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Notebook cooling questions

post #1 of 22
5/30/05 at 1:06am
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I just ordered a Alienware Area51 770o, I go home on leave in 2 weeks.. I am currently stationed in Iraq. The tent im in is cool so i shouldnt have any heat problems. I just had a question, if anyone could recommend a Cooling Plate for the notebook, knowing thats its bigger than most, I just want to have just a bit extra cooling. Considering its been 120+ outside.



Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Case: Area-51m 7700 Case with 17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in Camera - Xeno Grey
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 560J w/ HT Technology 3.6GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB Cache
Motherboard: Intel® 915P Chipset Supporting PCI-Express
Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
Video Card: Area-51m 7700 ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON X800 with 256MB of DDR 3 memory
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS PCMCIA - OEM
Hard Drive: Extreme Performance - RAID 0 - 120GB (60GB x 2) 7200 RPM ATA100 - Hitachi
Optical Drive One: 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW Combo w/Software
Ethernet NIC: Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Wireless Network: External Wireless 802.11a/b/g PCMCIA Card
Modem: 56K Modem with V.92 Technology
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post #2 of 22
6/2/05 at 12:05pm
Look at the Kingwins laptop coolers, be safe in Iraq man
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post #3 of 22
6/2/05 at 12:11pm
I've got the Vantec Lapcool2 and it works pretty sweet. With our 7700's it seems most of the heat comes out of the left palm side where the vid card is. And like AlienKen said, be safe
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post #4 of 22
6/7/05 at 3:15am
I have an antec http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834999850
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post #5 of 22
6/7/05 at 4:48am
The antec cooler works great, but I would flip the fans. Posted some pictures a long time ago on how to do it.
http://www.notebookforums.com/showpo...7&postcount=24

Quite honestly I am surprised that you guys in Iraq are online at all, but I am curious how you get internet access and if there is lots of security involved.
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post #6 of 22
6/7/05 at 5:30am
[quote=ckaplan]The antec cooler works great, but I would flip the fans. QUOTE]

Why would you flip the fans, you would want the air pulled from the laptop, if you flip to blow your pushing air against air.

That’s like pissing into the wind!
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post #7 of 22
6/7/05 at 5:38am
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How we getting internet, well we ordered a satilite dish. We have the internet beamed in :-) Its ok the download speeds are decent the upload speeds are horrible and there is bad latency but just roaming around the internet isnt to bad
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post #8 of 22
6/7/05 at 5:56am
think about what material the cooling pad is made of also, some are plastic some are alum. ( which i think would disapate heat better than plastic.
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post #9 of 22
6/7/05 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by archerion
How we getting internet, well we ordered a satilite dish. We have the internet beamed in :-) Its ok the download speeds are decent the upload speeds are horrible and there is bad latency but just roaming around the internet isnt to bad
So it is a personal satellite dish like the ones you can set up in the states. That seems fairly easy. I guess I imagined a lot more infrastructure and control over access since you are on a militarty base.

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Originally Posted by ckaplan
The antec cooler works great, but I would flip the fans. QUOTE]

Why would you flip the fans, you would want the air pulled from the laptop, if you flip to blow your pushing air against air.

That’s like pissing into the wind!
It would be more like blowing into the wind unless you have a liquid cooled system.

I mentioned flipping the fans based on experience with the 5500. On that laptop air gets sucked into the laptop from vents on the top and bottom and blown out the sides through the cooling fins. On the laptop cooler the fans suck air through the top and out the bottom. This flow of air is opposite to that of the laptop (pissing into the wind if you will ). By flipping the fans you are now blowing air in the same direction as the flow (pissing with the wind) of the laptop fans, and are also blowing air directly onto the bottom of the laptop which cools down the chasis.

You will have to determine the direction of the airflow on a 7700 yourself to see if this rational applies to that laptop.
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post #10 of 22
6/7/05 at 3:31pm
Nevermind. Wish I could delete a post.
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post #11 of 22
6/8/05 at 1:01am
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Its not really a personal dish system the Dish is 6 feet wide. Now its a personal setup by my company, not military owned so there isnt much in security.
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post #12 of 22
6/8/05 at 4:10am
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Originally Posted by archerion
Its not really a personal dish system the Dish is 6 feet wide. Now its a personal setup by my company, not military owned so there isnt much in security.
Ooooooohhh! Your a "contractor". Got it. I thought you were in the military. That is why I was asking about the security issues. Totally different situation. So what does your company do in Iraq?
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post #13 of 22
6/8/05 at 9:29am
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No im in the US Army, I am in a company, The military uses company to describe a UNIT i in a Sec-4 company north of Bagdad.
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post #14 of 22
6/8/05 at 9:30am
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No im in the US Army, I am in a company, The military uses company to describe a UNIT i in a Sec-4 company north of Bagdad.

The reason i said its personaly owned is that we all chipped in to get the service, so that we would have wireless in our tents.. Its not run by the military just us soldiers. Not part of the MWR org.
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post #15 of 22
6/8/05 at 1:09pm
screw the heating pad, get a DUST protector thingie. Not sure exactley what would work, but you definatley want to keep the Iraqi sand out of that machine. It'll kill your lappie faster than the heat.
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post #16 of 22
6/8/05 at 6:14pm
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Originally Posted by archerion
No im in the US Army, I am in a company, The military uses company to describe a UNIT i in a Sec-4 company north of Bagdad.

The reason i said its personaly owned is that we all chipped in to get the service, so that we would have wireless in our tents.. Its not run by the military just us soldiers. Not part of the MWR org.
I am surprised that it is allowed on a military base, but I am glad that you can get on the internet.
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post #17 of 22
6/8/05 at 8:19pm
When I was in the Navy we had internet on our ship, in the middle of the Atlantic. Of course, it was supposed to be used by Officers only, but the IT's on the ship gave themselves access. I downloaded Redhat 5 while sailing across the Atlantic.
When in port, we had T-3 access. It doesn't really matter where you are in the world, the military really keeps you connected.
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post #18 of 22
6/9/05 at 12:57am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycat
screw the heating pad, get a DUST protector thingie. Not sure exactley what would work, but you definatley want to keep the Iraqi sand out of that machine. It'll kill your lappie faster than the heat.



Well were moving into trailers, out of our tents in the next few weeks. I got a sleeve made for my laptop, We have AC and i just got moved into the office cause of an injury. So the lappy will be pretty much safe. We got tons of canned air :-P
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post #19 of 22
6/9/05 at 1:00am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ckaplan
I am surprised that it is allowed on a military base, but I am glad that you can get on the internet.



Well every base i have been too has some kind of internet service. Now back in the states they ususally have wireless in the barracks. I understand over here is diffrent usually if something bad happens , sadly happens alot, We go into blackout, where the internet and phones get shut down. Its just so GI joe dont tell Gi lost his head`s wife that hes dead before the military does.
They dont have control over ours, they just had to make sure we we secure. Yes we have very secure wirless. You cant catch out packets and figure out stuff, its all scrambled.
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post #20 of 22
6/9/05 at 11:01am
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To put the topic back on track i ordered a Vantec Pacific Breeze 2 notebook cooler.

Now if i changed the thermal pads to as5 will that void my warrenty?
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