I wanted to know some recommendations for notebook coolers for my 17"
gateway notebook...I read that the Spire Pacific Breeze was one of the
best...I mainly keep my laptop on my desk..thanks in advance.

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bonerman9669@gmail.com typed on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:19:49 -0700 (PDT):
Are you sure you need one? As I use the free Notebook Hardware Control
(Personal Edition) to monitor the CPU and hard drive tempatures. And
putting my laptop just on a smooth surface will cause the CPU to be
about 150°F and my hard drive to be 120°F. But merely sticking something
underneath the back of the laptop so to allow the airflow to increase
greatly, the CPU drops down to 130°F and the hard drive down to 108°F.

I have a Gateway MX6124 with a Celeron 1.5GHZ CPU with 1GB of RAM. And I
see nothing wrong with these temperatures at all. Cooling it down
further isn't going to extend the life of the laptop IMHO. Nor does it
get hot enough to burn my lap or anything. And the laptop fan runs so
low you can only hear it when the room is dead silent.

And I don't know about the Spire Pacific Breeze, but most of those use
power from the USB port. And being an engineer, that sounds like a
pretty dumb idea to me. As you cause more heat to power the fans to cool
the laptop down. As I think they should have their own supplies. Or if
the draw isn't too bad, use the laptop AC adapter. It isn't hard to make
a circuit inside of the fan unit to automatically reverse the polarity
and adjust for supplies between say 12v to 25v. And then run both the
laptop and the cooler in parallel off of the AC adapter. Just my 2¢. :-)

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Bill

I've got an Antec - works great - gets power from USB port and has another
port so you don't lose the USB connection.
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=75004


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- Bobb - typed on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:41:05 -0400:
Have you ever monitored the CPU and hard drive temperatures with and
without the Antec cooler? Ever try to boast up on the rear of the laptop
to increase natural airflow? It works great on my Gateway MX6124.
Although I don't think it will work with my old Toshiba 2595XDVD laptops
with the vents on the sides vs. the bottom. Also those '99 era Toshiba
laptops run pretty hot. Although all of my 90's Toshiba laptops run very
hot anyway. One from '94 designed without a fan (T1950CS) has been known
to cook itself to death in about 5 years. :-(

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No. I bought it a few years ago.
Without it = hot lap.
With it = cool lap.
So it passed my test.



Ever try to boast up on the rear of the laptop

Speaking from experience, the active coolers can make a big difference. An
older HP laptop of mine, when in use for many hours straight, would get
flaky after about 5 hours - got really hot. I put a couple pieces of wood
beneath it, giving it a good half inch of free space underneath, this
minimally helped. Started using an Antec cooler (two-fan model) and the HP
would run and run and run....

The draw from USB port should not be of any consequence if running the
laptop from AC, unless you need to also use another USB power drawing
device.
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- Bobb - typed on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:41:05 -0400:
Have you ever monitored the CPU and hard drive temperatures with and
without the Antec cooler? Ever try to boast up on the rear of the laptop
to increase natural airflow? It works great on my Gateway MX6124.
Although I don't think it will work with my old Toshiba 2595XDVD laptops
with the vents on the sides vs. the bottom. Also those '99 era Toshiba
laptops run pretty hot. Although all of my 90's Toshiba laptops run very
hot anyway. One from '94 designed without a fan (T1950CS) has been known
to cook itself to death in about 5 years. :-(

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Bill