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Build Idea: Portable multi-perpouse laptop with built in water cooling system

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Former Member over 9 years ago

So I just recently started watching the show, and I have to say the things that have been done have blown my mind. A lot of the things were just plain interesting to watch being built, but recently I have been thinking. There has to be an easier way to cool a laptop without having to carry around so much extra stuff, like a cooling pad, just to keep your laptop from overheating. I looked into water cooling and saw that you can normally do this on a PC tower, and I was wondering if anyone has found a way to do this to a laptop yet.

 

I would welcome suggestions and ideas on this.

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  • gadget.iom
    0 gadget.iom over 9 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Lhftniayo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhw1n1N0hD0

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  • william_hoffer
    0 william_hoffer over 9 years ago

    yes as the videos show that Paul Ellison posted. There are even a few commercially made ones (Asus makes one) but the two videos also show two of the big problems. I have built at least a dozen desktops with water cooling and to me the problems are very obvious.

     

     

    In the first video you can see that the water cooling is a very tight fit. Laptops are designed to be small and portable leaving very little space inside. This design also has two other less noticeable flaws. In water cooled computer we say a water cooled system will leak, not if, and so that tight of a space and the cooling fluid will cause short circuit boards easily. Second hidden flaw it has is that a closed loop like that has can not hold enough fluid to truly keep the system very cool. To carry enough fluid and and radiator to cool it would makes the system not portable.

     

     

    Second video's big flaw, the water cooling is not portable. When away from home you need to rely on the fan,  heat sink and cooling mat still. Since the person just created a copper loop that connects to the heat sink versus a water block that would have connected to the cpu's heat sink mounting holes physically touching the cpu, this system will not be as efficient at cooling the laptop.

     

     

    In short if you want the laptop portable your best bet is still heat sink, fan, and cooling mat.

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