P15xSM/EM/HM Cooling improvement

Alright, as you guys probably noticed, I love my P157SM notebook but there is one thing that really bothers me. The cooling (appart from having WAY to thin heatsink on the GPU) is rather good but it's still ineffecient due to SOMETHING. It isn't the case, it isn't the thin heatsink, but there is a place where the notebook is heating up.

If i use the notebook normally my GTX 880M is getting up to 93c under load, but the moment I put my notebook on something higher (difference between bottom part and table is at least 10 cm) the notebook suddenly gets under same load 76c. That's a whooping -17c difference, which is a lot.

Now did anyone figure out where the heat is gathering? and more importantly did something find out how to fix this? I even opened the whole case and put it on the table, so bascially the whole bottom part was exposed and the temperatures where still 90c under load, so I can already say that it's NOT a case issue.

I was thinking about building a small fan into the case so it could blow out the air, but since I'm no electrician I wouldn't know where to wire the fan so I couldn't try if that works.

 

A lot of notebooks suffer from restricted airflow if the only thing elevating are the stock rubber feet. A cheap cooling pad should fix that (one that helps by blowing air into the intake may help slightly as well)

Otherwise have a look for P170EM cooling mod thread. A lot of the silly things were fixed EM - SM but things like modding the bottom cover for better intake may still apply.

Also Prema mod BIOS adds max fans hotkey if you don't already have it.

 

The GTX 880M is very hot card. I battled it in my P170SM-A.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/deadsmileys-gpu-cooling-mod-np8278-p170ms-a.756078/

 

As already stated, taking of the bottom cover (meaning exposing it completely) changed almost nothing, it was literally an improvement of 1 or 2c. So I won't bother mod my bottom cover because It doesn't really do anything.

 

That's why the first half of my post gave the real solution to your problem, did you not read it?

Replicate what you already know dropped your temps by 17C, FREE AIRFLOW, the problem is not IN your case since by holding it in mid air all you are changing is the fan's access to unrestricted airflow from underneath...

 

I want a mobile solution, meaning no cooling pads for me. If i want to carry extra stuff beside a mouse then i'd buy a Macbook with million dongels

 

Sticking larger rubber feet to the back area would be a way to "build it in".

 

Kinda but the rubber feet would have to be rather huge. That's why I'm asking for any suggestions to where i could get the fan into.