i86 Heat Mod Complete :) Bench

Well after the long week of learning and experimenting, I finally finished Malone's heat mod. This allowed me to successfully get to 3442 on 3DMark03 without a hitch on an OC setting of 402 core/300 memory. (Temperature runs well no matter what the load)

Here are a few tips I found for those who are interested in heat modding their i8600 with the M10:

1) For the core, use a 3.1x3.1cmx1.5mm copper plate and there is no need for gluinig the plate down (it's a perfect fit )

2) Use .025 copper plating for the VRAM since 1.5mm .062 is too thick and will cause the computer not to boot

3) Do NOT overtighten the screws at all! Scared the crap out of me since if too much pressure is placed on the dye/vram the computer will not boot. Tighten only enough so that the screws are "snug" enough to not fall out

Hope these help out in some way!

This was an excellent site provided by Andrew/Malone on Notebookreview.com
http://www.bay-wolf.com/8500videoheat.htm

Well after testing for about 3 days now, it's running excellent with an average of 20 degrees F difference but even more significant when the GPU heats up. (Never goes above 175F)

Benchmarks i8600:
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http://www.students.niu.edu/~Z107528...600_bench.html
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Any thoughts or questions are welcomed and a many many thanks goes out to Evo, Noids, and Malone for helping me out!!

I originally did a picture tutorial but am deciding not to use it due to the bad quality of my great 6-year-old digital camera

I also gave it some thought about making 3.1x3.1 copper pieces for sale if people are interested. I spent some time (and stress getting there) to pick up 1.5mm copper and thought it might be useful for others too. Any comments are welcomed.

~GMCloud

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UPDATE! 8/5/04: For those who are interested in purchasing the copper plates needed to preform this mod, you can now purchase them from me at:

http://www.students.niu.edu/~Z107528/sales/

Hope this helps!
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Hopefully I get what you mean but I only used one layer of the .025 for the VRAM and one layer of .062 copper for the core. Cut then filed and cleaned. I did not add the extra piece of copper to connect to the heat pipe though although that could have been useful, I had no need for it.

~GMCloud

The mod was a heat modification to the i8600's ATI Radeon 9600 card. At stock settings and hardware, the GPU for the i86 runs HOT....I mean, real hot (mine hit ~200F)

What I did was use a copper plate (which if you wonder why dell didn't do this in the first place, it's cost....it's expensive) and replace the OEM thermal pads that connect the GPU's core to the casing (the casing is the metal that absorbs the heat and transfers it to the heat pipe and then to the fan) with copper. This dramatically decreases the temperature of the GPU and allows massive overclocking that is safe and still runs cooler than the stock hardware and settings.

~GMCloud

lol, thanks aero for the handywork

Sorry about the delay guys, I'm surprised my notifications didn't come on....:/

The VRAM dimensions are 5.5x.1.5cmx.025in (would have done the conversions but thought that'd work) and was not glued at all. It stayed in place perfectly and with just enough AS5 to stay firm.

The copper plate I purchased from a bulk copper manufacturing plant in chicago (LONG drive....lol) and the .025 i bought at a local store. Noids I sent you a PM also--That's a heck of a lot of postage for a piece of metal, lol.

~GMCloud

Spike CYPM. Whackamac, let me check with Aero737 (he's got a i9100) and he knows his machine a bit better than I do. (He just put some pics up too of every component of his comp so I'll take a look)

~GMCloud

Edit: Been606 and Noids CYPM/e-mail also. I'll hopefully have some more info for you in a bit.