Gateway FX Disassembly Guide (Covers all 17in FX Notebooks)

[TANWare]

I wanted the NP9270 but that has been delayed. I may go with a NP9170 and 7970 but I have heard Clevo is not cooling the Vram with the GPU heatsink and this may kill that for me.

[Hammerfest]

And I'll be using the guide again. I purchased the modular metal GPU fan and heatsink. I am waiting though to decide on if I am getting another laptop. If I don't I'll be also upgrading the SSD to a 240GB and data drive to 750GB along with a USB3/eSata dock..............

Modular metal GPU fan/heatsink? You mean the OG one where the fan is not attached to the Heatsink structure?

I switched from the P-78 setup for the GPU HS/Fan to the P-79 setup and noticed temperature drops... even with cooling 3 extra PWM modules!

[TANWare]

Right, the all metal modular unit.

[Dramacydal]

Who has the ballz to break your laptop into parts?

[Deadmarine]

Used this guide like two months ago to clean the fans on my computer. Was great and easy too follow. Can't believe how much cooler my laptop runs now with clean fans.

[sinister_mosquito]

This guide is awesome! I used this previously to clean the fans and put decent TIM in all the needed places and am using it now to fully replace the case on my FX. (Yeah, it's the only laptop I've ever had that outlived the case! lol) Thanks again for this!

[TANWare]

This guide is awesome! I used this previously to clean the fans and put decent TIM in all the needed places and am using it now to fully replace the case on my FX. (Yeah, it's the only laptop I've ever had that outlived the case! lol) Thanks again for this!

LOL, mine is almost 4 years old now. Longest I have ever had one machine. My case while a bit dirty still has a long life left to it. While it runs Win7 like a true champ the I wants new hardware i getting to me.

In my signature you can see where that is leading.............

[sinister_mosquito]

LOL, mine is almost 4 years old now. Longest I have ever had one machine. My case while a bit dirty still has a long life left to it. While it runs Win7 like a true champ the I wants new hardware i getting to me.

In my signature you can see where that is leading.............

That looks like a sweet machine! Be sure to keep us in the loop on that one.

[TANWare]

That looks like a sweet machine! Be sure to keep us in the loop on that one.

I am expecting it will be a monster performance wise. Even the i7-3610 just kills the C2D or even the C2Q in every benchmark by a long shot. TBH in casual use I doubt I'll see much of a difference.

Where it will make a huge difference is when I convert photo's or video. I shoot in raw format and to convert a short 136 picture set to JPEG takes 10 minutes and 45 seconds at 3.2 GHz on the P79. A bit longer if I do other things at the same time. With the new system I expect that time to reduce significantly. No video before could covert real time as I could easily be down to only 17 FPS. Now I expect that to reduce as well. I should note though as since those conversions are single thread the x9100 at 4.0 GHz was faster unless converting 3-4 videos at the same time.

I am not huge on gaming so the GTX675m is a waste on me other than benchmarking. The fermi core is know for being OpenGL crippled, this is what I mostly would have used it for. I think Kepler based cores are even further crippled unless you go to quadro cards. Even with the cripple it should still be faster than the GTX 260m................

[sinister_mosquito]

Man your notebook is going to kick my desktops rear quarters! lol Where are you ordering from?