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Why don't you have cooling fans blowing directly on the CPU?

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4 minutes ago, Hensen Juang said:

instead of sitting directly on top of the CPU/GPU and dissipating heat directly from the copper plate?

laptop thickness is typing... 

and if you wanted to keep the same thickness you would have to make the fans thinner which would introduce airplane taking off levels of noise

 

Also heat pipes are very good at moving heat so the fans can prioritise thickness instead of being close to the heat pipes/copper cold plate

In almost all of the laptops I have seen so far, why do the fans sit far away from the CPU/GPU, and just cool the copper heat pipe from all the way there, instead of sitting directly on top of the CPU/GPU and dissipating heat directly from the copper plate? Shouldn't this improve cooling performance?

Microsoft owns my soul.

 

Also, Dell is evil, but HP kinda nice.

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Disapating heat is all about surface area and, thermal differences and extraction of the exchanged heat.

 

A plate of copper has little surface area and does basically nothing. A fan blowing on it might as well be you blowing air on it then.

 

Simply put it could MAYBE do half a degree difference but it would require a weird fan setupt hat would influence airflow in a negative way

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Because blowing air directly on the CPU die is insufficient as air is a terrible heat conductor vs copper or aluminium. 

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4 minutes ago, Hensen Juang said:

instead of sitting directly on top of the CPU/GPU and dissipating heat directly from the copper plate?

laptop thickness is typing... 

and if you wanted to keep the same thickness you would have to make the fans thinner which would introduce airplane taking off levels of noise

 

Also heat pipes are very good at moving heat so the fans can prioritise thickness instead of being close to the heat pipes/copper cold plate

Message me on discord (bread8669) for more help 

 

Current parts list

CPU: R5 5600 CPU Cooler: Stock

Mobo: Asrock B550M-ITX/ac

RAM: Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200mhz Cl16

SSD: P5 Plus 500GB Secondary SSD: Kingston A400 960GB

GPU: MSI RTX 3060 Gaming X

Fans: 1x Noctua NF-P12 Redux, 1x Arctic P12, 1x Corsair LL120

PSU: NZXT SP-650M SFX-L PSU from H1

Monitor: Samsung WQHD 34 inch and 43 inch TV

Mouse: Logitech G203

Keyboard: Rii membrane keyboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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