Granyte

these part are build to be a little flexible so that they maintain pressure on the heatsink without applying to much presure and risk damaging the die under so the choice is yours but if i where you i'd keep them you plan to redo the contact area an reuse the same heatpipes?

thanks the diference i would say it should be around 5 degre idle i can't be 100% sure cause my last test where i monitored the temperature were in december with an ambian temp of about 16 and now the ambian temp is about 32 but yet i see a 2 degre improvemen compared to last december but this is compared to my adrealy modded m17 a stock m17 with no mods idle around 62 mine is around 42 there are detail on my blog and since my fan died 2 days ago i'm relying on an almost passive cooling until i get a replacement fan to put in my heatsink i can't test underload temp

Project 1 The back panel Some time ago some one over the NBR forum had an idea to improve the cooling on the alienware M17 by creating a custom back pannel. I decided to give it a try the goal is improve the size of the air intake and the airflow across the laptop so i though about it that way if i put someting directly over the fan and a hudge air intake just beside it should force the air to cycle inside the laptop. click on the pictures to get a bigger version so we start with this And this is the fan positionings (note that pic is not from my m17 i found it on the web and it was faster to use it then take a picture of mine after i was done with the mod and wanned to game) so the idea is to build something like that (ya ugly i know my picture manipulation skills are VERRY lacking) Material used this mesh use a cuting tool in my case a dremel 4000 with a flex shaft and the metal cutting wheel cut the shape in the mesh after that cut the shape of the air intake in the back pannel (that's water on my back paneli had to clean it cause cutting through a sort of plastic/rubber makes an anoying powder that stick and "burn" your finger) once done assemble both part and ajust the mesh to be sure it fit with mounting holes and other stuf then glue all part together and enjoy. i also covered the original grills that where just over the fans Project 2 a preview of what is comming The pcb you see has been custom designed by me for that project my projects are posted faster over there Granyte and cie but i'll end up posting them here anyway i have quite some modifications plans for that laptop so what do you guys think?

it's all about the C rating of our lipo cell but generaly we cannot obtain such information about the lipo that compose our battery pack naturaly oem generaly won't disclose that kind of information bu since laptop battery are made for (hopefully) long run and not high current aplication so we can assume a C rating of about 2C (C rating will tell us how much amps we can drain from a pack) i'll make the calculations for my laptop since i don't have the spec for the other laptops my battery spec are 97wh, 14.8V, 6450mah, 12 cell made off ICR18650-22E Samsung 2200mah 18650 with a 2C rating so to know the maximum amount of amps that can be drained from a laptop battery pack the pack is rated a 6450 mah 2X6450 = 12900 mah max curent that can be drained in mah 12900/1000 = 12.9 ah so with a 14.8v output 12.9 *14.8 = 190.92W is the absolute max power that can be drained from my laptop batterypack and if i would drain more i'd be exposing me to the risk of seeing my battery pack take fire or even explode my laptop typicaly drain around 172watts when gaming wich is way to close to the danger zone and as such damage the battery pack

hwinfo32, batterybar or hardware monitor gives you wear level the m11x is a special case the battery is built to handle the whole power drain of the laptop i had my m17 for 2 years and passed through 2 battery

i got my plug pulled by accident during a gaming sessions and noticed it 30 minutes later and my wear level got up 22% in one shot

gaming on the batterie is a quite bad idea you guys should monitor your battery wear level i killed my first battery pack that way (ok i admit that my system is of an other caliber but still) yup an other freshly imported from nbr i haven't gotten banned but i honestly hate how they manage the alienware legacy section