ANOTHER ghetto cooler

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited April 2004 in Hardware
My laptop has a 2.4A P4 (512k/400MHz FSB), and it runs a tib hotter than I'd like, even after the mods I've already done (lapping the heatsink & cpu, swapping thermal pad for Arctic Silver Ceramique). So, I bodged together a somewhat better solution.

======= PARTS =======
Laptop "stand"
1x Thermalright SLK-800A
1x Thermalright SLK-800

Heatsinks
2x AMD/Ajigo 2500+ retail HSFs, lapped
1x Thermalright AX-7, lapped
1x very large aluminum extrusion

Fans
1x Sunon KD1208PTB2-6 39CFM 80mm
2x AMD/Delta 60x13mm ~18cfm
1x Sunon 120mm blower (40-odd CFM)
1x Generic 80mm 30-odd CFM

Other stuff
1x 350w Enermax ATX PSU
1x 12v/4a Peltier element
2x 6v/5.6a Peltier elements, in series
1x Zalman fan controller on the blower (it's probably screaming in agony; it's rated 6w, the blower is 14)
Thermal compound

======= Assembly =======

The 3 peltiers are sandwiched between the CPU heatsinks and the aluminum 'sink. The cold sides are on the aluminum, the hot sides are cooled by the CPU HSFs. The blower blows air through the aluminum 'sink and across the bottom of the laptop. The generic 80mm fan is cooling the Zalman fan controller. The PSU is powering it all (duh)

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Comments

  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    Dude, this setup is NOT complete without a hoover vacuum cleaner attachment hose duct taped to the other side of the laptop to suck the hot air out. I hate to give a sick man ideas like this though.

    KingFish
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Well...

    //edit
    Since SOMEONE *cough*VoE*cough* has been bitching about how I need to clean the keyboard...

    The keys are translucent. That's not dirt, it's the mechanism under the keys. :rolleyes:
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    Why did I know this would happen? :hair:;D

    KingFish
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Hahahahahha
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited March 2004
    can we get some temps here. ;-)
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    it's a laptop. No hardware monitoring.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    My (compaq) laptop has it...try checking in sandra.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Tried already. It doesn't. Well, it kind of does. But it requires disabling acpi and other stuff.
  • BodezafaBodezafa Lower Michigan
    edited March 2004
    Thats Awesome. :rockon:
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited March 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    it's a laptop. No hardware monitoring.

    All this ghetto cooling and your not ghetto enough to tape a thermometer in there? PFFFFT @ YOU!
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    Eureka! :werr:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited March 2004
    I say that we vote Geeky as the Ghetto cooling King!! :thumbsup: :celebrate
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    McBain... but, you see, that would require a screwdriver or similar object to open the CPU cover on the laptop. That would require work. I just threw this crap together; it was all sitting around my room... no work involved. :D
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Ghetto ? close, but you can do better. Here is a little tease of a real ghetto cooling project I am working on. I snagged this out of an old dehumidifier. Lets see....an old 5gallon bucket for a resivoir...some garden hose.....my swimming pool pump and a bud lite can for a water block....Well maybe I'll use the ehiem 1250 instead .

    Scott
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    Maybe we need an "Urban Engineering" section. :)
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited March 2004
    Urban engineering....... ;D;D . Thats the politically correct term for ghetto lol
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    Scott: not bad, but I've got something better up my sleeve.

    In addition to the car I drive, I have a parts car. Said parts car has a radiator and an a/c condenser. I have no use for either on my car. However, I took both of them off the parts car, and cleaned them up, and they're currently under a tarp in the side yard. I can't go water until I go to college, but when I do, one or the other of them will probably end up being the radiator I use.

    They're both about the same size- around 24"x18"- and the radiator will cool a 238HP V8 (290 in the european version) and its transmission. It SHOULD cool a computer. :D
  • kharnakkharnak Miami
    edited March 2004
    :D I love it. that's great. I love gigantic heatsinks. Anyone who's been through a thermodynamics course will agree that a big gigantic thermal reserviore is totally yummy!
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    "Urban Engineering", huh? Well, I suppose that's a nice, non offensive term for the creative, backyard construction type projects that we do like this.

    In this area, it used to be called "N
    Rigged / Rigging".

    But no one says that kind of stuff anymore, do they?
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Not here, no way, no how!

    Other terms:

    Back yard engineering...
    Garage special
    Junk bin engineering
    home-made
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    Geeky, just get enough tubing and cool off all your computers with that big hug of a rad.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited April 2004
    I thought my WD800JB was running a little hot.

    Then I took my old Globalwin 80mm fan and attached it to the case with cable ties.
    Now it can blow cool air directly on the drives.
    And the best thing is that you cannot see it when all the front covers are in place.

    I will connect it to 7 or 5V no need to blow the drives out of the case. ;)

    I will post some pics later on.
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