Another look inside the Aspire One A150 - Cooling & WiFi Card Upgrade

[3lsergio]

how big is that chipset heatsink and what did you use ti glue it on?

[CubeComputerChannel]

@3lsergio It's small, and I used hot glue as it was all that I had. I used thermal paste to thermally connect the heatsink to the plate

[brunoshow124]

at least it has a fan. dell netbooks dont even have a fan. the fan in my aspire one is on more than not. its a decent netbook.

[lmull3]

it's funny you mention the cooling system of that one being skimpy. i had a dell mini 10v for a long time. that netbook died all of the sudden due to memory parity errors that were related the the motherboard and not the ram for some reason. ram controller failed probably, but anyway. that netbook didn't even have a fan....at all....which in my mind is horrible. i ended up using a cooling mat to keep it from cooking itself, but it eventually did anyway.

[CubeComputerChannel]

@lmull3 That's ridiculous. I imagine the northbridge chip fried itself. I've heard tales of minis running hot, but never knew they were fanless. Does it even have a heatpipe system to dissipate the heat?

[lmull3]

@CubeComputerChannel yeah, they're fanless. when i went into mine to change the ram i didn't see any heatpipes. all i saw were aluminum or just silver colored metal plating to dissipate the heat. that's all i remember of it anyway.

[CubeComputerChannel]

@lmull3 That's just another thing to mark in my book of Dell's Idiotic Designs

[lmull3]

@CubeComputerChannel that book must be a friggin dictionary, LOL

[CubeComputerChannel]

@lmull3 haha it is!

[misterpc23]

Nice video Mr. Shaky cam haha