my m570ru cooling

Finally finished my cooling project on my laptop.

stuff used:

several packs of 8 akasa 4mm high ram sinks
one 50x50mm piece of thermal pad
arctic silver 5
8 copper shims 15x12x1.5mm
1 copper shim 23x23mmx1mm
sticky stuff remover
ph screw driver

work done:

removed thermal pads from the video card memory and put in place 8, 1.5mm thick copper shims, adding as5 to both sides of each shim.

removed the thermal pad from the chipset heatsink and replaced it with a copper shim and put some as5 on both sides.
put ram sinks on top of the video card copper cover, on top of the hdd and on the cpu heatsink, used some small bits of thermal pading to fill the gaps round the little round bits that stick out on the cpu heat sink. Finally added sinks to ram chips that are visible.

I still plan on getting another zalman cooler as the first one I bought didn't even work. Below is a pic of what it all looks like;

 

Wow, you pretty much stuck those little bits anywhere they would fit!

You'll have to let us know how the temps read.

 

CPU - 37*c idle
GPU - 48*c idle
MOBO - 52*c idle

still testing, although sofar, they seem lower than before I filled my laptop with sinks. Not much noise coming from the fans when I open loads of apps, still gotta test games.

 

Test with prime95 and Furmark, or something similar to get 100% loads on the CPU and GPU, then let us know what the max temps are.

 

43*c load for cpu & 64*c for gpu.

 

..I am...completely going to do the same!
this is great stuff right here.

 

using the full fan speed setting?

 

MAC address? Serial number? Om nom nom!

 

no, I ran FFOW for a while and just went round blowing stuff up, the fans came on but not full.
I also tested with applications, opended firefox with lots of tabs and also photoshop and started editing big pdf files, loaded 20 at once, fans came on but not like they used too when I did heavy stuff.

Why would you need a mac address & serial number?
edit, blurred it out now, incase you were implying sinisters activities....

 

It's too bad that this tutorial isn't available on video

 

just look for black ram sinks on ebay and google for a company called metal offcuts, you can request them to do some custom sizes for you, not sure if they ship internationl, they are uk based.
Thermal padding, tape can easily be found on ebay for next to nothing.

 

hey dude, thanks for the Pic and the Temps and waiting for your gaming results, and while we are at it i wanted to ask you in stoke cooling did the HDD and the RAM came with heatsinks ??? and if not how were they cooling ?
thanks in advance

 

the only stock cooling was the plate on the cpu, the cover on the gpu & the sink on the chipset. nothing else had cooling.

 

now i'm trying the undervolting thing on the cpu, ran the stress test for 10 minutes like the first part of the guide said, the max temps without undervolting were;

Core 1: 49*c
Core 2: 55*c

now i'm doing the undervolting, will post more results when it's done.

 

What is your GPU? Are you at stock clocks and voltage?

 

stock clocks & voltages. 8800M GTX, perfect working order.

 

finally replaced my screen and lcd cover, after much googling I went back and bought the m570A complete screen module from this really slow communicating guy on ebay who told me twice that it wouldn't work on my laptop...guess I proved him wrong!

lol he even offered to sell the complete m570ru for 525 quid instead of the parts only and claimed he had another interested buyer...

only difference is I now have a white / silver top cover and a random wxga screen 1440x900 instead of a wuxga 1920x1200. I used the original screen bezel, locking catches & inverter and it worked straight away.

Still on the upside gaming should be quicker on the lower res.

saved me spending 110 on a screen & 56 on a lcd cover, got em both for 58! new.

 

got my obhd-sata-b this afternoon, got a free white bracket because I didn't fancy cutting the the bracket you get with it to fit in the slot. popped a 250gb sata drive in and it seems to works fine.

 

I'm using a SATA extension cable and usb sata power cable for 2nd hard drives.