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Both of the fans broke on my 6 year old laptop simultaneously, Good thing I just happened to have large scraps of aluminum to heat sink until the fans arrive. (thelemmy.club)
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There are another 4 blocks under the laptop to further dissipate heat. Off camera, there is a large box fan and a ceiling fan keeping it from thermal death. Sometimes, keeping scrap can help immensely.

I just need one day of web browsing at 80 C to keep it alive (I hope).

ETA: the acutual pic

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[–] 2 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I vaguely remember someone experimenting with a large block of copper as a heat sink to compare it with actively cooled heat sinks. It worked really well and for quite a long time.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm getting about -5 degrees from this. It's enough to web browse, but I don't want to tank the GPU

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Last time I had critical cooling failures I opened the casing up entirely and used some big fans to blow on it, but that was a very long time ago when things were very big (and not a laptop).

    If you can remove the upper or lower parts of the laptop shell you might even be able to rest the actual internal heatsink on one of those blocks.

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