Different types of Heatsinks(DV6T-6100)

Just to let you guys know there are differences between heatsinks in different models of the DV6T. I saw somewhere before there were pictures of a heatsink that didn't have anything on top of the GPU ram. Well I noticed some heatsinks look like this where they do have VRam heatsink... this is the 1 gb 6770m and i'm guess 2gb have a different heatsink because they all have different numbers for heat assembly part. Just a heads up.

 

Good info.

Mine with the 6750m doesn't have it either. What is the part number on yours? Mine is 650848-001.

See my photos here. http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...z-cooling-mod-thread-warning-lots-photos.html

Well here's one below just for reference.

 

Dang it would be great if someoen could post a video of the dissassembly for respasting the paste...i'm too scared to try lol

 

You can get the DV6 manual at HP's website. Don't have the link handy. Maybe I'll do one next time I disassemble.

 

Yeh, I've looked through the manual...but it doesn't really reveal the intricacies of the some of the steps. Doesn't give me enough confidence lol. I'll probably wait until after my 1yr warrantly expires before I take my lappy apart. Thanks.

 

I used it and it was spot on for all the steps. Just have to do a lot of back and forth because it references earlier sections. I just had my netbook running with it pulled up and followed the steps. I can get it apart in ten minutes now without thinking. I'll make a video next time I disassemble it. Probably be useful for lots of people.

Here it is:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02842252.pdf

 

I don't know about you guys but i would try doing it before your warranty ends since if you mess up something they may just fix it for you under warranty. BTW my temps are now 39-41, 27-29,36-39,36-40 while surfing the internet. There is a difference but I don't think it is worth it, maybe once it's old and dries up might be a better time to do it but now I don't have to ever replace my paste because of my new paste. I don't know if i'm just very lucky to have a cool running computer. I played crysis 2 for hours and my temps were 62-68 for Core 0, 2, 3 and 56-59 for Core 1. GPU temp was 68C. This was after it hit 70C and went to next level for fan and came back down to 62-68 in Coolsense on performance optimized). Although there were spikes of 70 for cores and 75 for GPU.

 

Most games the machine runs ok. Bad Company 2 (and soon Battlefield 3) is one of the most stringent on a machine. Stock, my CPU would run 90-92C with longer periods of Bad Company 2 and GPU 80C. After just a repaste CPU was 85-86C, opening "breathing holes" underneath it dropped below 80C. Adding copper heatsinks on my CPU and GPU heatsinks dropped it to about 73-74C. Running it on a laptop cooler, it rarely exceeds 70C.

I can idle about 30C, and browsing it goes to about 40C, but quickly back to 30C if it just sits idle. Plus I can overclock my CPU to 2.4GHz from stock 1.8GHz. So I think it was worth it.