cutting laptop plastic

I bought a spare bottom cover for the g60vx and I'm gonna cut out the fake vent. Any suggestions how to cut through and easily make a circle in the hard plastic? Preferably as idiot proof as possible. If I mess up too bad I'll have to buy another cover.

I'm a little short of money so I can't run off an buy power tools just for this.

 

Well, what were you planning on doing? lol

 

Use a butter knife, heat it up in a open flame (make sure you protect the area you will hold, so you don't burn yourself), and SLOWLY cut out the area you want.

Make sure you take your time, mark the area you want to cut out. Measure twice cut once. It will take a couple of times, but don't force it.

 

hole saw in my cordless drill is what i would use

 

lol, well I was hoping to avoid the blue wire mod but like people have warned cutting a hole in the case for some reason caused the measured temp to shoot up 5-15 C when surfing the web. where once it hovered around 65-75 its now flirts around with 90 and this is on top of a cooling pad just doing basic stuff.

I don't want to do anything thats not reversible. How do you recommend I remove the wire? Should I remove it from the side outside the fan or the side inside the fan?


Is it easy to put back if necessary?

 

Why don't you just repaste it?

 

Because the case has natural airflow. The air comes in, flows a certain path cooling components as it does, then goes through the fans and is blown out. Adding extra air holes throws off that airflow and can cause higher temperatures if the air is just going wherever it wants, or follows a different path and skips some components.

Just like how removing the side panel of your PC can increase the temperature instead of decrease, because the internal "vacuum" is required for cooling.

 

I'm sort of new at that so I would ask where instructions would be with all the steps preferably with pics. I don't want to screw up and end up with a huge coaster.

What do I use to scrap off the gunk? Do I use arctic silver?

Also since the GPU is effectively passively cooled under 70C if the repaste doesn't keep it cool by itself wouldn't this just be delaying the overheating?

 

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Does anybody know which side I should take the wire off of and whether it is reversible? Thanks

 

I have a G60vx which doesn't look like the notebook in the video

 

Don't be touching any wires ... Leave wire mods alone, they are over rated and often irreversible without getting a whole new fan.

You can also try drilling tiny holes into the plastic circle instead of making a giant one. The plastic will be more stable that way.

 

I already cut a hole in a spare cover and attached it as I have mentioned and that caused the temp to go up 5-15C. So I need to find some way to actually cool the laptop. Everybody mentions that the wire thing is necessary to go along with the hole.

I'm doing this because my temps are too high and the vid drivers are constantly crashing with any thing 3d which I guess may be related.

If anyone has a video or a detailed set of instructions/pics to repaste the GPU, a reversible wire solution, or a good alternate suggestion since some say even the repaste won't work I would like to hear it. There must be something that actually works.

 

What are your temps anyway..before and after the mod.

Try looking for G51VX repaste videos. i'm sure there are some of those. I'm fairly certain the G51VX and G60VX are VERY similar.

And perhaps you could show us some pics of how your mod looks?

Repasting the Vx should be pretty easy compared to other laptops.

All you need are some Paper coffee filters, 91% isopropyl alcohol, a small phillips screw driver, and some thermal paste (ICD works the best)

I would take a look at Vx repaste videos, and watch them thoroughly, try to find specific questions for us to answer for you. I'm sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't mind helping with repaste questions. I've yet to repaste my G60Jx, which is very similar to your Vx, but i don't game on it too much (waiting for Diablo 3), so i'm not going to try and fix something that isn't broken! . Highest temp it's reached is 90C on the BF3 beta, but all other games have topped out at 85C, so its fine.

I have a little bit of repasting experience however from repasting PS3's

 

Before mod 65-75 generally after mod 67-80ishC. Playing SCII tops it out at 85C with hole.

Its just a big circle cut out surrounded by the metallic fake vent. I'm probably not going to bother adding a grill until I can figure out whether it will work or not.

I snapped the old cover on and played some FO and didn't get a TDR surprisingly temps were around 77C. As the TDR errors were the immediate reason why I wanted the mod I'll sit on this awhile and see how it works out.

 

well that didnt take long...the tdr and the crashes with tdr are back...that one mysterious run without a crash looks like a fluke. the temp isn't going much higher than 80 so I suppose something else may be wrong.

the nvidia forums are as usual completely clueless