Embraco Brings Refrigeration To Gamings Notebooks

With the popularity of notebooks continuing to rise it's no wonder a number of gamers are moving over to mobile platforms to game on the go. One of the most popular gaming notebooks is by far the Dell M1710, which we have used in reviews a number of times here on Legit Reviews. The Dell M1710 always got warm while gaming, but now that Intel has released the Core 2 Extreme Mobile Processor X7800 Processor and has embraced overclocking on notebooks, things have gotten a bit too hot when overclocked. With processors 'throttling' while overclocked, something needed to be done, so Intel and Embraco teamed up to come up with a cooling solution that would prevent throttling and allow for even higher clock frequencies. More...

Compal includes laptop lid cooling

COMPAL WAS SHOWING off one of those technologies that many have waited for for a decade or so, laptop screen based cooling. Instead of a small jet engine blowing over heatpipes and heat sinks, Compal is using the back of the screen as a radiator.

They call it lid cooling, and it works like this. In a normal laptop, the heatpipes over the CPU pull off energy and transfer it to a heatsink. A fan then sucks in air and blows it at high speed over the heatsink. As laptops get thinner and hotter, this means higher speed air, less efficient heatsinks, and in general, lots of noise. It also takes power to move that air, so it drains battery life in addition to being annoying.

Compal, as you can see above, has a much better solution. The heatpipe pulls the energy off, and that is routed through the hinge and on to a big aluminum or carbon plate that backs the screen. The lid looks like any other, just a normal laptop, and under full load, feels a little warmer. More...