Ugh, tell me bout it Pc in my company have literally thick layer of dust on case for air flow XD Nobody taking care of those. My coworker had to unplug one pc, take off side cover and blow out dust from it with air pressure pistol because of it freezing on reboot
@@philiplubduck6107 well no shit Sherlock, there ain't place for hot air to go out and fresh one being sucked in to cool it off Even table isn't best option, any flat surface basically isn't good pic if you got mid range laptop with intel i5 or ryzen 5 with rtx 3060 Best thing you can do is to get some holder or cooling pad to elevate laptop from surface and allow flow of air. When I have it the way I do, it have specific peak temps depending on games I play, AC black flag is between 45 and 60, CS:GO is between 60 and 70, kingdome come deliverance have peak temp around 75 (it goes usually around 72-73) and watch dogs just sits on my desktop since upon literal launching of game and being in main menu it have 80 XD Also Fallout 4 which is maxed out got around 70 You can get some decent cooling if you know how to set up your laptop correctly for efficient air flow and you take good care of it aaand having thermal paste reapplied can do trick as well
@@philiplubduck6107 D: dang for sure esp since most laptops have intake at bottom and exhaust at the back x.x. I recently opened my 8yo laptop to redo thermal paste. Before it would run at 100% fan at idle. Paste was hard as plastic and the fan had the whole inside of the metal fins covered with dust. Now it runs nearly silent.
But don't do it during your warranty period (first one year) because there is a sticker which will tear off once you open the back and then you wouldn't be able to claim warranty.
@@alanjohn2644, Oh it’s on my MacBooks, they can’t tell if you’ve opened the back up or not. And as far as the thermal paste goes, I never do it if I still have warranty left.
I don't know why they make laptops so hard to clean out the fans, it doesn't come with instructions to do it and it's super easy to accidentally strip the screws. if you strip a screw, then you may as well throw the entire thing in the trash
@@aurabl4ze385plenty of tutorials out there on how to do it yourself plus you learn something and save money at the same time. The biggest thing to have is patience and follow the instructions. Changing thermal paste is easy and laptops are fairly simple and modular anymore especially with cooling.
Precisely. OP talks about "lack of maintenance", and he isn't wrong. But no manufacturer will provide the steps for maintenance in the manual: Anything beyond switching the drives and RAM is advised against.
This. My laptop’s fans definitely need cleaning, but the screws used for the backplate is the (to me, rare) very tiny Torx screw, so I can’t even open it up. One of the screws is also stripped somehow, so I can’t even completely remove the backplate.
This, please do make us a video, with general guides for both computers and laptops, with a subcategory for those pesky laptops that a normal person can't open
step 1: get a compressed air can, a portable air duster, or a datavac. step 2a: youtube is a treasure trove of videos on how to open up laptops. Edit: if you know the model of your laptop, just punch it into the UA-cam search bar, and 90% of the time, there will be a hit. step 2b: iFixit exists. step 3. profit (mostly)
@@ValunarTonixor just use your probably tiktok infested brain and THINK. Sorry for that, but c'mon why is everyone too stupid to just use Google? Especially the people born after the 2000s, since these are the people which either grew up WITH the internet or IN the internet. I mean that's literally what it's made for, + browsers became smart enough to kinda understand what you want, even if the request is gibberish. There's almost nothing that you can't find on here.
Find dissassemble guide of your pc model on youtube and then focus on cooling system, if you dont use force and youre carefull you wont damage anything
I've seen worse but not by much, I had an Asus come into the shop and I swear I pretty much pulled a carpet out of the vents, fans and cooler fins. The customer was lucky AF it still worked aferwards
Most modern computers have fail safes when running too hot. That's exactly what they do. They overheat, thermal throttle, programs start to freeze and then it crashes. Let it cool, it boots up again and the cycles continues. Hardware damage is when it doesn't even boot or shows artifacts.
