Mineral oil Cooling laptop?

[DefeatedBroom74]

I am thinking about cooling my laptop this way. I am wondering if I will gain any performance from this. And if I should invest into a radiator to cool the oil

[_I_]

if hte laptop has a ssd it could be ok, but minearl oil still needs good flow, laptops have very poor cooling to begin with

if hte laptop uses a hdd, mineral oil will kill it

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by Jolly 'Ol Zelso:

I am thinking about cooling my laptop this way. I am wondering if I will gain any performance from this. And if I should invest into a radiator to cool the oil

If you want more performance, sell your lappy and buy a desktop.
liquid cooling a laptop is fraught with risk and will most likely leave you in tears and without a laptop should anything go wrong.

[The Brown Hornet]

If you leave your laptop on balanced power it shouldn't overheat at all, if you got to run it at maximum performance then it's not a good laptop to start with.

[Chompman]

Buy a decent laptop cooler and you will be set.

[_I_]

just get a laptop cooling pad

hdds drives have moving parts inside, the oil will slow or stop the platter from spining

[rotNdude]

I don't like typing in a puddle of oil let alone trying to deal with oil on the screen. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? A disassembled unit with just the motherboard in oil?

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

Just use baby oil.

Your laptop will be as good as new every day.

Or Oil of Ulay, for that smooth finish.

As for laptop cooling pads, you want to be careful

The laptops designer has taken into consideration the airflow, you may disrupt that, is there even any vents underneath? You could just be BLOWING money away over closed plastic.

You are better off repadding (DO NOT USE PASTE on a laptop regardless of what people say), and air blowing it out (careful since these also generate static).

You can replace the processor with a lower TDP version for better thermals. Intel is a better choice here for a greater selection of TDP profiles in various processors.

You can add spider copper to the heat pipes for extra surface area. Depends on laptop design of course.

If you are going to air cool underneath with a pad, you want to modify the plastic case underneath, keep in mind, airflow. Not just blast it all over, you want a good airflow channel. This is why GPU's are next to the exit fan, they are the hottest in the board.

You could add a higher CFM fan to the heatsink to replace the lower CFM one.

You could make a DIY sucking betty, that sucks the hot air out with a spare PC case fan.

Many ways of modding laptop cooling.

If your laptop is getting hot, time to clean it out inside and repad probably. You should use pads because you will get slight movement on the frame inside, you may not think it, but it can happen, with paste, that will scratch the die of the chips if the copper moves, regardless of them being clamped down (clamps also have usually tension spreaders).

ASUS now are terrible to modify (ever since the 2012 G60 - which was a joy to modify).