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Both of the fans broke on my 6 year old laptop simultaneously, Good thing I just happened to have large scraps of aluminum to heat sink until the fans arrive. (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by lyrial@lemmy.sdf.org to c/machinist@sh.itjust.works

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There are another 4 blocks under the laptop to further dissipate heat. Off camera, there is a large box fan and a ceiling fan keeping it from thermal death. Sometimes, keeping scrap can help immensely.

I just need one day of web browsing at 80 C to keep it alive (I hope).

ETA: the acutual pic

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember someone experimenting with a large block of copper as a heat sink to compare it with actively cooled heat sinks. It worked really well and for quite a long time.

[–] lyrial@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm getting about -5 degrees from this. It's enough to web browse, but I don't want to tank the GPU

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last time I had critical cooling failures I opened the casing up entirely and used some big fans to blow on it, but that was a very long time ago when things were very big (and not a laptop).

If you can remove the upper or lower parts of the laptop shell you might even be able to rest the actual internal heatsink on one of those blocks.

[–] lyrial@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not that big a deal because I'm getting new fans on Friday, I just need to keep the thing cool enough to browse the web etc.

[–] nehal3m@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Just browse on your phone for a day, it’s not worth the risk.