Cerbera

This is a ridiculous way of cooling my Dell Inspiron 9100 notebook, but it also makes use of a spare power supply that I had lying around.

First off, if you're curious on how to use a power supply without a motherboard, go to this thread or visit my youtube video. .



I used six 120mm fans and stacked them up on two rows.

To connect them, I used zip ties. However, the zip ties I had were not long enough to lock in place. So I used a glue gun to hold it. This way it is easy to replace them for future use.




It doesn't get much simpler than that. I could only use five out of the six because my old power supply has five molex connectors.





I did notice a drop of around 3C on all temperatures, but I was kind of hoping for more. It is a nice conjunction with my air conditioner duct.



Here is a Youtube link showing the gluing process and the fans in action.


UPDATE

Thanks to JoBlo69's suggestions, I decided to expose the internal components to allow better cooling. However, that would mean I would have no keyboard and mouse. That's no problem since I use external ones.

I've seen a drop of 5C without air conditioning, but a drop of 10C with air conditioning. My hard drive has had the biggest benefit with it staying at 29C.

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losttsol

Can I ask, why do you need such an elaborate cooling method on your notebook computer?

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Cerbera

I did it out of curiosity. There is only so much you can do to cool it.

As I said before it makes use of my spare power supply and fans. Also my air conditoner cools my PS3 that performs Fold@Home. I can just direct all that cool air towards my electronics.

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.Style

yah my bros hp laptop gets real hot so he got a full sized fan and he put it under it...it actually balanced as well as knock about 8c off temps...

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SmasherBasher

Why not just get a chill pad?

JoBlo69

You will probably see better temps if you took the bottom of the laptop off... Giving the motherboard direct air flow instead of blowing the air on the plastic case...

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Cerbera

The whole purpose of my experiment was to make use of what I had and see what I could do with it. I find this to be a multi-purpose cooling device as I can point it to myself or towards my hot tea.

Good point, however I can only expose the memory. The motherboard is accessed through the other side. I could just flip it and remove the keyboard because that will expose the main heatsink for the CPU.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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onlycodered

So... why are you gluing the tiewraps?

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Cerbera

Should I be obligated to answer that or feel insulted?

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Dar_T

Great idea. I think I'm going to use it for my case window.