Long term cooling solutions for the Macbook Pro?

[Lunorian]

I have a Macbook Pro early-2015 Retina 13" Model running Windows 10 Pro. I've noticed it often gets hot and have tried quite a few things to get it to cool down.

 

Suggestions I'm not open to:

• Sell and buy a different computer.
• Reduce your workload (sorry but web development IDEs and such put heavy load on my system and are needed for my college courses).

Things I've tried:

1. Running the fans at max: Sadly, even with the fans maxed the CPU cannot cope with the temperature under maximum load on the CPU. So running the fans faster is not a solution.
2. Due to Apple's weird "Design" choices traditional cooling pads and these new "fan vacuums" I've heard about do not help any.
3. I successfully undervolted the CPU, Cache, and GPU by -50.8mV. I also disabled turbo-boost. This reduced the temperature significantly where it's no longer uncomfortable to use the system for a long period of time due to heatups. With the help of the fans, under normal load, the computer now averages between 45 degrees C and 65 degrees C. So the problem is starting to get resolved. So this is better but can it be great. I'm definitely a fan of undervolting now.
4. I plan to buy thermal paste or liquid metal in hopes of further reducing the temperature. Being a 2015 computer it's quite possible that the factory paste has dried up and is no longer useful.

Starting the discussion:

With these common suggestions out of the way - lets start the discussion of more exotic and extreme ways of cooling the system. It kinda breaks the whole mac look and feel but I'm open to pretty much anything at this point to get the issue resolved.

1. Take apart the Macbook and put it inside a custom case with water cooling setup in a way where it won't harm the components due to water damage.
2. Take apart the Macbook and put it inside a custom case (larger) with proper heatsinks, etc.
3. Custom case that puts the components inside mineral oil? Like I said I'm desperate and will try anything.
4. Any other suggestions the community has?

 

I'm looking forward to all the crazy ideas the community can come up with. Thanks in advance

 

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[DrMacintosh]

The 2015 Models have significantly worse cooling compared to the 2016 models despite having more mass to remove heat through, your best option it to get new thermal paste or to use Liquid metal. Those are the only ways you are going to lower temps in any way. 

 

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

If you must keep your ShitBook Amateur, I'd recommend liquid metal

[Rainbow Dash]

You could try a laptop cooling pad.

[Arika]

when you say "gets hot" do you mean hot to the touch? 

 

65c isn't that hot for a laptop processor

[Dschijn]

I had the same problem with my MBP 15" in the past. What I did:

- raise the MB a bit so fresh air will be underneath it (laptop cooling pads will not work, they will just cool the case and not the CPU)

- lower the voltage with Intel XTU

- set the max turbo to 3GHz

Things I considered but never did:

- apply better thermal paste or even liquid metal

- buy a 2nd bottom case part and drill holes into it where the fans suck in fresh air

[Froody129]

Drill holes under it and use a cooling pad to force air into the chassis

 

Inelegant solution but it should work