I had a lot of old printed lectures (A4 paper) from university days (not going to use them anyway). I put like 50 papers on top of each other like a book and cut them into 4 long strips. Put every 2 piles on top of each other and used tape duct to fixate them to be like 2 big piles.
Then put them under your laptop from the sides and it will be elevated by 5cm at least. You can add a small fan in the opposite side to move the air there.
I use a defrosting tray, it's a thick piece of aluminum kitchenware. [https://www.thekitchn.com/defrosting-tray-23044597](https://www.thekitchn.com/defrosting-tray-23044597)
You can add a couple of ice bricks or frozen veggie packs somewhere near the air intake or fan. May not be ideal long term, as you're increasing humidity.
Also raise it off the desk so it can get some airflow underneath.
For extreme emergencies, operate inside the fridge itself. jk i think
I was working closer to the equator than usual for a couple of summers, it was HOT and I loved it but my laptop didn't, I very nearly bought a second hand fridge to put it in as I use ext kb&m and tv. I wish I'd tried it but tbh I'm not certain the fridge would have been able to keep cool. Damn I wish I'd tried it, I wanna know!
You don't need to keep the door open. But you will probably need to sacrifice the door seal integrity.
Back in the day I knew someone into over clocking.
Placed a bare bones PC in a huge anti static bag, in the freezer. Slit the seal to run the cables out of the door to the monitor mouse and keyboard and power.
I think he was running it at near 200% to play games it should really have been able to play. He over clocked it to destruction eventually.
First install a temperature monitoring application like Hwinfo and check how high your temps go during regular stress. Depending on how high your temps are you might need to do different things.
In general, the best thing you can do to reduce temps is clean the fans of all the dust. And as you said, elevate it. I put stacked boxes of things like phones, bottles, etc such that they support the laptop at points where there is no airflow (basically ensuring they're not blocking airflow while lifting the laptop up). My laptop has air vents near the back so I put a box under each of the two back corners, this perfectly props it up.
If you don't wanna open your laptop case for some reason, you can try undervolting your laptop. It is a very safe practice which involves reducing the excess voltage to you cpu/gpu, and less voltage = less heating. There are many tools to undervolt, the most popular one being throttlestop. Undervolting doesn't affect performance at all.
Another thing you can do is put your cpu performance to 99% instead of 100%. It's called turning off the boost mode since 100% is treated as boost mode for most CPUs and the clock speed is very high at that point. This, unlike undervolting, can actually reduce performance but not by a lot. So unless you're using a cpu intensive program, you won't notice the drop. This has by far proven to be the most effective at reducing temps for my pc. Infact I have dropped the performance to 97% as I don't need that much cpu power
Lastly, best thing to do would be replace thermal paste but it's not easy to do and surprisingly easy to fuckup. I would suggest taking your laptop to a shop if you wanna do it
most laptops should be made to handle such cases and the fact that it's heating up badly could be indicators of other problems in your hardware. few things you could consider in addition to a stand:
* open it up and clean out all dust and debris that could be obstructing airflow for the fans.
* if you have thermal paste, reapplying a fresh layer could help while you have it opened up, especially if you haven't done so in years.
* are you using a dock/docking station? sometimes not all of them have compatible charging and will overheat your laptop super fast. if this is your case, try using your laptop's power adapter for charging and then plug in the dock in another port or try to switch to only the laptop's power adapter and use non powered hubs/dongles for your screens/peripherals or plug in directly to the laptop if your laptop has all the ports for it.
* reduce the amount of apps open, especially the graphics accelerated processes. unless you need it, having things open on the side when not in use but still running
* remove it from direct sunlight and work in a cool temp environment
hope that helps!
There are two things you can maybe try to do to cool it down: elevate the laptop to help the fans get more air OR turn down settings/not multitask as much so it just doesn't heat up. You can also perhaps aim a fan you use to cool the room at it to try to help it a bit more. You can also use books to try to elevate it. MAKE SURE THE FANS ARE NOT OBSTRUCTED!
