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    Watercooling the Clevo P170Em

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by vuman619, Jun 21, 2012.

  1. vuman619

    vuman619 Notebook Evangelist

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    I may be a little tired at the moment, but wouldn't this be awesome.

    I drew up some pictures on this mod, tell me what you think.

    The pictures are to scale; note I have left enough room to fit the mobo too.

    Only thing left to do is custom make the pieces and find a way to cool the gpu memory modules.

    Original Watercooling Idea
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    New Watercooling Idea to come!
    muahahaha.
     
    vuman619, Jun 21, 2012
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  2. iaTa

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    Lol at size of rad :D
     
    iaTa, Jun 21, 2012
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  3. vuman619

    vuman619 Notebook Evangelist

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    It's a 360 RAD, i.e 3 x 120mm fans at 40mm depth fins.

    Imagine how cool and quiet this would make the system especially with 3 x noctua fans.
     
    vuman619, Jun 21, 2012
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    great if you don't plan on moving the machine much.. Perhaps you could leave the stock cooling system mostly intact and have a detachable water cooling system built on too of it..?
     
    hizzaah, Jun 21, 2012
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  5. Blacky

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    Watercooling for laptops has been tried before. It is simply not the way to go...
     
    Blacky, Jun 22, 2012
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    A desktop laptop ahaha (Alienware M18x ?)
     
    truekiller28, Jun 22, 2012
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    Sketchup fun ;)

    Hmm it's hard to tell, but anything is possible. When are you planning to do this?
     
    jaug1337, Jun 22, 2012
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  8. vuman619

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    when my laptop is obsolete, so 3-4 years down the line? hehe

    but definitely happening
     
    vuman619, Jun 23, 2012
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    I do believe this would be epic sir.
     
    User Retired, Jun 23, 2012
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    Useful application? Overclockers

    Result? Fried laptops :p

    Seriously though, I'd love to see this in action, even if I'd never actually do it to my 8130 :)

    Mr. Mysterious
     
    Mr_Mysterious, Jun 23, 2012
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    Quite a little mod HERE, he did it on his M1330, forgot where I found it.. but his temps fell down SIGNIFICANTLY, I mean lower 40 *C even at maximum work.. quite amazing

    oh and btw, might want to contact THESE :D they seem awesome
     
    jaug1337, Jun 23, 2012
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    Wow, that mod is awesome. Saw he went a little overboard with the TIM but he said he corrected later on.
     
    User Retired, Jun 23, 2012
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    Lol, I know! I was like: "Dude, what are you doing? Ease up on the paste..." :p

    Mr. Mysterious
     
    Mr_Mysterious, Jun 23, 2012
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    I used to experiment with water cooling, I really want to water cool a laptop, the hardest part is making a cpu and gpu heat sink. You would need to have a custom machine shop do it for you. After you get those made, not that hard, just piping, a radiator, and a pump.
     
    asha1997, Jun 23, 2012
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  16. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    i really like the idea of leaving the air cooling in and just having ports for the water cooling pipes, you could makes a really "cool" dock
     
    aduy, Jun 23, 2012
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    I was thinking the exact same thing, but how small would the pipes have to be... that would lead to the next problem of not removing enough heat because the pipes are so small, i.e not enough thermal output being dissipated.

    Then to compensate that; I could install smaller fans so there is more room for pipes, but what would happen when i remove the water cooling, on air cooling the cores would overheat.

    There are a lot of things to consider, I am only just beginning my research now, there are a lot of things to cover.
     
    vuman619, Jun 24, 2012
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  18. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    the pipes could be small but with many of them in parallel, and they could be soldered with silver solder to the existing heatsinks as shown in the attached picture. silver is a great heat conductor, ever heard of artic silver har har.
     

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  19. vuman619

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    those pipes look too small to have a practical flow of coolant, and there would be a significant bulge, enough so that you can't put the cover on, that's why I think it would be better to remove the existing heatsink installations, this laptop is a desktop replacement anyway, it's not meant for moving around anyway.
     
    vuman619, Jun 24, 2012
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  20. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    you could easily take larger pipes and flatten them to the same height as the existing heatpies, and theres more than enough room for them to be attached right next to the existing heatpipes.
     
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    I was thinking the same thing, having oval pipes for the coolant. Maybe have the waterblocks cover the existing blocks? Double heat sinks.
     
    vuman619, Jun 24, 2012
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  22. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    i wouldnt bother with that, i would just solder the water coolant pipes directly on to the existing heatsinks, and then run them to a port on the back of the machine for an external radiator.
     
    aduy, Jun 24, 2012
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    I had a dream last night about this idea, maybe use 2.5mm copper pipes, in a single loop i.e

    gpu>cpu>radiator>pump>back to gpu

    I'll do some new drawings soon, thanks for the ideas aduy!
     
    vuman619, Jun 26, 2012
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    Love the idea, and I wish you luck in completing it. :)
     
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  25. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    i think it would be totally feasable to just attach coolant pipes to the existing heatsinks, and keep the fans, and just have everything else(pump, resevoir, radiator) external, so it is still mobile.
     
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    you could totally fit the water cooling stuff into the disk drive caddy! muuahahahaha!
     
    aduy, Jul 13, 2012
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    this is possible

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    Gpu is going to run warmer than the CPU, wouldnt running the hot coolant from the gpu to the CPU up the CPU temp?
     
    hizzaah, Jul 13, 2012
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    Problem is fitting a suitable pump in the case.. Perhaps you could fit it in the battery compartment. Wouldn't be able to take it anywhere lol.

    People make micro pumps but the good ones are really expensive and idk what flow rating would be needed for a system like this
     
    hizzaah, Jul 13, 2012
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