Just to clarify, my memory is running at DDR4-2400 17-17-17-39 because this is the highest that both sticks (1x v-color and 1x g.skill) support. I am not sure why DDR4-2666 with the two G.Skill sticks is not working, but others have also confirmed this issue despite the official Gigabyte documentation saying they should be supported. I submitted a support request to Gigabyte to see what they can advise on this, but it seems like the only way for me to get DDR4-2666 would be to get two new sticks of memory and roll the dice again, which I'm probably not going to bother doing as memory isn't cheap. I also forgot to mention that memory should support DDR4-2666 with JEDEC rather than XMP profiles, which are not supported here. All temperature testing fan speeds were set to maximum, so that wasn't a variable and was the same throughout all testing.
@@JarrodsTech I bought 2x 8 gb sticks of GSkill instead of the 16 gig sticks for my 15x. When I first swapped them and turned on the laptop, I waited a significant amount of time staring at a black screen, then I pressed the power button once (just pressed it, not held it), and all of a sudden the boot screen came on, and everything worked fine after. I'm not sure if that will work for you as well, but it's worth a shot. Also is your ram actually running in dual channel? I was under the impression that if you mismatch the ram sticks (different brands, speeds, latencies, etc), they would only run in single channel .
Weird, I tried all sorts of things, rebooting lots, taking the battery out, holding F2 on boot to try and get into the BIOS, leaving it running on black screen for a few mins, leaving it off for a few mins with no power, nothing worked for me. Yes, software reports it as running in dual channel (as per pinned comment, both sticks are able to run at DDR4-2400 CL17) and the increase to game performance shown confirms dual channel is working, we wouldn't see such increases just from the size difference of 16GB > 32GB.
@Al Ec Thanks! I tried using both sticks in each slot one at a time, neither worked for me. I tried with the battery removed and no disks installed as well. Other people confirmed the same issue, so seems like it's not just me, either way I'll see what their support guys say, hopefully we can get it working.
Regarding the repaste not lowering temps: As someone already pointed out, I think the Aero 15x Thermal solution is to blame. The heatsink is too small, the fans not powerful and/or large enough to dissipate the heat fast enough, on the contrary the superior Kryonaut thermal paste and thermal pads increase the transfer so efficiently that the small thermal solution can't cope with all the heat coming it's way. TBH unless you liquid metal it, I doubt you will see any temperature drops, considering the Aero 15x is notorious for throttling due to it's average cooling. And then, Liquid Metal on highly portable laptops is a risk due to frequent handling. Intel's 8th gen Coffee Lake CPUs and Nvidia's 10series Pascal GPUs are above the thermal limit of what thin and light gaming laptops can cope with. Hell the MSI GS65 Stealth thermal throttles, the Aero 15x throttles, the Alienware M15 throttles, all the Razer Blades throttle, the Dell XPS 15 throttles, the HP Omen 15 thermal throttles etc... The only OEM who's got a thermal solution able to handle those parts are ASUS ROG laptops, but then at a huge compromise when it comes to ergonomics. The ROG Zephirus lineup will not thermal throttle (even with stock paste) but to accommodate the large thermal solution you end up with a clumsy forward keyboard and and a touchpad where the numpad goes, plus the innovative hinge/flap cooling/exhaust mechanism means you can't really use it on your lap, it needs a flat surface. The powerful 12V fans are power hogs too so battery life is short. It cools the SoC's alright, but IMHO the Zephyrus notebooks are meant to move from desk to desk and not on your lap (I'd rather get a desktop replacement twice as powerful then, cuz weight is not a factor for me I'm not Linus =P) In short, 14 nm and 16 nm SoCs are not power efficient enough for thin and light gaming laptops, only 17.3 inch desktop replacement gaming notebooks have the room for proper cooling solutions able to run full CPU/GPU clocks during long sessions without any repasting. That's why I'm really not interested in Nvidia's Turing RTX2000M/MaxQ series (12nm) nor in Intel's 9th Gen Coffee lake refresh (14nm lol with 2 extra cores so more heat). Both the CPU and GPU power draw will be higher than their respective previous gens, and if OEMs could not cool them properly last time around no chance in hell they will manage this time, one will end up paying a hefty premium for a notebook that will thermal throttles so much one the performance gains from the newer architectures will be nullified. So I fear people are better off buying 2018 Pascal/Coffee lake notebook models. Only 7nm SoCs will bring back power efficiency and manageable thermals resulting in a net performance increase, but that's not happening before Q4 2020 because mobile chips launch last =(.
yep, without some exotic materials being used bigger=better as far as cooling goes. this is a small laptop so big is not an option, and so good cooling is not an option, simple as that. i have a 15w and love it anyway
The Alienware m15 does not throttle. I’ve been tracking all the gaming notebooks and the m15 is the lightest one to not throttle. That being said, I’m about to get an XPS 15 because most of the other laptops throttle. The m15 is nice but a little expensive for me atm. I’ll just undervolt the XPS 15 and call it a day. Serious gaming is for my laptop or using an egpu at home.
This person seems to have gotten very different results with their re-paste: forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-gigabyte-aero-15x-2018-improvement-guide.821546/
Okay so I finally got around to doing the mods myself. Haven't noticed an increase in network capability (though likely due to limited output from my modem) however the extra stick of RAM is awesome (if for no other reason than saying your laptop has 32gb of it...). I ended up doing a bit more research and found that once upon a time Gigabyte had a promotion that gave out a free stick of 16gb 2666 RAM if a 15X laptop was bought during March 2019. The stick in question was the Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD that you have listed in your video on the supported upgrades list and plugged straight into the vacant slot and worked out of the box! Highly recommend giving the Samsung a go if you're having any issues getting 2666 speeds (as a few people out there have reported). Once again, great video man thanks for the upgrade walkthrough!
It sounds bananas but by far the best upgrade to my gigabyte p57w was.. raising the back of the laptop a little off the table so air could reach the vents on the underside. I used a bit of wood shaped like a very thick ruler, double-sided-taped to my laptop stand. It was night and day, went from overheating crashes during games to no worries. Second best thing was using the gigabyte control panel to up the fan speed.
Hey Jarrod. Saw this video when it came out about 2 years ago, bought a renewed aero 15, and finally today finally had everything together and went through the upgrade process. SSD, wifi card, and ram upgrade all very quickly. Thank you for this super informative video and great advice-the computer is so much more snappy and 3x as much memory now! So hyped.
Also if anyone does this, 5 things wish I knew: 1. will need #0 Philips head and T6 screw drivers. 2. Plastic spoon is a good pry tool. 3. For battery removal the white connection point is very hard to get out. Pull and wiggle on the ends to get it out, don't pull wires. 4. Swap original ssd to other slot and add 1 new 16 gb killer to first slot worked first time no problems. 5. After adding SSD have to enable in software so it shows. Good luck!
I found same issue with you about RAM Upgrade. First, my laptop had come with G.SKILL 16GB DDR4 2666Hz (F4-2666C18S-16GRS) Since I bought AERO 15X v8 at April 18, there is no vendor who sells DDR4 260-pin 2666. so I bought SAMSUNG 16GB DDR4 2666Hz (Part No. is too difficult to write). And it was very EXPENSIVE then (about 200$) Fortunately, it works very comfortable, and I finished undervolting and repasting thermal compound, my Aero's Temp was impressive chill. Two days ago, I bought G.SKILL 16GB DDR4 2666Hz (F4-2666C18S-16GRS) manufactured January 2019 (first one January 2018) When I let it works as dual, I encounter black screen, there is no sign about BIOS just heating SSD. After doing several case, and benchmarks, I found best case is using G.SKill & SAMSUNG. or I have to use just one stick of RAM but it is too being idiot, not using dual channel. I think it is very big issue with RAM Compativilty since there is no alert about it. Why Gigabyte doesn't say anything about it?
Thanks Jarrod for listening to our requests and making this video. It's a shame about what happened with the RAM nut at least you got it working somewhat.Running dual-Channel is definitely worth it though. I never realized how cheap the WiFi card replacement was! I'm gonna have to try that out next. I wish i could go to CES, especially this year. Looking forward to seeing your videos from there!
No problem! Yeah me either, I only looked into the WiFi card upgrade after I made that community post showing the first parts for the upgrade that arrived, so that was one of the reasons the upgrade video was delayed because I ordered that separately haha, $15 for the card, $10 shipping, ouch! I'll update the pinned comment if I get any progress on the dual channel memory, or maybe a Twitter/Facebook message, Gigabyte just responded to my support ticket asking for more info.
@@JarrodsTech Good luck! hopefully it can be fixed by re-flashing the BIOS or something. I hate the feeling like I'm leaving performance on the table. I'm also interested to see how that liquid metal turns out if you decide to do it. I don't think I have the guts to try it. One of the only good things about living somewhere really cold is that I get significantly better thermals! After messing around a lot in XTU, I have the 8750H CPU running at the 3.9Ghz Boost clock constantly with the max clock speed going up to 4.04Ghz occasionally. And an idle temperature of around 38 degrees Celsius. With those temps I don't want to mess with re-pasting at all. Who know's? Maybe Gigabyte is actaully using some half decent thermal paste now? Oh btw, did your laptop come with that extra Thermal Pad for you to use if you add a second SSD to the laptop? I got one with my laptop in that little bag that has the manual and that Driver Disc (lol why do they give you a driver disk for a laptop with no disc drive??). Man those AU prices are rough. It must make shopping on the internet so much less enjoyable. That same WiFi card costs me $17 with free shipping.
Yeah no point changing it if it's working fine! Nah it didn't, it had one thermal pad on the original SSD but no extra for me to use. Shipping here makes me sad 😛
Thank you for taking the time to post this video, especially as you probably had to film some of this during and after the stresses of finding out you wasted some money trying to upgrade! saved a lot of people time and money and put them in the right direction :) Wish Gigabyte would be more clearer with 100% working upgrades considering this is one of their higher end models
A very good video on upgrading laptops. Here are some of my experiences on upgrading Aero 15X. Memory: I got the V-color stick as well and due to thaiphon, it should be using Samsung C-die and I just bought another Samsung C-die SO-DIMM stick and it works fine at 2666MHz speed. SSD: Added a Samsung 970 PRO 512G. Thermal: I replaced the thermal paste with Thermalgrizzly Conductonaut liquid metal on CPU and GPU and configured an undervolting. I was achieving 80-85 degree Celsius on the CPU stress test in intel XTU and lower noise level while daily use.
May you say your temps during stress test without undervolting, but just with applied Thermalgrizzly Conductonaut liquid metal on CPU and GPU ?? Appreciate
Nice one! I installed an Intel 660P for my storage. It's only half as fast as Samsung's Evo but it's REALLY CHEAP. For the RAMs I installed one from Crucial. The 660P and Crucial RAM are working both quite well even though they are not shown in Gigabyte's support list.
