Veel mensen @ NBR draaien de GT650m van de N56 overigens ook 20% sneller, zonder noemswaardige stijging van de temperatuur.
Een member van het forum aldaar, welke een heel erg uitgebreide review heeft gemaakt van de N56VZ, gaf het volgende aan toen ik hem vroeg over de koeling van de laptop:
The design on the inside is still the most interesting. The cooling solution draws in air through an intake at the underside towards the front, as well as through the small laser-perforation on the front, into the keyboard surface. Meanwhile, none of the internal components lead heat into either the plastic chassis bottom, or the aluminium top (or the underside of the keyboard well, as is unfortunately very common). The heat is instead going through an isolated plastic channel towards the exhaust, not completely unlike on Asus' ROG gaming laptops.
So even on heavy load, after the heatsinks reach high temps (where they transfer heat most effectively), the temperature in the keyboard and the bottom chassis is more or less completely unchanged, in spite of both aluminium and plastic (in relatively cheap manufacture) having very low heat-capacity. This is good planning and excellent design that has escaped most if not all laptop-makers so far, that enables more powerful components to be placed in "entry-level" laptops.
Yes, more like the rog-laptops than anything else. I haven't opened it up too much yet. But it seems that they've isolated the heat with some sort of air-channels, and lead the heat out with those. Similar to the g-series. Works really well. Meaning it doesn't get hot in the chassis, almost no matter what. Just played through The Witcher 2, with a +20 core +100 memory overclock - at the worst times, the gpu temp is 81 degrees. And then the surface of the laptop is still the same, except near the exhaust, where the aluminium get slightly hotter than the rest. The fan is less noisy than the one on my Eee, if that says something. It's a single 90mm (I think) magnetic fan. Don't really hear it when idling. Not annoying when it revs up either. Only problem is that the trip-limits in the bios are set up by an Asus guy who hasn't the faintest clue how any of the functions work. So the fan will go to max pretty much right away. Not that big of a problem, but like everything else in the bios, it could have been tweaked better..
Was one guy on the forum who had a leak in the cooling assembly - then the surface got hot. Basically, as hot as on other laptops.. So yeah.. this is the reason why I picked this laptop. Insanely good cooling.