@@Minacious_Shenanigans i have variant old laptops from 2011 to even 1997 and they all work fine. I still use a laptop from 2011 to this day for youtube and my older mac book pro from the same year has been abused like crazy and still works. My compaq 1997 laptop also works flawlessly, these components don’t die because of heat, only very very very early AMD cpu’s did, they are designed to easily withstand constant 100c and shut down at like 108c, especially laptop chips get toned down like crazy when its 60c to preserve battery life
@@Minacious_Shenanigans i have variant old laptops from 2011 to even 1997 and they all work fine. I still use a laptop from 2011 to this day for youtube and my older mac book pro from the same year has been abused like crazy and still works. My compaq 1997 laptop also works flawlessly, these components don’t die because of heat, only very very very early AMD cpu’s did, they are designed to easily withstand constant 100c and shut down at like 108c, especially laptop chips get toned down like crazy when its 60c to preserve battery life
Each computer I’ve fixed always had an overheating problem. Not because it was dirty, but because the manufacturers decided to not put enough thermal paste on
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 sounds like you like assuming a little too much. no one said that we wouldnt clean our filters? take your anti-schizo pills perhaps?
There will always be dust build up because you need the filter to let enough air through to actually be effective at cooling, the only way to stop dust from getting in is to just completely seal the fan intake, but obviously that wouldn’t work
@@Dell-ol6hb or have particle level filters, like on gas-masks, those are capable of actually making filtered air without dust, but good luck implementing that onto a laptop.
Everyone need to be wary about cooling in their laptop. My laptop bite the dust recently, it was a cheap laptop but still quite a loss. And the worst part is, it isnt because I dont do maintenance and clean the cooling system, but because the Fan is broken, and I found it out waaaaay too late.
Good on you for making a video on repairing people’s things without shaming them, most channels would be dramatic about this stuff and how the customer “CLEARLY doesn’t take care of this very hard to maintain piece of tech!”
Me, a while ago, after stripping multiple shitty screws on my shitty laptop's shitty cooling system: "I've always wanted a non-negotiable dust collection"
that's how most of them are, get a guitar pick and slide it around the seal to pop all the tabs. and pull with equal pressure in the middle of two sides. as long as you don't try to pull from one or two corners you should be fine.
I’ve tried that but for some reason, the piece right next to one of the usb ports doesn’t come off, and i almost bent the usb port trying to lift the piece off
always told people this, before you think about buying any type of computer/laptop always find out how to often it needs to be clean and set dates. make it twice as often if u have hairy animals and let them around it... maybe 3times.
The issue is that manufacturers still yolo it by pushing newer hardware onto the same decade-old cooling system. They're more for the money than the user's experience. The water cooling was a cool concept though. But I also see really bad CPU and GPU combinations in some of them.
@@KevinJames-nc7tuelevate it, no need for some fancy stand, one flat block of something and put the laptop's edge on it to tilt the base is enough. You have more clearance to take the air in and it's easier to type.
I had never maintained a laptop before, but after getting a few expensive gaming laptops, I understood the purpose of maintenance. Learned about maintenance watching a few videos & now I clean my lappies every 3 to 4 months. And I was surprised by the dust & guck it accumulated in just few months.
then just vaccuum or blow compressed air into the air intakes, if you take care of your laptop usually it shouldnt die from dust like the one on the video.
I purchased a gaming laptop in 2020 It's a HP Omen 15. The back side full mesh across the surface and it sucks in dust like it's a vaccum cleaner. I opened it last month after more than 2 years and there was a block of fluffy dust in both of the vents and thermal paste was very dry. Did the cleaning and re-application, now my temps are 20°C less while gaming. It's crazy how new computer feels when you clean it.