@@JarrodsTech I believe LinusTechTips made a video specifically for that 660P SSD. It's QLC structure and consumer grade, but I like the price performance ratio, really a good deal for me. For those who are really into the R/W speeds, Samsung is definitely a better choice.
my research showed it was moatly between samsung and wd black if you wanted nvme. i got a wb blue and added 2tb so i could load up all my games. only cost 330$
You are right...I bought "Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Single DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300) DR x8 SODIMM 260-Pin - BLS16G4S26BFSD (Gray)" earlier this month & My ROG STRIX SCAR 2 is Running like a TOTAL BEAST...10-15 FPS increment in every possible Game & Total PC Performance has also improved.I already have a 2TB SSHD so NO need to upgrade anything right away!
I bought my Aero 15x in Germany in April 2018. It arrived with GSkill 2666 memory and I successfully added another stick of Gskill F4 2666 C18S 16GRS Memory SO D4 2666 Ripjaws 16GB Everything went smoothly.
This is a great video that literally sold me on this laptop. A couple of things to add: 1. I purchased my laptop at the flagship store in Taipei, Taiwan. The Gigabyte presence here isn't huge - it's mostly Asus, Acer, and MSI territory. Since the reviews are usually very complimentary, I wonder if they are focused on the export market (USA)? Issues about warranty service and availability will be a future opportunity for some. 2. Since the shop I bought it from didn't have spare parts, I purchased an additional 16gb RAM stick and an M.2 Samsung drive from an MSI store that also sold a couple of Gigabyte models. The tech there recommended the Crucial CT16G4SFD8266. It worked at the advertised speed. 3. The RAM turned out to be compatible and ran at the spec'd speeds (no downgrade) as tested by CPU-Z, but ... when I installed it and booted the computer, it remained on a black screen for a few minutes. At first, I tried to turn it off by holding down the power button. All the indicator lights went out and I started to flip the computer over - then the lights turned back on! After trying to shut it down a few more times, I went to my phone and Googled "laptop wont turn off". About the point I was ready to give up and ... well, don't ask. As soon as I removed the back cover, the GIGABYTE logo somehow miraculously came up on the screen and it has booted successfully ever since. TL;DR = If it boots to a black screen after installing this specific model of RAM, give it a minute (more like 5) to sort itself out. 4. The initial speed of the computer is very good, but it started a bit rough. I suspect this was because there were a ton of Windows updates being pushed in the background and because the new Samsung drive was used briefly before installing the specific Samsung driver. Also, and this is controversial, I installed all of my programs with a link on the taskbar. Did a benchmark using Samsung Magician before and after got a huge improvement after removing most of them. Later that day I did that on my old computer and also saw an improvement using the Samsung Magician performance benchmark test. Since these computers are sold for their speed and power, it might be worthwhile to test this out. Many say this is nonsense.
Thanks! I've heard some people with similar issues where they just had to wait a few minutes after the black screen, I gave mine 10 mins a few times but no luck for me unfortunately :( good to hear it's all working though!
This video shows the EXACT terrifying restart process that happens when installing RAM and updating the BIOS. Very comforting to see this. forum.notebookreview.com/threads/official-gigabyte-aero-15-owners-lounge.804575/page-306#post-10781307
I swapped my thermal paste from stock to Kryonaut after using the Aero15X for around 2 years. Before I changed my idle temps were at high 80s to low 90s, post-Kryonaut temps were much better at high 50s to low 60s on idle & clocking 3.9Ghz on ALL cores during my 30 minute XTU stress test with package temps not exceeding 92 degrees celsius. My suspicions were proven right, bad temps were caused by a mix of clogged up dust fans/fins & stock thermal paste that’ve dried up. I only used 99.9% iso-alcohol and a few cotton buds, it wiped them clean just fine. I also didn’t use thermal pads like shown in the video and used the Kryonaut instead. One small syringe of the Kryonaut should suffice. Reply to this comment with any questions, would be happy to help! Btw great video! This served well as my go to guide for my Aero15X.
Just upgraded mine with - *Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD* ...16GB.. worked with V-COLOR - now i have Dual 2667 speed.... also have 970 evo plus. thank you. Samsung Ram mostly sold out, luckily found one on ebay for £22 Top slot V-color bottom near battery Samsung also note, if you get new SSD, it wont show up on my computer, you'll have to enable it from "> Right click start > Disk management" Good luck 😊👍
Great video! Since I bought my Aero 15x on Thanksgiving day I've been watching all sorts of videos regarding upgrades. I bought a 32GB Kingston kit (HX426S15IB2K2/32) to replace the single 16GB VColor and the new kit worked first time. The memory is running at 1333MHz (DDR4-2666) 15-17-17-35 timing and Dual Channel according to HWiNFO. Very surprised the G.Skill kit did not work for you as I figured it would be equivalent to the Kingston. Like you, I also bought a 970 EVO 1TB but I decided to install Win10 Pro on it to boot from and moved the original 512GB drive to D: since the EVO was quite a bit faster in benchmarks.
Nice! Yeah I've heard about that memory kit a few times but only after buying my "supported" memory haha, bit too late now but it definitely looks like the way to go 👍
Thanks! I'll see what I can do, but realistically I can only upgrade my own hardware and not the laptops that I only borrow for review. It's also expensive to buy the hardware to do the upgrades too, so it's probably not something I can do that often.
@@JarrodsTech That is true.... But we can have more video like upgrade guide and stuff....not necessarily upgrading a real laptop.. That would be cool.
Hi Jarrod, like many here I also bought the Aero 15X back in October after watching several youtube videos, including yours. I've also done the RAM upgrade, but only purchased the one stick to start with. I upgraded my WiFi card to the Killer 1550 which is basically the same intel chip as the one you used. For storage, I went with a 1TB HP EX920 and a 2TB Intel 660p. The intel worked great but the HP took me quite some time to finally learn that it was picky with how exactly it was installed. It's been flawless ever since. I also did the repaste with Kryonaut and used .5mm Fujipoly pads on the VRAM chips. I would encourage you to try under-volting your CPU a bit more. I was able to run mine at -.200 with almost no instability issues, but bumped it up to -.180 and it's been rock solid. I found a script to run XTU at startup and automatically apply the undervolt, and it's working great. Not seeing incredible temp improvements, but I'm seeing 4.01GHz across all cores in most apps, and rarely seeing it throttle, although it still runs at 87+ under heavy loads. Hope this can help you! -Jason
Hey, good to hear the upgrades went well! Yeah I could probably undervolt it more, I went with -0.15v in my original thermal testing video to see any improvement, I just figured I'd try a bit less here to try and account for others that may not be able to get quite as much. I might try redo the paste with the drop method instead, may I ask how you applied your paste?
@@JarrodsTech well if there is, I'm planning on getting it. My brother has the 1070 Max Q msi gs65, I'm not really too pleased with the performance, in fact it performs similarly to my overclocked 1060 in my desktop so I'm waiting for the rtx ones.
Fair enough! Either way definitely worth waiting at this point til CES - personally I'm not fussed, I think we're only seeing new GPUs this time around and for me the 1070 Max-Q is overkill as is, the 1060 would still be plenty, I'm all about that CPU power!
@@JarrodsTech Im surprised they released the 2080 max Q into such laptops, but I will have to wait for thermals before I go buy it. And I'll probably have to shell out $500 more than i was originally hoping to spend.
@@JarrodsTech Also the new model comes with an i9 8950HK, hopefully they buffed the cooling system. EDIT: it seems they fixed a lot of complaints, has windows precision drivers for trackpad.
Thanks mate! Great video and I've ordered an Evo and extra Hyper 16gb, I'm not brave enough to try the rp atm with potentially little to no reward. I'll see if I get bored soon or braver 😂
I opened and checked to find the Kingston ram so tried the HyperX HX426S15IB2/16 2666 and it's running fine instantly. Popped a 1tb m.2 at the same time with no problems after running the disc management tool to allocate. Still not repasting though, too scary 😱
Thank you so much. My Aero 15x would always run between 87-92°C, obviously thermal throttling to keep temps down while playing games. After repasting with kryonout, putting thermal pads on the vram and undervolting both the CPU and GPU it would run between 80-85°C but keep good clock speeds. I still wondered why it was getting but I see I’m not the only one.
I have the same unit as yours as mine too came with the vcolor memory. I ended up going with a 32gb (2666) Ballistic Kit from Crucial and it too comes out as 2400 speeds... apparently you need to look at the jedec speeds rather than XMP 2.0 which the Aero15x doesnt support and from what i hear wont. I contacted Gigabyte support and after some investigating it seems that this kit from Crucial (CT2K16G4SFD8266) will work at 2666. Kinda bummed but same time the benefits from going to dual channel out weigh the cons of a tad slower memory. Seen a solid increase with BFv! I too went with the 1tb 970evo and im very pleased with having such speedy storage. I didint think about the wifi card upgrade, but now you got me thinking about doing it as i believe my router config will support the new cards features. Thanks for the video!!! EDIT - Forgot to mention that getting my laptop off the desk (Cooling pad, used hockey pucks before lol) and when i have the 15x fans on max game max temps are around 80-83c with occasional spikes a tad higher but always under 90. GFX mid/upper 60s. If i use the cooling pad fans i may get 2c diff at best... nothing special but any degree i can get is a win with these thin and light gaming units.
Yeah I heard about the 2666 needing to be JEDEC, I forgot to mention that in the video, would have been useful for people to know :( I'll update the pinned comment, good to hear your upgrades are helping! I haven't tried it with my cooling pad yet, will have to give it a go 😁 although as I'll be using it while travelling I'll never have the pad with me anyway.
@@JarrodsTech The air vents on the bottom need more air, the feet could be a tad higher but i get why they dont. So the cooling pad just helps the air flow by a few inches so when the fans go max it gets no obstruction as it would be by sitting on a desk. But yeah, lugging one around would be annoying. Even a few bottle caps underneath would probably help. Im really liking the unit mind the little oddities... sturdy build, love the screen and the form factor. Did you do a clean format of windows or just using the default OEM ver?
@@SteveMaragos I did a fresh installation of Windows then installed the smart manager software to control fan speed etc. Yeah when I tested my cooling pad recently I found that most of the difference seemed to come just from raising it up off the desk compared to the actual fan blowing air. I can see myself in a hotel exporting a video, fans maxed out, with some random object propped underneath the back 😁
The reason y your before and after repaste temps are same is because of those small heat sinks, by repasting u increased the heat transfer rate from the die to the heat sink but in your case your head sink is not limited by inefficient heat transfer, it is limited by its size. Hence no difference
The reason why repasting the laptop did nothing is because the method used was wrong. You shouldn't be spreading the paste manually as it will create air gaps which worsen temperatures. Hence it canceled out the benefits of using a superior thermal paste. Just apply a 1-2mm sized amount of paste and reinstall the heatsink. The mounting pressure of the heatsink will spread the paste out.
