laptop very hot and noisy

[Alejandro Imass]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > I run 10-current on Compaq 6715s.
>> > It's very hot and noisy. If I boot
[..]

> I didn't even know they put fluid heatsinks in laptop.
> I thought this was something from IBM cutting edge power6
> chips.
>

Yeah I didn't know either until it fried my CPU. Many laptop heatsinks
use "heat pipes":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe

The hole will probably be too little to notice but in my case I
noticed some oxidation/stain around the hole which gave it away.

-- 
Alejandro

> So I might need to pull the laptop apart..
> I'm just not sure I could put it back
> together...
>
> Thanks anyway
>
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