Comment by 💀 requiem
Re: "Notebook conversion - CPU / GPU fan advice sought So I am…"
decant: It doesn't seem to be that bad to be honest. Just found some Noctua and Nofan heatsinks which are rated up to 80W and don't weigh so much. To be honest I don't really care about weight tho because the build will be stationary and the motherboard will be flat on its back, not mounted sideways, so no strain. I wouldn't care if the heatsink was a 30kg chunk of pure copper :D
I went through jcs' build. He's doing something slightly different from what I am hoping to do.
My BIG question is: can I mount a "bigger" heatsink on a Socket M processor? Like those Noctuas etc. are made for LGA 115x sockets... Similar size, but...?
2024-09-03 · 2 years ago
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🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2024-11-14 at 22:40:
How's this project going? Will there be pictures of the coolness when you've figured out how to cool it? :)
💀 requiem [OP] · 2024-11-17 at 12:07:
To be honest it's on pause. Thanks for checking in. I've not yet figured out what to do about the heatsinks. I have two very large heatsinks ready, but mounting them seems to be an issue. I am increasingly thinking that I'd need to have something custom CNC'd or printed... :/
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · 2024-11-22 at 21:10:
Heh... yeah at that point you have to start weighing the costs/benefits. I have a lot of hobbies that I did so well that they became a kind of work to curate... and then it was no longer fun... and so it's still sitting in my workroom, uncurated. I hope this one works out for you someday though... sounds cool.
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Notebook conversion - CPU / GPU fan advice sought So I am in the process of converting my old ACER5920G laptop into a "cyberdeck", or rather, something that looks like the immensely cool old MSX2 computers [1]. I have disassembled the laptop, stripped it down entirely. I now have a bare motherboard. I would like make an entirely fanless system if I can help it, or at least I would like to make the CPU (Intel T5500) and GPU cooled with a massive and "decorative" heatsink, and perhaps add a few...