A plug-in external water cooling loop would be a pretty cool feature for some of these high end gaming laptops. The manufacturer designs the cooling loop with a pipe to ports on the outside of the laptop, then sells you an optional external AIO block that you just plug in when you need the extra cooling during sweaty gaming sessions or on very hot days.
Always a good time for viewers when Alex and Linus do sketchy cooling thing. Linus always starts out excited before being stunned at how they're going to do the thing before going all super excited puppy and overdoing the thing despite warnings not to. And then back to disappointed uncertainty before they get good results back and the excitement returns. I have always enjoyed the groaning, head-scratching chaos Alex adds to the team and to videos in particular. Man knows his stuff, especially the shortcuts that will make Linus face palm but work in the end. Exactly what I signed up for watching.
XMG here. Our upcoming XMG NEO with next-gen Intel HX series will have the XMG OASIS water pipe run directly over the CPU again. You heard it here first. // Tom
I miss having a job where you have a boss you love to work with on day to day basis especially like Alex and Linus. It's not always the most productive way to work, to be joking around, but does wonders for morale, retention, quality of work, etc.
At work we use conductive epoxy. It is great option instead of the low-temperature soldering paste you used here. The conductive epoxy comes infused with silver and copper powder and flakes, I guess it would be good for this application.
that was the plan Alex wanted to use, but Linus just wanted to try the soldering. It may have been unnecessarily more difficult but it made for great entertainment.
Merry Christmas LMG. Your vids are my daily post-kids-in-bed unwind time and I really struggled through your slow upload month. Still glad you did it. Really appreciate you guys more then you know.
As a professional home owner myself I would agree, using regular copper pipe flux and a 140watt solder Gun. Or a simple gas torch. DIY technicians and professional home owners are very similar and have a lot of overlap.
@@deepwinter77 Not really. One as a real job for the living and the other is a parasite who think he got skill because one time he badly repaired a copper pipe while pocketing rent.
I love how linus has experts in engineering and when they tell him how to do it he goes "uh hmm, I got this" then is so shocked that something bad happens😅😅😅😅
@@xungnham1388 He very likely meant the heatpipes from the laptop's cooling solution those would not do well at all if they tried to anneal the entire thing.
@@alexisrivera200xable I mean, they can do it before they attach it. Bend it, heat it, bend more, heat more. That's how you work copper if you want to shape it with hammer for example.
@@midicronica1 just because someone's not acting super hyper doesn't mean they're not enthusiastic. Besides, its his first time on camera, he might be nervous
Ain't there a fabricator or such in LTT who could tell these that copper alloys work hardening can be negated with a basic butane torch (Like a kitchen one is enough). Which is why we use copper alloys for complicated loops and brass instruments. You can also melt wax in to the piping to prevent it from collapsing when you bend it. Copper and copper alloys are actually REALLY wonderful stuff to work with.
24:00 I think it's because the laptop doesn't use the dGPU when it's running the internal display and idling, the mux switch turns the dGPU off. When you plug an external monitor to the laptop, as the HDMI (or DisplayPort) is wired directly to the dGPU, the mux switch will activate the dGPU at idle thus the thermal sensors and whatnot. Happened to me on two different laptops with a dGPU and a mux switch. I assume if the laptop doesn't have a mux switch the dGPU will run continuously thus the sensor readouts.
So wait, out of everything you guys do, THIS is something we might actually do ourselves? Lol I think we'd faster cool a gaming PC with a radiator from a PT cruiser before trying this madness. Nonetheless, it makes for a hell of an entertaining video, and that is most important :)
@@wyattroncin941i wouldve soldered, but the issue wasn't soldering it was their fancy infra red machine heating the whole heat pipe system up, so that the heat gun and soldering iron added to it; instantly made the other heat pipes solder melt, if you dont have that machine you would be pretty okay(it would take longer to melt the solder you trying to add tho )
@@not_so_native_native without the reflow jig or a preheat oven you'd struggle to get enough heat in to actually melt the solder. It's a heat sink after all, and a soldering iron doesn't generate that much heat compared to a CPU. You could still get away with soldering, but you'd need to use a slightly lower preheat temperature and go much slower than they did so you aren't heat soaking the whole thing with the iron. You could also make a jig to rest the whole thing on, made of wood or machined aluminum with an oil pan heater underneath. That way if you do melt the cooler it doesn't fall apart on you.
