JP
How many of you have ever tried overclocking your system? I wouldn’t be surprised if there were quite a few of you, after all, it’s pretty easy to do these days, many motherboards come bundled with software that needs only gentle prodding to crank things up. All you need is a little extra cooling and you’re set. Here’s the real question though, how many of you have tried to overclock your laptop? Anyone?
If you have, then you’re a brave soul. Laptops are designed to pack as much hardware into a confined space as possible This of course means that things can get quite toasty on the inside, which isn’t great for it. However, most of the time the heat only gets bad enough to singe your leg hairs. Now if you go pumping more juice into your CPU, you’ve got a good chance of frying it. Unless you have a Refrigerated Docking Station that is.
This Refrigerated Docking Station was created through a joint effort between Embraco and Intel. It uses the smallest miniature compressor available to cool air before it flows into the bottom of the laptop. The cooler can reduce the temperature of a laptop by 41%.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and ask how many people are really going to use this. It’s a dock, so you’re not going to be taking it with you. Are you just going to redo your overclocked settings every time you take your laptop somewhere? What if you forget and end up frying it? If you’re only going to overclock it at home, why not just save the $150 on the cooler and the extra money you’ll spend on a super beefy laptop and make a decent gaming rig at home. I’m pretty sure that the price would balance out, and you would get much better performance.
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6 Responses to “Refrigerated Docking Station – Perfect for both people that overclock their laptops”
LegitReviews September 21, 2007
Thanks for using my pictures without permission and not linking to my article on Legit Reviews as the original source.
The original article can be read here: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/567/1/
-2Beaker September 21, 2007
very shady bro, at least give the people that worked hard to get these pics the much needed traffic. Have some respect
-4Ty September 21, 2007
Wow that could be very useful, now all they need is one for peoples desktops… ;-)
NeutralChris September 22, 2007
No need to get up in arms over this, we generally try to source the original articles as often as possible, but mistakes happen. Just a quick email to the tip line will generally get things taken care of much quicker than a sarcastic comment in the article. The tip line gets forwarded to the entire staff, thus making it easier to correct.
I have updated the article to include a proper link to your source material.
+5Janine September 22, 2007
[quote comment="28993"]Thanks for using my pictures without permission and not linking to my article on Legit Reviews as the original source.
The original article can be read here: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/567/1//quote
Dont be an ass, you guys post pics from the net too, as far as i know sg has been sourcing their entries. posting comment like this show how shitty you are.
+3Dontx September 22, 2007
I like the concept of this cooling, the only problem is how portable it is.
To legit review, Slashgear has always been linking out, no need to be a jerk.
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