Great vid, especially since it covers all the upgrades I plan to do when the parts arrive..one suggestion regarding temps..the application by soreading the paste with a card has been shown to potentionally trap pockets of air which is bad as temp transfer..if you want try a repaste woth the bead method? In my case gave me a solid 4 degrees difference! I saw a huge temp difference between cores so that made me thing and suspect the application..so I removed the spreaded compound and applied using just a dot methid..temps are now more eaven and lower!
@@JarrodsTech yeah it dropped my gaming temps considerably. I also turned off turboboost and undervolted the cpu which gave me cca 15 degrees difference! Also I made a diy laptop cooler by drilling the aluminium cooler mesh and installing desktop performance fans to have unobstructed airflow. That dropped the temps another almost 10c..so instead of gaming on a 85 - 90 c laptop I game on a chill 70 c with no performance loss since the gpu cannow boost all the time
Nice one! Why not just use a cooling pad? I guess the more direct you can make the airflow the better though, but doesn't need custom mods, would be interested to see the difference between what you've done and generic cooling pad.
@@jaycolgan6528 not sure if I can upload pics on here, but I did a lot of tests with the same fans blowing through the mesh and after I cut out the mesh, the difference was staggering, cca 10c when the airflow was unrestricted. My fans are not static pressure optimized, they are made to push bigger quantities of air, not optimized for pushing air through restrictions, hence the difference. If you have static pressure fans I presume the difference would not be as big. I am using the Coolermaster Notepal u3 as the laptop stand which I cut out to accommodate the fans in the right position, to which I added the Corsair Air series I think 120mm fans. Id gladly help if you guys have any more questions.
I bought the Aero 15x on black friday, and got a single 16gb G.Skill module to accompany the 16gb Kingston module that was running at 2666 speed in single channel, an HP EX920 1TB NVMe SSD changed to Samsung 860 EVO), and Ge Gelid Extreme to repaste the CPU and GPU My results for the repaste mirrored yours for changes to CPU and GPU temps, with only about a 1-3C improvement. It is good to know that Gigabyte is at least using a good paste for their high end laptops Apparently the memory must have 2666 speeds in the JEDEC profile of the memory module, not an XMP profile like the G.Skill module. I personally don't mind as the speed is only really noticeable to me in gaming performance. The 32gb's is mainly to be able to run a lot of VMs for testing, so speed isn't generally an issue here. I initially tried using an HP EX920 1TB NVMe SSD in the 2nd slot, but I'm guessing the module was defective. Many other NVMe drives using the SM2262 controller report to work fine in the laptop and I probably just had a defective unit. However, I decided to return it and get an 860 EVO 1TB drive instead, as it mainly functions as a steam library and storage for my VM ISOs and other test software. The 512gb Toshiba NVMe drive is fast enough to run the actual VMs on, a 2nd drive being NVMe would just be a nice to have. Something else I noticed is that using the FB05 BIOS, ThrottleStop was working just fine, but during the troubleshooting of the HP EX920 drive, I updated the BIOS to FB08. Since then, ThrottleStop doesn't appear to be able to launch anymore, though the Intel XTU does still work. This is disappointing, as with ThrottleStop it is very easy to set Overclocking profiles for both AC and Battery, and it will automatically switch to the appropriate profile with ThrottleStop. Unfortunately Intel XTU doesn't appear to be capable of this auto-switching (or at least they didn't make it easy to implement).
Cool, thanks for sharing your experience! Yeah I heard about it needing 2666 JEDEC, apparently the G.Skill module supports this without XMP though. My original Aero 15x that I reviewed actually had the exact same stick installed according to the HWInfo data I exported in April, so not sure if they changed something..
Thanks, I’ve just upgraded my main drive to a 2TB 970 evo plus and using the original 500g drive as a storage drive; did the wireless module upgrade as well; as the RAM, I ordered the hyper x 32G as you suggested, it’ll arrive in 2 days time, fingers crossed.
Hey Jarrod, I own the First-Gen Aero 15 with an 7700HQ and GTX 1060. I repasted Mine with Liquid Metal and there were just very very tiny improvments. My Memory-Upgrade worked Flawlessly tho. I Upgraded from 1 Stick Gskill 16 GB 2400MHz to 2 Sticks and had no Problems whatsoever. Just like u i did add a second SSD, but i noticed that it would throttle when used, so i did buy some Thermal Pads to Put between the SSD and the Bottom Panel. That fixed my SSD-Throttling to some degree.
Cool thanks for sharing your experience, I didn't think the SSD would throttle, something to look out for I guess. Yeah others have said that about LM I think the heatsink / fans just aren't enough to remove the heat so it doesn't matter too much what material is between the does and heatsink
I just upgraded mine just the day i received my laptop. I added a 16GB Crucial DDR4 2666SODIMM and a Samsung 970 PRO and it worked like a charm. I guess they've fixed some issues.
Hello Jarrod! Recently I've sent my Aero 15w V8 to Gigabyte's service center in Malaysia since I could not find another V-color ram in my country to pair up with the existing one. The service center already confirmed me that they have V-color ram in their stock. I can give you a feedback on V-color performance once I receive my laptop from Gigabyte. Apart from this I've few questions, 1) I've ordered 9260 card through amazon & will arrive next week. So before installing do I have to uninstall the current drivers at first? Is it necessary to remove the battery for installing the card (removing battery seems kind tricky in aero 15)? From where did you download the driver for 9260? 2) For booting windows directly from 970Pro SSD do I have to put the SSD on primary slot or I can put it in the empty slot? I want to make the 970pro primary SSD. 3) Does the overall experience of using the laptop feels more snappier after dual channel upgradation? Sorry for asking too many questions.🙂
Interesting, I did ask Gigabyte support if they could sell me a stick of V-Color memory but was told that they can't, at least to me here in Australia. I didn't change the drivers for WiFi before removing it, the new one worked perfectly fine with the existing drivers too, but I did download the correct drivers for the 9260 after it was installed and installed those anyway. I just did a google search for "intel 9260 drivers" which took me here: downloadcenter.intel.com/product/99445/Intel-Wireless-AC-9260 removing the battery probably isn't required for that, but it was pretty easy. I think you can have the SSD in either slot, it shouldn't matter, the boot loader would just modify the boot order when you install Windows. It does feel a bit better with dual channel, occasionally I noticed sometimes apps would freeze for a brief moment and now that's gone.
I upgraded my aero 15x today. I watched your video before ordering the parts, nevertheless I picked the cheapest ddr4 ram I could find on amazon, wich was a crucial 2666 MHZ 16GB one. I installed it, and my laptop is just working fine. Maybe it's because I have the old bios (FB04). Now I'll replace the stock ssd (sata) with a m2 ssd, for some reason they put a slow ssd into my laptop.
Yeah I've got a hyper-x kit listed in the description as one worth investigating, I'm not going to go out and spend more money to test it though, at this point I'll just have to settle for what I have, unless I sell the memory I already bought for a loss.
I just upgraded my gaming laptop Luckily my Clevo model has 4 ram slots and supports all ddr4 sodimm modules. I now also have 32gb I also have 2 sata hard drive slots and 3 nvme slots in there. So I use an nvme drive as my boot drive and a regular 1tb sata 3 SSD as my data hdd replacement I bought the same kryonaut paste 3 days before you uploaded this video but I probably won’t repaste after watching your video
Nice, hope it goes well! Probably worth a repaste to see how it goes, if they used bad paste it may help, but also if you have better cooling / heatsinks it might make a larger difference.
Most laptops closely scale their fan curve to thermals. Maximum fan speed is the best was to judge one thermal paste to the next on most laptops. On a p650hp6-g, I had to UV the CPU and then apply LM to the CPU before getting the temps to budge. This was on a chassis that didn’t have a maximum fan speed function. That however doesn’t mean that would solve thermals on the Aero 15x.
I found it going to maximum with these tests already given the high temperatures, so just manually set it to max for all tests to ensure the fan was constant in all results and not a changing variable, I think I forgot to mention that ☹
I was interested in hearing if you thought my paste application was shit too 😉 I know you do the drop method, I was a bit unsure of that spreading evenly on the rectangular die, but as I say this was my first time actually doing this.
About the same before and after, before the minimum over all 6 cores was 83c-87c, max was 87c-91c, after changing paste the minimums were 85c-87c, then maximums 87c-91c.
Just upgraded my Asus ROG Zephyrus M GM501GS-EI003T with Kingston HyperX Impact 32GB DDR4 2666MHz CL15 SODIMM (2x16GB) (HX426S15IB2K2/32) kit, no problems at all, and it is working 2666/CL15, definitely better than old HMA82GS6CJR8N-VK stick.
Thank you jarrod been waiting for this video and you delivered. Definitely one of my favorite UA-cam channels. Quick question however do you think that it might help to use different thermal paste when attempting to repaste like the noctua paste or Artic silver 5. Also could I just use a m.2 ssd instead of a nvme ssd if I just to save some money in the extra drive slot?
Cheers! The paste I use has a 12.5W/mk rating which I think is one of the better options, Arctic Silver for instance seems to be 8.9, and 8.5 for Noctua NT-H1. Do you mean SATA M.2 SSD? Yeah, the secondary slot is labelled as NVMe/SATA
@@JarrodsTech Last question do you think I have to remove the Battery before installing the ram/ssd or do you think I can get away with leaving the battery in place?
Probably fine for just sticking an M.2 drive in, depends how careful you want to be though, in the case of this laptop it's very quick and easy to remove so if you want to be safe I guess may as well!
my 15x9 came with a killer 1550i wifi card. I tried replacing it with a intel 9260 but no matter what I do I cant get the computer to recognize the new card. Is this compatible?
If it helps anyone, have just upgraded to 32GB of memory using the Crucial kit CT2K16G4SFD8266 on this model of laptop. All 32GB detected and running at full 2666 speed. This is dual rank memory which matches the single stick removed as reported by CPU-Z. Also worth noting that mine had larger screws in the centre covered with black tape so these must also be removed when taking the back off and care taken not to put these screws in any other place when reassembling.
I bought this laptop for almost 3k$ and exactly one key on the keyboard for each 1000$ didn't work. To be honest, I'm really glad that I had to return this laptop, because it can be used only as heat sink on wintertime. Instead I bought latest lenovo legion, and it's great! A little less powerful GPU, but great thermals instead, 70-80 degrees Celsius on load even without repasting.
I have an Aorus 15G YC 3080 and after one year it will not boot up. No signs of life, no noise when turned on. Newegg and Gigabyte will not even reply to emails or service tickets. I do not smell anything electrical. Does that sound like the motherboard? I disconnected the battery and used a different charger, which did nothing. Thank you
good job on your paste job! But I prefer Mx-4 over kryonaut. I think it does a better job at cooling and more stable thermal conductivity. I had kryonaut on my aorus x7 v6 and I swapped it for mx-4 2019 edition and i got much more stable thermals under the same ambient temperatures as the kryonaut. About a 2c decrecrase in temps!
