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    Gateway M-6862 Easy temperature mod

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Crimsoned, Sep 9, 2010.

  1. Crimsoned

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    I noticed something odd on my laptop a while ago, no matter what notebook cooler I used (whether sucking air, or blocking air) the temperature never fluctuated. So I provided to check out my laptop, piece by piece.

    The discovery:
    So I took it apart, and much to my own silliness I had never paid attention to the plastic cover that covers the heatsink before. I found the culprit of my problem. This was a week ago.
    Well the plastic cover has a small but relatively thick cloth that acts a dust filter, but also acts as a massive airflow obstruction. This was why the notebooker coolers never helped, because they did not have the static pressure to go through that dust filter/help with temperatures.

    Once I removed that cloth that obstructed the ventilation, temperatures dropped considerably by 5c on idle but only dropped 2c on load.

    Using the Cooler master Notepal infinity I dropped the temperatures further. Another 5c celsius drop on idle (10c drop), and a 6c~ (6c-8c) drop on load.
    The GPU also went down in temperature, by 10c on idle/10c on load with the cooler..

    Results:
    So now my temperatures are (before, with dust filter and cooler) (after no dust filter and cooler):
    CPU Idle Before: 44c-48c CPU Idle After: 32c-34c
    CPU Load: 80c-82c CPU Load After: 70c~
    GPU Idle: 64c-70c GPU Idle After: 52c-54c
    GPU Load: 86c GPU Load After: 74c-78c

    So remove those dust filters, and see better ventilation give you better cooling. Of course since you no longer have dust filters, be sure to check weekly for dust build up, so far I have not noticed any dust build up (I have a week since I've done this).