Cooling mods/upgrades for GX630/MS-1652 ?

What cooling mods/upgrades are there for the GX630/MS-1652?

Any upgraded heatsinks that are compatible with this unit? Good chips to sink that aren't already sinked?

I'm going to be maintaining 2 of these units now and want to keep them both as healthy as possible for as long as possible. Probably going to drop a TL-60 in each one to replace the QL 60 and QL 62 as the TL60 has a 31w TDP vs the 35w of the QL 60 and 62 that are in the units.

 

I don't think you can upgrade the heatsink in any way. The most effective mod for cooling would be drilling holes on the bottom panel and using a good cooler to force more air inside the chassis. I just got a GX630 off e-bay for around $200. What version of XP are you running? I had trouble finding x64 XP drivers for it. I'm having performance issues with 3dmark06. My first run with Windows7 32 bit got me 4887 points. Now, in Vista 32 bit for some reason I can't break 4000. I've tried 3 different sets of graphics drivers. Any suggestions what I can do to optimize performance?

 

Dox optomized drivers are the best performing notebook drivers I've found for Nvidia based cards. As for the chipset drivers I just get the latest from Nvidia directly.

You can get the Dox Optomized drivers here

 

I think there may be something wrong with my video card. I tried the DOX drivers but it didn't improve my scores much. I was thinking that maybe it was running hot and downclocking itself but that's not the case. Thanks for the link. I will try a couple more things to see if I could get this running as it should.

 

The first thing I always do to battle heat in any laptop I own is head to the local artc and crafts store, buy a relatively thick copper sheet and go to down puting a slab between the heatsink and chipsets. This will increase the pressure on the cpu, gpu and chipset creating a tighter seal and thus better heat transfer. You can usually get a sheet not much thinner than 1/16" for about $20 - $30 for a 12 square inch sheet which will go a long ways. When you cut the sheet though use a dremel and not snips then use a very fine sand paper to smooth out the edges. Also if you do this make sure you shim every chip cooled by the heatsink including memory chips. Also do not forget to butter ( thermal paste ) both sides of the bread ( shim ) when doing this except for the memory modules where you will only put the thermal paste between the heatsink and shim and continue to use the thermal pads between the memory and the shim.

 

Thanks. I actually did exactly that for my GX640's gpu. I didn't know you can get the copper from an arts and crafts store. I'll keep that in mind next time I need one. I actually notice that on my GX630, the heatsink makes good contact with the cpu and gpu. The paste seems to spread well. My temps seem ok. The highest my GPU has reached was the low 70s C during 3Dmark06. I'm gonna try a Furmark once I get these problems sorted out.