Copper mod p-6860?

I noticed on a gateway p-6860 (and most other p-6xxx/p-7xxx I'm guessing) the copper heatpipe is right on the GPU core, but the memory is only in contact with the metal heat shield thing. Would copper+tim assist in preserving the temps and life of my laptop?

 

Yeah people have done that. I worry about OCing my GPU memory too much without a heatsink on it because what if the GPU is cool so the fan isn't on much but the memory is overheating? Attaching the heat pipe to the memory would cause the GPU to heat up causing the fan to turn on more.

 

Cool, thanks! Guess it makes sense the heatpipe isn't attached then, never thought about it.

Would Vram sinks on the main pipe of the core help? Or.. enough for it to be worth while at least, as I don't have thermal adhesive or sinks atm.

 

Makes sense? I think Gateway was just lazy to not "attach TIM to the GPU memory". I'm not the guy to ask here though as I have never taken apart my computer. I'm just going off of this screenshot here:

It's not that the extra heat from the memory would overheat the GPU. It's just that if the memory were too hot then it would increase the GPU temp to signal the fan to blow faster.

here's the link again: http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3803/19mbremovedwithhsremoven.jpg

 

I meant that it makes sense the heatpipe isn't on the ram, not that there is no TIM/copper on the ram.
So vram sinks on the heatpipe helpful.. ? Done before maybe?

 

When I installed my x9100 I went ahead and tore everything apart to put ICD on the GPU, thats when I noticed that only some of the ram had the same type of TIM sticky pad that the northbridge had. I proceeded to put ICD on ALL memory pads on both sides of the motherboard AND put copper heat syncs along the heat pipe as there was plenty of room. Now I have undervolted my GPU slightly and OC'd it to 700/925/1825 and my GPU will max out at 80-82 and idles at 44-45 FWIW. I used AS thermal adhesive to apply all the syncs btw. And no I don't have a pic cause I'm an idiot and deleted it!

Z

 

You flashed your vbios?
Thanks for the info. Mine didn't seem to have pads on the vram, so I assumed the the heatsink is close enough to make contact, maybe it isn't!

I get 40 at idle for the GPU and 62 on load (propped up for air flow). Max 66 on furmark for 12min.

Neither my TZS1 or TZS0 exceed 50, I'm guessing one is the northbridge.

 

What i would like to do is buy some good thermal pads just for vRam and do the chopper mod for chipset only, put some good thermal paste on CPU, GPU and chipset-mod and thats it for me. still looking to order some good thermal paste because it has been 2 years with stock thermal paste and m temps are 75 when gaming, with fur mark are about 85.

would not suggest to do a chopper mod for vRam if you wont overclock.

 

if you wanted to do this you would have to bust out a dremel tool to not only cut out the portion that is currently covered by the GPU HS but also on the back side you'd have to cut away the portion of the chassis that contacts the other modules.

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