Modding the IFL90..

Anyone have an idea for a cooling mod on the IFL90?

There's very little room in there, everything's very low profile, so it has to be small.

I have already cutted every other fan grill pins (don't what it's called) and applied Artic Silver 5 to the cpu (t7700, 2.4ghz) without any remarkeable difference. (One question, can also apply as5 to the chipset? I think there will be less contact between the core and the cooler, in result of removing the heat pad.

Undervolting though, gave me some results.

I think maybe an idea is to change the fan or cut something D ) for more flow, is there a website selling ifl90 parts, just in case?

I know there's not much that can be done, but I just love to mod, plz help


edit: Made another thread in the sager / clevo forum: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=201070

edit 2: I have also taped the gaps between the turbine and the two heatsinks.Awesome mod

 

try lapping the cpu/heatsink (hint: search google), that helped on my desktop system.

 

Thanks, done that too on my desktop, I'm gonna do it some time on my compal, but not now, it's very difficult, this one.

 

I'm thinking of getting thermal grease change on GPU to Coollaboratory Liquid Metal. Did anybody tried that with similar coolers? The place where GPU contacts with heatsink is made of cooper, and around it is aluminum plate. I read that liquid metal reacts with aluminum surface and that is a bad thing sisnc if it eats it up, I’ll probably not find anything to replace it. If I carefully tap it only on cooper part, will it spread around it, from natural shaking and so on?

Another mod is to cover spaces between turbine and booth heatsinks so that air would go directly were you wanting it to go.

The main problem in IFL90 is VGA cooling, CPU does just fine.

 

Agree, vga cooling is bad on this thing. But my main goal for these projects is to get the fan more quiet.

Forgot to mention it, but I also covered the spaces between the fan and both heatsinks.

But what's up with Coollaboratory Liquid Metal?

I don't think it would have an enormous effect, the real bootleneck here is the cooler, not the thermal contact between the cooler and the cpu/gpu..

EDIT: LEET!

 

It does, with temperatures about 60 the difference is about 5 degrees comparing to Arctic Silver 5, and with thermal gum that comes with IFL90 it can be up to 10 degrees. But who knows, maybe you're right and this inefficient cooler won't make it happen.
If CPU stays cooler then the fan will work more rarely. But personally to me fan isn't a big problem.

The bad thing with IFL90 is cooling control - it only depends on CPU. And that is really bad; I wish it looked to GPU as well.

 

What we really need is an acpi module to NHC or something, so we can adjust the fan ourselves.

 

afaik, on el80, the fan is controlled by the gpu and cpu temps.

dunno about fl90, nonetheless, if you plan on applying liquidmetal on the cpu/chipset, don't forget about graphics card, otherwise it's pretty pointless - the graphics will heat up very quickly and the fan will pop on anyway!

 

No it doesn't.

On the el80 it does, but not on ifl90...