DIY laptop cooler, icepacks?

[Syndrome]

You can purchase dry ice at walmart, they might ID you as its very very fun to 'experiment' with.

It will keep in your freezer fairly well.

[Dbz Hertz]

You can purchase dry ice at walmart, they might ID you as its very very fun to 'experiment' with.

It will keep in your freezer fairly well.

Awesome. I'll be buying some for sure. Nice to know Walmart has it.

[Dbz Hertz]

I've done some research on dry ice and one thing concerns me. I read that you want to make sure you use it it a well ventilated area to prevent CO2 imbalance and potential CO2 poisoning.

I'm planning on being in my basement, which is finished at about 700 sq. feet. Anyone know just how ventilated my room needs to be?

I don't want my tombstone to read, "Died playing Diablo III".

[funky monk]

If you're choking on carbon dioxide, you'd notice. The body regulates how much you need to breathe based on how much carbon dioxide is in your blood, hence why shallow water blackout can be a problem. If there's an inbalence caused by carbon dioxide then you'd know pretty quickly.

Try breathing in the air left in the bottom of a coke bottle and you'll understand.

[azn4lif3s]

The risk to reward factor does not look to good for this experiment haha.

Sent from my DROID RAZR

[hizzaah]

Maybe you could do something like this..?
Dell XPS M1330 Notebook watercooling MOD, the little How to - YouTube

[Dbz Hertz]

That's really cool. I always wondered how hard it would be to water cool a laptop. The problem I kept thinking about was how to mount a water block to a motherboard with no mounting holes. I guess the answer is to rig something that lines up with some screw hole somewhere, and thermal paste it together.

[funky monk]

That's really cool. I always wondered how hard it would be to water cool a laptop. The problem I kept thinking about was how to mount a water block to a motherboard with no mounting holes. I guess the answer is to rig something that lines up with some screw hole somewhere, and thermal paste it together.

What most people have done is soldered a copper loop to the existing heatsink.

[hizzaah]

Yeah, that would be the best way to do it. That way you could maintain the existing cooling to keep the laptop portable. And what laptop are you using? If you're interested in persuing this water cooling, maybe we could help you draw up a route for the copper. Post up a pic of the cooling system..