Next gen high end laptop cooling

[watzup_ken]

I was looking around and spotted this. The heat pipes now look like snakes in the chassis. With components, particularly at the high end, getting more power hungry, i.e. 175W GPU, and 90W CPU despite the supposed 45W limit, We should see more "snakes" in laptops. The external cooling solution is quite interesting, but defeats the purpose of having a laptop by taking away the mobility. The power brick for these laptops are already huge if not you need 2x power bricks. Add another external water cooler, I think it may be too much.

https://www.techpowerup.com/290536/...g-laptop-oasis-external-liquid-cooling-system

 

[yusoffb01]

good for intel furnace

 

[KYOGRE]

Preview with benchmarks:


Some drawback is spillage of coolant when unplugging the tube(refer to 4:18 video)

 

[watzup_ken]

good for intel furnace

The solution is great as it addresses the key issue with gaming laptop, and that is the lack of surface area for soaking up heat. Those 4 tiny heatsink is unlikely to hold all the heat dissipated by the CPU and the GPU at the same time. Just to give an example, most RTX 3060 comes with fairly chunky heatsink. Even the smallest version, the Palit Storm X with a single fan cooler comes with a heatsink that is a number of times bigger than what is offered in the laptop even if one is to combine all the heatsink together. So as a result, most laptops throttle when CPU and GPU are under load.

However, there are issues with this approach,
1. Cost - This cannot be cheap. That water cooling unit with pump is likely going to cost quite a fair bit by itself
2. Not portable - With 1 or 2 power bricks + this external cooling unit, the laptop is no more portable and in fact takes up a fair bit of space. That external cooling unit is quite big, so with the laptop and cooler taking space on one's desk, not sure if it makes more sense to just get a Mini ITX gaming rig, which I believe may be a cheaper solution
3. Risk of water damage - this can be addressed by extending a shroud over the connection points so that the water will not flow to the sides. But again, disconnection of the cooler still runs the risk of water spilling into the chassis, which is not great. If you fry your system due to this, manufacturer will most likely void the warranty