What I did was to put 1 or 2mm thick thermal tape onto the heat pipes so that there is contact to the base of the laptop, making the whole base pole a huge heat sink. Then I join 6 router fans 3x2 to make a monster laptop cooler to cool the entire base

1. Remove and repaste the thermal paste with liquid metal / phase change materials.
2. Replace the laptop cooling fans.
3. Supplement your cooling with external laptop cooling pads.

Laptop cooler

There are laptops that do come with LM. It just takes some additional prep work to restrict the Liquid Metal to a set location and only using copper parts. LM reacts badly to aluminum.

At best u can use good quality thermal paste and cooling pad

Define overheating.

Also, what cpu does it have? Modern cpus will just run hot to keep the fans quiet

Not an expert but I'm sure that replacing those fans with better ones will do the trick

Replace the thermal paste and if you have an aluminium backplate, then you can add thermal pads to connect heatpipes to the backpanel

Mock up a 3D fan enclosure for the whole back. Then fit in intake and output vents.

Might look a bit odd but then again you didn't indicate what you wanted.

You’re probably better off undervolting your cpu/gpu if possible.

Laptop cooling pad!

Hell yeah dude!

Though I would consider turning the fan around, the intakes are on the bottom of the laptop so you want the fan blowing fresh air into the box not blowing it out.

Why do so many people still seem to struggle with the temps?? Mine never goes above ~85 C while gaming.

you just need a gap from the bottom I.E it sitting on the desk and not on a blanket. The box and intake fan (now that you turned it around) are prob still choking it off.

You over there laptop gaming like a barbarian when you could be:

https://preview.redd.it/txajryf1f3we1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e505a3edf9eb684d361064f9166853139ae4c3fb

This is the first thing I thought of, Oh Yeah!

definitely insane. if done right, it will work. but most TECs can only jump a delta of 60°C. just keep than in mind.

it won't be more efficient. it'll be worse. but if the goal is to just cool the CPU, yes it will work. you will produce more heat though that needs to go somewhere.

i think its a really cool idea, however i'm not so sure that it's going to be very effective
you're going to need quite a bit of a heatspreader to manage the hot side of the TEC seeing how large it is, and it might end up causing issues or making the thinkpad super bulky for a negligible cooling effect

my suggestion: if you have the time and enjoy working on it, go ahead and see how it turns out

I'm no expert but TEC will only introduce more heat to the system as a whole so I'd imagine it'll just make things worse yes.

I like the out of the box thinking and in theory the copper inside will see air flow over it however the air vented over the oem cooler will be hotter which will reduce it's efficiency so very little net gain

You are just making a tiny heat reservoir. It will work for like 20 seconds and then saturate and not make much of a difference. You'd need a metal bottom case and bond it to that.

there are quite a few problems with this:

the heat on the screen would kill the screen

the copper sheet would cover the VRMs, making them heat up, throttle and reduce power delivered to the chips anyway

zip ties might melt

heat might met the plastic casing

u might cause a short by putting that much copper (Especially foil) over ur motherboard

u might think to also put a heatpipe horizontally above the actual heatsink, but that causes throttling (i assume it blocks indirect airflow that cools VRMs) (I tried it and lost 200pts in cinebench r23, dont bother with that too)

speaking as someone who has spent alot of time trying to mod cooling for tuf a15, all you can really do is clean the fans, use ptm7950+u6pro, add thermal pads on the chokes (grey cubes) and add SMD heatsinks like this https://calcuttaelectronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mini-heatsink.jpg on places on the heatsink with sufficient clearance (above the gpu die on the copper contact for VRAM for example, and upside down on the left heatpipe to the left heatsink.). Dont go any higher than there as the the bottom case is made so that the top portion is thinner, and there is no clearance there.

use kaplon tape any places on the motherboard which has a chance of coming into contact with any of the metals

I did it OP! and my method doesnt need any cooling mods, either. I wrote a linux script that limits my CPU frequency to 800MHZ...still pretty snappy for web browsing, and running fanless

My script wont work on windows, but im sure you can get some kind of software to do this

EDIT: its currently running at 42C fanless, playing youtube

i admire the thought process, though I don't think you fully understand thermodynamics and heat dissipation. a copper block isn't gonna be very good at dissipating heat, you're gonna need some fins even thick chunky fins will be better than no fins. and well yes the copper foil could be effective at extremely low powers(like a raspberry pi or cellphone) it probably won't be as effective as you're hoping.

since you specified light tasks you should see what power options your laptop has, disabling dedicated graphics and telling the cpu to calm down(my laptop lets me set performance way low, cpu goes down to like 700MHz and 7w power draw) this should be quite fine for basic tasks like word processing and light photo editing, and even some web browsing (please use ublock origin tho, ads destroy performance).

ive had similar inquiries in the past, ive been wanting to add another heat pipe to my CPU because it still gets very hot(and throttles) under load despite repasting. my gpu has 3 pipes and never is higher than 70° even when overclocked and fully loaded.

again i love this idea, I'd love to see your progress on it and if you need any advice, i may not be an expert (or really even know that much), but i will certainly do my best to help. please feel free to DM me.

also something that might be overkill but still work, use convection to move water through a radiator to dissipate heat.

