The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Alienware M17X R4 Heatsink Mod

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by jackgarcia7, Nov 17, 2012.

  1. jackgarcia7

    jackgarcia7 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    42
    Messages:
    67
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I wondering if anyone has done this yet? Would there be noticeable heat distribution across both GPU and CPU? I am attempting to recreate the attempt for water cooling by azatek on my R4.
     

    Attached Files:

    • R4.jpg
      R4.jpg
      File size:
      99.5 KB
      Views:
      2,368
    jackgarcia7, Nov 17, 2012
    #1
  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

    Reputations:
    9,436
    Messages:
    58,194
    Likes Received:
    17,902
    Trophy Points:
    931
    It can be tricky to get decent heatpipes and get good contact with them.

    It might help if one component is working harder than the other, but will have no impact at full load.

    Also that central divider between them may get in the way.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 17, 2012
    #2
  3. jackgarcia7

    jackgarcia7 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    42
    Messages:
    67
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I plan to remove the divider and solder on 3 pipes merging into 2 pipes. I need to upgrade cooling since I do a lot of data parsing, and the cpu is always stressed and gpu is hardly stressed. So do you think it is worth it?
     
    jackgarcia7, Nov 17, 2012
    #3
  4. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    2,779
    Messages:
    7,957
    Likes Received:
    87
    Trophy Points:
    216
    What's the difference in temps between the GPU and CPU while you're parsing data?
     
    moral hazard, Nov 17, 2012
    #4
  5. jackgarcia7

    jackgarcia7 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    42
    Messages:
    67
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Gpu = 0, cpu = 75-80
     
    jackgarcia7, Nov 18, 2012
    #5
  6. ratchetnclank

    ratchetnclank Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,084
    Messages:
    1,506
    Likes Received:
    900
    Trophy Points:
    131
    GPU can't have temps of 0.

    Its idle temps are general around 50
     
    ratchetnclank, Nov 18, 2012
    #6
  7. jackgarcia7

    jackgarcia7 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    42
    Messages:
    67
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I believe that my built-in graphics card does the small display operations. I only see GPU heat jump when I heavy graphical material like 3dmax o a video. I use HWINFO64 to read temps.
     
    jackgarcia7, Nov 18, 2012
    #7
  8. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    2,779
    Messages:
    7,957
    Likes Received:
    87
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Well if the dGPU is idle then it probably would make a difference.
    Would be interesting to see the results.
     
    moral hazard, Nov 18, 2012
    #8