1992Chevy K1500 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) Ok, so I just opened my computer to clean it out. Guess what? Horrible construction! Plastic crap everywhere! The fan is covered on 4 sides by plastic with NO HOLES AT ALL for any sort of airflow to other crucial components! Plastic sticky crap (kinda like invisible tape but thicker) all over the CPU and most of the MOBO! WTH was HP thinking?! Were the designers high or something?! First chance I get, I'm taking a dremel to it to open it up for airflow. On the good side, my new 2x1Gb memory sticks are now in. I'm letting it charge before turning it on (no real reason, other than I want to). My new 500 GB hard drive will be here tuesday at the latest (I dropped the money on one because I wanted it). BTW, it's a V6000 model. New fan and all the works next summer. Edited October 11, 2009 by 1992Chevy K1500 Quote My comp setup (Not bad for what it is): HP Compaq Presario V6120US laptop with: 15.4" widescreen AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6GHz processor 2x1GB stick DDR2 SDRAM (667 Mhz) Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA HDD 128MB shared video memory Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit 12 cell Lithium Ion battery (actual battery usage time: 6 hours) What it does: On a USB 2.0 Wireless card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treossi Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 my hp was like that too... older one.. took the side panel off... to get "more air flow" and it actually ran hotter..... since there is no actual flow inside the case since it's opened... each computer is different now... now i just run linux on a intel box i built... and a mac pro and mac mini... my "pc" days are pretty much over with Quote Team sundownWESTCOASTSPL.COM we're throwing dbdrag events very soon visit the website for details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8ball2013 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 they were thinking its cheaper to cheap out on the construction when 95 percent of all users will never open it up or know what they are looking at. is that a laptop? I'm not about to look it up but most laptops are not exactly spacious on the interior for any sort of air flow. Quote THERE IS NO BUILD LOG! 1998 Chevy Silverado ext cab Alpine CDA-9887 4 Team Fi 15s 2 Ampere Audio TFE 8.0 2 Ampere Audio 150.4 3 Digital Designs CS6.5 component sets Dual Mechman 370XP Elite alternators inbound! 8 XS Power d3400 6 XS power d680 Second Skin Stinger Tsunami Wiring Sky High A Real Voltmeter not a piece of shit stinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1992Chevy K1500 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) I know, but this one has no airflow or any attempt at cooling. I can understand cheaping out, but wouldn't have been cheaper to use less plastic? (there's quite a lot of it in here, a couple dollars worth at the least). Yes, it's a laptop. A very big one (15" widescreen I think). I wish I had a pic, but my camera is no where to be found. It's getting the works next summer. At least a 50 CFM fan, as much plastic as I feel I can get away with removing is gonna be gone. New wireless card (I can't believe it was removeable). Edited October 11, 2009 by 1992Chevy K1500 Quote My comp setup (Not bad for what it is): HP Compaq Presario V6120US laptop with: 15.4" widescreen AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6GHz processor 2x1GB stick DDR2 SDRAM (667 Mhz) Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA HDD 128MB shared video memory Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit 12 cell Lithium Ion battery (actual battery usage time: 6 hours) What it does: On a USB 2.0 Wireless card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8ball2013 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 plastic is an alternative to metal. dell laptops are worse. I used to have to replace hard drives like 15 times a week because the cooling was so bad. Quote THERE IS NO BUILD LOG! 1998 Chevy Silverado ext cab Alpine CDA-9887 4 Team Fi 15s 2 Ampere Audio TFE 8.0 2 Ampere Audio 150.4 3 Digital Designs CS6.5 component sets Dual Mechman 370XP Elite alternators inbound! 8 XS Power d3400 6 XS power d680 Second Skin Stinger Tsunami Wiring Sky High A Real Voltmeter not a piece of shit stinger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1992Chevy K1500 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) OH, and I forgot to mention, the HDD has a thin metal bar that the screws attach too (the HDD cover uses the exact same screws, so they do double duty) and it's bent (apparently it was too big and had to be "modified" to fit). :01nocomment8so: And I've honestly only ever used 1 Dell, and it had superior cooling to mine. No matter how hard I pushed it, it never broke a sweat. It was someone elses, but dang I wish I had it after seeing the inside of mine. Mine kept burning my legs after a while. The only reason I'm keeping it is, it was ok fast for running Vista on 1 gig of memory (stock) and a 1.6 GHz AMD CPU and I can't really afford another now. Plus, I've had it since December '06 (yeah, that old) so I know it pretty well. Edited October 11, 2009 by 1992Chevy K1500 Quote My comp setup (Not bad for what it is): HP Compaq Presario V6120US laptop with: 15.4" widescreen AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6GHz processor 2x1GB stick DDR2 SDRAM (667 Mhz) Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA HDD 128MB shared video memory Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit 12 cell Lithium Ion battery (actual battery usage time: 6 hours) What it does: On a USB 2.0 Wireless card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1992Chevy K1500 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Just turned it on. OMG, this think is a lot faster! OH, and BTW, the HDD needs replacing because I dropped it and for a time it quit working. It started working again (thanks to some, uhh, percusive maintenace but it's on it's last leg). I've temporarily got everything copied over to my 250Gb external backup drive (at least what I could get) and will replace it to my new drive when it gets here. Quote My comp setup (Not bad for what it is): HP Compaq Presario V6120US laptop with: 15.4" widescreen AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6GHz processor 2x1GB stick DDR2 SDRAM (667 Mhz) Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA HDD 128MB shared video memory Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit 12 cell Lithium Ion battery (actual battery usage time: 6 hours) What it does: On a USB 2.0 Wireless card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moti Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Why are you complaining? Build your own with the proper cooling. It's just a way to cut costs by using a huge plastic duct and minimal fans to cool core components. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1992Chevy K1500 Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) Why are you complaining? Build your own with the proper cooling. It's just a way to cut costs by using a huge plastic duct and minimal fans to cool core components. If I had the money. Course, if I had the money to do half the crap I constantly think about, I'd have a 2005 Corvette with stock trim and a 1500 HP engine under the hood. I honestly did not expect it to be that bad. I knew they cheaped out on some things, but I didn't figure on how much. I'm definitely building my next one from scratch. HP, what's that? Edited October 11, 2009 by 1992Chevy K1500 Quote My comp setup (Not bad for what it is): HP Compaq Presario V6120US laptop with: 15.4" widescreen AMD Turion 64 X2 1.6GHz processor 2x1GB stick DDR2 SDRAM (667 Mhz) Seagate Momentus 500GB SATA HDD 128MB shared video memory Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit 12 cell Lithium Ion battery (actual battery usage time: 6 hours) What it does: On a USB 2.0 Wireless card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiofanaticz Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Most likely the plastic shroud around the fan you are talking about is to suck heat away from your processors heatsink. It be a bad idea to cut it out.... Unless you want to burn up your processor that is. My mom has a Gateway that is almost the same way.. But thats what you get for buying a prebuilt computer.. You sacrifice performance and money for a pos pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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