I want to know if USB powered desk fans are good for keeping you cool on hot days? Any opinions?
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Get a real fan.  The USB is nice, but not very practical unless you can put it near a window.  Plus, unless you drag your computer all over the house, you can't move the fan from room to room if need be.
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What does the fan do? Make the air move to cool down hot skin?
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I can only tell you about leaving your computer on 24/7. \n\nLeaving it on all depends on how long you leave it on, and what kind of computer you have. If your fan isnt very good, your computer might overheat and cause a malfuction. Id get some kind of program that can see how fast and how hot your computer is getting.
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got any hands on experience with this kind of thing?\nI have a Biostar iDEQ 200N, a similar rig but without the cool handle.\n\nIs it reliable with a lot of hot parts packed into a small form factor?\nHeat can be an issue, but they're engineered with special heat sinks and cooling to address it. Running a hot video card can be the biggest problem -- you want a card with good cooling.\n\nIs it loud?\nGenerally these things are designed for use as home media PCs, so most of them are quiet. I can't hear my Biostar over anything else in the room. :-)\n\nIs there any accelerated way to hook it into and out of home and work situation (i.e. a docking station). I'm thinking about this as a daily use machine.\nSure. Just get all USB peripherals (keyboard, mouse, etc.) and put them on a hub. Then you just have to connect the USB cable, monitor, and speaker cord when swap it around. (You could even go USB audio, but yuck.)\n\nWe use them almost exclusively for our LAN parties these days. Most have cooling solutions designed for small spaces, whether it be heat pipes (Shuttle) or heavily ventilated cases. We've successfully run them for extended periods with Radeon 9800 Pros and Audigy2's, + 3.0GHz P4's, with no heat issues.\n\nIn fact, I have an Athlon 64 cube here, and it does run a bit warmer, but the fan chugs along and keeps it cool. Plus, all of these have aluminum cases that bleed heat a bit more efficiently
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Get a couple of fans and make a "wind tunnel" effect, to move air thru your room, and not just push it around.  By pulling air from another room, you should be able to cool down yours.\n\nI found that putting a bowl (metal works best) of ice in front of a fan will cool things down until the ice melts.
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Something must be wrong with it, bring it back to where you got it, and have it checked out, and if that is normal, buy a cooling pad for it (aobut $30).It elevates you laptop off the table, and has fans for circulation, keeps you computer running as cool as possible.
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I have a MacBook Pro 2.0GHz/256 VRAM with 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive, and a Superdrive.  Yeah, it gets hot, but from my experience, it depends on my surroundings.  At home, it's gets warm and stays warm just a few minutes after I wake it up, but at school, i can keep it going and it stays pretty cool.  I've also used it outside in shade with a good breeze.  It stayed pretty cool then.  Pillows block the airflow to the bottom and also insulate the heat...not a good idea.  I'm currently using a piece of wood cut close to the size of the machine, but my dad has a plastic laptop holder thing that he got from the Sharper Image store. The wood seems to hold the heat, but the plastic seemed to keep everything cool.
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If you have a fan that sucks in the hot air, I recommend that you turn it on. All that is happening is that it's too hot in there and your body can't cool off.
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Now-a-days USBs are being used as a power source. I have seen them in Ditties recently. I am really not sure about the specifications of the output though. Once you know those specifications all you need is a transformer meant for that specs and then you are ready to use USB as a power source. Hope u got it.
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THE DELL PROMOTIONS ON LINE ARE HOT...EVERYTHING IN DELL IS COOL I HAVE 2 AT HOME AND THOUSANDS AT WORK AND ALL LAST LONG ....COOL FOR WORK AND HOME...
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Hi I'm Garry,\n\nThis will certainly make you feel better..\n\nI have an acer travel-mate 2.2ghz Pentium 4 Intel and man it gets so hot beneath that when I put  my hand on it  beneath I can't hold it there that's how hot it gets..\n\nThere was the time where I used to seriously worry about it but then I figured out that it's just the way it is.. the cooling fan runs faster when it detects the main board over heat..\n\nSo to answer your question... Don't worry, it's just the way they are built, because they are so compact they tend to heat like this.\n\nNothing is going to happen to your laptop when it heats up, notice when you are over working it like downloading heaps and using other app's at the same time the fan kicks in at a higher Pace, so it doesn't over heat.. these things were meant to with hold this much heat my yahoo friend..\n\nDon't let it get to you as it drove me mad at one stage.. \n\njust make sure none of the vents are blocked and trust me there is no need to raise it off the table..\n\nIt will be perfectly okay\n\nSimply wishing you the best of luck,\n\nGarry\n\nP.S\nFeel free to contact me regarding this subject or any other, I am always happy to help.
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The fan's job is to cool the computer.  It doesn't have much to do with how much work you're doing on it.  Sometimes the fan is just working harder because the computer has been on a long time.
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The right way of cooling a pc is by putting one at the front and one at the back. The front sucking cool air from outside and the back blowing out the hot air from inside. If one of them is working the wrong way, air inside is trap and there's not cooling action.
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there are no liquid cooling systems for laptops..its not compact enough to fit into a laptop...if you are having overheating probs with your laptop then a USB Fan Cooling Mat can help..also make sure you dont cover/smother the fan/s on the rear of the laptop by using it on your bed (for eg)
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it sounds like a heat related problem does it do this when first started after a cooldown cycle? laptops have to disapate alot of heat without all the space and fans of a desktop some models do it better than others try placing the laptop on the edge of books so there is about 4 inches of free space under the laptop that way it gets good airflow if that corrects the problem then you know it is heat related, you can buy an after market laptop cooler that you place under the laptop which should keep it cool enough it was a heat related problem that should fix it
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I am the coolest of all English teachers! I am so cool, I can't have hot coffee because as soon as I touch my mug, it turns into a frappuccino! I don't need air conditioning in my classroom because as soon as I enter the room, the temperature drops down to a chilly 65 degrees! I AM THE COOLEST!