Super useful video, thanks Jarrod! I am thinking of going through pretty much the same upgrade, only RAM I'm considering going up to 64GB. In the list of supported memory kits that Gigabyte provided, were there any 32GB sticks that are 'officially supported'? :D Also, out of curiosity where in Australia are you located if you don't mind me asking?
Cheers! There were no 32gb sticks listed in the sheet that Gigabyte sent me (I think there's a screenshot of it in the video), but I think those became more popular a while after making this video. It might be possible, could contact Gigabyte and check. The newer Aero 15 OLED lists 64gb in the specs though, so that one at least does. I'm based in Canberra
@@JarrodsTech Nice, thanks for the info Jarrod :) I'll send Gigabyte a message, my laptop does state it supports 64GB of RAM I'm just trying to figure out which modules I can get. I came across lots of people having issues with their specific RAM modules and it's a decent amount of money so I think I'll chase up Gigabyte first to make sure I get something that'll work. Canberra is a nice place - very quaint. Only been there once so far but I did like it :)
I don't get this network card running... I have the Aero 15-x9 and i used the same 9260 card as you. But the Device Manager doesn't show this....anyone has the same issue?
I also had the same issue with the RAM memory, but I noticed that with BIOS version FB07 it is working very well with both new modules, the problem appears when I upgraded the BIOS to FB08. Now I'm trying to somehow downgrade my BIOS version. If someone can suggest some downgrade hack, please ... ?
Could you tell me what is the part number of the left fan that doesn't rotate? I use it to play a game (Starcraft 2, which is not that demanding), the left fan started making loud noises until it stopped spinning now, I want to buy it with AliExpress or something
I upgraded the ram with kingston Hyper X impact DDR4 2666. I'm telling you mate my aero15x is no longer a laptop. It is a monster. I'm waiting for my samsung 1TB 970 pro to be delivered.
Jarrod'sTech I intended to buy the G.Skills ram but people told me the fancy label Ripjaw doesn’t really help with the performance. So I turn to Kingston for some reinforcement.
I saw something similar in forums about the memory situation, with recommended sticks not working. There are some that apparently work though, such as the HyperX HX426S15IB2K2/16 Impact 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) 2666 MHz DDR4 CL15 SODIMM Memory Kit. I'm going to try it myself. Gigabyte need to sort their act out.
@@JarrodsTech ah cool, nice one. Hopefully it'll work. By the way, do you see much reason to go for more than 16GB for gaming? 32GB is twice as much money and obviously still a risk. Thanks for all your videos by the way, they've been super useful with deciding which laptop to go for (and I keep watching them anyway, even though I've bought my 15x now...!)
@@lukag5478 I ended up buying a single 16GB Corsair stick and pairing it with the vcolor one that came with the laptop. It works well in dual channel and 2666 MHz. I can't remember the name of the model now but I'll try and look later.
For whoever is considering buying this laptop, please do not. I bought the Aero 15x v8 and the thermals are extremely poor, my mobo is fried after only one year, tech support from Gigabyte is trash and I will make it my own personal mission to share this information with as many people as I can. Save your 2k dollars and invest them in another machine, THIS IS NOT IT. You're welcome and please upvote
Not great but still a good machine, I use mine all the time and still like it. I have recently reviewed the newer OLED Aero and it is much better in most aspects, especially thermals, in my review I compare clock speeds with the 15x and you can see how far it's come.
Hey Jarrod: Here I am in Australia too thinking about buying an AERO 15 around boxing day as a gaming laptop. I have a simple question if you don't mind, as I am intending to put a second SSD in to boost the storage. It will be my first time ever to dig inside the internals of a laptop and I was unsure about whether the battery have to be removed or just simply disconnected for just putting in another SSD. I'm assuming just disconnect would be ok based on other videos I've watched but a certain answer is always more comforting. Sorry for the long message, and if you ever read this, please stay safe throughout the rest of the pandemic :)
I only swapped SSD on this laptop but if I decided to repaste I would have been careful to follow what they poorly did in first place and replacing thermal paste with thermal paste, not pads. I would try to repaste it instead of using thermal pads around the main components. Anyway, great video ;)
Hi Jarrod! What are the broblems with high temperatures actually? Lower performance? Less comfortable? Do you think it can lower the lifetime of the the battery (lower it's effective capacity, faster than expected, to unusable values in 2-3 years)?
If it gets too high, the components will throttle back to prevent themselves going hotter which will reduce performance. Technically higher temperatures will reduce life of the parts, but how much this practically matters I do not know, I've never seen any good information about this.
@@JarrodsTech thx for your comment :-) Btw. my Aero 15 is now defective. Reports an nVidia usb Controller issue and sucks 37w of power in battery saver mode (cpu package 6w and nVidia gpu fully off, no wifi). Happened after 2 days and no response from Gigabyte in 5 days :-(
For the life of me i cannot find a qualified memory list from Gigabyte for my AERO 15 Classic-SA model. Where did you find your list? Thanks for the info and the great video.
Do the newer iterations of the Aero 15 and 17 (the ones with the Aero on the lid rather than Gigabyte logo) still have the limitations on upgradability as the older editions? I'd like to get the 17" HDR 1660 Ti version but it needs a serious upgrade to the RAM and storage to be usable for my editing needs.
Not sure as I haven't attempted there, sorry. The new models are definitely big improvements over this one in other ways such as cooling, could try asking Gigabyte support for supported memory for the new models and see if they match what I showed in the video.
Thanks, mate. That's a good idea. I'll do that. Do you know if there are any other 17" laptops with comparable screens around the same price point I should check out? It seems like the 15" models are always the ones that get the fancy screens.
I still don't really know, can try the supported memory but as mentioned I had issues with that, best bet is to Google search and find forums of people saying what kits they had success with - there are some here in these comments.
Hey Jarrod, I just did my thermo solution with kryonaut(cpu and gpu) and thermo pads, CPU undervolt of -0.150 and I also lapped the heatsink to a near mirror finish for the CPU and GPU. All benckmarks I run now with the fan on full never get thermo throttled, unigene superposition, heaven, cinebench 15, 20. But I do get power limit throttled. I guess that's a win :). Oh yeh and one other thing, I put a blob of kryonaut in the middle of the die as I was afraid I might be air bubbles if I spread it on.
Nice, can't remember if you can raise the power limit on the 15x, but I know the newer models support that which is good if you have the thermal headroom. Anyway nice to hear it helped, thanks for sharing the result!
That’s too bad about the memory upgrade ): at least you were able to get more storage and the WiFi card looked like fun to install and easy to get to. Overall I think that laptop is easy to work on if I were you I would definitely open it again and do liquid metal. Maybe when you’re back from traveling or have some extra time as I know AU can be a pain to have stuff shipped there. Hope you’re able to find a new setup for internet I know it can be slow (My gf is currently vacationing in Perth). Laptop looks pretty light and easy to take though so I’m definitely jealous! I have the Helios 300 and have done an SSD upgrade, undervolted cpu and OC gpu as well as liquid metal and upgraded to a 120hz panel. Temps avg 64-70 when gaming on high settings (mhw, bo4, destiny2). I think u said ur gf has one? I recommend Liquid metal for this one.
Yeah LM could be worth a go in the future, just need more time/preparation 😛 nah no Helios 300 here, my partner's laptop is some old Sony that needs to be replaced 😰
Yeah could help a bit, depends on the design of the laptop and how open the bottom is. I have only ever tested one, the Thermaltake Massive 20 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/Zx2EnUD-DoM/v-deo.html I also try to use it in the temperature testing in my full reviews, so you can see how the new Aero 15 X9 goes with the cooling pad in this graph: ua-cam.com/video/RyI1ybG95JM/v-deo.html no change to CPU temp in that specific instance as the laptop is thermal throttling, however if you wait for the next graph in the video you can see performance is still improved.
Very nice. I was hoping to snag one of these but i managed to get a dell g3 for only $1100. What do you recommend i upgrade first? As i got the lowest spec model and i want it to be optimized for travelling and gaming
Hmm the lowest one is single channel memory if I recall? I guess if you have enough disk space going to dual channel memory will give you the biggest performance boost in games, or if you have a HDD only going to an SSD would probably be a better first move.
Did you make any changes to the laptop using ITU? Like any since you have had the laptop. I have kept mine on the default settings and using ITU, have noticed that my two RAM sticks are running at 2400mhz when their both 2666mhz and I keep on seeing something saying current limit throttling. Thanks
Not sure what ITU is, if you mean XTU, then no I run mine at stock. Mine is DDR4-2400 as well, it's because the two sticks are different and support different speeds at different timings, you can check this in HWInfo.
Yeah my backlog of immediate videos to make with products I have to send back is continually like 10 videos, and the list of videos I want to make when I have spare time is about 40+, so it takes time to get to different projects unfortunately. Also after I made the community post, someone suggested upgrading the WiFi, I thought that was a good idea so had to wait for delivery on that too, as well as the cooling pads which I only decided to get last minute.
hey Jarrod thank you for this video - i used it when I added a new SSD. 1 question though, what wifi card did you replace in your laptop? My Aero 15w OLED uses the killer ax1650x and its just awful and wanted to know if you'd recommend the wifi card you are using for this laptop. cheers
Hi @Dave, I want add a second ssd too, but I don't know if the second nvme can be PCIe or SATA. I've a Aero 15 Oled WA (i7-9750H, 2060). What nvme did you buy?
Hey J. Very nice video. Just 2 questions maybe you can help. 1. Do you think the price for current laptop models will drop significantly after the CES and new video card? 2. For gaming purpose and light video editing, what model you would recommend? I am looking for a light and thin laptop but the price in AUD is not very affordable (for example models with ROG logo)...
I recently bought my 15x as well during a black friday sale, for 1750 USD. Considering the prices of desktop RTX series cards, I wouldn't be surprised if the new laptop cards are sold at a premium as well rather than replacing the older ones. For the ROG related question, biggest killer for me was their battery life. Most of those are ~55w, which just doesn't cut it if you ever plan to actually use the laptop off the charger. Biggest real competition to me was MSI (around the same price) or Razer (if you're willing to pay significantly more for a more premium build).
Thanks! 1. Not sure if significantly, but there may be some sales, hard to really know just have to wait and see. 2. I went with this one for video editing, otherwise anything with the 8750H and Nvidia graphics will probably just do fine, problem with cheaper gaming laptops is they tend to cut costs on the screen.
BerserkFury89 Agree. I always appreciate the design to replace hard drive with m.2 SSD to leave more space with battery. Yes the SSD is more expensive and not that reliable, but I don't see that as a problem over time. As for price, I am considering MSI as a good alternative.
