Little review on Notepal by Cooler Master

Hi there, I recently bought a notebook cooler : Notepal by Cooler Master, and would like to share my thought with you guys



Basically, as you see in the pictures, the hugh dell XPS 2 cannot totally fit on this tiny little notepal, I can say it is mainly design for 15" regular screen notebook (I don't get why there're not much notebook coolers design for gaming notebook especially widescreen), but XPS 2 can still stand on it pretty rigid. It is well made, with aluminum, can reduce heat more efficiently. The fan is pretty quiet, but I think they can built the fan a little faster. It didn't block any of the media control buttons and either speakers which is a good thing.
So.......... does it really work well? I use our beloved i9kfangui for testing (Using Bios A04), here is the result:
CPU, Before: 42-44 After: 38-41
GPU, Before: 60-? After: 52-58 (depend how fast your laptop fan run)
Remember, both information are measure at normal use, NOT during gaming!
And I can say the biggest difference is the highest temp of GPU, Before: 92 (run 3D mark 2005) After:82!!
The result is pretty impressive, at least to me it is.





Off topic here, I know there're people asking the creative sound card problem, I didn't find any, but somehow it can only recognize 4 speakers (I'm using Yamaha TSS-1 speakers), so everytime I turn on my notebook I have to shift it manually to 5.1............ well, at least it works perfectly so far. About the LCD screen: I got LG, compare to my Toshiba M40, it looks like crap, I'm not saying the light leaking or sparkling issues, but the image detail and color sharpness, when both laptop run screensaver Flurry, you will see the HUGH difference (My Sony LCD have more natural color, even though it is not as sharp as Toshiba) . Personally I think for notebook LCD quality, Toshiba and Fujitsu rule. But I do understand there's no such perfect machines, so I do live with it without complain.
About 3D benchmarks, I got 5118 only, with 81.85 driver, points dropped (before I got around 5180-5210) but perfromance enahnced (in FlightSim 04) I don't play any first person shooting games such as half life, CS and FEAR, cuz those made me feel dizzy.

I think I should post it in review section. Can't believe there's no one reply my post.

Yeah, I know I should stay patient, believe it or not, this is my very first time to upload images. Thanks for the reply.

2 2500 rpm fans aren't meater enough though I think. I saw a home made one on a forum post that had 6 or more well placed fans!

Nice set up as well. Should of been a screen shot of BF2 though [/quote]

I know which home made fan you're mentioning (the one with cats in the pics right?), if there's something like that I will go for it. I tried the BF2, it is really fan, but as I said, I can't stand those first person shooting games that makes me feel so sick. BTW, I have a cat too.

Thank you for your compliment Adrenolin, as a college student, I can't expect anymore then that.

I just sold my old pc, the monitor is connecting with my Dell so when I was doing research for school works, I can do it on my work table. About the brick wall........... i like them too, but when you see there're nasty bed bugs walking on the wall.............. I'm moving out next week.

You read his thought!

It is the Saitek p3000 wireless controller, works pretty well. So far I have no problem with it. You can go to www.saitek.com and see for details

I just renting this aparment, but there're bed bugs all over the place (they suck your blood!) And there's a crazy women living upstair, so I'm moving out next week.