Comments on: Removable laptop water cooling

By: kocoman

kocoman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:57:14 +0000

Does anyone still have the archive of this site? its now 404

By: Jun

Jun — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:08:34 +0000

man, how did you do that? That looks awesome!

By: bard

bard — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:00:53 +0000

haha can I quote you on that?

By: word of advice

word of advice — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:25:23 +0000

if your screen is broken, why not just use that laptop as a stationary desktop and hook it up with a vga moniter, usb mouse and keyboard? thats what i did with my crappy lappy

By: Clay H

Clay H — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:27:38 +0000

more info…
For small pumps, check out your local thrift stores. I found a number of small “desk fountains”. they are great for parts, the one I picked up had a small & quiet (1″ x 1.5″) 3v DC pump. Neato. I’m actually considering plumbing in cooling lines directly into my old laptop (or desktop?), and then putting a quick-disconnect of some sort connect to the fountain as is. I figure the water being aerated and flowing over the rocks will dissapate enough heat. And the fountain will help the fung shwe of my office.
aahhh…

By: bard

bard — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:47:31 +0000

haha “crotch burning tendancy”. Yeah it does help. @23; No the fins don’t touch the fan blades.
BTW; update’s up

By: Hoi

Hoi — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:28:36 +0000

hey. good stuff. i was just wondering, when you shove the ‘fins’ in. wouldn’t it interfere with the spinning of the fan blades if they do kick in?

By: eyuras

eyuras — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:36:36 +0000

Now that i like, its an original hack, but something id never dare to attempt
i wonder if it helps with the crotch burning tendancy of most laptops

By: [jÂ°Sh]

[jÂ°Sh] — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:10:33 +0000

oh, man…. i had the same idea, but did not have the means nor the will to acutally pull it off.

well done

By: fragged

fragged — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:29:37 +0000

Hah, that completely owns the watercooled doghouse I was (seriosuly) planning to make….

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:12:18 +0000

much better link thank you

I love the pics. that really is lovely.

By: bard

bard — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:47:47 +0000

Yes it is enough when used in "air mode" (as mentioned in the article). Adding water to the equation makes for an even cooler experience. Right now I'm running at a comfy 41*Celsius (106*F) in "water mode". Things go a thad quicker when cool ;)

btw; I'm posting the alternative link here again;
http://folk.ntnu.no/bardlund/hack2.html
My original site is running a jsp server that ain't that friendly and tends to kneel sometimes;(

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:30:05 +0000

Uh folks.

Wouldn't simply increasing the amount of surface area be enough to increase cooling significantly?

Adding an external heat sink should be enough to tip the scales towards a cool enough (and that's really the point here, cool _enough_) running CPU to keep the fan off.

This water cooling thing, while incredibly cool looking and really clever, is most likely major overkill unless you can overclock that sucker, but then again that just makes more heat, don't it? :D

By: Dok

Dok — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:52:07 +0000

anybody thought of a sterling engine powered pc pump, i doubt u could get it for a laptop, but desktop would suffice. The hotter it got, the faster it would pump. Any questions or if anybody wants to do it, email me Dok@DokumentAMarble

.dok

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:22:52 +0000

Seems a little overboard for simply not wanting to hear a fan while watching a movie. Perhaps headphones could accomplish the same thing? I think the idea is cool, but it does defeat the purpose of a portable/laptop.