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what fans do you talk about when upgrading? is there a better fan that can be replaced by the stock ones? also from what i have seen on youtube is that the copper does not get destroyed by the liquid metal, copper simpy absorbs the first layer. after one year just re-apply the liquid metal leaving the absorbed liquid metal on the copper heatsink, this acts as a closed layer now. so essentially the liquid metal makes the nickel plating for you by itself. just put some extra on after a while when it had time to absorb it. here is that video, all that info is in this one :

Hello, I recently bought a nice clean original alienware m15x with the i7-720qm and a nvidia 260m. I found out that my laptop has 12gb of 1600mhz ram already so thats a big plus. also it came with the bigger 240w powersupply. now my upgrade plan is to get the max achievable cpu the i7-940xm and pair it with a 970m or 980m. i want to cool them both with liquid metal from thermal grizzly to give them the best chance, and put a stable overclock on the cpu to narrow the bottleneck a bit. because from what i've gathered the gpu is pretty big for that cpu but wit good cooling and a powerfull oc it should be worth it? something like a 7970m surely is weaker even with that cpu? now my question is, i can not find real info on the thermal pad placement, i can imagine its different for every laptop/heatsink? i found a few pics (i will add one) but does that also apply for my m15x. IMG_5481.JPG.068cb10d6fdff635d4ef08bb73102ee3.jfif