There are a few things that I use my W520 for that make the CPU kindof warm - eg, kernel builds, bitbake, etc... The fan control seems to stop well short of the fan speed when the control is disengaged and I have noticed that by disengaging the fan control temporarily while doing these things that c...

I've had very good luck with the IC Diamond compound. As some have noticed, it can polish off markings on the tops of heat spreaders, but how often do you read these? I like it because it is completely non-conductive and non-capacitative and settles in pretty quickly (a couple of hours). If you use ...

I just did to replace a T61p that finally died. Why? Part of it for me is having fairly easy upgradability - hatches for dram, hard drive, ultrabay, mSATA, etc... I also got a pretty good price on ebay. The first thing I did, was open it up and clean out the thermal compound on the GPU and CPU and p...

I am setting up an W520 with hybrid graphics. I am not a gamer and don't do CAD stuff so I figure the built in graphics should do fine for me. I would like to fool around with CUDA however (mainly just learning/curiosity). I was wondering if there is anything that prevents you from using the nvidia ...

I have a T61p that I have been using for years that just died (completely). It was running Ubuntu 14.04 and had a 500GB SSD. I have a W520 that I would like to move everything over to (I have a ton of installed applications and would rather not move everything over manually if I don't have to). As a...