Vapor Chamber for ALIENWARE Area-51m 51M R1

[i.bakar]

so i was doing some research about how to cool this 9900k in the R1 and i came across two product , the first one is water-cooling for the area-51m from aliexpress which is from linus video its not worth it .

the second one is kind of interesting since its vapor chamber for the R1 from EBAY which as far as i know came on the R2 only. 

here is the link for it , out of curiosity any one used it or came across this ?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264882164884

[i.bakar]

so i ordered it, received it and installed it , did a comparison between the stock heatsink and the vapor chamber from ebay and did a video review for it. i included a comparison between them in terms of visuals, thickness, fitting and a benchmark for the temps.

here it is : 

 

 

 

 

here is the result for the same setup ( processor 9900k , thermal paste : KPX, windows 10, overclock to 4.6ghz @ 1.16V, cenebenchR23 for 10 minutes)

however the results was surprisly good so i went for 4.7ghz @1.19V

[ssj92]

So would you say it was worth it? 

[jaybee83]

7 hours ago, ssj92 said:

So would you say it was worth it? 

 

id say yes, were talking almost 10C lower at same voltage and multi and even 2C lower still at one multi higher and +30mV

 

thats basically a delid worth of added cooling right there!

[i.bakar]

quick update on the vabor chamber :

recently i noticed that my CPU and GPU thermal throttle every time i but stress on them so i disasambled the laptop thinking the thermal paste has gone bad , however i found that the vabor chamber has a grean spots on the side which looks like a copper rust from a liquid leak or so .. however i repaste it and cleand it and assamble everything back to find that the issue still there . 

i ended up cleaning and reinstalling my stock heatsink and everything came back to normal and i could say even better then normal .