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    What exactly is "Copper cooling upgrade"

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ProjectOblivion, Nov 23, 2014.

  1. ProjectOblivion

    ProjectOblivion Notebook Enthusiast

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    I see this on several websites that resell Clevo laptops. They always have copper cooling upgrade. What is it? How do I know that they even put it in? What's the difference?
     
    ProjectOblivion, Nov 23, 2014
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    D2 Ultima Livestreaming Master

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    They... weld? Or otherwise attach some spiky copper pieces onto the pipes of the heatsink to give it more "heatsink" to absorb heat with. It helps the machine take longer to heat up, but in return keeps a lot of hotter ambient air in the laptop. Longer to heat up, longer to cool down. Same max temps. It's not really worth it for most people, though I suppose a massive OC for benchmarking purposes would be nice.
     
    D2 Ultima, Nov 23, 2014
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    So is it worth it to get the "upgrade"?
    Does anyone have real world comparisons?
     
    ProjectOblivion, Nov 23, 2014
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    There's other threads in the Sager forum here about people discussing it. In general, people have concluded it isn't too worth it.
     
    D2 Ultima, Nov 23, 2014
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    I believe they use thermal tape to attach them.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 23, 2014
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    yupyup, ive done this myself, got several small-size copper vRAM heatsinks with adhesive tape off ebay and attached them to the heatsink plate and heatpipes of my CPU & GPU. as D2 already mentioned, they do help to slow down temp. rise but aside from that they dont really do much :)
     
    jaybee83, Nov 24, 2014
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    This might vary from one reseller to another, but over here we use the copper RAM heat sinks jaybee mentioned. They have an adhesive applied to the bottom of them that sticks to the stock copper cooling system already residing in the laptop.
     
    Prostar Computer, Nov 24, 2014
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    Think I'm going to save me a few $$$
    Thanks for all the help guys :D
     
    ProjectOblivion, Nov 24, 2014
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    James D Notebook Prophet

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    I must add that they help a lot... if you removed the bottom cover and use notebook cooler.
     
    James D, Nov 24, 2014
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    Tonrac Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, the real benefit is see when combining this mod with a notebook cooler...
     
    Tonrac, Nov 28, 2014
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