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    Laptop cooler or no laptop cooler?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by johnny13oi, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. johnny13oi

    johnny13oi Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys, I just got a laptop cooler and the laptop runs at about 10C higher on CPU and GPU at idle with the fan not on. So would you go with the 10C lower without the cooler but with fans on or 10C higher with fans off?