I am now cooling my overheated laptop with ice and water in ziploc bags

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<p>In several nested layers of course (ice in the innermost bag, surrounded by water), so it doesn't spill and to maximise the ratio of heat gain from the laptop compared to heat gain from other surroundings.</p>

<p>To help maintain balance, on one side, it is supported by a ceramic cup I made in freshman year, and the other a 2/3-depleted paper-tower roll with other loose high-tensile-fibre papers.</p>

<p>I'll have to replenish the water and the ice every few hours of course, but I don't need no fancy water-cooling system! </p>

<p>Remark on this act of homemade-solution genius. :D :D</p>

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<p>Er, is it because your fan is malfunctioning...?</p>

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<p>Yes.</p>

<p>I have to fix it, but my finances aren't in a good state for that. In the time being...</p>

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<p>one word - condensation</p>

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<p>Not having a real problem with that at the moment -- the underside is droplet proof -- I don't think the droplets would get sucked <em>in</em> ...</p>

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<p>impressive. very impressive</p>

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<p>interesting. i blow my laptop, it's also good cardiovascular exercise</p>

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<p>lol I feel your pain; the port into which my AC adapter plug would go into on my laptop (whatever the heck you'd call it) is busted, so I have the power cord plugged in and taped behind my screen so that it keeps getting power. So far so good, though!</p>

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<p>umm...that's not ingenious. You put ice in a bag...shocker.</p>

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<p>No, but I found a way to do it without frying my laptop; also, a way to insulate the rest of the ice from the environment such that most of the heat gain is through the laptop.</p>

<p>It's called hacking. (The original MIT sense of the term -- a simple and elegant fix.) Thermal hacking. Yeahhh</p>

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<p>So speaking of fire hazards...</p>