Installing a heat sink on the GPU?

My notebook came without a heatsink on its GPU, it might not be necessary, but I want to add one. The problem is, there is no place for making the heatsink fixed. I mean, there is no screw holes or something similar to that. The only way I could think of is sticking the heatsink on the GPU directly (don't look so scared, I saw several heatsinks placed with a similar way). I've found a suitable heatsink, but I'm not sure of the type of adhesive that I'm going to use. I need something that won't hurt my laptop and stay for a long time without losing its effect. What would you prefer?

Thanks.

 

Most notebook GPUs are made to fun cool enough without a heat sink. If you put one (or rather force one) on, you face two issues:

A) Your warranty is probably voided
and
B) the notebook may not fit together correctly any more.

The only thing I can suggest to you is to buy a notebook cooling pad...
If you do attempt it though, good luck and be sure to report back! I am sure others would be interested to know how it works.

 

A) I don't have a warranty problem. The period is over.
B) I tried it without using an adhesive, it suits fine because it's really thin.

For the cooling pad thing, I'm looking for one in my country but I couldn't find a suitable one yet. People mostly recommend Logitech's "Arvo" but I'm not really sure if it's a cooling pad or something to make the notebook look like a desktop. What product would you recommend, I'd like to hear it...

Thanks.

 

Adhesives do exist for these purposes.

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_thermal_adhesive.htm
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_alumina_thermal_adhesive.htm

 

You can install a heatsink, but you must make sure it won't have a reverse effect on the cooling (the airflow will most likely change with a new heatsink)

 

@elfroggo, this is the thing what I'm exactly looking for, thanks. I hope I can find it here in Turkey...

@mujtaba, I didn't really get it. Do you mean the chassis in general?

 

I've found the products that elfroggo recommended on the previous posts, but it seems a bit expensive($16). Here I found something cheaper (costs about 1-2 dollars), but I'm not sure whether it does the same thing or not...:

 

As long as it is thermal adhesive and not just regular two-way tape.

I've seen that sort of thermal adhesive 2-way tape come with some older third-party coolers for GPUs, but it really depends on how hot the unit gets, since I've actually seen some of them come off after a while since it was too hot and the gum part of the tape disintegrated... -_-

The Arctic Silver adhesive is pretty much a heatsink paste and glue all in one. It probably would work better, but a) you have to let it sit for 24 hours, and b) I don't think there's a way to get it off afterwards.

Another thing to be worried about is the air flow, since a) if it's a block heatsink, it'll probably obstruct the airflow that's already there, b) there probably isn't an active fan on it anyway since c) it's kinda cramped, so I doubt you'd be able to fit one, and d) most laptop solutions use a heat pipe to the CPU heatsink/fan so that it uses the same fan to expel the heat.

Any reason why you want to put a heatsink on it? Are you planning on overclocking the GPU?

 

If you don't mind spending a couple dubs, this one is my favorite.

 

@alexf, I saw a notebook with the same gpu with a thin heatsink on it, so I thought they forgot to put one to my notebook... In fact there is not a big cooling problem with the GPU, I don't play games at all.

@alexonfyre, not this one, but I'm planning to buy Revoltec's similar product.

 

I installed the heatsink with the 3M sticker yesterday, today I'll post the pics of the whole thing. If its not psychological, there is also a little performance improvement on some games.

 

that's kinda neat. cool

 

Well, it's not a difficult thing to do, but if you're interested, here are the pictures of the process.

This is my mainboard (ASUS M2400N):

It was the most difficult part of it, disassembly...

Take a closer look to my Intel graphics chip:


This is the heatsink I'm going to use. It's probably taken out from an old GeForce or a Pentium MMX :


The sticker (I'll cut it later to suit the core of the GPU):


After applying the sticker on the GPU:


The final :

 

Hey did you pull the CPU from that board?

 

Yes, I temporarily took it to a safer place to prevent possible damages.

 

Do you by any chance have a picture of the following part of the motherboard:



It's located on the bottom side, near battery pins and the intel chip.

 

Hi.

See if you can find an old 486 anodised heat-sink, they make great GPU, CHIPSET and RAM coolers, just cut too size.

Regards

John.

 

I'm not really looking for a heat-sink.. An element on my mobo got burnt, and I can't read its code. Remzi does not accept private messages so I am trying to draw his attention to his own thread :/