R51 1829 no heatsink on the GPU !!!

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R51 1829 no heatsink on the GPU !!!

#1 Post by _psy » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:33 pm

Hello all my first post here :) i just got a R51 1.5 centrino with ati 7500,15 xga monitor a few days ago ... and i have the always on fan problem :| , once the fan starts it doesn´t turn off ... so i read the posts about this problem and agree that it might be GPU overheating problem , so i open the keyboard today and saw that the GPU have not even a heatsink ! i think that sux and i might install a small usermade myself , what do you think? yours have a heatsink there ?
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it was an option

#2 Post by a31pguy » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:41 pm

I believe that it was an option for a lot of R series. You can install it yourself though.

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#3 Post by _psy » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:30 am

hi thanks for answer , the space there is a little tight and i must install a custom design one ... even smaller than ram heatsink i have on my videocard on desktop computer :| , i want to connect it with the main cpu but it's so little space there with the trackpoint circuit and i don't have a heatpipe :( ... i don't think ibm offers a solution for this

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#4 Post by a31pguy » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:25 pm

You might also want to open up the vending on the case by modding it a bit. I noticed that the thinkpads don't have a tremendous amount of airflow.

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Re: R51 1829 no heatsink on the GPU !!!

#5 Post by K. Eng » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:29 pm

I think that a heatsink is useless if there is nothing to ventilate the hot air from the inside of the machine. My gut feeling is that it is not the GPU. My T40's fan is almost always on when WiFi is on, but the fan does shut off when I turn WiFi off.

Someone in the T series forum claims to have isolated the part of the system board that contains an oversensitive sensor...
_psy wrote:so i open the keyboard today and saw that the GPU have not even a heatsink ! i think that sux and i might install a small usermade myself , what do you think? yours have a heatsink there ?
thank you
bye !
Homebuilt PC: AMD Athlon XP (Barton) @ 1.47 GHz; nForce2 Ultra; 1GB RAM; 80GB HDD @ 7200RPM; ATI Radeon 9600; Integrated everything else!

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#6 Post by _psy » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:22 am

hi , i have the WiFi off all the time the fan doesn´t stop , i hope that the cpu fan will drive the hot air out maybe ibm took that into design someway

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