YHK - yet another hacker news clone

So you say that you didn't notice the laptop temperature getting any lower, but this isn't too surprising to me, since this thing is going to be highly thermally limited.

I suspect that your setup is doing something, but the thing it's doing is allowing your laptop to sustain a certain performance level for longer. So what I would look at is some performance metric like e.g. peakflops() in a loop, or a video game FPS counter, and compare with and without the external fans.

> I picked the locations of the fans and their supports very carefully, and it’s clear that the intakes aren’t blocked.

Just double checking: Did you put the fans in the correct orientation and on the intakes instead of the exits?

How feasible would it be for laptop manufacturers to add a slot in a laptop's underside cover to the CPU's heat pipe, and adjust the heat pipe's shape at this location? This would allow a dock to insert its own heat pipe through it, and dissipate the heat with larger fans and/or larger heat sink.

We need way more of this content! Things that were tried and failed. I have spent so many head-scratching hours on problem solution approaches that others likely already tried and failed. In science we only celebrate success. Even then it is typically poorly documented.

Aren't those laptops designed to boost until it hits the max temp ? OP should test performance before and after.

Raising it is the most important part. After that, if you can pop the bottom off while it's running, and swapping out the thermal paste are my go-to.

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Totally noob question: Couldn't the problem just be that the laptop body not conducting heat so much? I think it'd be worth to try it with a macbook.