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The Complete Disassemble Guide For The Cl56

post #1 of 9
4/27/05 at 7:06am
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THE COMPLETE DISASSEMBLE GUIDE FOR THE CL56
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post #2 of 9
4/27/05 at 9:49pm
Wow, good stuff. Thanks lostbob
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post #3 of 9
4/28/05 at 12:29am
Hmm, I didn't realize the GPU board was removable. I guess this means GPU upgrades are theoretically possible.

Of course I doubt there are any GPUs out there faster than a 9700 that could be installed in the CL56; the CL56 has no cooling for the GPU, either active or passive (That is to say, no heatpipe or heatsink or fan).
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post #4 of 9
4/28/05 at 12:57am
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The board has other stuff intergraded into it also. Like the keyboard, power and shortcut buttons and some other stuff I don’t remember.
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post #5 of 9
4/30/05 at 3:34am
The power and shortcut buttons are definately not on the same board as the GPU. I've disassembled the CL56 from the top. You pull off the top strip over the power/shortcut buttons, and there is a small piece of PCB just for them that plugs into a socket below.
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post #6 of 9
4/30/05 at 3:04pm
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Originally Posted by Guspaz
Hmm, I didn't realize the GPU board was removable. I guess this means GPU upgrades are theoretically possible.

Of course I doubt there are any GPUs out there faster than a 9700 that could be installed in the CL56; the CL56 has no cooling for the GPU, either active or passive (That is to say, no heatpipe or heatsink or fan).
Well, aside from the lack of cooling, is there even another mobile AGP GPU more powerful than the MR9700? I think the MR9700 is the most powerful GPU you can get in a relatively thin and light laptop...there is the MR9800, but can something like that be shoehorned into something like a CL56?
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post #7 of 9
4/30/05 at 5:30pm
I don't think the X700 would be a terribly big stretch.

You misunderstand the problem. The latest and greatest X800 is the same SIZE as the 9700. It is no larger. The difference is in the size taken up by the cooling apperatus.

The CL56 has no cooling at all for the GPU, so you'd have to take something that can run with only minor passive cooling via heat dissipation through the laptop chassis. I think a low-clocked X700 might do it while giving a hefty performance boost, but I doubt Compal will upgrade the CL56.

That said, even the CL56 with some internal changes could support a much faster GPU. Basically what they would have to do is run a heatpipe from the GPU to the CPU's cooling solution, and run the fan faster. This might require some reworking similar to what they did to turn the CL50 into the CL56 (The two notebooks share the exact same chassis but have different internals)
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post #8 of 9
5/4/05 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by Guspaz
The CL56 has no cooling at all for the GPU, so you'd have to take something that can run with only minor passive cooling via heat dissipation through the laptop chassis. I think a low-clocked X700 might do it while giving a hefty performance boost, but I doubt Compal will upgrade the CL56.
Do we have a hardware modifer enthusiast in the house??? Would be nice if someone can develop a cooler for the video cards.
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post #9 of 9
5/5/05 at 12:57am
I wish, I lack the manual skills required for hardware modding

Unfortunately, the type of cooling solution I proposed would likely require a new shape of motherboard. As an example, while the CL50 and CL56 share the same chassis, they have different shaped motherboards.

The change itself would probably be minor, as it doesn't take much room for a heatpipe, but I do believe this is beyond anything that could be done by even the most dedicated enthusiast.
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