PSA: My dog knocked over my laptop cooler setup and I almost lost the whole machine

Was gaming at my desk in my apartment in Austin last night when my golden retriever ran through the room chasing a cat. She hit the table leg and my whole homemade cooling rig with the 120mm fan taped to a baking rack came crashing down. The laptop slid off and landed face down on the carpet. It somehow survived but the fan blades got bent and now it makes a weird clicking noise. The intake vents on the bottom were covered in dust and cat hair too. I've been using that jerry-rigged setup for 2 years after my old laptop melted its own GPU playing Civ 6. Now I'm thinking I need something more stable like a stand with side rails or maybe bolt the fan to a heavier base. Has anyone else had a pet or kid wreck their cheap cooling setup and what did you switch to that won't tip over?

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johnson.ryan1d ago

Haha guess my fan is having a midlife crisis like me, @barbara399.

barbara3991d ago

Oh man, that baking rack fan setup is so sketchy lol. I had my tower sitting on a cardboard box for way too long and my cat jumped on it once and sent the whole thing flying. The fan blades sounded like a dying lawnmower after that. I switched to one of those cheap plastic laptop stands with the little rubber feet and honestly it hasn't budged since. Just get something with a heavy base or drill some holes in a piece of plywood and glue it down. The dust and hair thing is real though, I cleaned my vents last week and found enough fur to knit a small cat.