@@michaelz379 I probably would've gone with the MSI if not for the black friday sale I caught for the 15x. It was a good $200 cheaper than the MSI, so I couldn't pass up that deal.
Been doing liquid metal on several laptop,using conformal coating and kapton tape, you can get up to 20 degree difference in certain case. My own a hp specter pro 15 inch dropped 16 degree under load. I would definitely go that route if i was you. There no risk involve as long you take your time.
I wonder if that's the case with this laptop though, I've read about other people doing it on the Aero 15x and still had almost no difference, may just be that the heatsink isn't big enough / not enough fan power to remove the heat.
You think the aero 15x battery can be used in the overpower 15+ or 17+. The layout looks almost the same to add this battery but idk if it a good idea to try if I have clearance. If you dont think there nothing wrong can I get the dimension of this batter please
I have the Aero 15 YA (i7 9750 with RTX2080 MaxQ).. Under high loads it's just shutting off.. but it doesn't shut off during stress testing... I'm not sure what to do - whether to try undervolting the CPU and/or GPU or whether to just send it back to Gigabyte for warranty inspection? Or maybe to try re-paste? It's about a year old and I just bought it second hand..
Hey mate, I am looking for a premium laptop, currently my top picks are Surface book 2, XPS 15, Razer Blade 15,aero 15x and if not these than MacBook Pro 15 (vega 20), I will be using creo, catia and solidworks for college work and bit of light gaming. My main concern is reliability, I’m from India and, Razer, gigabyte and surface book doesn’t have support here. I could ship it if there’s any problem but it’s going to be my main computer. And I am also waiting for 2019 products if they got anything special. Or are there any other laptops I should consider? So can you please help me through purchase.any suggestion would be helpful. Thanks. (Sorry for my bad English)
Hey! I've heard good things about the surface book 2 and XPS 15 but unfortunately haven't had the chance to try them out myself. For what you're doing either of those would probably be my preference if you've got the budget available. Definitely worth waiting til at least CES In January (2 weeks away now), I believe there will be new laptop GPUs announced there, I'll be going there so I'll do some videos on the new laptops there 👍 I don't think I'd add anything else to your list, it's pretty solid already. The Aero/Blade have the advantage of higher tier graphics with the 1070 Max-Q, so depends whether you think that extra power would be useful for the apps you're using.
Hi! Thanks for brief and structured video. I'll probably will have experience with changing SD Card Reader because it doesn't work and in device manager status is: Unknown USB device (Port Reset Failed). Would you please kindly tell me is that possible to change SDcard module, or it is soldered to the Mother Board?
That's strange, have you tried the drivers from the support page of the Aero 15x, or otherwise using their software that gets updates for the different parts? Forgot it's name.. Don't think it's replaceable, but I also haven't looked at it and don't know much about that part.
@@JarrodsTech I was reinstalling Windows, and yes I use Smart Update from Gigabyte. Several minutes ago solved problem by flashing BIOS it works now, Hooray! Thank you for your reply!
Hi, could anyone confirm to me what is the maximum storage I am able to use on my Aero 15x v8? Can I add two NVMe of 2TB each? What is the total maximum and what is the maximum per "port"? That would be great to know. Thank you.
I'm not sure, gigabytes own information says 512gb drives are officially supported, but obviously this isn't actually a hard skin it because I run a 1tb one just fine. If no one else knows this and can answer your comment you might just have to contact gigabyte directly and find out
Update: hyper X 32G arrived few weeks back, didn’t work initially, had to mix the v-color and hyper x ran in dual channel 2400; ran like that for a week, no drama; just updated the BIOS to the newest release F09/F08, installed both stick of Hyper X, now it’s running in dual channel 2666. YES!
I wonder the wifi performance as I'm having trouble with my 2017 AERO 15. The wifi is unstable and will disconnect if I play games. I checked on other devices and the wifi is fine except on my laptop. Also the wifi will disappear after few times of disconnection, I've tried every solution including clean reset but it still happening. My last solution now is to change the wifi card but I wonder if it actually worth it to swap the card and the problem may occur again. Also the wifi card is not the same model.
If you're using the latest drivers and have tested using the laptop close to the access point to rule out stuff being in the way, probably time for a new card, they usually aren't very expensive
Just to clarify, my memory is running at DDR4-2400 17-17-17-39 because this is the highest that both sticks (1x v-color and 1x g.skill) support. I am not sure why DDR4-2666 with the two G.Skill sticks is not working, but others have also confirmed this issue despite the official Gigabyte documentation saying they should be supported. I submitted a support request to Gigabyte to see what they can advise on this, but it seems like the only way for me to get DDR4-2666 would be to get two new sticks of memory and roll the dice again, which I'm probably not going to bother doing as memory isn't cheap. I also forgot to mention that memory should support DDR4-2666 with JEDEC rather than XMP profiles, which are not supported here.
All temperature testing fan speeds were set to maximum, so that wasn't a variable and was the same throughout all testing.
Are you not able to return the memory should they not work for you?
Don't think so, 30 day return policy and bought it about 40 days ago.
@@JarrodsTech I bought 2x 8 gb sticks of GSkill instead of the 16 gig sticks for my 15x. When I first swapped them and turned on the laptop, I waited a significant amount of time staring at a black screen, then I pressed the power button once (just pressed it, not held it), and all of a sudden the boot screen came on, and everything worked fine after. I'm not sure if that will work for you as well, but it's worth a shot. Also is your ram actually running in dual channel? I was under the impression that if you mismatch the ram sticks (different brands, speeds, latencies, etc), they would only run in single channel .
Weird, I tried all sorts of things, rebooting lots, taking the battery out, holding F2 on boot to try and get into the BIOS, leaving it running on black screen for a few mins, leaving it off for a few mins with no power, nothing worked for me. Yes, software reports it as running in dual channel (as per pinned comment, both sticks are able to run at DDR4-2400 CL17) and the increase to game performance shown confirms dual channel is working, we wouldn't see such increases just from the size difference of 16GB > 32GB.
@Al Ec Thanks! I tried using both sticks in each slot one at a time, neither worked for me. I tried with the battery removed and no disks installed as well. Other people confirmed the same issue, so seems like it's not just me, either way I'll see what their support guys say, hopefully we can get it working.
The human eye can't see more than 9.3gb of memory.
I've heard this before somewhere 🤔🤔🤔
That would be the memory that has been downloaded from the internet right?
@@bradmorri Yeah I've heard that's a good way to get free memory!
lol
This is exactly the list of mods I have lined up for my 15X. Thank you for the very helpful video!
No problem at all Liam! Let me know how the upgrades go 👍
Liam Scott How’s the Performance of 15x so far ?
Regarding the repaste not lowering temps: As someone already pointed out, I think the Aero 15x Thermal solution is to blame. The heatsink is too small, the fans not powerful and/or large enough to dissipate the heat fast enough, on the contrary the superior Kryonaut thermal paste and thermal pads increase the transfer so efficiently that the small thermal solution can't cope with all the heat coming it's way.
TBH unless you liquid metal it, I doubt you will see any temperature drops, considering the Aero 15x is notorious for throttling due to it's average cooling. And then, Liquid Metal on highly portable laptops is a risk due to frequent handling.
Intel's 8th gen Coffee Lake CPUs and Nvidia's 10series Pascal GPUs are above the thermal limit of what thin and light gaming laptops can cope with.
Hell the MSI GS65 Stealth thermal throttles, the Aero 15x throttles, the Alienware M15 throttles, all the Razer Blades throttle, the Dell XPS 15 throttles, the HP Omen 15 thermal throttles etc...
The only OEM who's got a thermal solution able to handle those parts are ASUS ROG laptops, but then at a huge compromise when it comes to ergonomics.
The ROG Zephirus lineup will not thermal throttle (even with stock paste) but to accommodate the large thermal solution you end up with a clumsy forward keyboard and and a touchpad where the numpad goes, plus the innovative hinge/flap cooling/exhaust mechanism means you can't really use it on your lap, it needs a flat surface. The powerful 12V fans are power hogs too so battery life is short. It cools the SoC's alright, but IMHO the Zephyrus notebooks are meant to move from desk to desk and not on your lap (I'd rather get a desktop replacement twice as powerful then, cuz weight is not a factor for me I'm not Linus =P)
In short, 14 nm and 16 nm SoCs are not power efficient enough for thin and light gaming laptops, only 17.3 inch desktop replacement gaming notebooks have the room for proper cooling solutions able to run full CPU/GPU clocks during long sessions without any repasting. That's why I'm really not interested in Nvidia's Turing RTX2000M/MaxQ series (12nm) nor in Intel's 9th Gen Coffee lake refresh (14nm lol with 2 extra cores so more heat). Both the CPU and GPU power draw will be higher than their respective previous gens, and if OEMs could not cool them properly last time around no chance in hell they will manage this time, one will end up paying a hefty premium for a notebook that will thermal throttles so much one the performance gains from the newer architectures will be nullified. So I fear people are better off buying 2018 Pascal/Coffee lake notebook models.
Only 7nm SoCs will bring back power efficiency and manageable thermals resulting in a net performance increase, but that's not happening before Q4 2020 because mobile chips launch last =(.
Yeah I think that is the case too, even people who have tried LM didn't see much change either.
yep, without some exotic materials being used bigger=better as far as cooling goes. this is a small laptop so big is not an option, and so good cooling is not an option, simple as that. i have a 15w and love it anyway
The Alienware m15 does not throttle. I’ve been tracking all the gaming notebooks and the m15 is the lightest one to not throttle. That being said, I’m about to get an XPS 15 because most of the other laptops throttle. The m15 is nice but a little expensive for me atm. I’ll just undervolt the XPS 15 and call it a day. Serious gaming is for my laptop or using an egpu at home.
Also the predator 700 do not throttle
This person seems to have gotten very different results with their re-paste: forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-gigabyte-aero-15x-2018-improvement-guide.821546/
Nice thanks, we need more videos like this, for those who want to improve what they already got.
I agree!
Okay so I finally got around to doing the mods myself. Haven't noticed an increase in network capability (though likely due to limited output from my modem) however the extra stick of RAM is awesome (if for no other reason than saying your laptop has 32gb of it...). I ended up doing a bit more research and found that once upon a time Gigabyte had a promotion that gave out a free stick of 16gb 2666 RAM if a 15X laptop was bought during March 2019. The stick in question was the Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD that you have listed in your video on the supported upgrades list and plugged straight into the vacant slot and worked out of the box! Highly recommend giving the Samsung a go if you're having any issues getting 2666 speeds (as a few people out there have reported). Once again, great video man thanks for the upgrade walkthrough!
thank you, Just Upgraded mine with - Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD and it worked with V color. I have 2667 SPEED....yay
It sounds bananas but by far the best upgrade to my gigabyte p57w was.. raising the back of the laptop a little off the table so air could reach the vents on the underside. I used a bit of wood shaped like a very thick ruler, double-sided-taped to my laptop stand. It was night and day, went from overheating crashes during games to no worries. Second best thing was using the gigabyte control panel to up the fan speed.
