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cleaning laptop cooler saves

fotiselianos — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:24:40 GMT

Hi there I saw the cleaning day post and given that I have already posted about high laptop temperatures I want to share with you an experience.

In my room I run a server resulting to have too much dust in the room so today was a cleaning day removing dust from server and my table. Then I saw my laptop and said hey lets clean it too. I took a spray of compressed air and blew air right on the laptop fan both from the rear holes and the bottom ones. A huuuuge amount of dust went off from inside.

So I said lets test it. The results.
Running cpu at its max for 5 minutes resulted to 85 degrees before cleaning. After cleaning I run toast a program for counting temperatures at full cpu loads and the temperature was at 55 after 15 minutes. Amazing 30 degrees less!

So my advice remove any dust from the fun especially if you use your laptop in dusty environments

Now my question what can I do so as to prevent dust entering the cooler is a filter or something

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

TygerTyger — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:53:54 GMT

Wow that's quite a difference. You can't really add a filter as anything that stops dust going in would also restrict air flow coming out. Or at least I imagine it would. As long as you don't leave it years before cleaning you should be fine :smileygrin:

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:32:29 GMT

Yeah TT's right, keep the working area clean.
Glad to hear you got it all sorted.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

seb21__ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:06:01 GMT

Congratilation, fotiselianos

With this action you distributed most dust in the Notebook.

What a great idea.:smileydevil:

Excuse for my sarcasm.

look at this Link for example
but it's german!

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:22:15 GMT

You have a point there Seb, the dust is now within the chasis of the PC.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

seb21__ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:24:24 GMT

Bingo

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:18:33 GMT

So whats the best thing to do, is a hoover too powerful?
I have seen these computer hoovers but they're a bit pathetic.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

Jay1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:24:53 GMT

Congratilation, fotiselianos

With this action you distributed most dust in the Notebook.

What a great idea.:smileydevil: 






Excuse for my sarcasm.



look at this Link  for example
but it's german!

Good link Seb

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

Jay1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:29:30 GMT

So whats the best thing to do, is a hoover too powerful?
I have seen these computer hoovers but they're a bit pathetic.

I think the best way is to open laptop and clean it and this would get rid of all the dust

idea

dont know if it is powerful but what about reversing the air on the hoover u know them ones and then see if it sucks it out dont know if it would work

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

seb21__ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:52:09 GMT

I agree with Jay

A hoover is useless.

The dust between the lamellas is firm. The distance between the lamellas is too small

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:01:56 GMT

Good point.

BTW TT, my old case had filters.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

seb21__ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:14:29 GMT

Filters, good idea.

I have no Filters in my Notebook.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:18:49 GMT

They got covered in much though Seb, as they were the intake fans on a Lian Li case.
The PC60 was nice, but the CPU fan I had was just deafening!

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

seb21__ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:26:39 GMT

Yeah, I think cases from LianLi are the best you get for money.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

fotiselianos — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:27:30 GMT

any link for opening vaio A series???
Is it dangerous such an action?

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:29:00 GMT

If it's in warranty and you're new to notebooks I would get VAIO Link to do it.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

fotiselianos — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:44:47 GMT

yes but soon comes a time where I want have the warranty and I have to clean it periodically so if there is a safe way to do it I would be glad seb21 link was perfect but not for my model

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

Jay1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:04:17 GMT

well u should only do this if u hav experiance as if u mak a mistake u will regret opening it. Plus i agree with wht Kee-Lo said

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

seb21__ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:14:15 GMT

yes but soon comes a time where I want  have the warranty and I have to clean it periodically so if there is a safe way to do it I would be glad  seb21 link was perfect but not for my model

Sorry, I can't GOOGLEling a better link for other VAIOs.

Re: cleaning laptop cooler saves

kee-lo_ — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:21:57 GMT

Sorry to be a pain Seb, but it's "I can't find a better link on Google."