Laptop coolers needs to be replaced every year
Hello everyone. I'm wondering if there is someone here having this same issue. I have a Sony Vaio laptop (SVS15 series) which I bought 7 years ago. It worked perfectly fine until a year later when it started to make "rattling" noises. (It sounds like if it were a WW2 plane). So, I ordered a new cooler fan and replaced it, and it worked fine for another 6 months until it started to make the same noise a gain. Since then I had to buy a new replacement every year on average. The cooler in question is this ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1402361861.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.3d2313c6JDZ9Wo ). I've bought from several different sellers trying to evaluate if it was simply a bad product or a failure in the manufacturing.
So, I've been trying to find why is it that it breaks so often, but I couldn't get to any conclusion. There is not malformation in the casing where the cooler is placed, I don't think dust is a problem since it runs in a clean environment, maybe overheating would break the cooler in some way but I've been using it with good ventilation. The noise itself is coming from the rotating part, which eventually gets off-centered making it vibrate and hit the metal on every revolution.
In conclusion, have you ever experienced something like this? any recommendation on how to avoid this? is it normal that those coolers break so often?
Posted Jun 28, 2019, 1:09 AM UTC
Well... Sony laptops are well known for their form over function... so it could simply be that the cooler fan had to be designed to fit the space that is too small for a reliable motor to fit there. And these fans are right in the blast zone, if you will, for all the heat that the computer generates.
You can see that the fan you linked only comes with a 180 day warranty, so... if a company will only back their product for six months, there must be a reason for it. They're not dummies.
I'd say just buy a few at a time.. At $10/piece, its not a bad price.
Good Luck!
Yeah, that's a good point.
I can be safe to say that my laptop runs on electricity and cooler fans.
Hopefully that's all it runs on. Anything else and it'd be a bad day. :)
Have a good one!