Water cooling a laptop - making the water block.
Since I'm studying at a uni away from home that means I'm away from my gaming PC. For games in the uni dorm I have a SONY VAIO laptop that I found at the dumpster. With an i5-480m, a HD5650 and 8 gigs of RAM the laptop is usable for many games at low to medium settings. The cooling in the laptop is also very good. With max load neither my CPU nor GPU go over 75 ° C. Knowing that I still decided to water cool this thing. Why you ask? Just for kicks, to be honest. There are a few people who have water cooled their laptops but their implementation was quite mediocre in terms of implementation, performance as well as looks. The first thing I made for my super custom water cooling loop was the water block for my CPU. As luck would have it I found two bits of 0.8mm copper sheet at the local flea market, which made this project possible. For starters I took the i3-370m processor that originally came in the laptop and started making measurements along with sketches for my water blo