Laptop Video Upgrade

captainstupid writes "The friendly folks over at GotApex? have a walkthrough of an interesting hack. They upgrade a Dell Inspiron's viedo card! It's cool to see the heat transfer mechanisms that they use to pull the heat away from the CPU as well as the GPU. Another fun way to void your warranty!"

Comments

Upgrades

[BurritoWarrior]

Now if we could only get them to upgrade their web server...slashdotted already. :(

The Dell "Brand"

[dkresge]

I've learned to never, ever, use my 7500 as an actual "lap top" -- after a while the hair burns off, your skin starts to melt, and you can read the word "Inspirion" backwards on your right leg. Interesting early engineering solution to dissapating heat though.

It's wonderful to see they're handling the CPU/GPU thermal load much more intelligently in the 8500.

Re:The Dell "Brand"

[DTC]

Quoth the parent poster: "I've learned to never, ever, use my 7500 as an actual "lap top" -- after a while the hair burns off, your skin starts to melt, and you can read the word "Inspirion" backwards on your right leg."

DUDE! What's that funny smell?

update re slashdotted:

[Alien54]

They did manage to post this notice

• Update: Yeah, the site is a little slow...We've been Slashdotted. Emergancy Personal are standing by, should the server in fact explode into lil' tiny bits. Which would be kinda cool to see.

I'm actually voting for a meltdown into a slag of molten ash, with the scream of twisting metal collapsing under its' own weight.

but I'm willing to consider other options ....