How to Cool your Laptop

The laptop sees its components compressed in a tiny box and plastic. Installed on your clothes, your bed, it will quickly heat up.
There are methods to cool laptops, but I find unsavory. The fans do nothing and the system is more efficient in most cases the elevation of the computer. Once a little high, air will be evacuated without obstacles and the evacuation will be faster.
We remember all laptops exploding causing injury. Those days are behind us, but who knows, keep your laptop cool and your knees intact.

Radiators heat to bare

I would like to draw your attention to this new trend, radiators heat naked. They offer very good performance but a montage too harsh or too tight can break. Be careful!

Details needed

As elsewhere, the details are often important. I speak here of the thermal paste and many other things ;-)

The thermal paste

The thermal paste, which is located within the heart (GPU, CPU) is used to establish contact between the radiator and the surface of the heart so as not to leave empty, because the air is very bad driver. We must apply the right dose, a hazelnut. No micro-hazelnut, hazelnut not high plutonium, a classic hazelnut. It should then (with a rigid card for example) spread the paste over the surface of the heart so that the contact is total.
The thermal paste has a very long life (usually more than 2 years), there is no need to change every month!
As for thermal pads, adhesive supposedly small conductors of heat, I advise you to switch to the dough as soon as you can, you will get several degrees.

Cleanliness

Yes, the air drawn in by your computer is full of dust and it will be quick to get stuck in the radiators or fan blades. Cleaning every month is a good idea if you often have your PC switched on. The cleaning will be a bomb with dry air and a slightly damp cloth or your breath and a rag. Attention to the ideas of vacuum cleaning, a screw is lost very quickly!

The different materials of the radiator

As you know, all metals are more or less drivers! Here is a list of more or less driver:

• Silver (429 W / (mK))
• Copper (401 W / (mK))
• Or (317 W / (mK))
• Aluminum (237 W / (mK))
• Zinc (116 W / (mK))
• Nickel (90.7 W / (mK))

You can get an idea of the mediocrity of aluminum. Of course, we must take these results with tweezers, the purity of the metal in question playing heavily on the conductivity.