Laptop guts to Desktop case

I have a 3.5 year old HP Pavilion zd8000 laptop that has major problems with overheating. It's been in for repairs multiple times, I use a cooling pad, but it still can't handle it's own self.

I have another laptop that is much more portable than this, and this one is basically used in one place.

So, I want to take out the insides, and transfer them into a case that would allow for better cooling. More room, more fans, whatever might help.

I can't seem to find info on how to do this. Perhaps I'm googling the wrong terms? Does anyone know where I might find a How To on this, or even just some suggestions as to how to go about this?

 

Well you wont be able to mount it for starts. The ports wont be accessible either.

 

Uhh... I don't think doing something like this is very common.
If your not very experienced in modding or building desktops or laptop than I don't think you should consider doing it.
I suppose you could higher someone to do it but considering there are ports on every side of the notebook it would be quite hard to get it right.

I don't recommend it at all

 

My choices are: a) try it.. I'm sure I can work around ports and mounting somehow, or b) throw it down the stairs next time it overheats (as in, the next time I try to run a program on it)

I live in Silicon Valley, so parts and friends who tinker with comps abound. (However, no one I know has done this.)

I'm willing to live with it not working out, b/c one way or another, I'm replacing it with a desktop.

 

If you don't mind the possibility of losing what is already a troublesome, unreliable, and dated machine; then I think you should go for it. A challenge would be to find the right case.

 

You could run the laptop in the open air with some extra fans and mount the Monitor on the wall.

 

Yeah, but you'd have to dust it like once every two days .

 

My choice is wreck it, you’re probably never going to get much for it as is, so strip it down and sell the bits on EBay in parts eg mobo $180 CPU $30 power supply $40 battey $30 LCD $80 ram $30 remote $10 dvd/wr if it’s L/S you’ll get a bit more $30 Inverter Board $8 Cooling fan w/HeatSink $5 hard drive $50 The little thing can be bubble wrapped and normal mailed. In short get what you can, if you’re lucky you’ll get near $500 if not $300.

Whatever way good luck with that pig!

HerEsy

 

It's really not a money thing. I kinda just want to try it: see how it works out, tinker, have fun.

So say I removed the unneeded parts, monitor, keypad, etc, and let it run open... but then put a case around that more to keep the dust out than anything. Any suggestions on how/where to add extra fans?

 

One fan to input air and one fan on the other side to output it, really, what you want is a constant flow of room tempered air.

If you wanna experiment even more you could even see if you could fit some kind of water cooling on it .

 

I wouldn't even bother with a case at all. Dust is going to be an issue whether you have it enclosed in a case or not. I guess if you set the fans up in a way to create negative pressure inside the case you could cut down on dust, but it won't eliminate it by any means. Just use a can of compressed air every so often so the dust build up doesn't become a problem and you'll be perfectly fine.

 

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