err... fyi, my warranty is still intact. in fact, there's actually once i get the green light from dell to change the motherboard all by myself, so they just have to send me the replacement board.

Where to obtain that arctic cooling thermal grease? Any manual instructions on how to do it?

ask alex, he is the mod-meister, lol

you can use either artic silver 5 or artic cooling mx 2, either one is good. i personally use mx2 and i got it from lowyat plaza. mx2 does not conduct electricity, does not require run it time and has a claimed life span of 8 years. performance is similar or better than silver 5. instructions will come soon on this V2 thread... haha..

Nice... I think i'm going to open up this lappy to clean the dust inside and to apply the thermal paste later when the warranty is over.

I just re-assembled my 1520. I took it apart and applied AS5 on the CPU, and clean out both the heatsink for the CPU and GPU. As for the GPU, i will have to source for some heat pads as the ones that is currently on the GPU are thick.

A few dust bunnies were lodged in between.

When i first got my 1520, temps for CPU and GPU were fairly low. After a year, i keep getting warning messages from NHC, saying my temps have exceeded 80c. Even at idle, the CPU temp would hit 45~50c.

This post has been edited by WildChai: Oct 6 2008, 08:02 PM

My friend is getting one too. Any idea which payment method is most suitable for Dell? There's 0% interest thing right? If use CC other than the bank, need to pay how much?

wanna help me with applying it? lol

btw dell laptops doesnt have warranty sticker plastered all over like other laptops.

then wats ur temp now??

it's fairly straight forward and simple to dis-assemble the panels. But just have to be very very gentle and careful. Yup, that's the good part, no stickers anywhere.

So far the temps looks good....considerably lower than before. But i guess will have to wait for the AS5 to properly set to get the best result.

CPU idle at 35~39C. Haven't tested on games yet. Still gotta get a cooler to maximize cooling, since when i'm out of country, i use my laptop practically 17hrs a day.

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thts good temp..below 40..but still will apply on it after my warranty

You can try to call them,and ask for it,but i doubt it'll materialised. Maybe u wanna opt for 1720 instead,it still got 8600M GT.

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Added on October 7, 2008, 9:21 pmWat antivirus antispyware you guys using other than the bundled McAfee Security?

This post has been edited by elwwmatrix: Oct 7 2008, 09:21 PM

avg anti virus...

i bought the Kaspersky Internet Security....pretty good....it's fast though.

ya..used kaspersky anti virus b4..not bad and can scan more viruses..but of coz need to pay software a lot better than free software

just thought i shared u guys with the new toy that arrived


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y u bought tht server for?

to host porn

why post in Mobile Computing section ??? related to inspiron 1520 ?

lol, just sharing my toys with fellow dell owners. i own a 1520 too. anyways, its for my father's business, as it has raid