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Yeap it is a fan connector, I asked the same question some time ago and one of the Alienware technicians toll me that. But no one knows if it is functional, Im tempted to try if it works but Im a little scared to mess something. Im intrigued with the idea that at first the m14x was designed to have 2 fans but latter they backup. If it is functional will the fan speed be the same as the normal fan?

Mmmm.... very interesting concept. Im a little skeptical about the amount of air it can moves and how it moves. In a normal fan configuration for the m14, fresh air enters from bottom of the computer and exits trough the rear. So the hot air is thrown away and never enters again, But with this dual piezo jets looks like the exhaust and breath are in the same side, so maybe the hot air is suck again. Im in for more tests and results, if it really works is a huge improvement.

You can try ebay, they are about 80$. I bought one for my m17 a year ago and still running strong.

you see I told you, nobody wants to talk about it

For what I have seen water cooling laptops are some kind of taboo mad scientist stuff, almost nobody talk about it, but for me is a very tempting project. I have seriously consider making a water cooling system for my m14x. A system like this developed by Asetek for the m18x Asetek demonstrates laptop liquid cooling on overclocked Alienware M18x | The Verge.

Water cooling in a very small scale is a theme of scientific study today, I think that in the next years we could see the first micro jets water cooling systems for high power portable electronics like laptops. Here are a couple of papers about it http://mems.utdallas.edu/papers/2003%20IEEE%20TCPT%20Microjet.pdf

http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04142005-162001/unrestricted/Montanier_thesis.pdf

This micro jets cooling are to sophisticated to be "homemade" but it might be possible to make a custom super low profile water block for the cpu and gpu in the m14x, something similar to a desktop gpu water blocks. Removing the CD drive and relocating the hard drive you can open some space for the pump and making a custom heat sink for the radiator, like the stock one but with a water block in the top.

wow !!! the only thing more impressive could be if customers find out how much actually the AW computers cost to manufacture

oook I understood, other question. How thick are the stock thermal pads from the gpu and how many thermal pads are from factory? Im preparing to do this mode so I want to be very clear.

The thermal pads you put in the upper part of the mother board are in contact with the palm rest? so the heat is dissipated by the pads from the voltage converters to where? Also the copper shim you put in the PCH is in contact with the palm rest so how the heat is dissipated?

Im about to repaste the gpu and cpu and also thinking to install higher performance thermal pads so thats why Im looking for the pads thickness and how much they are. Also Im following this thread; http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m14x/2130-my-m14x-r2-experimental-cooling-mod-success.html

So you people think that maybe 1mm thick pad is good for replace stock ones?

Does anyone know how thick are the thermal pads and how many are in the m14x?