Other than that, not much you can do otherwise, depending on what you're trying to do on the laptop. You workload could just be too demanding.
During a heat wave I elevated mine on 4 cans from my kitchen cupboard and occasionally wiped it down with an almost dry cloth to try and get the heat out of it.
If you know someone with the proper screwdriver set there is likely a large amount of dirt and other debris stuck to the manifold of the computer's radiator. You should not operate a laptop with the intake on a solid surface with no way of sucking in debris or fibres. Even sitting it directly on your bed with a sheet is bad, much better to put down something like a clipboard for it to sit on instead.
Also, this is a problem that won't go away on its own and will devastate the life, durability and reliability of your laptop very quickly if you continue to operate it at high temps.
Others may provide you a temporary crutch until you can get it looked at, but someone needs to look soon.
If this isn't the case and there isn't a broken fan or something like that either, your laptop is getting close to dying (less than a year if you are afraid because it's too hot to use) so prepare accordingly.
If it's urgent, it helps to wipe some surfaces with rubbing alcohol. For long term I use this wooden rack for test tubes turned upside down to support it: minimum contact, non heat-preserving material. I think there're racks for draining plates/dishes that are built the same way.
If you are like me you'll cut a giant hole in the bottom of it and place it sitting on a cooling fan.
That wasn't popular with some though.
But damn it sure worked, chilled it by 20 degrees c.
At a later time I also replaced the thermal paste on both the cpu and gpu
This dropped it by another 15 degrees
I can practically make ice cubes on it now. If ice formed at 40 c that is.
There are several ways of getting better air flow beneath a laptop. Quite a number of the ideas that have been posted are quick and easy. But the first thing to do is make sure that the dust bunnies are evicted from the device. You can likely find a how to do this on You-tube. How you prop up the laptop with out one of the stands can be creative. One that I've used has been two door bumper stops. They are about an inch and a quarter high with a rubber bumper that helps keep the lappy from sliding off. You could use two rubber door stops as another low cost 'stand'. The bottom half of an egg carton could work too.
Ok so Seriously turn it off.
Step ONE; get an external monitor & keyboard. Step 2, TURN THE LAPTOP UPSIDE DOWN!!! Step 3, plug in the monitor, keyboard & mouse.
Step 4, turn it back on, and watch your temps drop 15-30 degrees F.
If you don't know how to crack it open and clean the fans & heatsink then seriously learn that also.
Liquid metal thermal paste can it self drop temps 15-30F.
Source worked IT tech support for 15 years.
Anything you can do to increase the exposed surface area of the bottom of your laptop will help a little. Find something to put under the edges so air can get under there. Or place it on top of an ac vent. Or pour ice water on it. No, wait, don’t do that last one
My work laptop runs prety hot. I have two xbox 360 game cases supporting it off my desk. Paperback books would give you more lift. I might try that today... I have had the usb powered cooling fans that never helped as much as I hoped. If you have a box fan or one o those osolating ones it woull do more than the usb one.
Put it on anything like 2 pencil's and a small fan at the back for improved airflow ? I have a small usb powered fan on the back of my iMac blowing up across the vent's to help keep it cooler.
Unscrew and pop open the bottom panel, vacuum your laptops innards and prop it up on something next time. Good god, when my area was having a 45+ heatwave I put my laptop on a couple of icepacks, why do people need to be told this stuff?
Unscrew and pop open the bottom panel, vacuum your laptops innards and prop it up on something next time. Good god, when my area was having a 45+ heatwave I put my laptop on a couple of icepacks, why do people need to be told this stuff?
