I live in a hot and dusty environment where temperatures of the environment reach 45 C (113 F) and more. Even if I keep a fan nearby it will blow hot air. So how do I go about this? Hard disk reaches 40 C (104 F) easily. CPU and GPU reach 70 C(158 F) easily. Any trick to this? An ice pack or something?
P.S: I do not have an air conditioner
Buy an USB powerd cooling pad like this one.
You could also build one from wood, pc case fans and external power supply, that is up to you.
I have a cooling pad. All it does is keep the temperatures 2-3 degrees less. BTW how will this keep the laptop cool? I mean the environment is very hot. So blowing the same air would not be an option right?
The additional air movement helps dissipating the heat from the even hotter cooling fins.
sub ambient cooling. ice in a box with a fan perhaps?
Sounds like you are going to have to do drastic with it. Drill a hole in the wall and pipe fresh air from the outside to under the laptop cooler so it sucks cool air in to the hot room. Probably not viable
sounds like that would not work. outside temp same as inside.
Where the hell is this!? Death valley in the mid summer? The other thing I am thinking is who is using the laptop? Once temps reack about 40 people start to passout and in some cases die. So if this laptop is consistently used who is using it.
Air conditioner
Or just leave it the temps aren't that bad
Arizona Maybe
How about having a mesh with a cloth on top soaked with water, then you pull air through it. It will stop the dust and cool the air down a little.
Wow where do you live? And I would recommend a chiller mat or something.
My room doesn't get to the temps the OP mentioned, but it does get pretty hot. I routinely sit at or above 30c (86f) with the AC on. I've been contemplating building a cooling device that uses a box fan and ice water. Use copper tubing attached to the front of the fan. I'd have some type of ice chest for the water and submersible pump running the water through the system. I'd used something like one or two liter bottles of frozen water in the ice chest water to keep the water cold. The only problem I foresee is condensation on the the copper tubing. I haven't figured out how to prevent that from making a mess.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned to clean your fans, heatsink, and reapply thermal paste if you know how. 80% of heating issues I see are just cause heatsink is clogged and full of dust.
Remove your backplate and clean it out. I recommend a high power air compressor (not a can of air) in short, two second bursts. Should help with your problem.
Well that would work if the environment was not so hot.
maybe some water cooling hack would work. from what I've seen of most laptops if you replace the heatsink with a copper plate you could attach water cooling to that.
note you'd need a external keyboard,mouse, & monitor and to flip the laptop upside down with no bottom panel obviosly.
I think this is an accurate photo depicting his situation.
But seriously now, is A/C out of the question?
Aftermarket thermal paste can shave off a couple degrees. Cleaning the heatsink restores the surface area.
Yeah, only solution I've seen to that was some one taking the laptop apart and putting a radiator inside a mini fridge with the board screwed to a fiber board and the screen taped to another board with double sided tape. But at that point it would be cheaper to just build a new computer and you are down a laptop. That and I got no idea how that even turned out in the long run. Found that when I was looking for a way to cool my laptop for gaming in summer about 4 years ago. Was tempted to try it but if I bought a mini fridge I would end up just putting it in my room and cramming it full of beer.
buy AC, it will thank you and yea putting those cooling pads on the laptop actually makes them dependent on them for cooling later on.