Heatsink Modifications - Laptop Modding Adventure - Part 3

Laptop Modding Adventure: Part 3

This one is all about improving the VRM temperatures to pave the way for the upcoming shunt mod and the increased temperatures the VRMs will face. This part includes the design and soldering the VRM coldplate to create a modified heatsink. Ultimately the heatsink will be nickel plated in part 5 to use it with liquid metal without the typical liquid-metal-copper-related corrosion/mitigation effects.

The goal of this series still is: An RTX 2070 mobile with 125W and 140W TGP with a ton of documentation and (i hope interesting) data plots.

Hope you enjoy me burning some money ;) Let's hope I succeed.

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[josepmsilva]

Hats off for all your effort! I'm sure it will be rewarding in the end. What a ride this became :D And as always... Great video&content!

[danandrei]

wow this is a great video, the idea to use 3d printed press dies to bend sheet copper is genius

[supernova]

Not many videos like this. Thank you for contributing.

You could've created a 3d model by taking pictures of the motherboard from many angles and used a program to reconstruct the model.

[leovbernardo]

Gave my like before watching the video, as I'm sure it will be awesome!

[Gaetano.]

I shunt modded my 2080 max q and ended taking 5th place in firestrike out of every other laptop with a 2080 max q

[razielle]

Was interested in the desoldering part, since there's a lot of info about how you should not try to solder the heat pipes as they can burst. Most info on the net implies they can burst either at 150C or after 200C which seems vague as hell. There's even a video of a dude on youtube that desoldered an old heat pipe without bursting it and not bothering to check the temperatures, however there are different pipes too. In your case you have thicker ones, while I'm struggling with my HP elitebook that has 2 times thinner pipes and I still can't steel my balls to try desoldering it. Thanks for the awesome video mate.

[Tadders]

Very cool concept. Thank you for sharing with us.

[AutodidactEngineer]

This video is two years old but if you plan to do further modifications like "doubling" the cooling performance then My solution should suffice...get two of the same model coolers and pancake them on top of each other, you'll be adding an aditional 20mm of thickness which your 3D printer can help you design the proper back panel.

[ATM]

Hi!
I got a rebrand of this laptop. And Crucial Ballistix 3200 caught my eye in local store. Looks like the video about these sticks won't be released, so could you at least just tell is it possible to get them running in our laptop?
And is there any profit at all? I don't know why, but this RAM is cheaper than Kingston HyperX or Corsair Vengeance, even though their timings are worse in stock. And basically there are no other options, in the whole country we have only three ddr4-sodimm ram's - Kingston, Corsair and Crucial.
Also I'd like to thank you for your work on telling people about customization of this notebook! Your channel is one of the major sources of information about it.

[RandomChaos]

This video is very cool you earned a sub

[Scale_Hardwarebox]

Did you continue to use thermal pads or replaced them with a thermal paste such as k5 pro? Thermal pads in high-performance laptops are an absolute no-go! The contact pressure of the cooler on the cpu and gpu is worse and the heat dissipation to the cooler is significantly worse. With the thermal paste you also have the advantage that the thickness automatically adapts to the circumstances.

[looker]

Quickest way to disasemble heatpipes and coldplate is to set on glass plate top kitchen stove on high.

[MXRU-pixb]

is that a desktop ryzen chip in a laptop? thats freakin awesome

[sbeezynukka]

I want this heat sink for mine! How much would you charge me for this? I’ll pay!!!

[window-mrro]

bro i have lenovo laptop 2 yr old have 8gb ram, 250gb ssd, integrated graphics card running linux,
i dont play games in it and i clean it every month but then also it get heat and battery drain quickly, and it take much time to boot up even it has ssd only any sol

[PRJ]

buddy can you guide me in soldering a peltier module to my laptop copper plates please i am immersed
in this cooling please help me

[tooru]

bro, can u teach me how to design heatsink for Rog Strix g531GD, this is so amazing

[SamuelPiresN]

Hi, I want to do that mod on my hp omen 15 dc series, but I cant find the shunt resistors, can you help me do it?

[dvids]

hei bro. can i use/add wire copper for my heatsink? considering the material is the same as copper pipes right

[johniccia]

where can i get low temperature solder from? I cant find any.