Johndill Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 For the small amount of people that bought an M18x R1/R2 new from Dell and only ordered one GPU, the GPU2 space was filled with a fan grill blank and an MXM blanking plate in order to maintain the support under the keyboard and block off an unused vent. P/N: A10C09 and A10C11. Those blanks are hard to find (for me in Australia anyway), as I have upgraded to a single RX 480 4GB card, there is flex on the right side of the keyboard due to having no GPU2 leaving a big empty space. So I made a dummy MXM GPU plate from some scrap plastic which allows the right heatsink to be mounted as normal maintaining the keyboard support and keeping the GPU2 parts with the system so they don't get lost somewhere. Some pictures. Making use of a broken X bracket. The slot end is a V shape so it only rests on the slot without touching/compressing pins. Scrap laptop lid. I was going to add supports to emulate the original blank plate but decided the heatsink was better. Alienware M17 R1: i7-8750H | RTX 2070 Max-q | 144hz Alienware M18x R2: i7-3740QM | RX 480 4GB Alienware M17x R4: i7-3720QM | GTX 1060 6GB | 120Hz Alienware Aurora R5: i7-6700K | GTX 1080 SLI | 64GB RAM Alienware X51 R2: i7-4790 | ASUS GTX 1070 Turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxware79 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Really clever and clean Johndill. Next step is to attach the spare heatsink to the CPU heatsink and see if it can the CPU temps, not that I've ever had a problem with my 3920XM. 1 Alienware Aurora R15 - i9-13900KF - RTX 4090 - 32GB DDR5 Alienware M18x R2 - i7-3920XM - GTX 970M - 16GB 1866Mhz DDR3L - Samsung 970 Evo with MXM to NVMe Adapter - Custom Delft Blue Alienware X51 - i7-3770 - NO GPU - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware M17x R3 - i7-2760QM - GTX 580M - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Area 51 ALX - i7-975 Extreme - GTX 980 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R2 - i7-3770K - GTX 670FTW - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R4 ALX - i7-3930K - GTX 1060 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R4 ALX - i7-3930K - GTX 670FTW - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johndill Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/27/2022 at 1:49 PM, Maxware79 said: Really clever and clean Johndill. Next step is to attach the spare heatsink to the CPU heatsink and see if it can the CPU temps, not that I've ever had a problem with my 3920XM. Thanks. 🙂 I had a look through my scrap bits & pieces but didn't find an old laptop heat pipe that fits. But I do think that could be possible. 🙂 Have you seen this thing before? Fully built in water cooling loop with pump. 😄 https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/23/2896443/asetek-liquid-cooling-laptop-overclocked-alienware-m18x Alienware M17 R1: i7-8750H | RTX 2070 Max-q | 144hz Alienware M18x R2: i7-3740QM | RX 480 4GB Alienware M17x R4: i7-3720QM | GTX 1060 6GB | 120Hz Alienware Aurora R5: i7-6700K | GTX 1080 SLI | 64GB RAM Alienware X51 R2: i7-4790 | ASUS GTX 1070 Turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocas Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 I tried to contact to request cooling by RTX 4500. No reply. https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.w4004-22143727929.28.32cd6918vFTPQ6&id=593592545291 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocas Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 These are also interesting. https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.1.473e4c4eFGf0Oq&id=658794585837&ns=1&abbucket=7#detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johndill Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 11 hours ago, rocas said: I tried to contact to request cooling by RTX 4500. No reply. https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.w4004-22143727929.28.32cd6918vFTPQ6&id=593592545291 This one looks very interesting, I can see a water inlet & oulet on there too. 🙂 Alienware M17 R1: i7-8750H | RTX 2070 Max-q | 144hz Alienware M18x R2: i7-3740QM | RX 480 4GB Alienware M17x R4: i7-3720QM | GTX 1060 6GB | 120Hz Alienware Aurora R5: i7-6700K | GTX 1080 SLI | 64GB RAM Alienware X51 R2: i7-4790 | ASUS GTX 1070 Turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxware79 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Yeah I remember seeing that video years ago, pretty cool idea. Pun intended 1 Alienware Aurora R15 - i9-13900KF - RTX 4090 - 32GB DDR5 Alienware M18x R2 - i7-3920XM - GTX 970M - 16GB 1866Mhz DDR3L - Samsung 970 Evo with MXM to NVMe Adapter - Custom Delft Blue Alienware X51 - i7-3770 - NO GPU - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware M17x R3 - i7-2760QM - GTX 580M - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Area 51 ALX - i7-975 Extreme - GTX 980 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R2 - i7-3770K - GTX 670FTW - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R4 ALX - i7-3930K - GTX 1060 - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Alienware Aurora R4 ALX - i7-3930K - GTX 670FTW - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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