Notebook Cooler Noir - a PSA About Laptop Coolers
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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498 words · ~2 min read
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I arrived at the scene about 10 minutes after dispatch got the call. It was easy
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enough to determine the cause of death. But the real mystery is why it happened.
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And maybe we could keep it from happening again. I've seen this kind of
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thing before. Sometimes things get rough. They hit the ground, never get up
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again. Open and shut case. But this was
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different. Based on a screw pattern, looks like there might have been a
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struggle. What do you think, Evan? Need
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to look around a bit more. Make yourself useful. Go question the
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owner.
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The suspect claims it was self-defense.
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Look, I didn't mean to. Things got heated. I had to protect myself.
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And call me crazy, but I believe there's more to it than
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that. The Vic was young, wellb built,
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fast, and powerful. A looker, too. This
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was a gaming notebook with all the latest pies. A damn shame. Looking on
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the bottom, I could see clear as day. The plastic had melted and warped. High
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performance comes at a cost, after all. Mobile processes can hit 80°. Pair it
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with a discrete GPU, but he has to go somewhere.
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And finally,
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so here's what happened. See, the suspect was playing a game of Bioshock
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in his chair. And the heat from the notebook made him uncomfortable, and the
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strain in his neck from looking down for so long caused him to try to balance the
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notebook on his knee. And
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then, so it was fallen.
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Nah, this notebook was still running when it hit the ground. But that didn't
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last for long. Now it was already dying.
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What do you notice about the room? Uh, it's warm. Like you left the heater on
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full blast.
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That combined with a high performance CPU running hot, you got a recipe for a
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long and premature death. Now, this notebook is going to
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meet its maker sooner or later. Fall.
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If he had a notebook cooler, he could have raised the notebook to a more comfortable height and kept the hot
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surface away from his skin. The 180 mm
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fan would have kept it from overheating all the time. This could have been
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prevented. Why didn't you use a cooler? I didn't know. I didn't know coolers
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existed. You do now. Book them, Sam. I'd like to
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thank you guys for putting up with my bad acting and my bad accent. And I'd
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also like to thank Cooler Master for sponsoring this fun little PSA about the
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benefits of notebook coolers featuring their SF17. I hope you guys like this
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video. Give it a thumbs up if you want to see more just like it. And give it a big old thumbs down if you think it just
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plain sucked and you never want to see anything like it ever again. Oh yeah,
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and as always, don't forget to subscribe.