Many of these gaming laptops need some experience to open up.. Especially with the lot of ribbon cables roaming everywhere..thankfully nowadays manufacturers seem to have simplified the approach a little bit
my laptop has a broken screen, broken fan, and most of the case gone, and it still work's completely fine other than it being a fire hazard. I think his laptop is going to survive in my opinion
I had one arrive in the shop that wouldn't even turn on. The heatsink fins were completely clogged, and had been for quite a while. I had to scrape the liquid metal off the CPU and cooler and replace with MX4, not sure why it had oxidized or degraded but guessing it was something to do with the heat. Worked great after a quick reset.
I never knew it can damage your hardware unless you talking about cpu and gpu. I need to clean my laptop as well but i had to take out my motherboard to get access to the heat sink.
Clogged intake vents is one of my biggest fears tbh. Constantly trying to monitor how vents look on my laptop. Would be glad to get some advice on how to properly clear them, because they look very fragile to me and I'm pretty new to all this stuff, but trying my best to keep my laptop in good condition
I've also seen gaming laptops have really garbage thermal paste too. My gaming laptop was thermal throttling in windows because of the thermal paste being completely dry after only 2 years of use. Swapping to a quality thermal paste sent my idle temps from 80-90C to 50-60C
I always dust out my laptops and consoles so I invested in an electric duster it's loud but does the job. had my laptop since 2018 and it's still going strong
I was afraid opening mine. It’s a thousand dollar machine and make wrong moves I could damage it. But I made brave face doing the maintenance on my own. I was happy with the result.
To be fair… they design these laptops with crazy amount of screws and hidden screens with special tape you have to carefully pull out. Basically weren’t designed to be user friendly and just “open up”.
I just upgraded to an actual PC from one of the Acer nitros I had it since middle school and now I’m graduating from high school and I smoked a lot of weed around it while it’s running. And seeing these videos really makes me tempted to see how the fuck it didn’t get clogged to the point I was getting overheating or crashing
Part of it is that fabric mesh, it doesn't serve a purpose other then making laptops over heat, I removed mine on my older gaming laptop for better thermals, and no clogging, sure you have to clean it more often, but not as much different in timing of cleaning my desktop.
The problem is if you're way within your time of warranty it won't do you any good to let someone else than the seller to work on your laptop and they'll probably not clean it. So you gotta wait the time
Maintenance everything. Thats why owners manuals are important. I cleaned my roomba the other day and there was dust in crevasses I didnt think thered be dust in
I really enjoy these simpler style of shorts, it's a bit controversial but i prefer these more than the usual style of offhanded jokes and jabs at the viewer, those seem a bit more, try hard. Just gets to the point and makes it easy to know what the problem is and what happened.
you can't really blame the average user though, many don't bother to clean their laptops in fear of breaking something, which often happens since the way they're built has been very unfriendly to end users.
Some machines aren't easy to open up but if it is go for it for sure but what you can do to prevent build up from building more quickly is keeping it on a clean desk or surface and avoid the bed it can overheat and collect a lot of junk in the fans especially if you own pets
I really wish dust filters were more common on laptops, but then again, it worsens the air flow and raises the temps... Welp, I will be still opening my laptop every 3-4 months and losing screw after screw every time
This actually happened to my laptop. Never cleaned it in 2 years of use, then one day I fell asleep with a big title open, when I woke up my GPU was damaged and had bad performance and heat even on the desktop.
of course they are often lacking maintenance.. these days the average person do not knoe how to open and fix electronics themselves.. especially since it is discouraged by the warenty being removed on most electronics.. all because if safety and capital gain... it is disgusting..
I think the biggest hurdle is either voiding warranty or finding the correct tools to disassemble a laptop I have an Asus Ideapad gaming laptop and i might take it to a shop a few months later for a cleaning
Hmmm. I should probably take a look at mine soonish too. I know how important this is as my old 2013 asus laptop is still running thanks to regular preventative maintenance. To be clear, I sold that one years ago and I have a newer one with a 3080Ti in it.