AE is great for stuff like this. There are so many Chinese resellers on Amazon now that just 4x the price for the same stuff on AE. Also shipping is often super slow as well when your Amazon stuff comes straight from China.
@@schwuzi Yeah i bought a brand new 7800X3D from aliexpress for 150$ less than on amazon. I benchmarked and stressed tested it. It was was a good CPU. Only downside is shipping tooke 2 and a half weeks instead of 2 days.
Also this video is amongst the top vids where Linus sounds extremely worried lmao. Alex and Linus are the funniest videos ..He stresses the poor guy out like a child does a parent lol
I love the vibe of this video! The soldering process and the rigorous testing were entertaining to follow. I also learned about running the CPU under-voltage in order to let the GPU use more power. Plenty of guys just being dudes too. What a vid!
I have a Eluktronics LPP laptop. The water-cooling works extremely well and will stay a LPP customer as long as they are manufactured. The only problem I get is after about a year the quick connects leak and need to buy new quick connects.
We now need a video where you apply all the learnings and do this properly. We NEED to know. Also, you need to give some space below the laptops, specially for the air cooled one. I also have a version of those laptops, and even putting a tiny piece of Lego can make a 5-10 degrees difference.
Okay. A few things I want to point out; 1. LINUS! WASH YOUR HAIR BEFORE FILMING! 🤣 2. I was utterly impressed. You guys are nuits, crazy even. But it's what draws me back in after so many years. You guys are FEARLESS in trying New things that are just crazy and SOMEHOW manage to get results 🤣🤣🤣 3. Waayyy better outcome than I was expecting. Considering the bends and the twists and the errors that happened through out the video 🤣
I like Nate with you and Alex same chaotic "I know how to do this properly but thats no fun" energy I hope to see him in many more future janky projects.
Need more of these off the wall weird projects that remind me of what you used to do all the time. That and it's just fun to watch Linus and team just wing it and pray it works!🤣
I love watching these cooling mod vids, but on this one you could have run the flexy tubing through ice to cool it on the way in. It would probably have reduced the water temp by a few degrees, increasing your cooling capacity.
17:07 I went out to my local home Depot the other day to grab a c-clamp for my little project. When I went to the section every single one of them was gone. I was left there wondering who in the world needs 10 C clamps? 😂
Would love to see a part 2 where the process hopefully doesn't fail, and it being paired with some sort of portable reservoir/pump making it an actual water-cooled laptop solution that you'd use on a LAN for example.
linus don't piss off the lawyers from his silly workplace safety choices challenge (impossible) all of the little "hey uhh don't do this" notes are hilarious
I still want to see an external cooler for a laptop where you simply have a hole in the bottom exposing the heatplate so you can attach a copper heatsink instead of water cooling directly
Maybe not the entire bottom, but I could see a window the size of a 120mm fan and a thin set of heatsink fins all over the heatpipes. When closed it's just extra passive cooling, but when docked you can ram air into it. Maybe the cooling pad has a bit of a gasket material around the area so there's as little leakage as possible.
@@DigitalJedi I meant like a square of copper on top of the heatpipes that go over the cpu and gpu dies, or a square of copper over laptops with vapor chambers that you can flip open a plastic cover and then press onto an external cooler that uses heatpipes to move the heat to a larger air cooler.
You guys should revisit this. also to help prevent what happened have the underside of the copper pipes be cooled so there is less change of heat separation.
I'm sure adding a small heatsink to the end of the copper pipe and cutting some small holes in the bottom of the case and attaching a mesh to it should keep temperature away from 103c ever again. It was 98c thanks to the Gelid thermal pad on Windows 8.1 but now that I'm using Linux-meaning my only API is OpenGL 3.3, I'm stuck with keeping my GPU temps under control by not pushing it so hard.
Guys if you by chance sell the Asus laptop with the water cooling please get in touch with me I'll buy it and connect the water cooling with a refrigerator to make the best performance
Damn, I'm looking forward to getting my Scar 18 and stuffing 96GB or RAM into it. Will pair nicely with my 2 Innoview 18 inch travel monitors and Wisecoco 14 inch ultrawide. On the go quad monitor workstation.
In regards to ASUS "You guys have definitely screwed some stuff up over the last little bit but you didn't do anything to deserve this" aged like fine milk xD
This is literally a live example of when stupid has way more luck than brains... They bent whole cooling out of shape and then pushed full force on two naked dies and somehow didn't damage them.
