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.
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Well, what were you planning on doing? lol
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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
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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?
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Why don't you just repaste it?
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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. -
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
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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'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 -
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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
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Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Grump, Nov 17, 2011.