It can be difficult to explain to someone unless they see it, most people aren’t going to want to remove the back panel and deal with exposed components. Same kind of thing with consoles. If there was a more streamlined way to get it done it wouldn’t be such an issue
And this is also why right to repair and serviceable products needs to be a thing. If the customer is going to be afraid that the warranty will be void by sending to anyone other than an authorized service center or worse, do it themselves when they know how to do it, it will never get maintained. Cars used to be the same way, if you didn't take it to the dealer while a warranty was in effect they would void it over something as simple as an oil change.
Imo they should all be like old clevos, 1 switch and you remove the battery and bottom cover and have access to everything. If you just have a switch to pull to clean the pc people would do it a lot more methinks
Moral of the story: keep your electronics clean, save yourself money and trips to stores.
Ugh, tell me bout it
Pc in my company have literally thick layer of dust on case for air flow XD
Nobody taking care of those. My coworker had to unplug one pc, take off side cover and blow out dust from it with air pressure pistol because of it freezing on reboot
@@LuckyCatGaming yikes 😬
Mine used to overheat until I learned you can't play a laptop that's sitting on carpet. It got hot fast.
@@philiplubduck6107 well no shit Sherlock, there ain't place for hot air to go out and fresh one being sucked in to cool it off
Even table isn't best option, any flat surface basically isn't good pic if you got mid range laptop with intel i5 or ryzen 5 with rtx 3060
Best thing you can do is to get some holder or cooling pad to elevate laptop from surface and allow flow of air. When I have it the way I do, it have specific peak temps depending on games I play, AC black flag is between 45 and 60, CS:GO is between 60 and 70, kingdome come deliverance have peak temp around 75 (it goes usually around 72-73) and watch dogs just sits on my desktop since upon literal launching of game and being in main menu it have 80 XD
Also Fallout 4 which is maxed out got around 70
You can get some decent cooling if you know how to set up your laptop correctly for efficient air flow and you take good care of it aaand having thermal paste reapplied can do trick as well
@@philiplubduck6107 D: dang for sure esp since most laptops have intake at bottom and exhaust at the back x.x. I recently opened my 8yo laptop to redo thermal paste. Before it would run at 100% fan at idle. Paste was hard as plastic and the fan had the whole inside of the metal fins covered with dust. Now it runs nearly silent.
I open up my laptop and dust it out every six months.
Thermal paste gets replaced every 3 years.
I get a knew one just about every time you change the thermal paste 😅
@@Kaughts, kept my last laptop for 10 years before I upgraded.
@@Kaughtstell me you don’t pay for your own shit without telling me lol
But don't do it during your warranty period (first one year) because there is a sticker which will tear off once you open the back and then you wouldn't be able to claim warranty.
@@alanjohn2644, Oh it’s on my MacBooks, they can’t tell if you’ve opened the back up or not.
And as far as the thermal paste goes, I never do it if I still have warranty left.
Customers are either afraid they'll mess something up or void the warranty... or both.
I don't know why they make laptops so hard to clean out the fans, it doesn't come with instructions to do it and it's super easy to accidentally strip the screws. if you strip a screw, then you may as well throw the entire thing in the trash
Or turn intakes into gold
That’s definitely me atm. I’ve had my laptop since August 2021 and haven’t took it to a shop. I want too soon though
@@aurabl4ze385plenty of tutorials out there on how to do it yourself plus you learn something and save money at the same time. The biggest thing to have is patience and follow the instructions. Changing thermal paste is easy and laptops are fairly simple and modular anymore especially with cooling.
most electronics, especially laptops have a one year warranty from the store.
by the time you need to do maintenance, it's usually out of warranty.
To be fair, the company's know this is likely to happen when they don't allow it to be easily accessed by the outside.
Old laptop used to be so easy to open. Now, it feel a lot harder
modern MacBooks/iMacs be like
Precisely. OP talks about "lack of maintenance", and he isn't wrong.
But no manufacturer will provide the steps for maintenance in the manual: Anything beyond switching the drives and RAM is advised against.
That's how they make money BTW...