Just upgraded RAM/wifi using this guide. Thank you!
Hey Jarrod. Saw this video when it came out about 2 years ago, bought a renewed aero 15, and finally today finally had everything together and went through the upgrade process. SSD, wifi card, and ram upgrade all very quickly. Thank you for this super informative video and great advice-the computer is so much more snappy and 3x as much memory now! So hyped.
Also if anyone does this, 5 things wish I knew: 1. will need #0 Philips head and T6 screw drivers. 2. Plastic spoon is a good pry tool. 3. For battery removal the white connection point is very hard to get out. Pull and wiggle on the ends to get it out, don't pull wires. 4. Swap original ssd to other slot and add 1 new 16 gb killer to first slot worked first time no problems. 5. After adding SSD have to enable in software so it shows. Good luck!
I found same issue with you about RAM Upgrade.
First, my laptop had come with G.SKILL 16GB DDR4 2666Hz (F4-2666C18S-16GRS)
Since I bought AERO 15X v8 at April 18, there is no vendor who sells DDR4 260-pin 2666. so I bought SAMSUNG 16GB DDR4 2666Hz (Part No. is too difficult to write).
And it was very EXPENSIVE then (about 200$)
Fortunately, it works very comfortable, and I finished undervolting and repasting thermal compound, my Aero's Temp was impressive chill.
Two days ago, I bought G.SKILL 16GB DDR4 2666Hz (F4-2666C18S-16GRS) manufactured January 2019 (first one January 2018)
When I let it works as dual, I encounter black screen, there is no sign about BIOS just heating SSD.
After doing several case, and benchmarks, I found best case is using G.SKill & SAMSUNG.
or I have to use just one stick of RAM but it is too being idiot, not using dual channel.
I think it is very big issue with RAM Compativilty since there is no alert about it.
Why Gigabyte doesn't say anything about it?
Yeah it's strange, not sure why they still list it as supported when so many people have told them it doesn't work.
Thanks Jarrod for listening to our requests and making this video. It's a shame about what happened with the RAM nut at least you got it working somewhat.Running dual-Channel is definitely worth it though. I never realized how cheap the WiFi card replacement was! I'm gonna have to try that out next. I wish i could go to CES, especially this year. Looking forward to seeing your videos from there!
No problem! Yeah me either, I only looked into the WiFi card upgrade after I made that community post showing the first parts for the upgrade that arrived, so that was one of the reasons the upgrade video was delayed because I ordered that separately haha, $15 for the card, $10 shipping, ouch! I'll update the pinned comment if I get any progress on the dual channel memory, or maybe a Twitter/Facebook message, Gigabyte just responded to my support ticket asking for more info.
@@JarrodsTech Good luck! hopefully it can be fixed by re-flashing the BIOS or something. I hate the feeling like I'm leaving performance on the table. I'm also interested to see how that liquid metal turns out if you decide to do it. I don't think I have the guts to try it. One of the only good things about living somewhere really cold is that I get significantly better thermals! After messing around a lot in XTU, I have the 8750H CPU running at the 3.9Ghz Boost clock constantly with the max clock speed going up to 4.04Ghz occasionally. And an idle temperature of around 38 degrees Celsius. With those temps I don't want to mess with re-pasting at all. Who know's? Maybe Gigabyte is actaully using some half decent thermal paste now? Oh btw, did your laptop come with that extra Thermal Pad for you to use if you add a second SSD to the laptop? I got one with my laptop in that little bag that has the manual and that Driver Disc (lol why do they give you a driver disk for a laptop with no disc drive??). Man those AU prices are rough. It must make shopping on the internet so much less enjoyable. That same WiFi card costs me $17 with free shipping.
Yeah no point changing it if it's working fine! Nah it didn't, it had one thermal pad on the original SSD but no extra for me to use. Shipping here makes me sad 😛
Thank you for taking the time to post this video, especially as you probably had to film some of this during and after the stresses of finding out you wasted some money trying to upgrade! saved a lot of people time and money and put them in the right direction :) Wish Gigabyte would be more clearer with 100% working upgrades considering this is one of their higher end models
Cheers!
Didn't realize how much of a difference dual channel memory makes.
Yeah it's definitely worthwhile!
A very good video on upgrading laptops. Here are some of my experiences on upgrading Aero 15X.
Memory: I got the V-color stick as well and due to thaiphon, it should be using Samsung C-die and I just bought another Samsung C-die SO-DIMM stick and it works fine at 2666MHz speed.
SSD: Added a Samsung 970 PRO 512G.
Thermal: I replaced the thermal paste with Thermalgrizzly Conductonaut liquid metal on CPU and GPU and configured an undervolting. I was achieving 80-85 degree Celsius on the CPU stress test in intel XTU and lower noise level while daily use.
Nice upgrades!
May you say your temps during stress test without undervolting, but just with applied Thermalgrizzly Conductonaut liquid metal on CPU and GPU ?? Appreciate
Nice one! I installed an Intel 660P for my storage. It's only half as fast as Samsung's Evo but it's REALLY CHEAP. For the RAMs I installed one from Crucial. The 660P and Crucial RAM are working both quite well even though they are not shown in Gigabyte's support list.
Sweet! I was looking at one of those Intel NVMe drives, but in the end went with the Samsung 👍
@@JarrodsTech I believe LinusTechTips made a video specifically for that 660P SSD. It's QLC structure and consumer grade, but I like the price performance ratio, really a good deal for me. For those who are really into the R/W speeds, Samsung is definitely a better choice.
Yeah I think I saw that one!
my research showed it was moatly between samsung and wd black if you wanted nvme. i got a wb blue and added 2tb so i could load up all my games. only cost 330$
@@bradhaines3142 2TB for 330$ is really a good deal! I got a 512GB 660P for about 85$.
Great video! The laptop looks amazing, and with the updates it's SUPER!
Thanks! Yeah pretty happy with it overall, a bit annoying about the RAM incompatibility but what can you do (apart from spend $500 on a new kit).
Nice 🔥🔥
Edit: hhmmm, weird temps. I hope it gets better after days of use.
Cheers! 🔥🔥🔥
It takes 250\350 hours for the new paste to get well distrbuited and hardy
You are right...I bought "Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Single DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300) DR x8 SODIMM 260-Pin - BLS16G4S26BFSD (Gray)" earlier this month & My ROG STRIX SCAR 2 is Running like a TOTAL BEAST...10-15 FPS increment in every possible Game & Total PC Performance has also improved.I already have a 2TB SSHD so NO need to upgrade anything right away!
Nice one!
I bought my Aero 15x in Germany in April 2018.
It arrived with GSkill 2666 memory and I successfully added another stick of Gskill F4 2666 C18S 16GRS Memory SO D4 2666 Ripjaws 16GB
Everything went smoothly.
This is a great video that literally sold me on this laptop. A couple of things to add:
1. I purchased my laptop at the flagship store in Taipei, Taiwan. The Gigabyte presence here isn't huge - it's mostly Asus, Acer, and MSI territory. Since the reviews are usually very complimentary, I wonder if they are focused on the export market (USA)? Issues about warranty service and availability will be a future opportunity for some.
2. Since the shop I bought it from didn't have spare parts, I purchased an additional 16gb RAM stick and an M.2 Samsung drive from an MSI store that also sold a couple of Gigabyte models. The tech there recommended the Crucial CT16G4SFD8266. It worked at the advertised speed.
3. The RAM turned out to be compatible and ran at the spec'd speeds (no downgrade) as tested by CPU-Z, but ... when I installed it and booted the computer, it remained on a black screen for a few minutes. At first, I tried to turn it off by holding down the power button. All the indicator lights went out and I started to flip the computer over - then the lights turned back on! After trying to shut it down a few more times, I went to my phone and Googled "laptop wont turn off". About the point I was ready to give up and ... well, don't ask. As soon as I removed the back cover, the GIGABYTE logo somehow miraculously came up on the screen and it has booted successfully ever since. TL;DR = If it boots to a black screen after installing this specific model of RAM, give it a minute (more like 5) to sort itself out.
4. The initial speed of the computer is very good, but it started a bit rough. I suspect this was because there were a ton of Windows updates being pushed in the background and because the new Samsung drive was used briefly before installing the specific Samsung driver. Also, and this is controversial, I installed all of my programs with a link on the taskbar. Did a benchmark using Samsung Magician before and after got a huge improvement after removing most of them. Later that day I did that on my old computer and also saw an improvement using the Samsung Magician performance benchmark test. Since these computers are sold for their speed and power, it might be worthwhile to test this out. Many say this is nonsense.
Thanks! I've heard some people with similar issues where they just had to wait a few minutes after the black screen, I gave mine 10 mins a few times but no luck for me unfortunately :( good to hear it's all working though!
This video shows the EXACT terrifying restart process that happens when installing RAM and updating the BIOS. Very comforting to see this. forum.notebookreview.com/threads/official-gigabyte-aero-15-owners-lounge.804575/page-306#post-10781307
I swapped my thermal paste from stock to Kryonaut after using the Aero15X for around 2 years. Before I changed my idle temps were at high 80s to low 90s, post-Kryonaut temps were much better at high 50s to low 60s on idle & clocking 3.9Ghz on ALL cores during my 30 minute XTU stress test with package temps not exceeding 92 degrees celsius. My suspicions were proven right, bad temps were caused by a mix of clogged up dust fans/fins & stock thermal paste that’ve dried up. I only used 99.9% iso-alcohol and a few cotton buds, it wiped them clean just fine. I also didn’t use thermal pads like shown in the video and used the Kryonaut instead. One small syringe of the Kryonaut should suffice. Reply to this comment with any questions, would be happy to help! Btw great video! This served well as my go to guide for my Aero15X.
Thanks, good to hear that it helped
Was waiting for this for a while. I have the same laptop and was waiting to upgrade the RAM to dual channel. Thank you for the helpful video.
No problem, good luck, it's a fun process!
One of the upgrades videos i have seen pn youtube, keep it up Jarrod.
Cheers!
Crucial GT16G4FSD 16GB RAM works without a hitch. Just added it and now have 32gb dual channel. Crucial guarantees compatibility!
Good to hear, thanks for sharing!
FINALLY!!! Been waiting for any content regarding upgrading the Aero 15x thank you
There's some more on the way, I'll post a hint on Twitter/Facebook in a couple days 😎
Just upgraded mine with - *Samsung M471A2K43CB1-CTD* ...16GB.. worked with V-COLOR - now i have Dual 2667 speed.... also have 970 evo plus. thank you.
Samsung Ram mostly sold out, luckily found one on ebay for £22
Top slot V-color
bottom near battery Samsung
also note, if you get new SSD, it wont show up on my computer, you'll have to enable it from "> Right click start > Disk management"
Good luck 😊👍
The best laptop performance review channel on youtube!
