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Cooling Pad for M17x
I recently purchased an Alienware M17x with an i7-2630QM and a 6870M. I am wondering what kind of cooling I will need in order to keep the heat at a good temperature for the laptop. I was looking at http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/Laptop_Notebook_Accessories/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=A4722576 since it's only $20 and includes a surge protector. I do plan to be playing games at the highest settings my laptop can handle, but I'm not sure exactly how much cooling I need. Would something like this suffice or should I look for other cooling pads?
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It depends a lot on the laptop. My old HP got hot enough to toast bread on if you just started a game like CIV IV or HoM 5 on it. My current VAIO on the other hand is just a few degrees over room temperature and can nicely sit in the lap during any game.
My advice is that you try it first and feel how hot it gets.
There are loads of coolers, some are non electrical and you put them in the freezer between gaming (yea, really), others are just coolers, surge protectors or docking units as well.
The last are of course the best ones, you plug them to a monitor, a keyboard (optional of course) and a real mouse and then dock your laptop to it whenever you are home, but then you easily have the mobility of a laptop but the large screen of a desktop.
here is a gaming laptop grade heatsink. not very portable tho:D
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UC0&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=anvil+sale&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1280&bih=707&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=4289710917229762173&sa=X&ei=o6kjTobmB4TPgAfCpcC-Cw&ved=0CE0Q8wIwAA