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| Review: Arctic Cooling NC - Notebook Cooler |
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| Written by Will Smith - Posted on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:09 | ||||||||||
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Introduction Notebook coolers aren't the kind of accessories that everybody are interested in. However, they can be an essential tool for cooling notebooks, especially those that produce excessive heat. Any decease in the overall operating temperature is a bonus, no matter how small.
Arctic Cooling are already pretty well known for their CPU coolers, but now it seems that they're expanding their product catalogue to include headsets, mice, keyboards and other accessories. For those who are not familiar with Arctic Cooling or their products, here's a quick blurb taken from their website ...
I was once told of a story about a friend who wasn't very tech savvy. She had an aging laptop that she used for photoshop (she's a photographer). Everytime she did some photoshop work, the laptop's temperature would skyrocket after about an hour's use, high enough to slightly burn her finger and crash her laptop. I told her to get a notebook or laptop cooler from a local store and see if that helped. She took my advice and bought herself an unbranded notebook cooler ... and she was shocked to find that it actually worked, lowering the overall temperature by about 3-5 degrees Celsius. Ever since then, she enjoyed many hours of Photoshop without any overheating issues. It was one of those coolers where you place the notebook on top.
   
In this review, we'll be taking a look at the Arctic Cooling NC - Notebook Cooler. It's a compact and portable cooler suitable for netbooks, notebooks and laptops of screen sizes from 7 inches all the way upto 19 inches (but in my honest opinion 17" and 19" are not really suitable). It comes with 2 x 60mm ultra-quiet fans spinning at a variable speed of 900-1,700rpm, which is controlled by a switch at the back of the cooler. It also features a bright blue power LED, 4 standard USB ports and one mini-USB port with cable (which is used for power). We will be testing the Arctic Cooling NC - Notebook Cooler using our Samsung X130 ultraportable notebook ... the very one that we're using to type this review. We will be taking temperature readings for both idle and load modes. The first scenario involves using the notebook without the Arctic Cooling NC, then later we'll be comapring it with the results we obtained while using the Arctic Cooling NC.
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