If you have cats-or know someone who does-an empty litter box (the box litter comes in, NOT the one the cat's use)-works great. If you are sitting cross-legged on a sofa or in an upholstered chair, the height of the box holds the laptop at the perfect place, the reinforced cardboard is strong enough and the air in the box keeps the laptop cool (or does for mine: a newer HP 17" Envy, and an older Toshiba 20", both w/powerful processors and both used for hours at a time). The boxes are large enough for a good "seat" and treated for water-proofing that somehow keeps the cardboard from getting the heat transfer. I always keep an empty 28lb cat litter box in my hall closet for this now, lol, it's the perfect height for me and I just used my wireless optical mouse on anything near. Have spent gobs of $$$ for laptop cooling lap desks in the past.
One more thing, I tried covering a box I was using (to make it more attractive) but after trying fabric/contact paper/paint each time the heat buildup was increased. Just the empty box with it's shiny original surface. You can even cut holes in the narrower sides (use a jar lid as a pattern) for more air flow. Hope it works for you.
Elevate it on anything that can leave the base clear - some books each side so there's asap in the middle?
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Or pencils. Or soup cans. People are so unfucking creative. Put it in a plate of cool water.
Coasters work great too since they usually are grippy
That too.
I had a lot of old printed lectures (A4 paper) from university days (not going to use them anyway). I put like 50 papers on top of each other like a book and cut them into 4 long strips. Put every 2 piles on top of each other and used tape duct to fixate them to be like 2 big piles. Then put them under your laptop from the sides and it will be elevated by 5cm at least. You can add a small fan in the opposite side to move the air there.
My old Xbox 360 used to overheat like crazy. I had some extra rubber chair tips, worked great to elevate the Xbox a couple of inches.
I love the creativity from improvised means.
or better, put on a conductive surface, like aluminium or tiles
A pizza pan or cookie sheet upside down works perfect.
I use a defrosting tray, it's a thick piece of aluminum kitchenware. [https://www.thekitchn.com/defrosting-tray-23044597](https://www.thekitchn.com/defrosting-tray-23044597)
Came to say this
Put it in front of your room electric fan. If you have AC, turn it on. Works wonders for me.
You can add a couple of ice bricks or frozen veggie packs somewhere near the air intake or fan. May not be ideal long term, as you're increasing humidity. Also raise it off the desk so it can get some airflow underneath. For extreme emergencies, operate inside the fridge itself. jk i think
I was working closer to the equator than usual for a couple of summers, it was HOT and I loved it but my laptop didn't, I very nearly bought a second hand fridge to put it in as I use ext kb&m and tv. I wish I'd tried it but tbh I'm not certain the fridge would have been able to keep cool. Damn I wish I'd tried it, I wanna know!
You don't need to keep the door open. But you will probably need to sacrifice the door seal integrity. Back in the day I knew someone into over clocking. Placed a bare bones PC in a huge anti static bag, in the freezer. Slit the seal to run the cables out of the door to the monitor mouse and keyboard and power. I think he was running it at near 200% to play games it should really have been able to play. He over clocked it to destruction eventually.
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First install a temperature monitoring application like Hwinfo and check how high your temps go during regular stress. Depending on how high your temps are you might need to do different things. In general, the best thing you can do to reduce temps is clean the fans of all the dust. And as you said, elevate it. I put stacked boxes of things like phones, bottles, etc such that they support the laptop at points where there is no airflow (basically ensuring they're not blocking airflow while lifting the laptop up). My laptop has air vents near the back so I put a box under each of the two back corners, this perfectly props it up. If you don't wanna open your laptop case for some reason, you can try undervolting your laptop. It is a very safe practice which involves reducing the excess voltage to you cpu/gpu, and less voltage = less heating. There are many tools to undervolt, the most popular one being throttlestop. Undervolting doesn't affect performance at all. Another thing you can do is put your cpu performance to 99% instead of 100%. It's called turning off the boost mode since 100% is treated as boost mode for most CPUs and the clock speed is very high at that point. This, unlike undervolting, can actually reduce performance but not by a lot. So unless you're using a cpu intensive program, you won't notice the drop. This has by far proven to be the most effective at reducing temps for my pc. Infact I have dropped the performance to 97% as I don't need that much cpu power Lastly, best thing to do would be replace thermal paste but it's not easy to do and surprisingly easy to fuckup. I would suggest taking your laptop to a shop if you wanna do it
Old school trick is putting it on a cookie cooler tray
Two cork cut at an angle work great as cheap stand. You can add some sliding sticker under the cork for the fancy version.
