Aftermark Air/water heatsinks from Powerups on Aliexpress

While the 170EM is getting a little long in the tooth these days (even with a 980m or 10xx) it can still give acceptable framerates in most new games.



I was wondering if has anyone tried one of these aftermarket heatsinks?



AU $419.04 20％ Off | DIY water Air/wind cooling heasink radiator Transformation for Clevo P150 P150EM P170 P170EM
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mO8YlzR



price is a little higher than I would like and would probably be better off investing the $$ into a new machine.


They also seem to have heatsinks for a large number of different machines.


It’s a real shame that the mxm upgradeable laptop has never “really” come to fruition, sure I upgraded my p170em to a 980m, it wasn’t however as simple as it should have been having to flash modified bioses by the excellent work of Prema.

It’s such a shame that I can’t go to a 2080mxm as the rest of the laptop is still quite strong, a gpu upgrade would give the laptop another 3 or 4 years of use ability.

 

You can thank Nvidia for killing MXM, Im using a GTX 1080 now but there is a part of me that would like to be able to get a 3080 and one of these kinds of heatsinks

 

That's a lot of money to invest in an older machine but you will see gains probably.

 

What are you running the 1080 in?

 

P750DM motherboard in a P750ZM chassis

 

That's s real Frankenstein machine and I like it

 

Thanks, a lot of effort went into it (but not entirely my own efforts). I was itching to upgrade it again but I think it would be more reasonable to upgrade it to the 9900k/3080 with one of those air/water heatsinks. My system has the MSI 1080 so upgrading to another GPU would be like starting over lol

 

I'd want a 9900ks but they are tricky to source.

 

I'll keep that in mind for when that time eventually comes around. Naturally would need one of these types of hybrid cooling solutions as Even with all the modifications I still hit 90c. 250w+ of power in 15.6 things become less amicable on air cooling, so that would be first but Im solid for the moment.

 

You won’t get close to 250W on the CPU anyway regardless of cooling. The current limit on the TM board is 138A, which on my 8086K limits it to around 170W. Older boards not designed for more than quad core CPUs may have a lower current limit.

 

No I mean total system draw, I wouldnt bother trying to pull 250w on the CPU on this kind of system. Ideally my end game with this platform would be a 9900k @ 4.5Ghz and a 3080 with that hybrid heatsink but for now its just a dream system. I have no desire to chase for that right now maybe around this time next year who knows.

 

I see. I can pull about 300W in combined load (110W CPU + 190W GPU) on mine before the cooling gets overwhelmed.

 

The nice thing about the KS would be the lower voltages which is going to help a lot under multi core loads.

 

They are beginning to pop up here and there, earlier this week I saw a KS for 300£ on the local yellow pages. I thought about grabbing it, but then remembered that it would need to be delidded and lapped etc. and decided against it.

 

Lol the old can't be arsed, that's fair enough, it is hard after putting all the hard work in and getting it happy to make the change.

 

It's a lot of work for 100mhz more and a couple degrees lower temps. And then you are stuck with trying to sell a no warranty super die lapped 9900k to recoup some of the cost.
It's a better deal for you Meaker, since I would totally be going from 8086K to 9900KS if I were you.

 

Maybe, I do have a really nice chip.

 

You just need to change few resistor to make it higher, but real problem is the inductor only rate for 50a which at 40a is probably the upper limit. You need 45a to hit 250w which you need to change the indoctor to one with higher rating.

 

I think you need those ihs type water block if done all the mod. I don't think hybrid water block is going to handle anything beyond 200w.

 

Normally it's the VRM struggling first rather than the passives.

 

Finding a better mos is easy you can use some thing like ir3555, but there is very few same size indoctor with higher rating.

 

An inductor is just a wire after all. Most of the power ICs on the modern desktop replacements get fed 19V so there are less options.