This. My laptop’s fans definitely need cleaning, but the screws used for the backplate is the (to me, rare) very tiny Torx screw, so I can’t even open it up. One of the screws is also stripped somehow, so I can’t even completely remove the backplate.
Bro didn't insulted us even once
That's why he's "the greatest technician that's ever lived"
Could you give us a dummies guide on how to clean the computer? Our bigest fear is accidently messing something up.
This, please do make us a video, with general guides for both computers and laptops, with a subcategory for those pesky laptops that a normal person can't open
What do you fear breaking? computers are pretty durable these days
step 1: get a compressed air can, a portable air duster, or a datavac.
step 2a: youtube is a treasure trove of videos on how to open up laptops.
Edit: if you know the model of your laptop, just punch it into the UA-cam search bar, and 90% of the time, there will be a hit.
step 2b: iFixit exists.
step 3. profit (mostly)
@@ValunarTonixor just use your probably tiktok infested brain and THINK. Sorry for that, but c'mon why is everyone too stupid to just use Google? Especially the people born after the 2000s, since these are the people which either grew up WITH the internet or IN the internet. I mean that's literally what it's made for, + browsers became smart enough to kinda understand what you want, even if the request is gibberish. There's almost nothing that you can't find on here.
Find dissassemble guide of your pc model on youtube and then focus on cooling system, if you dont use force and youre carefull you wont damage anything
Rare clip of the greatest technician that has ever lived not roasting his own audience 😂
yeah it feels wierd😅
I know right
I was waiting for it and expecting the dirty jokes or some shit
Something is wrong..
Fr fr I thought it was a different GTOAT
I've seen worse but not by much, I had an Asus come into the shop and I swear I pretty much pulled a carpet out of the vents, fans and cooler fins. The customer was lucky AF it still worked aferwards
It's so satisfying doing that
@@SalemTechspertslol
@@SalemTechspertsYeah, absolutely 😅
When you hand it back to the customer, include a plastic bag taped to it with all of the crud that was in it and suggest ways to keep it cleaner.
yo seriously, silicon lint
The problem was so serious that he forgot to mention that he's
The
Greatest
Technician
That's
Ever
Lived
Most modern computers have fail safes when running too hot. That's exactly what they do. They overheat, thermal throttle, programs start to freeze and then it crashes. Let it cool, it boots up again and the cycles continues. Hardware damage is when it doesn't even boot or shows artifacts.
I was thinking that
Yeah the last part of the video is nonsense
@@Roshan_420 you can tell its an older laptop, 2012-2015. Probably a combination of thermal throttling for so many years and just age.
@@Minacious_Shenanigans i have variant old laptops from 2011 to even 1997 and they all work fine. I still use a laptop from 2011 to this day for youtube and my older mac book pro from the same year has been abused like crazy and still works. My compaq 1997 laptop also works flawlessly, these components don’t die because of heat, only very very very early AMD cpu’s did, they are designed to easily withstand constant 100c and shut down at like 108c, especially laptop chips get toned down like crazy when its 60c to preserve battery life
@@Minacious_Shenanigans i have variant old laptops from 2011 to even 1997 and they all work fine. I still use a laptop from 2011 to this day for youtube and my older mac book pro from the same year has been abused like crazy and still works. My compaq 1997 laptop also works flawlessly, these components don’t die because of heat, only very very very early AMD cpu’s did, they are designed to easily withstand constant 100c and shut down at like 108c, especially laptop chips get toned down like crazy when its 60c to preserve battery life
Missing: "The greatest technician that's ever lived"
Outside US & Canada, most laptop companies void your warranty for unscrewing a single screw.
Yeah it's fucked
the greatest technician that ever lived
Each computer I’ve fixed always had an overheating problem. Not because it was dirty, but because the manufacturers decided to not put enough thermal paste on
I have a cooling pad that has a filter over the intake and a foam pad for the laptop to sit on so only filtered air enters my laptop.
damn, whats the name of the cooling pad? sounds like something i would want.
sounds like none of you understand anything, it doesn't matter how filtered your air is, you still have to clean your filter.
