Exreamly tactical laptop cooling.

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As the title says, i will be doing an extreamly tactical no compromises, no maybe, no it might. Just this will.

I will be cooling..... My dell laptop.... (Dun dun DUN!!!!)

Apearantly its possible to overclock my laptop. So i tried and i falied due to one bottle neck. HEAT. I put 8 GB of ram in my puppy (i can now record at 30 fps on cs go), upgraded the thermal compound, even put a 200 mm fan laptop cooler under my laptop. Even put a exahast fan at the side (removed it cus it actually did more harm than good.) now i have turned to the fabulous help of the most actve support forum. Yes. toms hardware, which turns pc enthusiast's software to HardWare. Jokes aside (keep them comming tho) how do i do a extreamly tactical cooling? Anyone who can give me the best answer will recive my thanks, and i will dub thee "the dude who answered my post".
 
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Well of course it's not going to be a custom fit. Here's another one for a PRECISION T7500 that looks a lot more bendable because all of the heatpipes are in a straight line:
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Look at how much room there is on that pedestal to drill holes in the right places, then you can grind off the rest that you don't need. That's how I mount heatsinks to GPUs.

For something smaller and easier to work with, I suggest looking at chipset coolers, which usually have only one heatpipe so are a lot easier to bend where you need to. You'd still have to figure out a mounting method though.

The Dell Vostro 3300 actually looks like it has the CPU mounted facing the bottom so you could put as tall...

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Yes but then it wouldn't be extreme. General Tacticus would not approve.

Screwed in is a lot safer and more secure than epoxy, which can fall off, especially when there is no IHS for surface area.
 
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I never will glue **** on my cpu lmao, and i dont think i have those in my country. A good idea, but not a "it will work 100%". I will be looking at chipset coolers.
 
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Question from Inonothingatall : "EXTREMe TACTICAl LAPTOp COOLINg UPDATE/GUIDe"

So, i have figured ot how to extream cool my laptop. 1st, forget buying a desktop cooler, or attaching extra coolers. I used my knowledge of SCIENCE and cooled my laptop on a geological scale (not really to be honest). First of all, my proublem riginated from AMBIENT heat. I was in a small room. So i setup a ventelation system and i gave a very good airflow iin the room that it started feelng [strike]COLD[/strike]. Not because of the temperature, but airflow so i checked AMBIENT heat off the list. Second, would be THERMAL dynamics/ aerodynamics(maybe?). Hot air goes up, cold air goes down. So, i realized i was forcing HOT air up INTO my laptop using the laptop cooler. How did i know that? I had one ehaust fan, and one LARGE intake fan. Plus i had a fan pointed DIRECTLY at the exhasut. So what did i do? I turned the fan off since my legs were already shaking from the coldness of my room. That actually HELPED my cooling.
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