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Hello,

First time I build a Frankenpad, very happy with it, so far so good.

I hate to ask stupid question, but I really didn't find something conclusive on internet. What is the correct heatsink to use with a Frankenpad? I'm currently using the heatsink from T60, but the left side of the palm rest is a bit warm because of the integrated GPU. I have bought a heatsink of a T61 from ebay, but when I mount it it does not fully cover the GPU, the seller said it is for a 4:3 14 inch T61, not really sure.

So my question is, what is the best heatsink to use with a Frankenpad?

Thx

This question has actually been covered a LOT (!) on the internet, and especially on this forum. I therefore suggest that you dive into these threads, as a start:

Frankenpad cooling questions

Frankenpad T60/61 cooling question

Parts for the ultimate 15” T60 UXGA FlexView w/T61(p) mobo?

Some FrankenPad questions

Frankenpad parts

My Frankenpad Conversion and Heat Sink Mods [+PICS]

Frankenpad Questions

T60/T61 FlexView FrankenPad Questions

Frankenpad T61 mobo on T60p 15" - heatsink question

T60 frankenpad - Lenovo Community

FrankenPad-Wiki

Johan

Take a T500 fan and swap T61's heatsink fans. Nothing else. T60 and T500 does not land on the chipsets properly in T61 due to height differences.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

I know that this has been discussed several times, but I was really confused reading around recommendations.

Anyway I ended up buying the 42w2028, hopefully will decrease the heat of my Frankenpad

I would be interested in your temps, I have a NOS t61 mobo for future use (at the moment my t60 with 3gb ram, ssd and ati x1400 still holds up), I am wondering what temps I can expect from that build. If interested I have my t500 heatsink mod and current system temps written down in the pinned "How to make your Ati t60 run cool and quiet" thread.

I would definitely recommend undervolting your cpu, it definitely makes an improvement in temps (and doesn't affect performance). Also I seem to remember reading on this forum somewhere, that you can undervolt your nvidia 140m gpu in the t61, to make that run cooler too. I wanted to undervolt my ati x1400 gpu, but there is no way to do that with this card.

I have already undervolted my T9300 with linux-phc. The CPU runs very cool, under normal usage (firefox+ some text editing ) CPU temperature is around 40 C, almost 15 degrees less than my x220 sandybridge i5. Under the same load the GPU reaches 50/55. I hope that with the new heatsink the situation of the GPU will be better. The CPU idles at 35 degrees.

I will post here temps with the 42w2028 which should arrive in a month

Well you could have asked on the Marketplace, I could easily source some and it takes 3 working days to get with them to Italy

Honestly, I've tested numerous fans to make my frankie cool. T61p fan turned out to work the best way. Still, it is the hardware that makes the difference. I ran T9300 ES -58C/88C idle/load and swapped to T9500; temps dropped by 10C each.