@@mentalasylumescapee6389
sounds like you like assuming a little too much.
no one said that we wouldnt clean our filters? take your anti-schizo pills perhaps?
There will always be dust build up because you need the filter to let enough air through to actually be effective at cooling, the only way to stop dust from getting in is to just completely seal the fan intake, but obviously that wouldn’t work
@@Dell-ol6hb
or have particle level filters, like on gas-masks, those are capable of actually making filtered air without dust, but good luck implementing that onto a laptop.
it'd be really nice if you could make a series talking about maintenance you should do to your laptop/pc and how to do them
Everyone need to be wary about cooling in their laptop.
My laptop bite the dust recently, it was a cheap laptop but still quite a loss.
And the worst part is, it isnt because I dont do maintenance and clean the cooling system, but because the Fan is broken, and I found it out waaaaay too late.
That was the most mellow short I've ever seen you upload.
I miss the days when laptops air exhaust was on the side
I only recently got an actually powerful laptop, and your videos have shown me the importance of good maintenance and regular cleaning. So thank you
I clean both my laptop and desktop every 3 to 6 months and holy shit, dust builds up!
Good on you for making a video on repairing people’s things without shaming them, most channels would be dramatic about this stuff and how the customer “CLEARLY doesn’t take care of this very hard to maintain piece of tech!”
Me, a while ago, after stripping multiple shitty screws on my shitty laptop's shitty cooling system:
"I've always wanted a non-negotiable dust collection"
Bro is not like other youtubers.
He is so polite and doesn't use slangs.
Love it.
My laptop is borderline stuck together, I literally can't take it apart without the risk of straight up cracking/breaking part of it 😞
that's how most of them are, get a guitar pick and slide it around the seal to pop all the tabs. and pull with equal pressure in the middle of two sides. as long as you don't try to pull from one or two corners you should be fine.
I’ve tried that but for some reason, the piece right next to one of the usb ports doesn’t come off, and i almost bent the usb port trying to lift the piece off
Was gonna say "Dont let your laptop die like this, instead, die like this" 💀
I really should do a video like that.
always told people this, before you think about buying any type of computer/laptop always find out how to often it needs to be clean and set dates. make it twice as often if u have hairy animals and let them around it... maybe 3times.
The issue is that manufacturers still yolo it by pushing newer hardware onto the same decade-old cooling system. They're more for the money than the user's experience. The water cooling was a cool concept though. But I also see really bad CPU and GPU combinations in some of them.
Tip: Never lay you gaming laptop flat
what do you mean? how do you use it on a table otherwise?
@@KevinJames-nc7tuelevate it, no need for some fancy stand, one flat block of something and put the laptop's edge on it to tilt the base is enough. You have more clearance to take the air in and it's easier to type.
This video gave me the motivation to open my laptop and made me realize that it very badly needed to be repasted… thank you 🙏
Thank god my laptop are literally open air
I had never maintained a laptop before, but after getting a few expensive gaming laptops, I understood the purpose of maintenance. Learned about maintenance watching a few videos & now I clean my lappies every 3 to 4 months. And I was surprised by the dust & guck it accumulated in just few months.
If I take apart my laptop, I void the warranty.
then just vaccuum or blow compressed air into the air intakes, if you take care of your laptop usually it shouldnt die from dust like the one on the video.
I only knew of dust buildup on the exhaust vent because of your videos. Thanks man
Moral of the story, don’t buy a gaming laptop
i have a windows xp laptop that never had maintenance since 2006 or so
thing works fine, still connects to the internet
I have one too lol. Same deal. And a very old Toshiba 2100CDT that came with Win98 that still runs perfectly. Runs Win98 and 2K too!
Moral of the story: Dont buy laptops for gaming.