Thanks!
true
Yeah true
Great video! Since I bought my Aero 15x on Thanksgiving day I've been watching all sorts of videos regarding upgrades. I bought a 32GB Kingston kit (HX426S15IB2K2/32) to replace the single 16GB VColor and the new kit worked first time. The memory is running at 1333MHz (DDR4-2666) 15-17-17-35 timing and Dual Channel according to HWiNFO. Very surprised the G.Skill kit did not work for you as I figured it would be equivalent to the Kingston. Like you, I also bought a 970 EVO 1TB but I decided to install Win10 Pro on it to boot from and moved the original 512GB drive to D: since the EVO was quite a bit faster in benchmarks.
Nice! Yeah I've heard about that memory kit a few times but only after buying my "supported" memory haha, bit too late now but it definitely looks like the way to go 👍
These kinds of videos are really cool. More upgrades in future please.
Thanks! I'll see what I can do, but realistically I can only upgrade my own hardware and not the laptops that I only borrow for review. It's also expensive to buy the hardware to do the upgrades too, so it's probably not something I can do that often.
@@JarrodsTech That is true.... But we can have more video like upgrade guide and stuff....not necessarily upgrading a real laptop.. That would be cool.
Yeah good idea, I'll see what I can do!
@@JarrodsTech Happy New year Jarrod.... May this year bring you more Awesome Gaming Laptops and cool hardware.
Nice work mate. Eagerly awaiting the delivery of my 15x - will most likely only get one stick as you've recommended!
Cheers! I hope the upgrade goes well 👍
Hi Jarrod, like many here I also bought the Aero 15X back in October after watching several youtube videos, including yours. I've also done the RAM upgrade, but only purchased the one stick to start with. I upgraded my WiFi card to the Killer 1550 which is basically the same intel chip as the one you used. For storage, I went with a 1TB HP EX920 and a 2TB Intel 660p. The intel worked great but the HP took me quite some time to finally learn that it was picky with how exactly it was installed. It's been flawless ever since. I also did the repaste with Kryonaut and used .5mm Fujipoly pads on the VRAM chips. I would encourage you to try under-volting your CPU a bit more. I was able to run mine at -.200 with almost no instability issues, but bumped it up to -.180 and it's been rock solid. I found a script to run XTU at startup and automatically apply the undervolt, and it's working great. Not seeing incredible temp improvements, but I'm seeing 4.01GHz across all cores in most apps, and rarely seeing it throttle, although it still runs at 87+ under heavy loads. Hope this can help you! -Jason
Hey, good to hear the upgrades went well! Yeah I could probably undervolt it more, I went with -0.15v in my original thermal testing video to see any improvement, I just figured I'd try a bit less here to try and account for others that may not be able to get quite as much. I might try redo the paste with the drop method instead, may I ask how you applied your paste?
7:55 is when my OCD kicks in.
Unacceptable, make those 2 sticks work, Jarrod!
haha, I couldn't 😭
Imagine if at CES they unveil the successor with dual channel memory and better thermals, I'd be kinda disappointed.
I think there is a new Aero laptop there for me to check out in a few days 😮 but we'll see! There will definitely be a video on it if there is one.
@@JarrodsTech well if there is, I'm planning on getting it. My brother has the 1070 Max Q msi gs65, I'm not really too pleased with the performance, in fact it performs similarly to my overclocked 1060 in my desktop so I'm waiting for the rtx ones.
Fair enough! Either way definitely worth waiting at this point til CES - personally I'm not fussed, I think we're only seeing new GPUs this time around and for me the 1070 Max-Q is overkill as is, the 1060 would still be plenty, I'm all about that CPU power!
@@JarrodsTech Im surprised they released the 2080 max Q into such laptops, but I will have to wait for thermals before I go buy it. And I'll probably have to shell out $500 more than i was originally hoping to spend.
@@JarrodsTech Also the new model comes with an i9 8950HK, hopefully they buffed the cooling system.
EDIT: it seems they fixed a lot of complaints, has windows precision drivers for trackpad.
Thanks mate! Great video and I've ordered an Evo and extra Hyper 16gb, I'm not brave enough to try the rp atm with potentially little to no reward. I'll see if I get bored soon or braver 😂
No problem! Nice, let me know how it goes!!
I opened and checked to find the Kingston ram so tried the HyperX HX426S15IB2/16 2666 and it's running fine instantly. Popped a 1tb m.2 at the same time with no problems after running the disc management tool to allocate. Still not repasting though, too scary 😱
@@patrickwheeler2646 sweet! Good to hear 👍
Thank you so much. My Aero 15x would always run between 87-92°C, obviously thermal throttling to keep temps down while playing games. After repasting with kryonout, putting thermal pads on the vram and undervolting both the CPU and GPU it would run between 80-85°C but keep good clock speeds. I still wondered why it was getting but I see I’m not the only one.
Hmm seems cooler than mine 😛 maybe I should try redo it.
I have the same unit as yours as mine too came with the vcolor memory. I ended up going with a 32gb (2666) Ballistic Kit from Crucial and it too comes out as 2400 speeds... apparently you need to look at the jedec speeds rather than XMP 2.0 which the Aero15x doesnt support and from what i hear wont. I contacted Gigabyte support and after some investigating it seems that this kit from Crucial (CT2K16G4SFD8266) will work at 2666. Kinda bummed but same time the benefits from going to dual channel out weigh the cons of a tad slower memory. Seen a solid increase with BFv! I too went with the 1tb 970evo and im very pleased with having such speedy storage. I didint think about the wifi card upgrade, but now you got me thinking about doing it as i believe my router config will support the new cards features. Thanks for the video!!!
EDIT - Forgot to mention that getting my laptop off the desk (Cooling pad, used hockey pucks before lol) and when i have the 15x fans on max game max temps are around 80-83c with occasional spikes a tad higher but always under 90. GFX mid/upper 60s. If i use the cooling pad fans i may get 2c diff at best... nothing special but any degree i can get is a win with these thin and light gaming units.
Yeah I heard about the 2666 needing to be JEDEC, I forgot to mention that in the video, would have been useful for people to know :( I'll update the pinned comment, good to hear your upgrades are helping! I haven't tried it with my cooling pad yet, will have to give it a go 😁 although as I'll be using it while travelling I'll never have the pad with me anyway.
@@JarrodsTech The air vents on the bottom need more air, the feet could be a tad higher but i get why they dont. So the cooling pad just helps the air flow by a few inches so when the fans go max it gets no obstruction as it would be by sitting on a desk. But yeah, lugging one around would be annoying. Even a few bottle caps underneath would probably help. Im really liking the unit mind the little oddities... sturdy build, love the screen and the form factor. Did you do a clean format of windows or just using the default OEM ver?
@@SteveMaragos I did a fresh installation of Windows then installed the smart manager software to control fan speed etc. Yeah when I tested my cooling pad recently I found that most of the difference seemed to come just from raising it up off the desk compared to the actual fan blowing air. I can see myself in a hotel exporting a video, fans maxed out, with some random object propped underneath the back 😁
The reason y your before and after repaste temps are same is because of those small heat sinks, by repasting u increased the heat transfer rate from the die to the heat sink but in your case your head sink is not limited by inefficient heat transfer, it is limited by its size. Hence no difference
Could be, not much I can do in that case either way, still interesting to see.
@@TabalugaDragon That was my assumption after comparing the results, I'm interested in seeing how LM would go but not sure I want to take that path 😛
The reason why repasting the laptop did nothing is because the method used was wrong.
You shouldn't be spreading the paste manually as it will create air gaps which worsen temperatures. Hence it canceled out the benefits of using a superior thermal paste.
Just apply a 1-2mm sized amount of paste and reinstall the heatsink. The mounting pressure of the heatsink will spread the paste out.
@@TabalugaDragon may be you are right
@@Seanweekhaizhen ua-cam.com/video/EUWVVTY63hc/v-deo.html ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
great video! if you push your fans to 100% you will see big improvements compared to the stock one.
Thanks! I did my testing in this video with the fans maxed out, I still got thermal throttling though 😰
Great vid, especially since it covers all the upgrades I plan to do when the parts arrive..one suggestion regarding temps..the application by soreading the paste with a card has been shown to potentionally trap pockets of air which is bad as temp transfer..if you want try a repaste woth the bead method? In my case gave me a solid 4 degrees difference! I saw a huge temp difference between cores so that made me thing and suspect the application..so I removed the spreaded compound and applied using just a dot methid..temps are now more eaven and lower!
Yeah I might try redo it when I get a chance, not sure if it warrants another video though but we'll see!
@@JarrodsTech yeah it dropped my gaming temps considerably. I also turned off turboboost and undervolted the cpu which gave me cca 15 degrees difference! Also I made a diy laptop cooler by drilling the aluminium cooler mesh and installing desktop performance fans to have unobstructed airflow. That dropped the temps another almost 10c..so instead of gaming on a 85 - 90 c laptop I game on a chill 70 c with no performance loss since the gpu cannow boost all the time
Nice one! Why not just use a cooling pad? I guess the more direct you can make the airflow the better though, but doesn't need custom mods, would be interested to see the difference between what you've done and generic cooling pad.
@@StillnessInMotion88 do you have any more details pictures of this? I'm interested in doing something similar
@@jaycolgan6528 not sure if I can upload pics on here, but I did a lot of tests with the same fans blowing through the mesh and after I cut out the mesh, the difference was staggering, cca 10c when the airflow was unrestricted. My fans are not static pressure optimized, they are made to push bigger quantities of air, not optimized for pushing air through restrictions, hence the difference. If you have static pressure fans I presume the difference would not be as big. I am using the Coolermaster Notepal u3 as the laptop stand which I cut out to accommodate the fans in the right position, to which I added the Corsair Air series I think 120mm fans. Id gladly help if you guys have any more questions.
Thanks for uploading this video, it really makes you think to be careful before opening your computer, thanks
No problem!
I bought the Aero 15x on black friday, and got a single 16gb G.Skill module to accompany the 16gb Kingston module that was running at 2666 speed in single channel, an HP EX920 1TB NVMe SSD changed to Samsung 860 EVO), and Ge Gelid Extreme to repaste the CPU and GPU
My results for the repaste mirrored yours for changes to CPU and GPU temps, with only about a 1-3C improvement. It is good to know that Gigabyte is at least using a good paste for their high end laptops
Apparently the memory must have 2666 speeds in the JEDEC profile of the memory module, not an XMP profile like the G.Skill module. I personally don't mind as the speed is only really noticeable to me in gaming performance. The 32gb's is mainly to be able to run a lot of VMs for testing, so speed isn't generally an issue here.
