Compaq v6000 Mainboard w/heatsink photo.

Hello, as my first post on these forums I'd like to put out a thank you for the info I have gathered here.

BUT.. of course. I'm here being grabby for some more...

Ive had a Compaw v6000 AMD/nVidia for a few years now. It's a nice little lappy and I have a lot of fun with it. Recently I've installed 2 gigs of Micron Tech. DDR2 667 into her. Awesome for Vista, bad for heat. These puppys get VERY VERY HOT. I decided to mod in a little heatsink for them, works very well. Still gets hot, but I have a custom made fan setup for it. I'll post some pictures when I get the final version done...


Anyway, I dont want to pull this bad boy all the way apart, as laptops are usually pretty much a huge pain in the butt to put back together. I'm looking for a photo of the bare board with heatsink attached. What I want to do is hack in a few MORE heatsinks for the CPU/GPU. I play WoW on it and I'm reallly really sick of the system fan going insane. A modded-in heatsink with some thermal cement would be great, but I just really dont want to pull it all the way apart to get at them.

What I plan to do is heat up a razor blade and cut the case where the cpu/gpu is and install the heatsinks that way. I've done this before with my old laptops, but they always went back together pretty flimsy.. Id forget a screw here and there.. well you get the picture.

I've googled up some images but they arent very high rez and I don't want to go cutting the case in the wrong areas.The CPU/GPU seem to be just north of the RAM.. but I want to make sure.

After I mod in these heatsinks I predict that I can get MUCH more superior cooling to the CPU/GPU with this "cooling pad" I've been working on. Right now it's nothing more than a thin plastic box with a hole cut for the ram heatsink, and one for the system fan intake.

Personally I'd like to see HP/Compaq make the CPU/GPU's accessible for upgrades and other mods. I believe the CPU can be upgraded to the ML-60 without problems.

If anyone has, or knows where I can find a high rez picture of these parts, or is willing to post one I'd greatly appreciate it.


Thanks!

Well I made a rough "pad" for cooling. Ill post some screen shots of temps/clock speeds and the doohickey I made. they wont be great, Im at work hehehe

Heatsink on RAM (Copper plate w/thermal cement on bottom stick, then thermal tape on heatsink)





USB Power



Ghetto Cooler from old clear tackle box. Not finished at all, ghettttooooo. I'll put foam around each vent to seal it and clean it up a little. I used silicon glue to seal the air passages and keep the lid closed. The fan is also glued down with this. I told you it was really rough




Opening for RAM and CPU airflow.



Perched



Ghetto RAM heatsink



Heatsink doesnt stick out past the battery bay. The laptop still sits flush on flat surfaces.



Laptop sitting flush on my desk.

Im going to post screen shots of temps OCed and non-OC, cooler thinger and non-cooler thinger when I get home. My office is 75 degrees, my apartment is 65 so its making a huge difference in temps.

I failed horribly to post up the temp differences last night. Sorry. Ill try to get them tonight. A woman Ive known for years came back from Ireland last night so I have a few adult beverages with her.


Hopefully I'll get some heatsinks cemented to the stock cpu/gpu cooling system and finish off my pad thing.


But in the meantime because i'm bored...


The heatsink attached to the RAM is very easy to install. If I were a good boy I'd take pictures.. but I'll just make a quick write-up in case anyone is interested.



-- Remove the battery bay door.

-- Remove both sticks of ram

-- The sticks are in a stacked config, so the next part is trickey. Your attacking a heatsink so that it can soak up and wick away performance robbing baddies right? Well.. the problem is that the bottom stick isn't going to touch the nifty heatsink your installing. I conqured this battle by using an few old VGA ram heatsinks, nipping the fins off, and then grinding it smooth with a dremel tool. You coould use thermal cement but be careful. (Im never going to put this ram in another laptop so I dont care if it's perm. modded)

After you figure out how your going to get the bottom stick all set, reinstall it. Then install the top stick. All good, it fits in right? Awesome.

-- Now you need to cut the ram bay door.

Trace out with a marker or other tool of where your heatsink is going to sit. Nip this out with a pair of scissors or cut it with your dremel.

-- Heatsink fits in? Good. Now it's time to apply it.

-- Use some thermal tape to attach your heatsink to the ram sticks.

BLING! Your good! You should be able to use a cooling pad to keep that heatsink nice and chill. Make a custom cooler to get some overclocking in there too.