The problem is that a lot of things lose warranty if you open it up...
Love it how simply you explained it!
is no talking about that seemless transition to the start of the video brother that was BUTTER
I'm scared to send laptops for maintenance because twice they have damaged it while opening and then closing it back.
"there was a dust storm that was a mile high and 50 miles wide"
Thanks for telling me to check mine. Looked clean to me, but I try to take care of my stuff, even if I'm not good at it.
I purchased a gaming laptop in 2020
It's a HP Omen 15. The back side full mesh across the surface and it sucks in dust like it's a vaccum cleaner. I opened it last month after more than 2 years and there was a block of fluffy dust in both of the vents and thermal paste was very dry. Did the cleaning and re-application, now my temps are 20°C less while gaming. It's crazy how new computer feels when you clean it.
and this is why my desktop literally has positive pressure to help reduce internal dust buildup.
Many of these gaming laptops need some experience to open up.. Especially with the lot of ribbon cables roaming everywhere..thankfully nowadays manufacturers seem to have simplified the approach a little bit
I'm glad my laptop is properly designed, intakes at the back, exhaust on the sides.
my laptop has a broken screen, broken fan, and most of the case gone, and it still work's completely fine other than it being a fire hazard. I think his laptop is going to survive in my opinion
I had one arrive in the shop that wouldn't even turn on. The heatsink fins were completely clogged, and had been for quite a while. I had to scrape the liquid metal off the CPU and cooler and replace with MX4, not sure why it had oxidized or degraded but guessing it was something to do with the heat. Worked great after a quick reset.
Especially if you’re THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THAT EVER LIVED
Rare vid of him actually giving us a lesson without jokes
I never knew it can damage your hardware unless you talking about cpu and gpu. I need to clean my laptop as well but i had to take out my motherboard to get access to the heat sink.
A rare wholesome video where he doesn't make jokes on your mother..board.
I hate that they put fans on the bottom of laptops, it makes no sense, it'll almost always be blocked.
This short was chill on the humor this time
Yeah... I might need to take a look at that aswell.. one second.
It doesn't look at bad as i expected.
Clogged intake vents is one of my biggest fears tbh. Constantly trying to monitor how vents look on my laptop. Would be glad to get some advice on how to properly clear them, because they look very fragile to me and I'm pretty new to all this stuff, but trying my best to keep my laptop in good condition
Good work bro keep going u are greatest tecnician i ever see🎉
Yeah, we should encourage taking care of our devices.. And encourage companies to stop putting warranty void stickers on them xP
That line "gaming laptop and Lenovo Idea pad" made me laugh a bit.
IT support here. I recommend cleaning once every six months. More frequently for dusty workplaces.
I've also seen gaming laptops have really garbage thermal paste too. My gaming laptop was thermal throttling in windows because of the thermal paste being completely dry after only 2 years of use. Swapping to a quality thermal paste sent my idle temps from 80-90C to 50-60C
Most laptops didn’t have this issue when the vents where on the sides of the laptop but these days they are underneath
i remember the pain i went through just to clean a HP DV6 laptop fan......
I always dust out my laptops and consoles so I invested in an electric duster it's loud but does the job. had my laptop since 2018 and it's still going strong
I was afraid opening mine. It’s a thousand dollar machine and make wrong moves I could damage it. But I made brave face doing the maintenance on my own. I was happy with the result.
I need to clean mine ASAP
Thank you for the reminder
Chip is actually happy when its hot, but if ur having a big smile for a long time or the smile is too big - it hurts :(
It would help a lot if laptops were designed so that the heat sink is much easier to get at.
To be fair… they design these laptops with crazy amount of screws and hidden screens with special tape you have to carefully pull out.
Basically weren’t designed to be user friendly and just “open up”.
The Greatest Technician Thats Ever Lived Truly Real
I just upgraded to an actual PC from one of the Acer nitros I had it since middle school and now I’m graduating from high school and I smoked a lot of weed around it while it’s running.