Ive done tool and die for a long time. And done tool and die for elecronics manufacturing. You do NOT want to know how close they came to mimicking the actual manufacturing proc. for making these heat tube/heat sink assembillies. But I am gonna tell ya anyway. OEM's use a thick as heck chunk of aluminum and steel to clamp things together then throw em in an oven to get the heat to melt the solder. That way they can shim the pads if things are visiably warped... But they still ship the warped ones. That heat sink was probably in the rework area, probably. Just because it was for a top of the line laptop, otherwise ir would go to assy for a test just like they did. Thats it. Humans with simple tools are often the most precise and accurate means of manufacturing anything large. With practice we can even reconize flaws that are on orders of magnatude smaller then light, we cant measure the flaw but we can detect them just with our fingertips. We are increable animals all of us.
It's getting a bit irritating at how bad they are at planning. "Let's use the cheapest heat-pipes on earth that we'll bend by hand. Also we won't buy any extras in case we screw up."
@Linus Tech Tips. On a very related note, Dave Plummer recently visited the IBM mainframe factory. What he discovered was that multi-threading REQUIRES liquid cooling. As an alternative (a feature?). Microsoft automatically slows the CPU clock to offset the heat produced by multi-threading. I had noticed problems with Excel crunching large numbers and how things slowed--dramatically. Now I think I understand the problem.
I had my old 2016 razor blade “professionally done” back in 2018 when I lived in China. Minimal disruption to the case, custom bent pipes, and fully soldered onto factory heat pipes. Worked absolutely like a charm until the VRMs cooked because of the fans not spinning. Was fun when it lasted though.
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You know the CNC mill is getting pulled out the moment Linus says "this may be something you can actually do at home"
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That's why the video is filled with asterisks lol
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haven't seen it yet, but I'm waiting for it
I mean, everyone knows a guy with a home-shop, right? (I will be that guy when i finally get my Mill setup properly)
For how badly this went in the first 75% of the video, the last 25% was such a victory lap.
Ya couldn't have said it any better
Came here at the 74% mark. This comment literally saved me from closing the video!
@richardamiss7000 98% of all gamblers quit before their big win
This is accurate from ever Alex video. Throw stuff at the wall and something will work…
@@Mike-x6i4l85% of all statistics are made up on the spot
My HDMI to water hose adapter gives me all the water cooling I need
what the fu-
Your what
Man of culture I see 😂
yea i know these my dose have FullHD/L
Awesome.
A plug-in external water cooling loop would be a pretty cool feature for some of these high end gaming laptops. The manufacturer designs the cooling loop with a pipe to ports on the outside of the laptop, then sells you an optional external AIO block that you just plug in when you need the extra cooling during sweaty gaming sessions or on very hot days.
This is a thing
This video had a clip of when they reviewed a laptop like that
@@DraakjeYoblama I think they're talking about it becoming more standard, rather than the exception.
Actually theres a Chinese brand MECHREVO that already has these external water cooling laptops in 2023
These things are done by a dozen different manufacturers.
They're obviously more expensive.
This is definitely more than 30 bucks
not on ali express
Linus really went to get a giant wooden board at 11:22 just to complete his dad joke. Much respect has been earned.
True
Cracked me up so much😂😂
thats my type of humor, i love it.
Gave me a big chuckle xd
too long messing about, downvote
Sketchy cooling with Alex is my favorite genre of LTT video
actually not even that bad anymore. It's actually working now.
You can tell Nate has screwed up far more expensive projects from how calm he handled all this, as a result he has my respect.
Always a good time for viewers when Alex and Linus do sketchy cooling thing. Linus always starts out excited before being stunned at how they're going to do the thing before going all super excited puppy and overdoing the thing despite warnings not to. And then back to disappointed uncertainty before they get good results back and the excitement returns.
I have always enjoyed the groaning, head-scratching chaos Alex adds to the team and to videos in particular. Man knows his stuff, especially the shortcuts that will make Linus face palm but work in the end. Exactly what I signed up for watching.
Wow Nate has some charismatic stage presence for someone appearing for the first time. Great addition to the team
4:58 LMFAOO
Nate - "Let it cool off a little bit"
Linus - "No"
It immediately goes wrong
Wrong time stamp
I think Nate did a great job in his first appearance! Seems like another Alex, would love to see more of him
He was so natural on camera, surreal…. Probaby has some previous experience?
attractive as well 👍
XMG here. Our upcoming XMG NEO with next-gen Intel HX series will have the XMG OASIS water pipe run directly over the CPU again. You heard it here first. // Tom
good job Tom
Sounds cool 🤩
That's going to be amazing.
would like to see a benchmark without water cooling the laptop, what's the point in a laptop if you must carry around a water cooling unit
@@juicygirls3989for the highest end laptops , you can buy an air cooled one but if you want better thermals what other option besides this?
