Alienware M17 R1 Frozen project

Well I'm going to make a lot of cooling mods to my M17 R1 so I decided to create a thread to record all of them.

1st Mod

Tonight I start working with the bottom case. I bought at frozen cpu this two things:

120mm Honeycomb Fan Mesh Grill - Black - FrozenCPU.com
ModRight ModMesh 500mm x 500mm x 1.0mm Diamond Style Aluminum Mesh Panel - Black - FrozenCPU.com

The honeycomb one will be used as fan filters and the other one will be the new bottom case.

Pics can be found here: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=EADC3A9A1614D45!290​

More to come

 

Temps and scores​

All of this temps is an average after each run. I make every run as close to each other as I could, note that I eliminate the two reading for the cpu and make an average between them. (Easier to write it here)

Intel Core 2 Duo T7500

Stock clocking speeds

3D Mark 06

No mod	With the mod	1st Mod
CPU Temp
71.49	70.80	-0.69
GPU Temp
67.57	66.55	-1.02

3D Mark Vantage

CPU Temp
67.97	66.97	-1
GPU Temp
70.28	69.52	-0.76

Idle

CPU Temp
53.12	49.12	-4
GPU Temp
56.33	53.13	-3.2

SC2 Maxed

CPU Temp
75.36	68.87	-6.49
GPU Temp
87.42	77.84	-9.58

Overclocked CPU: 2559.5MHz GPU: 710/900

3D Mark 06

No mod	With the mod	1st Mod
CPU Temp
77.78	74.40	-3.38
GPU Temp
81.21	76.52	-4.62

3D Mark Vantage

CPU Temp
66.63	65.09	-1.54
GPU Temp
82.89	77.51	-5.38

Idle

CPU Temp
54.40	52.15	-2.25
GPU Temp
62.63	58.05	-4.58

SC2 Maxed

CPU Temp
76.74	70.16	-6.58
GPU Temp
89.98	84.68	-5.3

3D Mark Vantage Score: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 video card benchmark result - Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7300,alienware alienware score: P6377 3DMarks
P6377
Graphics Score 7782
CPU Score 4135

3D Mark 06 Score: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 video card benchmark result - Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7300,alienware alienware score: 11468 3DMarks
11468
SM2.0 Score 4873
HDR/SM3.0 Score 6339
CPU Score 2260

 

Temps​

All of this temps is an average after each run. I make every run as close to each other as I could, note that I eliminate the four reading for the cpu and make an average between them. (Easier to write it here). All of this are with the mod (to lazy to install the stock panel, lol).

Intel Core QX9300

Overclocked CPU: 3059MHz GPU: STOCK

Idle
CPU	GPU	HDD 0 (OS)	HDD 1 (Data)
50.55	58.81	53.50	44.10
3D Mark 06
CPU	GPU	HDD 0 (OS)	HDD 1 (Data)
69.28	75.74	52.88	42.12
3D Mark Vantage
CPU	GPU	HDD 0 (OS)	HDD 1 (Data)
63.40	73.55	49.92	41
Unigine Valley
CPU	GPU	HDD 0 (OS)	HDD 1 (Data)
61.71	77.65	54.01	41.31
RE5 Variable
CPU	GPU	HDD 0 (OS)	HDD 1 (Data)
78.86	76.86	52.36	41.57
RE5 Fixed
CPU	GPU	HDD 0 (OS)	HDD 1 (Data)
73.18	69.23	53.52	42

 

I have also modified the bottom cover of my M17, and have 3 12 volt 120mm fans blowing at the bottom of the laptop. I did see a pretty good decrease in GPU temperatures, but the CPU temperature never gets much better.

There is a TON of room for improvement on the CPU/GPU heatsinks, which is where I believe the cooling issue really lies. I'm waiting to see some numbers from THIS thread.

And we should also keep in mind that the M17's idle and load temps really aren't that bad for what they are.

 

Well this is a first step for the cooling mods that mine will have. I see a lot of improvement with this feature. Right now my CPU temps are 45-48 I have never seend a 49< in those temps before.

 

That's great! Thanks for sharing.

 

Well I just bought and installed a QX9300, wow this thing is amazing!! I will make the same tests with this CPU around this week. Then I will update the list.

 

Congrats! That's a nice chip.

Have a look at ThrottleStop if you haven't already.
You'll be able to push that CPU a little further with the proper cooling.

 

I did download it and mess around with it, but didn't know there was a guide, so time to read

 

Added QX9300 data in third post.