I know there are a lot of people who already use their laptop as desktop, but my question is different. I have this old (decent) gaming laptop which I used for school and gaming before I bought a macbook and game pc. I stopped using the laptop because it has severe overheating problems. The cpu and gpu are cooled by a copper heatpipe to a heatsink (which I already cleaned more than once), the heatsink is cooled by a single fan.
Because I want to use the laptop as second desktop I was thinking to convert it into a desktop case. If the cooling wasn't a problem I wasn't doing this but in a desktop case there is room for solving the cooling problem and I am not going to use it as a laptop anyway.
I saw this dude trying to fit a cpu cooler from a desktop on a laptop cpu on youtube, which worked very good. (he used toothpaste as thermal paste -.-)
My question is, is it possible to remove the stock cooling system and use a custom heatsink with fan for the cpu and gpu? And would it improve the temperatures much?
Because I want to use the laptop as second desktop I was thinking to convert it into a desktop case. If the cooling wasn't a problem I wasn't doing this but in a desktop case there is room for solving the cooling problem and I am not going to use it as a laptop anyway.
I saw this dude trying to fit a cpu cooler from a desktop on a laptop cpu on youtube, which worked very good. (he used toothpaste as thermal paste -.-)
My question is, is it possible to remove the stock cooling system and use a custom heatsink with fan for the cpu and gpu? And would it improve the temperatures much?