Some ppl will do antidust after a certaint period including me.Open up the case clean wat ever u wanna clean and replace some ASS5.I'm a DIY cooler user, because those market coolers are nothing help to me.Furthermore, i support the theory of blow air is better than sucking air.(Have u ever heard ppl using fans to suck instead of blowing towards them? i think no.)In my opinion i also think that the Evercool magic cooler(sucking air from heatsink 1) will help to reduce the CPU temp but of course we can not expect it to suck out the heat from HD or other components in the laptop.(it is only design for cpu cooling purpose).If the Evercool magic cooler plus the cooling pad the cooling result should be more obvious.The most important we have to remember is the design of the laptop.Our cooling is all depends on the design of the laptop such as the position of HD,CPU,air intake, etc. I found that dell I6k seldom facing heat problem and the compaq V3k is abit hotter maybe is becoz of the size and the position of the HD is so weird(at the left front portion)Which makes it hard to match a suitable cooler. http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/242971/+120

I got a question the laptop fan is blowing the air up to cool the CPU but the laptop cooler fan is sucking the air down The air that the blower can blow up is lesser ald compare with not using cooler.(How come the cpu still can be colder?) .(or maybe the cooler is creating an air flow allow the cpu fan suck in fresher air. ) And pls dun forget most of the laptops bottom are without hole 1 the cooling pad is only blow the case but not blow into the laptop.Some kind of laptop's Ram slot's lid or HD lid maybe got vent hole so maybe we can try to suck the hot air from the ram's vent hole. If the cooler's fan is toward the part which is without hole i prefer to blow if with hole maybe i'll try suck(suck the air from the vent hole).

Yeah! Normally those vents are located at the ram and hardisk.Like my dell i6k only have ram vent no hd vent(but the temp is still acceptable 38c.idle 45c playing carbon).For compaq v3k the hd vent is quite nice but the heat dissipation still sux .But i found that the hd temp heat up until 50c become constant no more increment.

Yo bro dun u mind tell us wat laptop u r using? The heat sink on the mobo is to cool the north-south bridge.Nowadays those chipsets do too much of work create too much of heat need some stuff to cool it up.
Normally laptop's North or South bridge is without heatsink maybe some high end got.I have open dell i6k and compaq v3k before the i6k north bridge got heat sink but the v3k dun have maybe they want to cut down the cost.

I6k mobo pic the northbrige is under the smaller silver heatsink.


Abt the V3k u may check here.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/392331/+780

By adjusting the cpu speed and the voltage is really a good help!!
http://www.pbus-167.com/ (NHC)
maybe u can try this bro . but this software seems like can not be used in vista.

This post has been edited by windvv2005: Apr 2 2007, 09:45 AM