Re: Samsung R530 Bremen motherboard cooling

Thanks very much for sharing your obviously greater knowledge than my own.

I've arrived at the same conclusion as you suggest, that my best option is to stick with the Bremen-C motherboard.

The only other option that seemed like it might be a good idea was moving to a Bremen-M, however for completion of the point for anybody else looking along similar lines, whilst my laptop chassis has a removable blanking plate that would allow air for the additional set of fins on the fan, on further inspection I can see...

Hi,
I'm wondering if anybody out there has much knowledge of Samsung Bremen motherboards.
I've got a Samsung R530 which is about 10 years old, over the last 12 months it developed a worsening problem where when asked to do much work it would shut itself down. I had a good idea this was due to overheating which was confirmed by a temperature monitor programme which showed little balls of fire next to the various internal temperature readings. I could also prevent it shutting down if I placed a huge fan running at full speed in front of its air intake!
So I went in pursuit of...

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Hi,

I work in I.T. and have been building my own desktop PC's off and on for over 25 years. I don't know much about laptops though so am hoping someone can share a bit of knowledge!