Grab copper and a drill, now!

[5150Joker]

Back panel ordered! Thanks to the person that PM'd me! (don't want to mention who unless he doesn't mind). All out of stock now though, hope you got one Forge!

[EIement]

he PMed me too but I just closed my bank accnt (moving to the east coast and my bank doesn't have any branches there) so my only hope was paypal, and it isn't accepted there

[Soviet Sunrise]

Back panel ordered! Thanks to the person that PM'd me! (don't want to mention who unless he doesn't mind).

You mean that stupid board game that they turned into a MMO?

[EIement]

yes, that one Soviet =p I guess he thought you really did have a G51VX-TU? =p

[Soviet Sunrise]

How did you know I have the rare G51VX-TU?

[5150Joker]

How did you know I have the rare G51VX-TU?

Everyone knows about it. Once mine is modded, it will be deemed a Clevo M860-G51.

[5150Joker]

he PMed me too but I just closed my bank accnt (moving to the east coast and my bank doesn't have any branches there) so my only hope was paypal, and it isn't accepted there

That sucks..I won't really be able to do much to mine until I get back to Florida after the 12th.

[EIement]

yea and its already sold out

[Soviet Sunrise]

Everyone knows about it. Once mine is modded, it will be deemed a Clevo M860-G51.

In my book, when a machine is hardware modded to a point where a substantial amount of effort and ingenuity has been put in to make it unique compared to the rest, it is given the "X" suffix to the name. For example, once kaltmond completes his cooling overhaul on his M860TU, it would be dubbed the M860TUX or M860TU-X depending on his preference. Once your G51 mod is complete, it will also be worthy of candidacy for the X badge by a counsel of current X users. We are a small yet elite group of users that defy our warranties and undertake a great amount of risk to take our notebooks to the next level, a level that defines the secret group.

[5150Joker]

In my book, when a machine is hardware modded to a point where a substantial amount of effort and ingenuity has been put in to make it unique compared to the rest, it is given the "X" suffix to the name. For example, once kaltmond completes his cooling overhaul on his M860TU, it would be dubbed the M860TUX or M860TU-X depending on his preference. Once your G51 mod is complete, it will also be worthy of candidacy for the X badge by a counsel of current X users. We are a small yet elite group of users that defy our warranties and undertake a great amount of risk to take our notebooks to the next level, a level that defines the secret group.

How drastic of an overhaul is deemed an X? I'll be attempting the following:

1. Speaker replacements (originals will be kept for warranty)
2. Low profile fan via Y splitter + copper blocks
3. Dremeling of the new panel to open up the fake filter and replacing it with a real fan grill + filter
4. Possible bios flash to 1v and higher clocks depending on how temps improve.

That's as far as I'll take it for now since I don't want to void the warranty unless I find some additional tweaks I can do.