Uiih... cannot laa suck air from hot coffee - cos then it'll go into the tummy...

But someone can make an experiment. Take two similar temp hot coffee, and put a computer fan on top of each cup - one facing out (suck) and one facing down (blow into coffee).

See which one gets cooler faster...

Wokey... I just bought another one today, the Cooler Master Notepal - the regular black one (not P1 nor Widescreen). Got it at Sri Komputer (I know... but they got black) for RM90.

My lappie is a compaq core duo with 2GB ram that I use to run CS2 and heavy rendering stuff like that. Normal temperature (only running Firefox), even when at the cold office is 50 to 56C! - as reported by Speed Fan, but very consistent though. The lappie's fan is at the bottom, blowing out.

So I just got home, straight away turned the 2 fans the other way around cos I found that it's blowing air up into the cooler - so now they're blowing down, sucking air away from the bottom of the lappie.

The result? Well, I'm at home, no aircon, turned off the and now sweating after dealing with the Notepal 16 screws, and me lappie is runnning idle at about 32C, with Mozilla it goes up to 35 - 42 Celcius max...

Easily 10C cooler. Now looking forward to get to the office on Monday and see what happens.

Thanks for reading

Not too sure how to say this but I think that in my case - at the bottom of the laptop are 1 fan blowing air out, and a vent.

So... I made both the fans on the Notepal to suck air la... Don't want to think too much. I can (think and plot and test and calculate and), but don't want.

Of course, the Notepal fans are not located directly below the lappie's fan and air vent - these are in the middle of the lappie and the Notepal fans are at the far end (near the back of the lappie).

Which is just as well cause I find that the HOTTEST spot on my lappie is on the back left corner where the power unit is located, and there's another vent here as well, facing the back. This place, especially at the bottom used to be almost too hot to even touch (!), but now is just slightly warm.

Also, I just noticed that the Notepal main surface is not actually straight - it's curved downwards in the middle from back to front, so there's more space between it and my lappie in the middle part, where the lappie's fan and air vent are.

Hope that makes sense...

Uhh... you mean like this?



Don't worry man... I took that pic when I just bought mine - it's like that.

Shameless plug: I wrote this blog entry on my exp with the CM Notepal if any of you are wondering about buying one.

This post has been edited by adewhite: Apr 25 2007, 12:16 PM