- Best Heatsinks for GPU for M17 -

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708012

are these good?

 

where's the love

:'(

 

14mm is really tall. You will need to chop off some of the length so that they fit in the notebook.

 

how tall should they be to fit? anyone know? I don't really feel like going through 50+ pages of project freeze to find out.. lol

 

ummm lets see measure

no offense but i dont help the lazy

 

Maybe lazy wasn't the best word to use, looking through 50 pages of a thread for a small piece of info that may or may not be there when someone may already know the answer seems a little pointless to me

Just sayin..

 

-Maximus-. Can you take a full interior picture of your M17 and measure the ceiling clearance between critical components and the wall of the backpanel? I will be able to help you out from then.

This should give you an idea. I am not done yet, but I should be finished with everything by the end of this week.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5218933&postcount=659

 

ahhh in that case the best way to go is find ones with a thin base and maximize the number of pins

 

I wouldn't go with pins.

Starting with post #63. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=408511&page=7

 

http://img194.imageshack.us/i/img0607mfb.jpg/

holy $hit! lol

thanks very much guys I think i'm just going to go to my local electronics superstore and pick out ones with grooves instead of pins like you've got in the pics, I'll just get a variety and mix and match to get the most surface area out of it, that's the key right?

 

That's an older pic, haha. You should see my notebook now, and again when I finally finish it at the end of the week.

Essentially yes, surface area and mass are the key to effective passive cooling. However, I should remind you that your results will vary. I am not too familiar with the interior dimensions of the M17x so you will need to come up with an effective design blueprint on your own.

If someone can link me to a few pics of the inside of the M17x, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

it's actually the M17

here's a pic of the inside:




Honestly I would be happy with no more than 90C, I was hitting 108C max when I first got the machine but I've since replaced stock paste with AS5 and I'm using a Cryo LX as well and now I'm hitting about 96C max

I really want to see what the sinks will do as I'm starting to get sick of using my laptop cooler.. when I have guests over they're like, "that's the biggest laptop I've ever seen" lol, it really looks like all one unit when it's all sitting together.. sucks that the Cryo LX cost me 80 bucks, I really hate using it... it's ugly and bulky

hopefully putting the sinks will let me put it in the closet.. and be angry that I wasted 80 bucks lol

 

Yeah, I accidently added the "x" on instinct. Thanks for the link.

 

Wow, that's really packed tight in there. You're probably not going to be able to fit anything greater than 5mm from my guess. Come back after you measure the clearance and we'll see what we can do from there.

 

I've seen people putting them in this formation in project feeze, i'm thinking I'll do that

it's like 1:20 AM when I live lol I'm too tired to open the back panel right now, actually I don't even own a ruler so I'll probably have to just go with your instincts and get some 5mm ones

 

I wish the crossfire cable didn't get in the way :/

must... achieve.. 90.. C.. max ... lol

 

Yes, that is what I was thinking as well. The bridge cable gets in the way in putting anything ontop of the core, so the memory heatsinks are the only place to put additional copper on.

Don't trust my narrow Asian eyes, -Maximus-. My thick glasses doesn't exactly help either, haha. My suggestion for 5mm was a really rough guess. I'd stay on the safe side and measure it. You can pick up a cheap fiberglass tape measure at your local dollar store.

If there isn't enough clearance inside of the notebook, you can always drill holes.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5259440&postcount=688

 

jesus soviet lol, that's a lot of little holes.. you really go all out huh

I don't think I want to frankenstein my machine just yet, but that really doesn't look bad you did a nice job

Although the sinks wont be exactly on the core it should still cool it down considerably because it's dissipating more heat from the entire copper piece that the fan cools.

I'm expecting like.. 5-6C drop, is that reasonable to assume with 6 sinks placed as shown?

 

A 5-6*C drop is a longshot. And I'm not saying that optimistically either. Yes, the heat will dissipate more from the GPU itself than by the fan, but there are two problems here.

The first problem is where will all that heat go? The backpanel doesn't have too many holes over either of the GPU's and the fan is too far away from both of the GPU's, nor does it look strong enough, to suck in enough CFM through the holes over the GPU's. This is why I also suggested drilling additional holes to assist with passive cooling.

The second problem is that there is barely enough space to add enough heatsinks, or large ones, to be effective enough to lower temperatures noticably. This also ties together with the issue above.

 

yep i used simular and i got about between 3-5dc drop in average temps throughout the laptop.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Copper-DDR-DDR3...in_0?hash=item27ab485955&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

The ones you have are 18x14x4mm. I have the 10x9x4mm variant.