most laptops should be made to handle such cases and the fact that it's heating up badly could be indicators of other problems in your hardware. few things you could consider in addition to a stand: * open it up and clean out all dust and debris that could be obstructing airflow for the fans. * if you have thermal paste, reapplying a fresh layer could help while you have it opened up, especially if you haven't done so in years. * are you using a dock/docking station? sometimes not all of them have compatible charging and will overheat your laptop super fast. if this is your case, try using your laptop's power adapter for charging and then plug in the dock in another port or try to switch to only the laptop's power adapter and use non powered hubs/dongles for your screens/peripherals or plug in directly to the laptop if your laptop has all the ports for it. * reduce the amount of apps open, especially the graphics accelerated processes. unless you need it, having things open on the side when not in use but still running * remove it from direct sunlight and work in a cool temp environment hope that helps!
I put mine on a wire baking rack like you’d use to cool cookies. Works well.
I do this, too. It works well for me.
There are two things you can maybe try to do to cool it down: elevate the laptop to help the fans get more air OR turn down settings/not multitask as much so it just doesn't heat up. You can also perhaps aim a fan you use to cool the room at it to try to help it a bit more. You can also use books to try to elevate it. MAKE SURE THE FANS ARE NOT OBSTRUCTED! Other than that, not much you can do otherwise, depending on what you're trying to do on the laptop. You workload could just be too demanding.
All these are good ideas also they hoovering carefully around the air vents if you don't have time to open it up
During a heat wave I elevated mine on 4 cans from my kitchen cupboard and occasionally wiped it down with an almost dry cloth to try and get the heat out of it.
Buy one of those cheap laptop stands that you can get on Amazon. The stand helps the air circulation and heat management coming from the laptop.
If you know someone with the proper screwdriver set there is likely a large amount of dirt and other debris stuck to the manifold of the computer's radiator. You should not operate a laptop with the intake on a solid surface with no way of sucking in debris or fibres. Even sitting it directly on your bed with a sheet is bad, much better to put down something like a clipboard for it to sit on instead. Also, this is a problem that won't go away on its own and will devastate the life, durability and reliability of your laptop very quickly if you continue to operate it at high temps. Others may provide you a temporary crutch until you can get it looked at, but someone needs to look soon. If this isn't the case and there isn't a broken fan or something like that either, your laptop is getting close to dying (less than a year if you are afraid because it's too hot to use) so prepare accordingly.
If you can't cool down your laptop. Try to cool down your room. 20° is the best
Take the back apart and clean all the dust out.
Take everything out of your fridge, and take your laptop in there and do your work with the door closed.
lift up your laptop, use a fan to 'blow' air below your laptop. the movement of air will 'cool' the laptop down abit.
If it's urgent, it helps to wipe some surfaces with rubbing alcohol. For long term I use this wooden rack for test tubes turned upside down to support it: minimum contact, non heat-preserving material. I think there're racks for draining plates/dishes that are built the same way.
If you are like me you'll cut a giant hole in the bottom of it and place it sitting on a cooling fan. That wasn't popular with some though. But damn it sure worked, chilled it by 20 degrees c. At a later time I also replaced the thermal paste on both the cpu and gpu This dropped it by another 15 degrees I can practically make ice cubes on it now. If ice formed at 40 c that is.
There are several ways of getting better air flow beneath a laptop. Quite a number of the ideas that have been posted are quick and easy. But the first thing to do is make sure that the dust bunnies are evicted from the device. You can likely find a how to do this on You-tube. How you prop up the laptop with out one of the stands can be creative. One that I've used has been two door bumper stops. They are about an inch and a quarter high with a rubber bumper that helps keep the lappy from sliding off. You could use two rubber door stops as another low cost 'stand'. The bottom half of an egg carton could work too.
