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Advice on Notebook Coolers

  • 29-10-2009 12:50pm
    #1
    Jenna
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Hi I have recently suffered the wrath of Dell XPS M1330 video card problems (overheating, screen freezing, going black and displaying colourful vertical lines). Dell sent out an engineer who replaced the motherboard but according to online forums and hints that the engineer gave me replacing the motherboard is only a temporary solution. Apparently my video card is going to fry again sooner or later but in order for it to be later I can buy a notebook cooler. I didn't even know such things existed till this morning. So can anyone offer any advice on buying notebook coolers? Which ones would be suitable for the M1330? Where do I buy them? How much should I expect to spend?

    What about this one?
    http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=EQP52218

    I'll never buy an XPS every again.


Comments

  • #2
    Menengroth™
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Menengroth™


    hope the engineer replaced the gpu paste while he was at it.

    i have the "Zalman ZM-NC2000" which as far as i can tell is just a bigger version, tis pretty good and elevates at a nice angle, decent difference in temperature too


  • #3
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Notebook coolers are a nice surface for your laptop to sit on, better than a dusty bed or something, and with the fan they can stop a warm pocket of air building up underneath the machine. But the difference they make to internal component temperatures is very small. A couple of degrees at most. Thats fine if you just want to keep your notebook a little cooler, but when there is an inherent problem, its not going to help.

    It won't stop your M1330 from failing again. There are a couple of things you can do, but some of them are pretty technical (the so-called 'copper mod', undervolting the CPU, using high-performance thermal paste). I wouldn't recommend any of them to an inexperienced user.

    About all you can do is keep the BIOS up to date (check the Dell site) and try to keep the vents clear (dont use it on dusty surfaces etc).


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