Review: CompUSA Notebook Cooler
Apr. 2nd, 2006 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynFor years I was using a Bytecc aluminum notebook cooler with my laptop. It worked very effectively at keeping its temperature down. Unfortunately my new notebook doesn't have a PS/2 port, which made the Bytecc unusable.
So I purchased an on-sale cooler from CompUSA which is powered through a USB port. It has three fans under the notebook, drawing heat from the computer and cycling it out a vent behind the cooler. I conducted a three-hour test using the thing, running under a more-or-less even load on the CPU, and used a freeware program called PC Wizard to measure the temperature of the processor. Starting at 56C/132F, by hour one it had dropped to 45C/113F, and by hour three it was down to 35C/95F. The usual running temp. with the cooler running is around 38C/100F, which is about a thirty degree decline vs. not using the cooler. Excellent results, I think. As a bonus, the fans are *much* quieter than the Bytecc ones were, reducing the local noise pollution around my desk by a large amount.
So I purchased an on-sale cooler from CompUSA which is powered through a USB port. It has three fans under the notebook, drawing heat from the computer and cycling it out a vent behind the cooler. I conducted a three-hour test using the thing, running under a more-or-less even load on the CPU, and used a freeware program called PC Wizard to measure the temperature of the processor. Starting at 56C/132F, by hour one it had dropped to 45C/113F, and by hour three it was down to 35C/95F. The usual running temp. with the cooler running is around 38C/100F, which is about a thirty degree decline vs. not using the cooler. Excellent results, I think. As a bonus, the fans are *much* quieter than the Bytecc ones were, reducing the local noise pollution around my desk by a large amount.
