Hey all,
Ive had my alienware 7700 lappy for about a year now. Ive always known and read that it produces a lot of heat but still bought it as its simply the most powerful/sickest laptop on the market. I replaced the cheap thermal pads on the video card with acrtic silver as some people on this forum have suggested. Then I spent 90 bucks on a titan laptop cooler, one of the only ones on new egg thats big enough to support a desktop replacement laptop (and although there is three fans on the cooler, the vent is not large enough to accomodate all of the exaust fans on the bottom of the alienware). I did this all with no avail, and now, Im just getting tired of how damn hot the left side of the keyboard gets (thanks nvidia 6800 ultra go! lol). I havent even been using it to game recently, just to download torrents, surf and watch divx movies, and still its blazingly hot, even while idle. So has anybody come up with an actual fix for this problem? More so than comfort and annoyance, I leave my computer on most of the time and I dont want to shorten the life span and/or performance of a $3200+ laptop due to these heat issues. Id love to be able to rock some kind of water cooling, but for a notebook, Ive never heard of anything available like this. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Ive had my alienware 7700 lappy for about a year now. Ive always known and read that it produces a lot of heat but still bought it as its simply the most powerful/sickest laptop on the market. I replaced the cheap thermal pads on the video card with acrtic silver as some people on this forum have suggested. Then I spent 90 bucks on a titan laptop cooler, one of the only ones on new egg thats big enough to support a desktop replacement laptop (and although there is three fans on the cooler, the vent is not large enough to accomodate all of the exaust fans on the bottom of the alienware). I did this all with no avail, and now, Im just getting tired of how damn hot the left side of the keyboard gets (thanks nvidia 6800 ultra go! lol). I havent even been using it to game recently, just to download torrents, surf and watch divx movies, and still its blazingly hot, even while idle. So has anybody come up with an actual fix for this problem? More so than comfort and annoyance, I leave my computer on most of the time and I dont want to shorten the life span and/or performance of a $3200+ laptop due to these heat issues. Id love to be able to rock some kind of water cooling, but for a notebook, Ive never heard of anything available like this. Any ideas would be appreciated.
