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riverp37•2mo ago

Cheap laptop cooler pad vs. just propping it up on bottle caps - 3 month test

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amy858•2mo ago

uma_lopez•2mo ago

Almost fried my motherboard at a coffee shop in Austin last month

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kim.sandra•2mo ago

Used to prop my laptop on a stack of books for airflow, now I use a $12 wire rack

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johnson.ryan•3mo ago

Hit 85 degrees Celsius on my laptop and finally built my own cooler

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richard_hall•3mo ago

Chatted with a buddy who works IT about why my gaming laptop sounds like a jet engine

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hugo50•3mo ago

Found out my 2015 laptop's cooling fan was way undersized, a total 3 CFM joke

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charlesj46•3mo ago

My laptop hit 95C before I tried a $7 fix that dropped it 20 degrees in one day

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lewis.diana•3mo ago

Finally saw a real 10 degree drop after adding a copper shim to my laptop hinge area

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DIY Laptop Cooling

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Cheap laptop cooler pad vs. just propping it up on bottle caps - 3 month test

Pro tip: flipping your laptop upside down for 10 minutes saved my GPU

Chat with my neighbor Dave about laptop cooling pads changed my approach

PSA: Those $10 laptop cooler pads from Amazon are a joke

Stopped using compressed air after a disaster at a computer shop in Austin

Three hours of my life gone because I forgot to clean the fan blades

Hot take: I got lower temps after stopping undervolting my laptop

Stop stacking your laptop on notebooks - here's why that's making it hotter

Almost fried my motherboard at a coffee shop in Austin last month

Used to prop my laptop on a stack of books for airflow, now I use a $12 wire rack

Hit 85 degrees Celsius on my laptop and finally built my own cooler

Chatted with a buddy who works IT about why my gaming laptop sounds like a jet engine

Found out my 2015 laptop's cooling fan was way undersized, a total 3 CFM joke

My laptop hit 95C before I tried a $7 fix that dropped it 20 degrees in one day

Finally saw a real 10 degree drop after adding a copper shim to my laptop hinge area