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Heya,

I recently acquired a mint condition T520 equipped with 2760QM, FHD and all the other good stuff, WWAN, etc.
Opening it up for inspection and possibly reapplying some thermal paste, I noticed that the paste had been applied recently; one of the cooling unit's corners has probably been bent during that process, resulting in the heatsink not sitting flush with the GPU-chip.

Now, when in search for a new HSF, I was wondering if the HSF-unit from the W520 fits in my T520, or if I'll have to go with the same type of unit that it came shipped with?

Seeing as I have a QC processor, I'd probably benefint from the bigger cooling unit from the W520, yeah?

Physical mounting layouts does not match between T520 & W520 heatsinks. To do so, needs W520 motherboard swap if inclined to do that for better cooling but GPU is not made for specific normal use.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

thinkpadcollection wrote:Physical mounting layouts does not match between T520 & W520 heatsinks. To do so, needs W520 motherboard swap if inclined to do that for better cooling but GPU is not made for specific normal use.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

Thanks for the heads up; I guess I wouldn't make much use of the Quadro card nor 32 GB RAM in this machine, so I'd probably be better off just swapping the HSF.

Thanks again!