To test the NotePal ErgoStand I recorded the laptop's temperatures from the Motherboard, CPU and Cores 0 & 1 sensors using Everest Ultimate edition.
The laptop was tested with Prime95 torture test to give temperatures when under full load, and also at idle for comparison.
Three tests were run for idle and load as follows:
• Laptop alone
• Laptop on ErgoStand, fan at lowest setting
• Laptop on ErgoStand, fan at highest setting
Each test was run three times and the highest and lowest results discarded.
Laptop Specification
HP Compaq 6715b Notebook
Processor AMD Turion 64 X2 (2 GHz Dual-Core)
Memory 3072MB DDR2
HDD 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD
Screen 15.4” WSXGA TFT
This is not the hottest of laptops but hopefully we'll see the NotePal ErgoStand making some decent improvements...
Testing Results
At idle the NotePal ErgoStand takes between 5 and 7°C off the motherboard temperatures and between 5 and 6°C off the CPU temps depending on the fan speed.
Under load the results are even more impressive, with the ErgoStand achieving between 8 and 10°C reduction in the motherboard temps, and between 7 and 9°C in the CPU temps!
A very decent performance there, and even more so when you look at the difference in temps recorded between the highest and lowest fan speed settings – at the highest setting the fan is faintly audible – nothing to write home about, but as with any noise that is just on the edge of hearing it could become an annoyance over time. Whereas at the lowest setting the fan is totally inaudible (at least it is against my laptop!) - and the loss of cooling performance is absolutely negligable – maybe a couple of degrees at most!