And seeing these videos really makes me tempted to see how the fuck it didn’t get clogged to the point I was getting overheating or crashing
I always thought my laptop intakes air at the back, but it's the bottom.
Most laptops these days are painful to take apart to clean.
All well and good till your Copper Heatpipe starts getting blue from overheating
Part of it is that fabric mesh, it doesn't serve a purpose other then making laptops over heat, I removed mine on my older gaming laptop for better thermals, and no clogging, sure you have to clean it more often, but not as much different in timing of cleaning my desktop.
Just needs a filter over the vents to keep any particulates out. I bet you could make them replaceable actually
The problem is if you're way within your time of warranty it won't do you any good to let someone else than the seller to work on your laptop and they'll probably not clean it. So you gotta wait the time
I get a mini hoover on the vents every two weeks, I not having a fire hazard on something that expensive.
thanks for reminding me i legit haven’t cleaned my laptop’s cooling since i got it last august 😅
Only video without a roast noice
Maintenance everything. Thats why owners manuals are important. I cleaned my roomba the other day and there was dust in crevasses I didnt think thered be dust in
I really enjoy these simpler style of shorts, it's a bit controversial but i prefer these more than the usual style of offhanded jokes and jabs at the viewer, those seem a bit more, try hard. Just gets to the point and makes it easy to know what the problem is and what happened.
you can't really blame the average user though, many don't bother to clean their laptops in fear of breaking something, which often happens since the way they're built has been very unfriendly to end users.
Some machines aren't easy to open up but if it is go for it for sure but what you can do to prevent build up from building more quickly is keeping it on a clean desk or surface and avoid the bed it can overheat and collect a lot of junk in the fans especially if you own pets
This reminded me that I haven't my gaming laptop in a year. I was wondering why my games were running slower than when I first got the thing
I wish it were more like a dryer since all you have to do for dust is pull the collector out and scrape it
The worse thing is how insane how could it get that dirty inside, thats insane
I really wish dust filters were more common on laptops, but then again, it worsens the air flow and raises the temps... Welp, I will be still opening my laptop every 3-4 months and losing screw after screw every time
Reflow for quick fix, reball it for a pain that lasts a full day
This actually happened to my laptop. Never cleaned it in 2 years of use, then one day I fell asleep with a big title open, when I woke up my GPU was damaged and had bad performance and heat even on the desktop.
of course they are often lacking maintenance.. these days the average person do not knoe how to open and fix electronics themselves.. especially since it is discouraged by the warenty being removed on most electronics.. all because if safety and capital gain... it is disgusting..
I think the biggest hurdle is either voiding warranty or finding the correct tools to disassemble a laptop
I have an Asus Ideapad gaming laptop and i might take it to a shop a few months later for a cleaning
an old toothbrush, a camera dust blower, and screwdrivers served me well for years
Hmmm. I should probably take a look at mine soonish too. I know how important this is as my old 2013 asus laptop is still running thanks to regular preventative maintenance. To be clear, I sold that one years ago and I have a newer one with a 3080Ti in it.
I had my entire cpu and cooling system replaced thanks. This is a serious issue.
It can be difficult to explain to someone unless they see it, most people aren’t going to want to remove the back panel and deal with exposed components. Same kind of thing with consoles. If there was a more streamlined way to get it done it wouldn’t be such an issue
Metal heatsink trays with a docking station with its own filters may be useful.
And this is also why right to repair and serviceable products needs to be a thing. If the customer is going to be afraid that the warranty will be void by sending to anyone other than an authorized service center or worse, do it themselves when they know how to do it, it will never get maintained. Cars used to be the same way, if you didn't take it to the dealer while a warranty was in effect they would void it over something as simple as an oil change.
Imo they should all be like old clevos, 1 switch and you remove the battery and bottom cover and have access to everything.
If you just have a switch to pull to clean the pc people would do it a lot more methinks