Hello. Just wanna know about the DIY cooler. How come don't want to use aluminium?Is it because it's expensive? or the acrylic material much better?

I was thinking of doing it myself. So, before get the stuff, would like to know about it.

This post has been edited by cadmus: Nov 19 2006, 05:53 AM

I finally bought myself a laptop cooler. It looks like this acrylic cooler from this website.

http://www.lelong.com.my/Auc/List/2006-04DSale2740708.htm

got it from lowyat at RM45. Fan is faster than cooler pad. 3kRPM i think. I'm using wide screen lappie. not sure why price so big different but i think it is the same thing kwa..

The cooling effect i think got la a bit..around 1 to 5 celcius lesser for CPU temp. Maybe this is due to the reason that the fans does not directly hits my lappie fans.So, have i to adjust it somewhere. And i lift the whole cooler front part up more cos this way, the fan can suck up more air(tested with n without lifting up..fan blows more air when lifted up a little bit..about 5cm or so.)

Anyway, the LED is nice. looks good when i off my lights..haha.

i compared this with coolermaster and the zodiac by evercool. All also cannot fight this fan.Got one cooler can maybe can be compared to this. it's this one.
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=256562&st=0

the fan,although i think not as fast as the one i bought but it's aluminum which doesn't even touch your lappie bottom(should be as near as possibile to help heat dissipation) and also got 3 fans.So in the edn, i op for the acrylic one cos fast fan, look nice and fits my lappie(got speaker jacks in front along with USB port)

This post has been edited by cadmus: Nov 29 2006, 10:13 PM

Yeah, i agee with steventan85 when he said only a few celcius drop. I guess i need to send my laptop for servicing..clean the fans.When my laptop is ideal state, it is about 50celcius. when play games that really high end,goes from 70 to 80 celcius. watch videos about 60celcius.

I'm using ACER 15.4 inch widescreen.The cooler fan is located in the center of the whole acrylic board.For my ACER laptop, the laptop fan is at the top right corner..so the cooler fan tak sentuh lngsung..that's why i said the effect might be lesser for me.The holes for RAM also tak sentuh the cooler fan.

Anyway, the cooler that i bought is smaller in size..i think it's for 14inch..but then when i put my laptop, it fits nicely..I would sugest bring laptop along to test n c whether fits yours or not if you gonna buy from lowyat.that's what i did.

IT depends on people whether like the dsign or not for laptop cooler. but then i can say that the fan for this acrylic is faster than coolermaster or the Zodiac by evercool.However, it only have 2 small fan which runs at 3krpm.

This post has been edited by cadmus: Nov 30 2006, 12:26 PM