This crazy idea (watercooling M17x R3)

So, ive been looking at making my own water cooler ever since I got into computers, and well...I never did. I cheeped out and bought a corsair h70. But, if you think about it, water cooling a laptop, would be that hard. What wouldn't be hard would be making it low profile, and making it fit all in the laptop, but asetek did it, but they did it with a mx18...so, if you could making a water block that fit the sandy bridge processor and your video card, you would just need a pump, radiator, and reservoir. I have been looking at the thermaltake big water 760i, and it fits in 2 5.25 bays, but if we give up mobility, or atleast a little, this could be done very easily. And would carrying a little box, and needing an outlet be that hard? I had a g73 with a battery that was just a paper weight, the second it came unplugged, it died, so I'm not one for mobility. Mobility to me is being able to move it, I could careless about battery being honest.


http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-water-block-out-of-a-heatsink-for-less-than/

Looking at this if you could get your hands on a heat sink with copper fins, this would improve cooling greatly. I think if you used the mounting brackets on your cpu heatsink and mount it to the homemade water block, that that would be basically done, but then there is the gpu...now I haven't thought of anything for this yet, maybe taking the stock heatsink, and have canals cut/drilled into the top, and then sealing it with another layer of copper, and then flow coolant in it?

If this were made, and then you got the big water, you could rig a power supply with any12 volt ac adapter that could plug into the wall, or if you trust your batter you could bridge it to the power source (I wouldn't do that) and then connect the big water system to your tubes from your water blocks. I would take this to lan parties, friends houses, etc... I don't know about you guys, but I use my laptop at a desk always because with fps I have to game with my mouse.


This is all just idea, but I pla to experiment with it in the next few months. I just want to see what you guys think, if you could add/improve to it, and if you want to do this yourself.

Thank you,
asha

 

I think widezu was working on something like this at some point. not sure what he ever came up with though.

 

Asetek states they have put it into M18x:
Asetek Demonstrates Liquid Cooling For Laptop And All-In-One PCs - Asetek, Inc.

 

my mouth waters everytime i see that pic...

 

Yes I was thinking of doing it with mainstream parts but I never got around to it plainly because of the issue of money. I have none. Also no waterblock that I found that was decent, fit the CPU screw configuration which was a issue.

 

But the water block is easy, no if you aren't into custom modding, because you can mount the brackets for the sandy bridge onto the water block. I'm going to attempt this in the winter, so don't fret guys, just be patient.

 

problem is the heat-sink is a proprietary component so a "Sandy Bridge" water black may not not be compatible and line up correctly. Laptop setups are much different when it comes to modding than desktops.

 

I found a block I am going to use, its a danger den gpu block, and I'm either going to weld my own brackets with screws, or do a jimmy-rig for it, but it has some of the best flow, and cooling for the money ($48). I decided out of spare plexy glass I have laying around the house, I am going to make a little box, with a case, to hold a 120x3 radiator, pump, and a 250ml reservoir. I am going to have 2 quick disconnect hoses, the male ports will be half way into the back of the laptop, and a female ports with the hoses will plug into that, and then for a power source I was going to use a 12v 3a ac convert, and solder the wires for fans, and the pump into a male outlet, and just plug the ac converter into that through an adapter, like plugging in a laptop charger to a laptop, so it will take 1 more outlet, but for that isnt a big deal. So I will have my laptop, and my box with the pump etc... (lets call it the water box) that will plug into the back of the laptop, power into the water box, and plug in a mouse and I'm set. Now it is just until I get parts, which will be around december, my goal for this is to over volt my gpu (6870m) to the extreme, and get record breaking benchmarks.

 

At that point, why don't you just get a mini-atx machine.

 

Because a micro atx machine doesnt have a screen, and keyboard built in