kid had got the units wrong, and his CPU was actually 88 Fahrenheit, not Celsius, which probably makes it one of the coolest CPUs known to man.
I haven't really had any weird ideas to improve performance, I just run CCleaner and Defraggler regularly and go to services and make sure nothing is running that shouldn't be at startup. I remember someone once told me that they met a kid who had built his own computer and was perplexed at the amount of noise the fans were making. He had four fans in there to keep the CPU cool but it was still hitting a temperature of around 88 whilst idling.
Anyway, it turns out that the kid had got the units wrong, and his CPU was actually 88 Fahrenheit, not Celsius, which probably makes it one of the coolest CPUs known to man.
1. No, I hear all the time it's a bad idea and I'm hearing it again now so no, my laptop will not "chill out".
2.Remove it from the casing and simply graft it onto my wall thus giving it constant airflow, also probably under some kind of ledge or something so that dust won't build up too much.
2.Remove it from the casing and simply graft it onto my wall thus giving it constant airflow, also probably under some kind of ledge or something so that dust won't build up too much.
Putting a 'hot' laptop into a fridge will do exactly the same thing.Private Custard said:
Hell, that's one of the reasons refridgeration cooling is rare for computing. Not only are the refridgeration units expensive but they also require the system to have extensive (and expensive) anti-condensation gear.