Re: notebook coolers

I've got an Antec - works great - gets power from USB port and has another port so you don't lose the USB connection.
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=75004


"BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48177782$0$6432$834e42db@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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bonerman9669@xxxxxxxxx typed on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:19:49 -0700 (PDT):
I wanted to know some recommendations for notebook coolers for my 17"
gateway notebook...I read that the Spire Pacific Breeze was one of the
best...I mainly keep my laptop on my desk..thanks in advance.

Are you sure you need one? As I use the free Notebook Hardware Control (Personal Edition) to monitor the CPU and hard drive tempatures. And putting my laptop just on a smooth surface will cause the CPU to be about 150°F and my hard drive to be 120°F. But merely sticking something underneath the back of the laptop so to allow the airflow to increase greatly, the CPU drops down to 130°F and the hard drive down to 108°F.

I have a Gateway MX6124 with a Celeron 1.5GHZ CPU with 1GB of RAM. And I see nothing wrong with these temperatures at all. Cooling it down further isn't going to extend the life of the laptop IMHO. Nor does it get hot enough to burn my lap or anything. And the laptop fan runs so low you can only hear it when the room is dead silent.

And I don't know about the Spire Pacific Breeze, but most of those use power from the USB port. And being an engineer, that sounds like a pretty dumb idea to me. As you cause more heat to power the fans to cool the laptop down. As I think they should have their own supplies. Or if the draw isn't too bad, use the laptop AC adapter. It isn't hard to make a circuit inside of the fan unit to automatically reverse the polarity and adjust for supplies between say 12v to 25v. And then run both the laptop and the cooler in parallel off of the AC adapter. Just my 2¢. :-)

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Bill

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