advanced ways to make my laptop cooler??

does anyone know of any good ways to keep my laptop cooler. not like cleaning out the fans or new thermal paste but in terms of copper heat sinks on heat pipes or something more along the lines of that.

 

Nothing that doesn't require a lot of work such as adding extra fins directly over the component, using copper shims or ordering a custom heatsink made in a material with better thermal conductivity. All of those will require either extensive modding or a not so insignificant amount of money or both. You will also be voiding any warranty you might have.

 

Get a cooler (cooler master u3 is a good choice). Then replace the stock fans (they are weak and don't do much at all).

As long as you have some good fans and place them correctly you should drop the temps a lot (something around 10C).

If you cut holes in the bottom of the case around the heatsink/fan, it will be even better.

Adding copper heatsinks on heat pipes wont help. Unless you can blow some air over them.

 

Of if you can add a lot more surface area (which implied not just the heatpipes) which i've only seen once on NBR and it was some serious modding for only a few degrees gained and not something you can do on every laptop.

Getting a cooler as Moral Hazard said is your best option.

 

You could try thermal epoxy-ing VRAM heatsinks onto your current one, using them as passive heatsinks. It dropped my old ASUS G71GX 260M 10C on full load and ~2C on idle.

 

Adding holes to the bottom cover and finding a way to max out the fan speed with software is a nice combo.

 

What laptop?

See my mod experiences here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...0-clevo-w110er-first-look-review.html#cooling
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...z-cooling-mod-thread-warning-lots-photos.html
NP9150 bottom: http://i.imgur.com/94Bma.jpg


Bottom line, if you put RAM cooling copper heatsinks on, you definitely need some airflow. Opening up the ventilation depends on the laptop. On my DV6z it worked best to open up directly over the CPU and GPU to allow better airflow. On my NP6110 it worked best to

 

Well, I guess if we're discussing notebook mutilation, you can look at mine

(Scroll to third post)

 

Remove the laptop compartment cover and place a fan on it. Cheapest way to keep a laptop cooled. But not all laptop has that compartment cover available. If i ever get a laptop with no compartment cover i'll have to DIY an external powered blower fan to force inducting air into the CPU intake.

 

yah i like your idea with the after market cooler master fans but i have a clevo notebook with two fans and their pretty good but where would i get different internal fans anyway. can you buys those? and i know that copper heat sinks help to draw in heat transfer so technically woulded if i used external fans placed in the right spots were the heat sinks are placed help with the pulling of air flow?

 

do you know of any software

 

Here's what I have done to my GX740:


By marecki_clf at 2011-01-30

plus plenty of holes in the bottom cover (when the bottom cover is "on", the holes are on top of the copper heatsinks).

 

Here's mine - 5920G fan and heatsink upgrade

 

Getting pretty scared by all the photos.

I ordered I think 8pcs of the Cosmos copper heatsinks. I'm thinking of installing them along the pipes of the existing heatsink assembly, but I'm not too keen on drilling holes yet.

I'll report back if it does anything good (or, if at all it fits, lol). Hopefully it does.

 

so the holes are exposed to the heat sinks so that way the heat sinks aunt jammed in with the back plate???

 

Here's my solution: Upgrading the Elitebook 8530: making the heatsink extension (part 9 of 10) | Jake on the move

It works really well for a year now. The theory is that you're basically increasing the surface area of the heatsink - placing the extra copper in front of the air intake and making sure that it has great contact with the laptop's heatsink is essential, of course. You can get pre-drilled sheets (with 2.8-3.0mm holes) to make the modding *a lot* easier.

 

The most advanced hardcore way to improve a laptops cooling is to actually replace the aluminum (most likely) radiator of the heatsink with a copper one, or replace/add heatpipes to the cooling system. This must be accomplished with solder, not thermal tape.

 

My take on this: Bend the heatsink legs to achieve more pressure and contact surface. Of course you need pressure paper to gauge the effects.

 

Well for starters cleaning out the fan and heatsink of dust bunnies would first and foremost improve air flow to help cool your cpu or GPU depending on the type of laptop don't discount this simple procedure as nonsense. Also elevating your laptop depending on where it sucks in the air would help to move air flow better as well and the environment you use it in if it has alot of dust you can guarantee it will eventually get dusty in the laptop and cause the heat to rise and over time as well if you don't maintenance the ventilation or fan or air flow it will pick up dust as well. You have to do some house keeping on the laptop to keep the heat down unlike a desktop that you can do more with on the insides to work the air flow. Yes I see other taking and DIY their laptops but that to me is the extreme and unless you want something snagging or ripping off the laptop I would say don't do it. Also changing CPU to a newer or more up to date CPU that uses less electricity but can do more also helps to keep heat down. It might cost more on the CPU or not but a CPU upgrade in my instance keeps the heat down and CPU fan from constantly going. Like going from Celeron 2.1Ghz to T8100 2.1Ghz was a big improvement for being able to use W7x64Sp1. But as anything what you plan on doing and what you want to use if for will determine what you want to do with the laptop. But I for most would say a good cleaning and re-thermal paste (a good paste not the white paste-I found the gray paste seems to do better for heat transfer for my usage) and a CPU upgrade helps to maintenance a lower heat signature.

 

For me in enlarged my CPU fan intake holes. The my second cooling mod was removing the bottom cover and strapping a cooling pad to it.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...market-upgrades/681310-5920g-cooling-mod.html

it knocks the the degrees down by large amount but, it is little bit more of hassle to trans port as it almost doesn't even fit in my laptop bag and book bag any more.

 

I just added this thread - http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-pavilion-notebooks/688817-upgraded-hsf-dv6-3143us.html

I installed a HS designed for a 45 watt quad core cpu in my DV6 3143us (35 watt). I have less than a day of usage, but seems fine thus far....