Time To Check On My Laptop!

Kinja'd!!! "Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36)
02/12/2017 at 03:22 • Filed to: Satoshi's Laptop, Computers, Computerlopnik

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Right, time to check on what is essentially my loving chi-

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... What.

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WHAT.

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-HORRIFIED SHRIEKING.-

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HOW?

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MY POOR CHILD!

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Never fear, compressed air is here!

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Cleaned the RAID 0 SSDs up nicely for a bit of aesthetic.

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Those glossy heatsinks.

Made several passes over the heatsinks for the CPU and the MXM 980M GPU (CPU on the left, GPU on the right.)

But....

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The Pièce De Résistance are my two fans and the cooling vents. Several passes and not only are the cooling vents clear, but my fans are less loud and caked in dust. Normally, my laptop would have been in the upper 35-40*C range but this significantly helped reduce the temperature, so that my laptop isn’t so bleeding hot.


DISCUSSION (3)


Kinja'd!!! facw > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
02/12/2017 at 03:42

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I don’t know, my laptop doesn’t have any fans and I think I prefer it that way.


Kinja'd!!! Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > facw
02/12/2017 at 04:08

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I only needed it because of the rather “beefy” 980M lurking under the covers (it’s basically the equivalent to a desktop 970, though.) That, and I tend to run fairly demanding games.


Kinja'd!!! facw > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
02/12/2017 at 11:02

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It is true that my laptop struggles to do much of anything demanding, given the passively cooled processor and 4k screen.