I'm currently in process of doing the same thing. Have fun with it.

Have fun with your water cooled laptop

Can't argue with the numbers... 🤷

there are laptop cooling pads out there. just make sure to check that the one you're buying actually works because some of them are useless Edit: I didn't read the last part of your post lol

Make some cardboard shim to raise up 4 corners of laptop (about 3/4 inch) and direct some cool air by any fan (small desktop fan / regular cooling fan or if you can make some case fan to run off 12volt adaptor ).

Note: This is a repost of a post I deleted.

Clean your fans and heatsinks inside the laptop, if you can. For me this made the most difference. I found that my heatsinks' exhaust fins where air is pushed out of the laptop were basically completely blocked, on the inside of the fan housing. Its worth having a crack at cleaning this if you can. it depends how dirty they are as to how much its gonna help obviously, if your lappy is new it might do fuck all. pull them off the laptop before you go blowing air into them, revving your fans manually while connected can be damaging. i was able to separate my fan from the exhaust manifold very easily so, they looked clean from the outside btw... completely fucked on the inside. i used compressed air to help but make sure the compressed air you use doesnt leave residue.

Repaste it. Gelid and tfx are the general consensus on the best laptop pastes on the market right now (combo of longevity + performance). I got noctua h2 because it has good performance in high temps so it suits laptops, whether it lasts longer than 3 months or even two weeks I will find out, I have tfx coming too but its a couple weeks away.

Thermal pads may or may not be worth replacing, to be honest I did not bother.

Cooling pads generally drop around 4c off a laptop. it really depends on the laptop. Most cooling pads are about the same. I just had a quick research on which one was relatively quite on got it. mine is a havit one.

Undervolt your cpu, look up how to do this safely, watch a couple videos on it. get something like throttle stop, get the right benchmarking and monitoring software. do your research then go ahead. its actually very easy, and its actually pretty safe, and kinda fun.

Undervolt your gpu. most laptops share heatpipes/sinks for both the gpu and cpu, which means dropping the temp of either is good for both. As with the cpu, this is relatively easy but does require research and a few bits of software. Youtube is great, but watch at least a few different videos, get a wide perspective on it.

i think that about covers it.. I just recently went on a mission to take care of my laptops thermals and spent fucking ages researching every element of it from thermal paste efficiency to mghz etc (im the kind of guy that will research cooling pads for 8 hours lol)

Let me know if you have any questions. Btw I undervolted using throttlestop and msi after burner, I used hwinfo and cpu-z to monitor stuff, i used prime 95 to stress test my cpu, i used heaven benchmark to benchmark my gpu. these were all free, quick to download and install and easy to use. I think thats all i used anyway.

good luck in ur thermal adventures <3 

Forget all of these complicated solutions.

Lift the back of your laptop up, put a small piece of cardboard there to keep it tilted towards you. This will help with the heat from using it more than almost anything else.

For actual cpu and gpu temps, I’ve found undervolting did very little on my asus and would crash if I tried anything more. I can’t speak to repasting, liquid metal, or thermal pads but maxing your fans will help more than any of these methods. Also a vapor chamber is like magic.

Cooling pads don’t do much, maybe help with the heat from using it or a couple of degrees overall but lifting the back of your laptop and maxing your fans will do the most. Try to have an optimal climate as well, as in a fan or AC. Don’t be in a humid room and so on

I'll say it: disable turbo boost

Cooling pads can do more that just the cfm suggests, depending upon the surface you play on, it may block the vents. A cooling pad elevates it and prevents this.

Cleaning the vents will also be very beneficial moreso if you play near dust.

Add more vent holes (Drill 'em) to your bottom case cover where your cooling fans are located.

cut out a hole in your bottom case cover over the CPU and attach low profile heat sinks using thermal tape to the heat pipes directly over the CPU. M.2 Heat sinks are the perfect shape and size. Buy a used bottom case cover on ebay to cut up so you can restore the laptop to original for resale later.

I'm about to do this to my laptop.

It's going to be far easy to just bolt a few fans on the thing to increase overall airflow. Just putting it upside down will help already.

Anything is feasible with enough thermal epoxy and money.

You can but just be careful not to kink them too much. I bent the heat pipe on my sony vaio laptop and the cooling on the GPU was never the same after that.

You would need a replacement cooling setup that can handle the heat transfer. Bending copper heat pipes again are an easy way to snap em.

For someone new to this, I’d say it’s far from easy. I’ve modified a few laptop coolers myself—desoldering the original heat pipes and soldering on new ones to either improve cooling performance or make the layout more compact. In my experience, it’s very easy to overdo both the soldering and the bending. Too much heat or sloppy technique can ruin the pipes entirely, and bending them improperly can kink or weaken them, making the whole thing ineffective. I’ve only worked with simpler designs—usually one or two pipes max. I’ve never attempted a 4-pipe setup, but getting all four bent and positioned perfectly without damaging them sounds like a serious challenge, even for someone with some experience.