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[Sappho]

If I thought I could do that and get enough money to enable me to buy a new computer with comparable specs (but better design), I would have done that a long time ago. I can't afford a new computer and there's no way in hell anyone is going to pay me any real money for this piece of shit. I certainly wouldn't have paid for it if there had been customer reviews available at the time.

I suppose I could find someone who is too foolish to look at reviews before buying something and con them into giving me money for it. But that would be a level of evil I don't consider myself truly capable of. And even if I got all my money back, it wouldn't help - electronics in this country cost TWICE what they do in America. This computer would have cost me $3000 if I had bought it here. No way I could afford a new one with good enough hardware here, and I'm not going to America again until at least January.

I'm going to have to just suck it up and not play games when it's hot out. At least until I manage to save up some cash.

EDIT: I just had a look at the local auction web site (they don't have ebay here). XPS notebooks are selling for around 3,000 kc. I paid $1500 for it, which is about 30,000 kc.

Nooooope!

[CR055H41RZ]

Grab a fan and run it right next to the thing.
I have the exact same problem with my *dell* studio 1558 and running an external fan next to it from any side vastly improves the endurance of my computer. Any standard box fan should do - also superglue some wooden pegs to the bottom of the thing so more fan air goes underneath.

[Sappho]

I've already got the computer on a good cooling pad (which elevates it and blows cool air straight into the vents underneath). Doesn't really help much, I'm afraid. This is some serious heat being produced in there.

[CR055H41RZ]

I'm talking about a house fan not one of those terrible overpriced laptop cooling fans that have fans that can hardly be felt when you put you hands up against it.

This: <that's the honeywelll turboforce fan, it's really good and lasts for years
Not this (but I use a conbination of the elevation from the external (which does little to nothing) and the jenga blocks:

Please trust me when I say that kind of fan works.

[Sappho]

My cooling pad fan isn't bad actually. I can see that a bigger fan might work better, but to be honest, most of the heat comes off the top of the computer, not the bottom. Even when the cooling pad keeps the bottom of the computer cool, I still get insane amounts of heat coming off the top. I'm not sure that a bigger fan would solve that problem.

Still, thank you for the suggestion, and I'll keep it in mind.

By the way, here's a shot of the inside of the computer (taken from the youtube video on how to disassemble it). I've circled the area that gets hot. What the hell IS that anyway?

[CR055H41RZ]

Yes, a house fan really would help.
I'm using one right now for that same sort of top part heating up problem and it's a vast improvement.

By the way what model is it?

[Bdthemag]

I'm assuming that's the heat sink, which pretty much disperses the heat somewhere else to keep everything cool. Although I've really only cracked open older laptops, and they tend to have a copper colored heat sink inside. Are there any vents on the side of the laptop that the circled object is leading to? If so, it's probably the heatsink.

[Sappho]

No, no vents on the sides. The only side vent is the one connected to the fan. There are some vents on the *bottom* of the machine, though if I consider that the designers intended the air to vent out the bottom, I might have an aneurysm.

CR055H41RZ: Are you asking what model the computer is? Because that's been mentioned many times, including right there in the first post, with a link to the specs...

For the moment I do not own a large fan and I don't plan to buy one. I am living on my own on a teacher's salary. My apartment is 20 sq m (about 215 sq ft) and I don't even have room for a wardrobe to put my clothes in (I keep them in my suitcase). I can't even begin to imagine where I would place a fan like that. The little table I have for the computer is pretty much taken up with the computer, mouse, and my one remaining functioning speaker. I can't even fit food on it. Have to hold it in my lap while I'm eating. Even if I could get one set up, I wouldn't do it like you have in that picture. Moving air running over my fingers on the keyboard (or any part of my skin) would trigger my severe sensory issues, which is the last thing I need when I'm home after a long day of work (and one of the reasons I don't own a fan). Again, thanks for the suggestion, but it's probably not going to work for me, at least not at this time.

[Bdthemag]

So there's only vents on the bottom? That's sort of odd, or at least from my experience. All of the laptops I've had either have vents on the back of the machine which the heatsink leads to, or vents on the side.

[nenjin]

Can you get a better picture of that section Sappho?

[Tellemurius]

Sappho i have one last fix you can try. If its the computer itself choking on its heat one thing we can do is lower the processing state, while the computer is underclocked its not going full blown so heat should cut down a bit. http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-prevent-your-laptop-from-overheating-windows-7/ follow the instructions.

[Sappho]

So there's only vents on the bottom? That's sort of odd, or at least from my experience. All of the laptops I've had either have vents on the back of the machine which the heatsink leads to, or vents on the side.

There is one small vent on the back. Apparently it is connected to the heatsink. I can actually feel hot air coming out of it now so I guess it's working? Not enough to keep the machine cool though.

Nenjin, I found these on Google:

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Tellemurius, thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

[Tellemurius]

jesus thats the heatsink for the laptop? Thats the shittest design ever, even my crappy old sony vaio had a circulation design for the heatpipes to go through the cpu onto the chipset and back to the fan.
(though i still have the worst heatsink i ever found in a laptop)

[CR055H41RZ]

I doesn't have to be a big fan
just one that's decently powerful like the second one i pictured
I went and measured it.
I was just saying you could choose either or - it's much cheaper than buying a new computer.

[Sappho]

Haha, yes, it's nice of you to offer the suggestion, but really, I don't have anywhere to put it.



And even if I did, as I said, having air moving over my skin makes me feel itchy and uncomfortable because of my severe sensory issues. Sadly, it doesn't seem like I'll be able to solve the problem this way.

In other news, we've got another heat wave. No computer games for me. : (