I love how both employees are just like "Probably will" and then both * calmly* "yup" when Linus was freaking out.
I don’t know how to feel about the combination of the words 30$, Aliexpress and watercooling
Nate seems chill, hope we see more of him in the future..
I miss having a job where you have a boss you love to work with on day to day basis especially like Alex and Linus. It's not always the most productive way to work, to be joking around, but does wonders for morale, retention, quality of work, etc.
I think they have such Love and Respect for each other.. they're like best buds! ❤
It won't be wrong to say Alex is Linus' most fav employee!
@SiddheshBagade while I don't think he has favorites, if he did it would probably be Yvonne
@@Dkrocksmith amongst employees I meant
Linus going away to get a giant board for the joke 11:22 is the greatest dad joke ever
Reminded me a little of "Let that sink in" but waay more efficient than dragging porcelain across town
At work we use conductive epoxy. It is great option instead of the low-temperature soldering paste you used here. The conductive epoxy comes infused with silver and copper powder and flakes, I guess it would be good for this application.
that was the plan Alex wanted to use, but Linus just wanted to try the soldering. It may have been unnecessarily more difficult but it made for great entertainment.
The look of discomfort on Alex's face when Linus says "This is something you might want to replicate at home" is gold 😂
Merry Christmas LMG. Your vids are my daily post-kids-in-bed unwind time and I really struggled through your slow upload month. Still glad you did it. Really appreciate you guys more then you know.
As a DIY technician myself, I'm sure there was a ton of different ways to make this so much more simple
Thermal epoxy...
Less fun tho
As a professional home owner myself I would agree, using regular copper pipe flux and a 140watt solder Gun.
Or a simple gas torch.
DIY technicians and professional home owners are very similar and have a lot of overlap.
@@deepwinter77 Not really. One as a real job for the living and the other is a parasite who think he got skill because one time he badly repaired a copper pipe while pocketing rent.
@@SaitoGray a professional home owner refers to one's own home.
Not a rental house, it's a meme not a commentary on rental housing 👍🏻
I love how linus has experts in engineering and when they tell him how to do it he goes "uh hmm, I got this" then is so shocked that something bad happens😅😅😅😅
just a bit of ego, that's all😁
part of the bit
Why does every Alex video include the frase "that's not the dumbest thing we've ever done"
The best thing about this. The solid burns and the glances at the camera all the way through.
When copper gets work hardened, you can heat it up to anneal it. It isn't very hard to do.
Yeah but you wouldn't want to torch a heat pipe lol.
except for the fittings soldered on the end.
@@sdfsdf2205 It's not a heat pipe; it's a water pipe
@@xungnham1388 He very likely meant the heatpipes from the laptop's cooling solution those would not do well at all if they tried to anneal the entire thing.
@@alexisrivera200xable I mean, they can do it before they attach it. Bend it, heat it, bend more, heat more. That's how you work copper if you want to shape it with hammer for example.
Love Nate's calm energy
Thanks, I didn't had to scroll much to find this comment.
You mean monotone voice or zero enthusiasm for anything ? Lol.
@@midicronica1 just because someone's not acting super hyper doesn't mean they're not enthusiastic. Besides, its his first time on camera, he might be nervous
@@Hydraas Yes exactly, I think it's refreshing with someone more calm. Doesn't mean they are not enthusiastic.
Ain't there a fabricator or such in LTT who could tell these that copper alloys work hardening can be negated with a basic butane torch (Like a kitchen one is enough). Which is why we use copper alloys for complicated loops and brass instruments. You can also melt wax in to the piping to prevent it from collapsing when you bend it. Copper and copper alloys are actually REALLY wonderful stuff to work with.
Sorry, but these are heat pipes. Meant to carry heat away from where you apply it.
@@Timbhu It's obviously about the water pipes and even mentioned in the video.
> This is something you may actually want to replicate at home.
yeah. sure. definitely
24:00
I think it's because the laptop doesn't use the dGPU when it's running the internal display and idling, the mux switch turns the dGPU off. When you plug an external monitor to the laptop, as the HDMI (or DisplayPort) is wired directly to the dGPU, the mux switch will activate the dGPU at idle thus the thermal sensors and whatnot. Happened to me on two different laptops with a dGPU and a mux switch.
