Hey all, my girlfriend and I had this debate earlier tonight... Here it goes... I have a laptop, I also have a laptop cooler under my laptop. When you touch any part of my laptop, top, bottom, etc... it is cool to the touch... You touch her laptop and it is blazing hot to the point of burning (your legs in bed)... She claims that my laptop, whether it has this cooler on it or not, still produces the same amount of heat into the room. Is this true? possible? I totally understand that "technically" the processor and other internal parts still use the same amount of electricity, and still require the same amount of volts/watts, blah blah blah, but can it actually still output the same amount of heat with the cooler on it or not? Also, for the record, will my processor and other parts still produce the same amount of heat if cooled with the cooling fan? I say no, my laptop does not produce as much heat with the cooler turned on. Therefore not allowing my room (or lets say a small box) to heat to the same temp as it would without the cooler on. Why do I think this? My laptop is cool to the touch, my fans are not pushing out hot/warm air... If my cooling fans (for my machine) were off, then it'd heat up and put out more hot air. She begs to differ and believes no matter what, my laptop generates the same amount of heat at any given time. Is this possible with "water cooled systems"? They basically work like a radiator in a car, or a a/c unit... Water comes in, warms, is cooled as it is recycled... Yet does not warm the room at all (does it?)... Anyones comments would be helpful in this
My desktop pc does heat up my room because it contains lots of exhaust fans and my room is pretty small.
the cooling system of pc or laptop is very much importent to maintain a suitable temperature of its components. it is nothing to do with room temperature coz its smaller in size, yes monitor heats up room coz it produce more heat then pc CPU.
Well, as far as my knowledge is concern, I feel the cooler plays its own importance in cooling the laptop. But it is certainly not sufficient to cool a room. I can think of such a situation, not even in the wildest of my dreams.
Unless the cooler somehow pushes the warm air out an open window, your laptop heats a room just as much as your girlfriend's laptop. It's just basic physics; that heat has to go somewhere. Your system disperses it better than your girlfriend's, but in the long run you are both adding the same amount of heat energy to the room. Water cooled systems will also warm a room. It takes a lot more heat energy to warm water than to warm air, so the water essentially absorbs the heat when it's near a hot component and the warm water then moves away from that component (heat rises). When the water cools, that's just the warm water transferring its heat to the air around it.