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    DV2550: Palm Rest the Heat Sink for Video Chip

    Discussion in 'HP' started by afterburner1, Sep 10, 2012.

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    afterburner1 Notebook Geek

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    Just bought a used dv2550 that works fine, a little hot, but not unusual for DV.Laptop It had never been opened and I wanted to insure there was a copper chip installed and clean out the heat sink ( I have a dv2000 AMD that I installed a braided grounding strap from GPU to the fan.) The dv2550 is an Intel and the GPU is on the flip side and cooled by a light blue pad between the GPU and the back side of the Palm Rest
    Thinking of putting a copper disk in place of blue pad or even a copper bar about a couple of inches to increase heat transfer
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    afterburner1, Sep 10, 2012
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    Update:
    Flatten three inches of copper 1/2 pipe and placed between GPU and palm rest. Used one pop rivet and attached to backside of CPU heat sink retainer Could not measure GPU temp with Speedfan, but computer seems to run significantly cooler
     
    afterburner1, Sep 16, 2012
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