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Vostro 1400 overclocking, its crazy.

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Zer0N1nja, Aug 9, 2007.

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  1. manishd3

    manishd3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Arctic silver is like a thermal cooling paste which helps conduct heat away from the CPU/GPU or wherever you put it. It's quite good if you wanna do intense overclocking
     
    manishd3, Aug 11, 2007
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    Rowen Notebook Consultant

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    I should probably start a new thread about this, but as it does have to do with cooling and this overclocking business, thought some of you could help. Since the fan sucks in cooler air from below the laptop, raising the system up or creating better airflow underneath should help with keeping it cool. What is a good notebook stand or something similar for the 1420 that can help "open up" some space below the intake fan?

    After doing a little bit of overclocking last night (600/800) I noticed my laptop got fairly hot. There is almost no space under the laptop to allow for proper airflow. How do you solve this?
     
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    devilsnight Notebook Geek

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    i reached the videocard, it requires you to completely take apart the whole laptop to reach it. The videocard is cooled by a heatsink attached to the fan and inbetween the heatsink and GPU is a copper shim with a thermalpad and then it has some sorta cooling paste on the otherside of the shim. Im going to take it apart again and see if i remove the cooling pads for the Ram of the videocard and the shim + cooling pad over the gpu so even it out and see if i can apply arctic silver to it to make it cool better. My GPU temps are nuts! ive pushed 95 C.
     
    devilsnight, Aug 11, 2007
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    manzi Notebook Evangelist

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    Report back on the temperature changes when you put the artic silver paste on please.
     
    manzi, Aug 11, 2007
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    bhav2k1 Notebook Guru

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    I shall have to take a look at this myself. I am wondering if direct contact between the copper shim and gpu w/ AS5 would help the system transfer heat compared to having the thermal pad in between
     
    bhav2k1, Aug 11, 2007
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  6. Zer0N1nja

    Zer0N1nja Notebook Consultant

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    i'm getting a laptop cooling pad, any sugestions on what u guys think i should get? i dont want to spend more then 40. and yes, for me running 650/825 temps hit 95-96c so it doesnt get fairly hot. I proped up the back of my notebook with a dvd case to improve airflow.
     
    Zer0N1nja, Aug 11, 2007
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    devilsnight Notebook Geek

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    take a look at it, the only problem is that the memory cooling pads will keep the GPU cooling part of the heatsink not match up with the GPU, there will be a gap, im gonna try later today or tommorow, i think im almost out of arctic silver. but if i can bring the temps back down this will be great.!!!
     
    devilsnight, Aug 11, 2007
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  8. BigEmpty

    BigEmpty Notebook Geek

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    95c temps can't be right?

    Isn't that beyond the safe threshold of the GPU? I expect you would be getting a lot of artifacts or blue screened.
     
    BigEmpty, Aug 11, 2007
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  9. chuck232

    chuck232 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Wow, that's absolutely ridiculous. I want to point something out.

    8600M GT DDR2 -
    32 stream processors @ 475MHz = 7.6 GTexels/s
    128 bit memory bus @ 400MHz DDR = 12.8GB/s bandwidth

    8400M GS GDDR3 @ say 800/800
    16 stream processors @ 800MHz = 6.4 GTexels/s
    64 bit memory bus @ 800MHz DDR = 12.8GB/s bandwidth

    So, if that sort of clocks run stable with the 8400M GS, we're talking about very close to stock DDR2 8600M GT speeds.
     
    chuck232, Aug 11, 2007
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  10. devilsnight

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    My 8400gs just scored 4452 3dmark 05,
     
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