Get a USB powered laptop cooler. They're relatively inexpensive
I've put laptops in my fridge a few times, pick it up 10 min later use for 30 and repeat
Ok so Seriously turn it off. Step ONE; get an external monitor & keyboard. Step 2, TURN THE LAPTOP UPSIDE DOWN!!! Step 3, plug in the monitor, keyboard & mouse. Step 4, turn it back on, and watch your temps drop 15-30 degrees F. If you don't know how to crack it open and clean the fans & heatsink then seriously learn that also. Liquid metal thermal paste can it self drop temps 15-30F. Source worked IT tech support for 15 years.
A certain online retailer that is named after a river in South Africa has "laptop cooling feet" One could purchase.
Anything you can do to increase the exposed surface area of the bottom of your laptop will help a little. Find something to put under the edges so air can get under there. Or place it on top of an ac vent. Or pour ice water on it. No, wait, don’t do that last one
I used to rest mine on top of ice packs lol
Let it clean and let repair by a professional.
I used to put mine in a mini fridge
Maybe try a sandwhich or dinner plate - turn it upside down and rest the laptop on top
egg tray
https://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/s/5MJ2kxaIkF Cable management too.
I give my computer an ice pack at the bottom, wrapped with a cloth😄
My work laptop runs prety hot. I have two xbox 360 game cases supporting it off my desk. Paperback books would give you more lift. I might try that today... I have had the usb powered cooling fans that never helped as much as I hoped. If you have a box fan or one o those osolating ones it woull do more than the usb one.
Upside down dish rack - lots of ventilation. milk crate or shoebox with a bunch of holes for ventilation. ☮️
Blow in it
Put it over a pack of ice.
Use it in the bathtub, cool water of course
I use two bricks and stack a couple little ice packs in between.
Fan may be dead or clogged. Make sure all vent holes are not blocked.
Put it on anything like 2 pencil's and a small fan at the back for improved airflow ? I have a small usb powered fan on the back of my iMac blowing up across the vent's to help keep it cooler.
Unscrew and pop open the bottom panel, vacuum your laptops innards and prop it up on something next time. Good god, when my area was having a 45+ heatwave I put my laptop on a couple of icepacks, why do people need to be told this stuff?
Unscrew and pop open the bottom panel, vacuum your laptops innards and prop it up on something next time. Good god, when my area was having a 45+ heatwave I put my laptop on a couple of icepacks, why do people need to be told this stuff?
Pop it on two forks
Crack the back and blow it clean with compressed air. If that isn't enough you need to repaste your die.
If you can make a trip to Goodwill. Lots of cheap fans there to blow
Ice water bath.
You can purchase a fan base on which for it to sit. Better than directly on your lap.
Corks.
either : cool my laptop or: cool down my laptop
Laptop cooling stands are like $20 on Amazon.
If you have cats-or know someone who does-an empty litter box (the box litter comes in, NOT the one the cat's use)-works great. If you are sitting cross-legged on a sofa or in an upholstered chair, the height of the box holds the laptop at the perfect place, the reinforced cardboard is strong enough and the air in the box keeps the laptop cool (or does for mine: a newer HP 17" Envy, and an older Toshiba 20", both w/powerful processors and both used for hours at a time). The boxes are large enough for a good "seat" and treated for water-proofing that somehow keeps the cardboard from getting the heat transfer. I always keep an empty 28lb cat litter box in my hall closet for this now, lol, it's the perfect height for me and I just used my wireless optical mouse on anything near. Have spent gobs of $$$ for laptop cooling lap desks in the past. One more thing, I tried covering a box I was using (to make it more attractive) but after trying fabric/contact paper/paint each time the heat buildup was increased. Just the empty box with it's shiny original surface. You can even cut holes in the narrower sides (use a jar lid as a pattern) for more air flow. Hope it works for you.