I don't think it's particularly loud at all, even at full load, but I don't know what you're expecting. It's using a slightly modified T500 fan, so you can try to guess what it sounds like based on that.

If 51NB can economically make custom motherboards, why can't Lenovo? Well Lenovo would also have to provide support and warranty, among other things. So there are a few more things to consider that 51NB has the luxury of ignoring. It should be noted that 51nb does provide a good warranty and respon...

The T70 looks pretty cool except for the loss of docking support which rules out adding a GT 640 card as described by one user. You can extend an M.2 slot from the T70 to attach a GPU with much better performance than the original dock, although it's up to you to construct a clean solution. However...

Did you do -50mv on iGPU both slice and unslice?

I've applied the liquid metal TIM (phobya) and temperatures are much better. There's one core that's spiking above the others during stress tests (but not real-world testing of rendering) that's kind of weird, but even that is still better than before. http://i.imgur.com/YABwSb1.png Results are simi...

Buying a camera is excessive... I think a regular cooking thermometer measuring at the beginning, middle, and end of a pipe would work alright for this. It's not super necessary though.

According to dh3001 from 51nb, the ACPI problems are known bugs and should hopefully be fixed in a future BIOS update. So, just need to work around it for now. Could your heatpipes be empty thanks to (invisible) cracks? Maybe, reworking them (like they did to convert this heatsink from the T500 part...

I looked at the heatsink with a thermal camera trying to determine if my kinked heat pipe was causing a problem. I did not notice a difference, but I did see that all 3 pipes were not getting nearly as hot as they should. I think this strongly implies that the weakest point is the copper block, whic...

I was originally trying to get away with removing as little frame material as possible, so I wanted to avoid completely removing the struts if I could. On the strut that remains, I can see that it's no longer pressing on the copper plate or the inductors because I can freely slide a piece of paper a...

The ACPI driver they are using for Windows 7 is actually this hotfix from Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2920188/update-to-add-support-for-tpm-2.0-in-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2 It's not available for Windows 10 because theoretically it's already integrated. It might be...

Hey, I've also been reading your posts on thinkpad-forum.de :) I have the same problems with the lid and with the battery/power cable. The power cable recognition does appear to work a couple times after booting, but not instantaneously. If I turn the computer on and then unplug the cable, there wil...

Update on the heatsink. I think I have it under control now. I removed some more material from the frame around the inductors and then removed and reseated the heatsink after reassembling everything. PCB flexing was probably contributing to the problem. Temperatures are now within 5c with everything...

The CPU temperatures were totally miserable initially. 20-30c discrepancy between the highest and lowest core temperatures under load. The heatsink was making extremely uneven contact with all the pressure on the right side of the die. http://i.imgur.com/0XgKo8t.jpg I lapped the contact plate (you c...

It's still kind of early for a real review, but here are some weird/notable things. Generally everything is working exactly as you would expect for a modern laptop with a 7700HQ. I have 32GB of RAM and a 1TB Samsung 960 Pro SSD, running Windows 10. I had one unexpected crash the day I assembled ever...

Just took a more in-depth look at this. I had a feigning interest (barred only by $$$$, as usual), but lost interest completely upon seeing a) Kaby Lake CPU (no Windows 7 support), and the Ultrabay doesn't have 2nd battery or serial/parallel I/O connector, both of which I use very regularly in my T...

QXGA screen is working now. In case anyone needs a solution for this later, the EDID needs to be flashed the same as if you are using the display with a regular T60 (same procedure applies). I thought I had read somewhere on 51nb that it wasn't necessary, but I must have misunderstood.

This is all I could find for 14" specifically: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwrlfUqjs6ikTW04dmtxZGNDVXM/view?usp=sharing I got the QXGA display today, but I haven't been able to get it to work yet. It seems to be detected (observing from external monitor) and the backlight comes on, but the imag...

I forgot you had to be logged in. Here are the posts exported as PDFs. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwrlfUqjs6ikMDBGaTZzcEozVkE/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwrlfUqjs6ikVF96OE10cFdLVEE/view?usp=sharing I'll try your suggestion about the wifi cable. I have to take the LCD hou...

official instructions from HOPE: https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1740104 alternate instructions from user aq5200: https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1748342 Main plan (15"): completely disassemble T60 to the point of removing the motherboard as per original Lenov...

Well, it took almost all day, but I successfully put the T70 together. Here are some pictures with commentary. This is from the first batch. I wanted to order one right away because it was uncertain if future runs would still use the CM236 chipset like the first one, or downgrade to HM170 with 4 few...

I received the T70 motherboard today. I'll give a report once I've had a chance to assemble everything.

in the OP, it says: If you have an XGA machine, I would recommend buying the SXGA+/UXGA inverter for your model. Key word being "recommend" in the above. So is this actually required? Maybe sometimes but not consistently? Or is there some other unmentioned deleterious effect that will appear if the ...

I'd like to report that I successfully tested an external GPU (egpu) through the mini pci-e slot. Here's a screenshot. I used a PE4C 3.0 adapter with an old Quadro 600 to test. The external GPU functions fine, but the internal GPU was disabled. This should be fixable with some additional work, but t...

I'm having trouble with the mini displayport. It works for a few seconds, but then gets stuck in a continuous loop of connecting/disconnecting the display, causing both the laptop and external display to turn on and off as long as it's plugged in. I'm using a Dell 3007WFP-HC with dual-link DVI to mD...