m15x body modifications for airflow

While cleaning out my m15x's airways and re-thermal pasting the GPU, I noticed part of the GPU had burned up completely (probably because of the terrible overuse of thermal past in the original build). I haven't contacted Dell/Alienware about getting a replacement gpu since I doubt it is still covered by warranty or I think they would call my warranty voided since I used altered drivers. The price of replacing the card is too steep for me right now, especially since I plan on building a new desktop system in the near future. For now though, I would still like to game on the laptop, but the temperatures are off the charts; when playing games I have to place the laptop on an AC unit (set on fan only so no condensation) just to keep temperatures under 80C. The laptop never moves from the desk once I'm setup (hence my move to a desktop soon), so I've considered altering the laptop's frame to increase airflow and maybe to beef up the heatsinks so I can at least use a smaller fan to blast air through the thing.
Has anyone made these kind of modifications or have ideas as to what could work?

 

Your warranty wont be voided for using drivers other than dell's. I use ati drivers all the time and if I am in need of tech support from dell regarding the gpu, they always make me install dell drivers for the card to see if the problem still exists. Dell drivers for this card are very old. Its better to just get them off ati's website.

 

take a look there if you don't mid going hardcore

http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...cations-custom-builds/594975-pimp-my-ufo.html

 

Thanks Granyte, checking it out now.

@Circuit
the thing I'm worried about is that it was modified drivers from laptopvideo2go rather than official drivers from a big company. In any case, I think it was a combination of the moded drivers with the bad thermal grease and giant furballs that led to 100C+ temps in my card, and I'm fairly sure the 8800gtx loses its warranty above that.
But if I'm wrong and the warranty lasts 3 years, please someone let me know before I go zomby-fying the poor thing.

 

It looks like a good start for me, but I'm going to need to get much more drastic if I want to be away from giant fans while gaming. The heat problem on my card now that part of it mini-chernobyld is ridiculous. My best idea that doesn't require sawing at my silver baby requires the merging of a tv-dinner tray and a box fan...loud, but it will probably manage the heat enough.

 

my solution was using what the laptop adrealy had and force the air to cycle around inside