I assume if the laptop doesn't have a mux switch the dGPU will run continuously thus the sensor readouts.
So this is what feels like to be an engineer.
Getting something from AliExpress and just junk it in there
Any actual engineer would die of shame if they did anything like this stuff
@iivarimokelainen only if they were selling it as a finished product; otherwise engineers can be the jankiest of all.
@@gavinm7851 jank is ok. they're careless and unprepared
That's a great way to get fired unless your boss is Linus
@@gavinm7851 "It will work, think about it"
with the confidence of that it will work, not that it should work.
So wait, out of everything you guys do, THIS is something we might actually do ourselves? Lol I think we'd faster cool a gaming PC with a radiator from a PT cruiser before trying this madness. Nonetheless, it makes for a hell of an entertaining video, and that is most important :)
Well. . . Maybe if you didn't melt the cooler to pieces and used epoxy instead
I mean its basically just copper brake-pipe for cars so with some epoxy I could do this with stuff from my garage. 😁
Or just use household cupper pipes from the plumper store and just put it at center. So much contact to surface was crazy overkill
@@wyattroncin941i wouldve soldered, but the issue wasn't soldering it was their fancy infra red machine heating the whole heat pipe system up, so that the heat gun and soldering iron added to it; instantly made the other heat pipes solder melt, if you dont have that machine you would be pretty okay(it would take longer to melt the solder you trying to add tho )
@@not_so_native_native without the reflow jig or a preheat oven you'd struggle to get enough heat in to actually melt the solder. It's a heat sink after all, and a soldering iron doesn't generate that much heat compared to a CPU.
You could still get away with soldering, but you'd need to use a slightly lower preheat temperature and go much slower than they did so you aren't heat soaking the whole thing with the iron. You could also make a jig to rest the whole thing on, made of wood or machined aluminum with an oil pan heater underneath. That way if you do melt the cooler it doesn't fall apart on you.
"This is disastrous"
- Linus everytime water cooling with Alex
"This is something you may want to actually do at home" 😂
29:54
I was wondering where did he saw 92000MHz
Then I thought for a couple of minutes and realised, he must've said "19...2000MHz" 😅😂
At this point, AliExpress is Amazon with less steps.
AE is great for stuff like this. There are so many Chinese resellers on Amazon now that just 4x the price for the same stuff on AE. Also shipping is often super slow as well when your Amazon stuff comes straight from China.
@@schwuzi Yeah i bought a brand new 7800X3D from aliexpress for 150$ less than on amazon. I benchmarked and stressed tested it. It was was a good CPU. Only downside is shipping tooke 2 and a half weeks instead of 2 days.
Also this video is amongst the top vids where Linus sounds extremely worried lmao. Alex and Linus are the funniest videos ..He stresses the poor guy out like a child does a parent lol
"this may be something you can actually do at home"
last famous words
I love the vibe of this video! The soldering process and the rigorous testing were entertaining to follow. I also learned about running the CPU under-voltage in order to let the GPU use more power. Plenty of guys just being dudes too. What a vid!
13:46 the most two engineers conversation for real
Oh boy. I see water cooling and Linus and my soul leaves my body.
Intel sponsoring a watercooled laptop video tells you all you need to know about their chips lol
Any processor needing any kinda cooling is a rip-off.
didn't they pull out as a sponsor? or is there a thing with sponsorships that i am not aware of?
@@vilnaszekje huh?
@@vilnaszekje you can stop using or buying any kind of electronic devices that features a processor from now on i guess
@@johnsalamiithey sponsored this video. The joke is that their CPUs run HOT 🔥
I have a Eluktronics LPP laptop. The water-cooling works extremely well and will stay a LPP customer as long as they are manufactured. The only problem I get is after about a year the quick connects leak and need to buy new quick connects.
Way too overpriced though.
We now need a video where you apply all the learnings and do this properly. We NEED to know.
Also, you need to give some space below the laptops, specially for the air cooled one. I also have a version of those laptops, and even putting a tiny piece of Lego can make a 5-10 degrees difference.
Okay.
