Antec Notebook Cooler 200 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅07-12-09
Performance
To test the effectiveness of the cooling on our Antec Notebook Cooler 200 I decided that even though the low and high fan settings are 200RPM apart it would be good to see if there are any recognizable differences. So I took a notebook and read the temperatures of the CPU in idle without the cooler on, with it at low (400RPM) and then at high (600RPM). The CPU temperatures are then monitored in exactly the same way but with the system being fully loaded for over 30 minutes using OCCT (Temperatures obtained via OCCT also).

Dell Latitude D630
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz
Memory 2GB DDR2
HDD 60GB SATA-II
Screen 14.1"





The Antec Notebook Cooler 200 shows some great signs of being a capable cooling solution for the sizzly notebook at full load. It shaves off some important degrees and while doing so remains quiet at both low and high settings. The difference between the two modes on both temperature and sound performance aren't that big, so I think Antec could have perhaps made the 'high' setting bigger in RPM we may have seen even better thermal performance, I believe this is doable because the big boy fan is barely audible at 600RPM. It's no disruption at all, so seeing it at say 800RPM would have been interesting.


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