Heatsink + fan in ODD

I was just toying around with the idea of whether it would be possible to remove the optical drive and in its place install a heat sink and fan (drawing power from the optical drive connection.)

I was thinking youd have a heat sink that you would connect to the other heatsink pipes in the laptop. And a fan to blow the hot air out. It would need to be individually designed for each laptop model probably. But im guessing a a company like newmodeus should be able to make it. Its not significantly more difficult than a hard drive caddy, and would certainly be popular among people looking to overclock or to replace their cpu with a more powerful one.

 

Laptop heatsinks are most often (always??) hollow pipes containing a working fluid or gas that enhances heat transfer from one end to the other. It would be pretty challenging to reengineer this.

 

The time and cost for such a conversion would be negated by the fact that you could simply buy a much more powerful system (new/complete) for the same or less money (when you consider re-selling the old system) and without foregoing the optical drive and/or any remaining warranty.

While overclocking gives some benefits - they don't come for free. With SNB platforms, your 'solution' would only offer the ability to upgrade to a new class (TDP) of processor - along with all the possible problems/headaches of BIOS and other limitations/tradeoffs that a notebook system maker must decide on based on the targeted audience.

Your idea might have been good in the past - but given that nobody pursued it (and trust me, they have thought of it - $$$) actively, it would not have been as popular/useful as it may appear at first blush.

 

I like the idea. You don't really have to OC the system or have higher spec to benefit from it, making the entire machine run cooler will be enough reason for me to get it, if it's reasonably achievable.

 

Which it is not........

Unfortunately.

 

A new system would be exactly what I want it for. I would like, for example, a quad core t420 with a much stronger gpu. But the current cooling design is not sufficient for that.

 

Sorry, How can a manufacturer sell something inadequate for a purpose?

I don't think this is a valid statement.

 

because they are not?
The t420 has a dual core, and a low end gpu. a quad core would be aftermarket.

 

your last post said "thats what I want a new system" not "I want to upgrade the CPU"

The only upgrade you mentioned was the cooler fan in the ODD bay.

I just re-read thread and there was no mention of upgrading CPU, I wanted to check I hadn't missed that. Also you never mentioned the CPU till now?

 

no read it again. "a quad core t420" is self explanatory in that its a cpu upgrade. Stop arguing needlessly.

 

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dont worry. good luck.