Can you upgrade a laptop cooling fan?

Draeger · 30 Dec 2012 at 22:50

troops said:
Have you tried I8kfanGUI ?

Draeger said:
On this model it isn't possible to control the fan speed using the likes of Speedfan, I8kfanGUI etc and there's nothing in the BIOS which will allow any control over it either.

Agent_Smith357 said:
How long ago did you apply the paste? Just thinking if you keep pulling it apart to reflow the gpu, it won't have a chance to set properly.

Yep, and only yesterday I removed the entire HSF assembly, cleaned it with TIM Cleaner and refitted using fresh MX4.

Thanks for the link OspreyO, I will have a read through that.

I've had the laptop sit here for the last 3 hours running with the rear fan/CPU/GPU plastic cover removed on a small 'el cheapo' single fan notebook cooler which I've positioned so that the fan on it is directly underneath the 8600M. I've got it sat at the following temp ( yellow = 8600 GPU using GPUZ to monitor it, white = T7250 using Coretemp ) :-

I'm going to pick up a better notebook cooler tomorrow, the Trust Xstream looks fairly good and the fans are positioned in exactly the right place to cool the 8600 and the CPU unlike some coolers I've looked at which have fans mounted more centrally, the Xstream has them at either side:-

FredFlint · 31 Dec 2012 at 19:25

Get a cooler master u3, it has 3 fans that can be moved and a speed control.

Westyfield2 · 31 Dec 2012 at 19:36

Are there modded bios available?

OspreyO · 31 Dec 2012 at 21:23

Few ideas here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/676551-effects-cooler-master-notepal-u3-w-6-fans.html

Draeger · 31 Dec 2012 at 21:31

Westyfield2 said:
Are there modded bios available?

Not that I'm aware of. A few folk have asked if anyone has managed to hack the BIOS to allow any adjustments to the fan but to date no one has done it. Dell released a few BIOS updates, the most recent being A12 but they did nothing to allow fan control.

Well, got the XStream cooler this afternoon and the laptop has been on and running for 4 hours now doing fairly modest tasks such as web browsing and a bit of Word. Temps currently sat at :-

The left fan on the XStream is directly underneath the GPU and a few cm away from the CPU which seems perfect. I'm about to fire up Far Cry 3 and see how it manages with that.

OspreyO said:
Few ideas here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/676551-effects-cooler-master-notepal-u3-w-6-fans.html

Thanks again for the linkage. Lots of good reading there, that guy is on a mission!!!.