DIY copper cooling mod?

XoticPC offered an addon to add copper to the heatsink and therefore increase heat dissipation. Has anyone tried a DIY mod to do this? I have a Sager NP7338, but I'm guessing that a kit could work with many different models.

 

Yes, people have done this before. It can help with a few degrees.

 

Great, does anyone know somewhere to get a kit or the supplies to do it... or even a tutorial on the project.

 

Tritubrbo's mod knocked off a whole 10C but, it was 15.6" laptop with not so great cooling to being with.

 

Well copper mod can be done on one's own but if you don't have the knowledge, just pay for it to be done...

 

It really isn't hard. The little heatsinks can be found very easily and cheaply, then you just stick them on with thermal tape or preferably glue if you want it to work most efficiently. There is no purpose paying someone else to do something so easy. I would say that it just isn't worth doing unless you run the laptop with a cooling pad and preferably the back plate off. Then the fans blow directly onto the heatsinks. If you don't, the difference is marginal. It simply dumps heat back into the chassis where it isn't meant to be. The effect is the GPU will take a little longer to heat up, but ultimately reaches very near the same temp.

 

It makes sense that it's only helpful to place copper where it's going to get air blowing on it (e.g., out of the chassis or near an intake vent). Since these units are already compact it doesn't seem feasible to add any copper in those areas. There definitely isn't space near the output vent, but I'll pull the cover and look for space near an intake.