A few things I want to point out;
1. LINUS! WASH YOUR HAIR BEFORE FILMING! 🤣
2. I was utterly impressed. You guys are nuits, crazy even. But it's what draws me back in after so many years. You guys are FEARLESS in trying New things that are just crazy and SOMEHOW manage to get results 🤣🤣🤣
3. Waayyy better outcome than I was expecting. Considering the bends and the twists and the errors that happened through out the video 🤣
I love how well linus's chaotic personality matches so well with alex's personality
Linus dropped the heat pipes at 8:49 being the great tech wizard he is
LTT - Showing you how to NOT do things properly since 2008.
Also dropping a lot of items.
13:54 really reminded me of Linus being Morty "aw Jeez guys!" and the other two being a combo making effectively one Rick
I like Nate with you and Alex same chaotic "I know how to do this properly but thats no fun" energy I hope to see him in many more future janky projects.
Need more of these off the wall weird projects that remind me of what you used to do all the time. That and it's just fun to watch Linus and team just wing it and pray it works!🤣
The RTX overclocking video will always be my favorite because of that XD
This is definitely fun but I'd like to see the mod done neatly sometime.
Some of my favorite LTT vids have been that week between Christmas and New Years.
Dear ltt this is the kind of videos i like to see sincr iv noticed a lot of vids recently have missed the mark for me personally
Linus' face at 6:34 is just amazing
I love watching these cooling mod vids, but on this one you could have run the flexy tubing through ice to cool it on the way in. It would probably have reduced the water temp by a few degrees, increasing your cooling capacity.
Time to try this at home. Instructions were clear, 30$ budget looks like it should totally be enough for all the extras as well. SeemsGood
And 3,500$ for the laptop. It’s a bargain really you can probably sell it for double that once you do this
Nate was awesome, what a natural on camera!
When soldering follow iron with cold damp cloth helps hold competed melts
17:07 I went out to my local home Depot the other day to grab a c-clamp for my little project.
When I went to the section every single one of them was gone. I was left there wondering who in the world needs 10 C clamps? 😂
Would be interesting to see how much a high end cooling pad would contribute to the cooling in both examples.
Linus getting a board twice his height for a dad joke is just great.
alex always returns when we need his chaos the most
I like Nate, may he have a long and prosperous future with LTT
0:57 Most likley you guys wont be voiding the warrenty because of some laws that I dont want to search for.
What a great Christmas gift just a day late. Alex and Linus do crazy things and film it. My favorite.
Would love to see a part 2 where the process hopefully doesn't fail, and it being paired with some sort of portable reservoir/pump making it an actual water-cooled laptop solution that you'd use on a LAN for example.
this is the most chaotic alex watercooling episode yet.
i think maybe even the best LTT video
The best kinda videos!! NGL! There suffering gives me immense satisfaction
linus don't piss off the lawyers from his silly workplace safety choices challenge (impossible)
all of the little "hey uhh don't do this" notes are hilarious
The intrusion safety really infuriates me as a repair guy, makes testing a PITA
I've never even seen one on a laptop before, least of all a gaming laptop.
@@FlyboyHelosim they are rare but they exist, mostly on professional stuff from HP and DELL and generally on desktop
@@guillaumejoop6437 Yeah I know they exist on Dell business desktops, and that makes much more sense.
I still want to see an external cooler for a laptop where you simply have a hole in the bottom exposing the heatplate so you can attach a copper heatsink instead of water cooling directly
I think that'd probably not be allowed under regulations concerning device skin temp
That's a safety nightmare waiting to happen. Consumers is not smarts.
That's a safety nightmare waiting to happen. Consumers is not smarts.
Maybe not the entire bottom, but I could see a window the size of a 120mm fan and a thin set of heatsink fins all over the heatpipes. When closed it's just extra passive cooling, but when docked you can ram air into it. Maybe the cooling pad has a bit of a gasket material around the area so there's as little leakage as possible.
@@DigitalJedi I meant like a square of copper on top of the heatpipes that go over the cpu and gpu dies, or a square of copper over laptops with vapor chambers that you can flip open a plastic cover and then press onto an external cooler that uses heatpipes to move the heat to a larger air cooler.
At this point. I am shocked on how it works.. that's all I can say
Nate's voice is extremely calming. Put that man on an ASMR project asap.
You guys should revisit this. also to help prevent what happened have the underside of the copper pipes be cooled so there is less change of heat separation.
I haven't been the biggest fan of Linus recenlty, but this video was really entertaining, I would say it's one of their best.
"You might want to do this at home!"
