11.04.2010, 12:26
I still have my Asus G51vx gaming laptop with Gtx260m. During gaming, this card gets to 94*C, I call Asus , "What the hell is wrong with your cooling system?"
Their Reply is "Oh, It is designed to run hot. Our GPU's made to last until 110*C." I maybe be paranoid about the heat in my components, I made myself a cooling pad out of Russian Birch Plywood, strapped a spare 140MM fan with 60CFM airflow pointing towards the laptop, changed the 3pin connector to work with 2 USBs in series. The temps dropped down to 80*C. I could not have been happier. Once my Warranty goes kaput in 6 months, I am planning changing the fan in the unit and and some ram heatsinks to the heat pipes that are on the way to the cooling fins. The pic shows everthing that I will plan to do.
This is stock cooling
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9490/asus.jpg
Modded cooling will include using ram heat sinks like so taped with thermal tape to the heat pipes leading to the cooling fins.
Their Reply is "Oh, It is designed to run hot. Our GPU's made to last until 110*C." I maybe be paranoid about the heat in my components, I made myself a cooling pad out of Russian Birch Plywood, strapped a spare 140MM fan with 60CFM airflow pointing towards the laptop, changed the 3pin connector to work with 2 USBs in series. The temps dropped down to 80*C. I could not have been happier. Once my Warranty goes kaput in 6 months, I am planning changing the fan in the unit and and some ram heatsinks to the heat pipes that are on the way to the cooling fins. The pic shows everthing that I will plan to do.
This is stock cooling
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9490/asus.jpg
Modded cooling will include using ram heat sinks like so taped with thermal tape to the heat pipes leading to the cooling fins.