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Power Consumption Query
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<blockquote data-quote="cowasaki" data-source="post: 690568" data-attributes="member: 36098"><p>If you are doing this just for the sake of doing it then fair enough but IMO it is rather too much work! I bought 5 laptop coolers for the family earlier in the year for about £15 each! they are silent having just one large fan under the laptop and basically squirt the heat out of one side. We wife is never off her laptop using it in bed most of the time and this works perfectly well. I am considering buying a new cooler myself as my new laptop is slightly larger than the cooler but even with the cooler I have I have no problems at all.</p><p></p><p>If you do build it it would make an interesting article but using water cooling on a laptop with all the inherent risks, pipes, radiators and messing about is overkill!</p><p></p><p>As for maximum BTU you could just calculate your stored battery power (its in the system profile). Run software that maxs your computer out and time it till it dies. Then convert this energy 100% to heat. Ignoring light and sound. This would give you the total with a little overhead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowasaki, post: 690568, member: 36098"] If you are doing this just for the sake of doing it then fair enough but IMO it is rather too much work! I bought 5 laptop coolers for the family earlier in the year for about £15 each! they are silent having just one large fan under the laptop and basically squirt the heat out of one side. We wife is never off her laptop using it in bed most of the time and this works perfectly well. I am considering buying a new cooler myself as my new laptop is slightly larger than the cooler but even with the cooler I have I have no problems at all. If you do build it it would make an interesting article but using water cooling on a laptop with all the inherent risks, pipes, radiators and messing about is overkill! As for maximum BTU you could just calculate your stored battery power (its in the system profile). Run software that maxs your computer out and time it till it dies. Then convert this energy 100% to heat. Ignoring light and sound. This would give you the total with a little overhead. [/QUOTE]
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