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Dell M1530, Opening casing, good idea??

post #1 of 7
1/10/08 at 6:18am
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Hi everyone,


Just wondering if by any chance anyone here has opened the casing to the M1530 yet. I bought mine with the 120GB 5400 HD cause I wanted to upgrade it on my own to the 7200rpm 200GB 16mb HD SATA150. I have put everything on hold as I want to get some feedback about this. Also, by opening it up I was going to also put some artic silver on the CPU and GPU, worth it, i think so, but wise? I have experience opening Dell laptop as I had the 1705 and I could disassemble the whole thing and put it back together confidently due to mods I did.


What do you think?? Thanks
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post #2 of 7
1/10/08 at 7:59pm
Voiding your warranty and potentially wrecking your system is not the best move. I would say doing a HDD/Ram upgrade as it's straight forward enough might be worth the risk but artic silver? On a macbook maybe but on the 1530 it's not worth it as it runs so cool anyway.
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post #3 of 7
1/11/08 at 5:25am
Looks pretty simple to do on the 1530......just did it on my vostro cpu heatsink and it reduced the max cpu temp from 72 to 67 deg C

Whether this sort of heat reduction is worthwhile is up to you,and you may or may not get more temp difference than I did,but as long as your careful,don't burr screws and generally make a mess,I don't think a tech would care less if your notebook has to be repaired at some stage.

How hot/cool do they run?
LL
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post #4 of 7
1/12/08 at 8:16am
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Originally Posted by keypad View Post
Voiding your warranty and potentially wrecking your system is not the best move. I would say doing a HDD/Ram upgrade as it's straight forward enough might be worth the risk but artic silver? On a macbook maybe but on the 1530 it's not worth it as it runs so cool anyway.
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Originally Posted by gerryjoson View Post
Looks pretty simple to do on the 1530......just did it on my vostro cpu heatsink and it reduced the max cpu temp from 72 to 67 deg C

Whether this sort of heat reduction is worthwhile is up to you,and you may or may not get more temp difference than I did,but as long as your careful,don't burr screws and generally make a mess,I don't think a tech would care less if your notebook has to be repaired at some stage.

How hot/cool do they run?


Hey guys,


thanks for looking at my post. Alright, wow where in the world did you get that pic of the 1530 inners? That is awesome. The other day I open my laptop and saw exactly what was pictured. Now, one thing that i noticed that now has me hesitating is the material being used between the copper and the CPU. Its foam like and sticks very well to the die. As soon as I saw this, I think I'm going to hold off on the artic silver. I will be doing the HDD upgrade to the 16mb 200GB HDD 7200rpm.


I'll get back to you guys with temps.The reason for the artic cooling is for the mild OC that I would like to do. Working on that gerryjoson thanks so much for the help, i'll be working more with you. Thanks guys
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post #5 of 7
1/12/08 at 11:17pm
I have an E-cd of the training manual,its 70mb,I could upload it to filecrunch or something if your interested....maybe pm me as I'm not sure about the rules of the forum with things like that.

Re the blue wax pad's,the only thing you can really replace it with is the correct thickness copper shim,I did this back when Inspiron 8600's were popular but the loss in temp made it hardly worth the effort.
Also if the shim is a bit thick,you run the risk of damaging the chip when you tighten the heatsink to the MB.

My advise is to leave the pad on there unless you really have an interest in modifying etc.The memory for the video card looks like its passively cooled which may be a determining factor in overclocking with stability,the XPS M1730 video card memory has a heat pipe running over each of the vid cards memory and the 8700GT memory only runs 100mhz faster than your 8600GT....so it was obviously a factor when they designed the cooling for the 1730.....just something to think about as well.

The last 3 dell notebooks I have had,have had a horrible greenish paste on the cpu for transferring heat [no pad],which always seems to have gone hard, have cleaned and replaced this with AS5 with a noticable drop in temp for the cpu's.

Maybe,like keypad says,if it runs cool,leave it alone,at least until you try a bit of oclocking and see what temps are happening.
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post #6 of 7
1/13/08 at 10:18am
1) It is relatively easy to access both the CPU/GPU, and the hard drive. Both are accessible from panels at the bottom of that laptop.

2) You will want to use at least a 200GB 7200rpm hard drive, because they are 3rd generation 7200rpm drives. A 160GB hard drive is 2nd generation, and will not have the speed improvements you are looking for. Go with a 3rd gen hard drive (like the Hitacho 7k200), and you'll get a 10% performance boost over even other 7200rpm hard drives.

3) It is NOT worth putting arctic silver on your CPU/GPU. I did the same on my M1330, and it made ZERO difference.

4) Overclocking? Are you nuts? First of all, the cooling on the laptop isn't ready to handle much more than what it can handle right now. Second, your battery life will suffer if you try to overclock and crank up voltages. If anything, I would undervolt your laptop, so that you let it run cooler and longer.
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post #7 of 7
1/13/08 at 1:14pm
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Originally Posted by kent1146 View Post
1) It is relatively easy to access both the CPU/GPU, and the hard drive. Both are accessible from panels at the bottom of that laptop.

2) You will want to use at least a 200GB 7200rpm hard drive, because they are 3rd generation 7200rpm drives. A 160GB hard drive is 2nd generation, and will not have the speed improvements you are looking for. Go with a 3rd gen hard drive (like the Hitacho 7k200), and you'll get a 10% performance boost over even other 7200rpm hard drives.

3) It is NOT worth putting arctic silver on your CPU/GPU. I did the same on my M1330, and it made ZERO difference.

4) Overclocking? Are you nuts? First of all, the cooling on the laptop isn't ready to handle much more than what it can handle right now. Second, your battery life will suffer if you try to overclock and crank up voltages. If anything, I would undervolt your laptop, so that you let it run cooler and longer.

Good day lad,


Thank you for the suggestion of the 3rd Gen 7200rpm HD, I will be getting one shortly. I have decided that I'm not going to be putting any artic silver for cooling.

As for OCing. You are very right in pointing out that the cooling in the latop was not designed with OCing in mind. Then, again are all computer hardware designed for OCing, NO. But with a little of knowledge of your hardware and BIOS you could mildly OC what your working with. One thing that you mentioned which I thought was rubbish, is stating that my battery life would drain. Although true, I would come to ask, who in there right mind would be OCing on battery power? If I were to OC it would be with the bloody plug in the socket. My computers configuration would change drastically if I were to take it on a business trip to Whales. Well chaps, all said with a kind heart and I still thank you for your input. Good day.
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