thegreatsquare

I need to find something a bit bigger to do the same thing on because my notebook is 17", but running 3dmo6 with the 9800m GTS at 660/1650/899 and maxing out at 62c ain't bad. [2hrs of Crysis Warhead = ~70c with it]









So what do you all think?

Drivr3g

That's funny looking, but if it works more power to you.

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Blindrage606

Looks like the plastic is starting to spider crack at the point where the fan is connected. Try applying some epoxy or rubber/silicon to prevent any.

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Curious, What note book is that?

Nice mod though, what's in the hole? lol

ShortySmalls

what were your pre goofy looking cooler temps?

Le_Loup

I'm impressed, now lower my laptop temps with that design, but to 40celcius, and I think it won't burn out... (Currently bsod's at 55 c... oddly...)

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The laptop is a Gateway 7805u [P8400 2.26GHz/9800mGTS 1GB], I picked it up as a refurb for $750 [+$2 shipping] two weeks ago and got one with a 1920x1200 screen [...and a fair bit of backlight bleed through , it is more than managable though]. I'm waiting for the P9700/T9900 to hit a major e-tail site so I can upgrade.

The fan is a Thermaltake usb powered fan. http://www.xpcgear.com/thermaltake-a1888-usb-fan.html

There is nothing in the hole. I was thinking of ripping apart a mini cooler, but that seemed a bit much. I could put a usb can cooler or a 2nd fan, but I don't see too much of a reason to as I only have 3 usb slots: 1 for the mouse, 1 for a usb drive and 1 for the Thermaltake in the homemade cooler.

unl3a5h3d

Nice job . How is that laptop? That is the one i was thinking of getting? How is the battery life? Thanks.

PhillyOverclocker

Good job on the cooler. I was thinking about doing something similar for my wife. She never moves the thing (17" ACER AMD64-T55/7000M) so having something bigger doesn't matter.

I see you like to keep your HDD defragged because of both JK and IObit defrags. Let me give you some advice, though. I used to use IObit, but now I use JK because I have had two customers (1 laptop and 1 desktop) that have had IObit cause major file corruption where I needed to run chkdsk /r and fixboot to get them to boot. Even though I have never had a problem myself, I would be stupid not to learn from their mistakes.

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I won't run that OC without the cooler. At idle, the ACPI is 6-7c cooler, the CPU is 7-8c cooler, the GPU [OC'd] is 4c cooler and the HDD is 11c cooler.

The gameplay is pretty good. Not everything gets maxed @ 1920x1200 obviously, but I ran Oblivion on High and then maxed all the sliders at full res without a OC on the GPU. Crysis Warhead ran well with textures set to Mainstream and shaders/h2o/physics on Gamer @ 1600x1000 with the OC until the ice board... now it is a tad choppy though I still am able to run with those settings.

That 1GB of VRAM comes in handy!! Shame I listened to those who said I didn't need the 1GB versions of the 9600GT I got as I now know damn well I'd of seen a difference.

I've heard the battery life is good for a gaming laptop, three hours or so with normal use. I alway play plugged in though so I have no first hand experience with it.