[Fireskull]

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.

A couple times I reached 82 C and that scared me! Some websites are publishing lower numbers than that as safe.


I have voided my waranty with overclocking-this is recorded by the system somewhere, but it was due to expire in a few months, anyway. My plan is similar, but I wonder if the heat conduit is too long in yours, maybe?


My next laptop should be built by myself. I will choose a chasis and compatible motherboard which will allow one of the new NVIDIA graphics cards in a few months. Of course, I will have to wait for all that. These things take time. I want it to have a liquid cooled CPU, GPU, and probably RAM card.