*Process to struggle with sodering heat pipes and undoing the whole thing*
To be fair, they repeatedly referred to how they could've just used thermal epoxy.
15:00
And this is why you listen to the experts you hire and don't let your ego take over. lmao.
Every LTT video makes me think i don't need to be careful with electronics
I'm sure adding a small heatsink to the end of the copper pipe and cutting some small holes in the bottom of the case and attaching a mesh to it should keep temperature away from 103c ever again. It was 98c thanks to the Gelid thermal pad on Windows 8.1 but now that I'm using Linux-meaning my only API is OpenGL 3.3, I'm stuck with keeping my GPU temps under control by not pushing it so hard.
Guys if you by chance sell the Asus laptop with the water cooling please get in touch with me I'll buy it and connect the water cooling with a refrigerator to make the best performance
21:02 is that a full metal LTT screwdriver?! WTF how can a screwdriver look so good?! 🤩🤑
Damn, I'm looking forward to getting my Scar 18 and stuffing 96GB or RAM into it.
Will pair nicely with my 2 Innoview 18 inch travel monitors and Wisecoco 14 inch ultrawide. On the go quad monitor workstation.
No one needs more than 69GB.
@@blunderingfoolmy virtual machines disagree.
Also my server that will soon have 2TB of ram.
At 18:18, i totally lost it at how bad it looks and Alex thinking about how flat they are lol
In regards to ASUS "You guys have definitely screwed some stuff up over the last little bit but you didn't do anything to deserve this" aged like fine milk xD
This is literally a live example of when stupid has way more luck than brains... They bent whole cooling out of shape and then pushed full force on two naked dies and somehow didn't damage them.
[insert “first time” meme]
Ive done tool and die for a long time.
And done tool and die for elecronics manufacturing.
You do NOT want to know how close they came to mimicking the actual manufacturing proc. for making these heat tube/heat sink assembillies.
But I am gonna tell ya anyway.
OEM's use a thick as heck chunk of aluminum and steel to clamp things together then throw em in an oven to get the heat to melt the solder. That way they can shim the pads if things are visiably warped... But they still ship the warped ones. That heat sink was probably in the rework area, probably. Just because it was for a top of the line laptop, otherwise ir would go to assy for a test just like they did.
Thats it.
Humans with simple tools are often the most precise and accurate means of manufacturing anything large. With practice we can even reconize flaws that are on orders of magnatude smaller then light, we cant measure the flaw but we can detect them just with our fingertips.
We are increable animals all of us.
It's amazing how terrible alex is at building things considering how many tools he has
It's getting a bit irritating at how bad they are at planning. "Let's use the cheapest heat-pipes on earth that we'll bend by hand. Also we won't buy any extras in case we screw up."
I have no idea how he still has a job there. I have no idea what he does day to day. Everything he's involved with is absolutely terrible.
I love these videos, it just breaks my heart that they //*destroyed*// a laptop way way way better than what i just bought T_T
This was chaos. And I’m all for Alex and Linus chaos.
@Linus Tech Tips. On a very related note, Dave Plummer recently visited the IBM mainframe factory. What he discovered was that multi-threading REQUIRES liquid cooling. As an alternative (a feature?). Microsoft automatically slows the CPU clock to offset the heat produced by multi-threading. I had noticed problems with Excel crunching large numbers and how things slowed--dramatically. Now I think I understand the problem.
First honest Ali express opinion I have heard bro hats most firmly off to you
14:27 "Fresh Strategy this time. Instead of using the Heat Gun to melt the solder we're going to use..." the solder to melt the Heat Gun.
I had my old 2016 razor blade “professionally done” back in 2018 when I lived in China. Minimal disruption to the case, custom bent pipes, and fully soldered onto factory heat pipes. Worked absolutely like a charm until the VRMs cooked because of the fans not spinning. Was fun when it lasted though.
these 30+ minute videos are keeping me sane while I'm in university for computer engineering. Thanks Guys!
I swear, if their water cooling videos get any sketchier it’ll just be an actual sketch of a chiller next time lmao
About the time the second stand-off was pulled out, I knew this thing was living on a wing and a prayer.
Jesus Linus, how old is your K5-PRO paste to have the old Risk and Safety Statements from before 2015
"Easy" "simple"
Np linus
Anytime you bring this guy it's not ever going to be. You know this
This is another example of: "Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should." Still Great Job! :)
Please post where you bought the replacement foam, the adaptors for the tube and the y splitters.