Apparently Heat Issues Resolved M860ETU

After noticing 100 acpi temp, and 65C hdd, while playing assassins creed, i decided (after two @=# months to open the laptop and see what was the problem

See that aluminium foil? (I believe it is) i remove the piece that was blocking the vents, dont know is useful to take it all off. Now it stable at 53C<= ,anyway im going to test some more and probably buy a cooler pad.

Thanks to all people of the nbr forums.

 

mine had the foil already removed from the start...
and no...the red box you're highlighting isnt the HDD location

your HDD is located at the upper right side where the small sticker is

 

By clearing that location you allow more air flow through the finned heatsink thus allowing more heat to channel there from the GPU and CPU (the latter is in close proximity to the ACPI). Thus you are far far cooler

 

is the 53c ACPI temps , or HDD?

 

The thing that bothers me is why is there aluminum blocking one of the vents? That doesn't make any sense to me.

 

Dunno, that's very strange =/

Maybe your reseller forgot to remove it ???

 

Probably it.. When you order a backplate alone, all the holes are covered with some tape or aluminium thing like you. I guess they forgot to cut one of the area.

 

I took a look at mine and the same vent was covered. I have removed it and will see if the temps are any different. My temps are already pretty good so this will be interesting.

 

I'm not sure about this but I think the black tape is an attempt to force airflow to come through the keyboard and close to the HD area to cool the HD although the aluminium foil it's the first time I see it a this place.

 

Please check with HWmonitor and save your temps (print screen Prt Sc) before/after you do it, i forgot to do that. Post them here.

Thats my guess too

What black tape? Should i put foil above the hdd?

For the hdd, acpi was like 90 as i remember, well the cpu below 75 and gpu max was 88 after playing ac maxxed

Yes thats what i thought that too Not sure why it helped the hdd..

Yes, but the red box is in the heat sink circuit vent so i thought ''That shouldnt be blocked''

 

I got my NP8662 from xoticpc and I don't have any tape covering any of the vents, and my laptop runs cool with ambient temperature of around 22c.
Hdd idles at about 48c while going to 58c while virus scan/defragging.

Oh by the way, if your laptop is slightly elevated at the back (with a book or something), that might make the hdd hotter. Someone tested it in the Clevo forum

 

I forgot to do that too unfortunately so that won't be possible. Maybe some one else will remember to do that.

 

Oh by the way, if your laptop is slightly elevated at the back (with a book or something), that might make the hdd hotter.

Actually a cooler pad that i saw did exactly that for writing comfort, i guess.

LaptopNut did you get any benefit? Im starting to believe i really did something good xD

 

the HDD temps gets hotter only when the laptop is elevated to certain degrees...
here are my temps with notepal X2..the lowest i can get is 28c


the HDD temps never reach 50c , only 48c when fully loaded......and hitachi occupies HDD bay , while WD on the caddy...

 

Mine starts at 20 ish but it raises up to 50 very fast. Operating temp is 0 to 60 so i dont know if a cooler is worth it, besides the only affordable and easy to get is non branded with 3 fans goes up to 2800rpm.

 

heres the secret


you can either , make a big square hole , like mine...
or if you prefer chassis integrity , make lots of small holes...buts thats a lot of work to do...

the notepad X2 fans are located exactly below the hole...so the HDD got constant supply of fresh , cool air...and the result is cooler HDD

 

Goddamn, did Freddy and Jason try to steal your HDD?

 

I always use my laptop with the Zalman NC2000 on the lowest setting while idle. My GPU temp usually idles at about 44-45C and my HDD usually idles at about 45C.

I haven't noticed any big differences. GPU is idle at 43C and HDD is at 44C idle. ACPI / TZO is at 47C. Ambient temps are 23C.

 

OMG devilcm3! That is an extreme solution... notepad X2? Cooler?

Thank you, LaptopNut, i saw the difference after playing for more than an hour, also disabling some services helps, like indexing.

 

apparently , they did...damn...haha its a messy work..

ya...i think the X2 is the best coolpad for M860TU because the fans are located below the HDD + very close to intake fans...and its cheap...too

 

Hopefully nothing smacks it while running.

And hopefully Clevo doesn't pull an Asus on you and makes that foil permanent.