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Idea for a watercooled laptop disclosure. (Would this work?)

Hello, I have a Lenovo Y530 and I'm looking to keep the CPU more cooler while gaming at home. 

I've had two ideas that could *possilbly* work *in theory*

I was thinking of 3D printing a laptop tower (placing a laptop in a case and covering it) that would hold the laptop horizontally.

The cooling would come from a waterbed solution or something that can be cooled with a fan on the laptop tower and rest on the bottom of the laptop.

I was also thinking of 3D printing a laptop cooling base slot that would have the laptop being placed securely on the plate (making it locked onto the plate)

and then adding some M E G A fans traditionally used on desktops to the bottom and sides of the laptop. 

Here's the question, Would one of these ideas work? and if one of them works, is it worth it?

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the second idea would not work bc your jsut pushing air towrds the allready crappy lapto fans, if you do wanna see a diffrence do the water colling idea, and it hould work?

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If you were crazy enough, you could try to make something like a distrobution plate that connects to an external rad. This is a very bad idea and would greatly reduce the portability of your laptop though

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1 hour ago, Sychic said:

If you were crazy enough, you could try to make something like a distrobution plate that connects to an external rad. This is a very bad idea and would greatly reduce the portability of your laptop though

I was thinking more of a connectable base that you can slot your laptop into.

Any other ideas?

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What if I were to add the fans directly under the smaller fans (just to test)

Would it help dissipate the heat into the air faster?

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1 hour ago, LanceG said:

What if I were to add the fans directly under the smaller fans (just to test)

Would it help dissipate the heat into the air faster?

I think the thing is that pushing more air into a fan doesn't make it work better. Those laptop fans are already probably pretty bad.


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Could you use a small heat exchanger or hvac to cool the air to sub ambient before entering the laptop? Though I guess the noise, power consumption and expense of this would be prohibitive! Thought it would be cool to see it

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