I initially tried using an HP EX920 1TB NVMe SSD in the 2nd slot, but I'm guessing the module was defective. Many other NVMe drives using the SM2262 controller report to work fine in the laptop and I probably just had a defective unit. However, I decided to return it and get an 860 EVO 1TB drive instead, as it mainly functions as a steam library and storage for my VM ISOs and other test software. The 512gb Toshiba NVMe drive is fast enough to run the actual VMs on, a 2nd drive being NVMe would just be a nice to have.
Something else I noticed is that using the FB05 BIOS, ThrottleStop was working just fine, but during the troubleshooting of the HP EX920 drive, I updated the BIOS to FB08. Since then, ThrottleStop doesn't appear to be able to launch anymore, though the Intel XTU does still work. This is disappointing, as with ThrottleStop it is very easy to set Overclocking profiles for both AC and Battery, and it will automatically switch to the appropriate profile with ThrottleStop. Unfortunately Intel XTU doesn't appear to be capable of this auto-switching (or at least they didn't make it easy to implement).
Cool, thanks for sharing your experience! Yeah I heard about it needing 2666 JEDEC, apparently the G.Skill module supports this without XMP though. My original Aero 15x that I reviewed actually had the exact same stick installed according to the HWInfo data I exported in April, so not sure if they changed something..
Thanks, I’ve just upgraded my main drive to a 2TB 970 evo plus and using the original 500g drive as a storage drive; did the wireless module upgrade as well; as the RAM, I ordered the hyper x 32G as you suggested, it’ll arrive in 2 days time, fingers crossed.
Nice!
great upgrade guide! 👍🏼
Thanks Ethan!
Hey Jarrod, I own the First-Gen Aero 15 with an 7700HQ and GTX 1060. I repasted Mine with Liquid Metal and there were just very very tiny improvments. My Memory-Upgrade worked Flawlessly tho. I Upgraded from 1 Stick Gskill 16 GB 2400MHz to 2 Sticks and had no Problems whatsoever. Just like u i did add a second SSD, but i noticed that it would throttle when used, so i did buy some Thermal Pads to Put between the SSD and the Bottom Panel. That fixed my SSD-Throttling to some degree.
Cool thanks for sharing your experience, I didn't think the SSD would throttle, something to look out for I guess. Yeah others have said that about LM I think the heatsink / fans just aren't enough to remove the heat so it doesn't matter too much what material is between the does and heatsink
Very nice upgrade video guide
Thanks!
Great video!! Still didn’t get one though but hopefully I will soon.
Thanks!
I just upgraded mine just the day i received my laptop. I added a 16GB Crucial DDR4 2666SODIMM and a Samsung 970 PRO and it worked like a charm. I guess they've fixed some issues.
Good to hear!
my gigabyte aero15x couldn't recognize the 970 evo plus, its not the slot cuz i swapped them and still didn't work. Help pleeez
Hello Jarrod! Recently I've sent my Aero 15w V8 to Gigabyte's service center in Malaysia since I could not find another V-color ram in my country to pair up with the existing one. The service center already confirmed me that they have V-color ram in their stock. I can give you a feedback on V-color performance once I receive my laptop from Gigabyte.
Apart from this I've few questions,
1) I've ordered 9260 card through amazon & will arrive next week. So before installing do I have to uninstall the current drivers at first? Is it necessary to remove the battery for installing the card (removing battery seems kind tricky in aero 15)? From where did you download the driver for 9260?
2) For booting windows directly from 970Pro SSD do I have to put the SSD on primary slot or I can put it in the empty slot? I want to make the 970pro primary SSD.
3) Does the overall experience of using the laptop feels more snappier after dual channel upgradation?
Sorry for asking too many questions.🙂
Interesting, I did ask Gigabyte support if they could sell me a stick of V-Color memory but was told that they can't, at least to me here in Australia.
I didn't change the drivers for WiFi before removing it, the new one worked perfectly fine with the existing drivers too, but I did download the correct drivers for the 9260 after it was installed and installed those anyway. I just did a google search for "intel 9260 drivers" which took me here: downloadcenter.intel.com/product/99445/Intel-Wireless-AC-9260 removing the battery probably isn't required for that, but it was pretty easy.
I think you can have the SSD in either slot, it shouldn't matter, the boot loader would just modify the boot order when you install Windows. It does feel a bit better with dual channel, occasionally I noticed sometimes apps would freeze for a brief moment and now that's gone.
I upgraded my aero 15x today. I watched your video before ordering the parts, nevertheless I picked the cheapest ddr4 ram I could find on amazon, wich was a crucial 2666 MHZ 16GB one. I installed it, and my laptop is just working fine. Maybe it's because I have the old bios (FB04). Now I'll replace the stock ssd (sata) with a m2 ssd, for some reason they put a slow ssd into my laptop.
Nice, good to hear it's working! Some others have mentioned that Crucial memory seems pretty good in terms of compatibility.
I was waiting on this video 👍 and try Hyperx 2666 8x2 gb ram for the laptop cause it works fine for me and it runs it at 2667 mhz
Yeah I've got a hyper-x kit listed in the description as one worth investigating, I'm not going to go out and spend more money to test it though, at this point I'll just have to settle for what I have, unless I sell the memory I already bought for a loss.
I just upgraded my gaming laptop
Luckily my Clevo model has 4 ram slots and supports all ddr4 sodimm modules. I now also have 32gb
I also have 2 sata hard drive slots and 3 nvme slots in there. So I use an nvme drive as my boot drive and a regular 1tb sata 3 SSD as my data hdd replacement
I bought the same kryonaut paste 3 days before you uploaded this video but I probably won’t repaste after watching your video
Nice, hope it goes well! Probably worth a repaste to see how it goes, if they used bad paste it may help, but also if you have better cooling / heatsinks it might make a larger difference.
Jarrod'sTech I probably have better cooling because my laptop is much thiccer and it’s a 17.3“ model without maxq and giant heat sinks
That would definitely help 😁
Most laptops closely scale their fan curve to thermals. Maximum fan speed is the best was to judge one thermal paste to the next on most laptops.
On a p650hp6-g, I had to UV the CPU and then apply LM to the CPU before getting the temps to budge. This was on a chassis that didn’t have a maximum fan speed function.
That however doesn’t mean that would solve thermals on the Aero 15x.
I found it going to maximum with these tests already given the high temperatures, so just manually set it to max for all tests to ensure the fan was constant in all results and not a changing variable, I think I forgot to mention that ☹
I was interested in hearing if you thought my paste application was shit too 😉 I know you do the drop method, I was a bit unsure of that spreading evenly on the rectangular die, but as I say this was my first time actually doing this.
Jarrod'sTech I always let the heatsink spread the paste.
How’s core discrepancy? Hottest core to the coolest core difference at load?
About the same before and after, before the minimum over all 6 cores was 83c-87c, max was 87c-91c, after changing paste the minimums were 85c-87c, then maximums 87c-91c.
Just upgraded my Asus ROG Zephyrus M GM501GS-EI003T with Kingston HyperX Impact 32GB DDR4 2666MHz CL15 SODIMM (2x16GB) (HX426S15IB2K2/32) kit, no problems at all, and it is working 2666/CL15, definitely better than old HMA82GS6CJR8N-VK stick.
Nice!
Thank you jarrod been waiting for this video and you delivered. Definitely one of my favorite UA-cam channels. Quick question however do you think that it might help to use different thermal paste when attempting to repaste like the noctua paste or Artic silver 5. Also could I just use a m.2 ssd instead of a nvme ssd if I just to save some money in the extra drive slot?
Cheers! The paste I use has a 12.5W/mk rating which I think is one of the better options, Arctic Silver for instance seems to be 8.9, and 8.5 for Noctua NT-H1. Do you mean SATA M.2 SSD? Yeah, the secondary slot is labelled as NVMe/SATA
@@JarrodsTech sorry forgot to add the sata and yes thanks for the quick response
@@JarrodsTech Last question do you think I have to remove the Battery before installing the ram/ssd or do you think I can get away with leaving the battery in place?
Probably fine for just sticking an M.2 drive in, depends how careful you want to be though, in the case of this laptop it's very quick and easy to remove so if you want to be safe I guess may as well!
my 15x9 came with a killer 1550i wifi card. I tried replacing it with a intel 9260 but no matter what I do I cant get the computer to recognize the new card. Is this compatible?
Great review well done mate
Cheers!
If it helps anyone, have just upgraded to 32GB of memory using the Crucial kit CT2K16G4SFD8266 on this model of laptop. All 32GB detected and running at full 2666 speed. This is dual rank memory which matches the single stick removed as reported by CPU-Z.
Also worth noting that mine had larger screws in the centre covered with black tape so these must also be removed when taking the back off and care taken not to put these screws in any other place when reassembling.
Its like walking with workstation grade computer, nicee!
Hmm feel like workstation grade would have replaceable CPU and GPU 😁 reminds me, I have a 9900k laptop here at the moment lol
I bought this laptop for almost 3k$ and exactly one key on the keyboard for each 1000$ didn't work. To be honest, I'm really glad that I had to return this laptop, because it can be used only as heat sink on wintertime. Instead I bought latest lenovo legion, and it's great! A little less powerful GPU, but great thermals instead, 70-80 degrees Celsius on load even without repasting.
I have an Aorus 15G YC 3080 and after one year it will not boot up. No signs of life, no noise when turned on. Newegg and Gigabyte will not even reply to emails or service tickets. I do not smell anything electrical. Does that sound like the motherboard? I disconnected the battery and used a different charger, which did nothing. Thank you
Oh hell no. That laptop is TOO expensive to have that memory upgrade issue.
eh
good job on your paste job! But I prefer Mx-4 over kryonaut. I think it does a better job at cooling and more stable thermal conductivity. I had kryonaut on my aorus x7 v6 and I swapped it for mx-4 2019 edition and i got much more stable thermals under the same ambient temperatures as the kryonaut. About a 2c decrecrase in temps!
Yeah MX4 is pretty decent, I usually use it for my PC CPU testing, just went with Kryonaugt here as a lot of people wanted me to try it out 😁
Super useful video, thanks Jarrod! I am thinking of going through pretty much the same upgrade, only RAM I'm considering going up to 64GB. In the list of supported memory kits that Gigabyte provided, were there any 32GB sticks that are 'officially supported'? :D
Also, out of curiosity where in Australia are you located if you don't mind me asking?
Cheers! There were no 32gb sticks listed in the sheet that Gigabyte sent me (I think there's a screenshot of it in the video), but I think those became more popular a while after making this video. It might be possible, could contact Gigabyte and check. The newer Aero 15 OLED lists 64gb in the specs though, so that one at least does. I'm based in Canberra
@@JarrodsTech Nice, thanks for the info Jarrod :) I'll send Gigabyte a message, my laptop does state it supports 64GB of RAM I'm just trying to figure out which modules I can get. I came across lots of people having issues with their specific RAM modules and it's a decent amount of money so I think I'll chase up Gigabyte first to make sure I get something that'll work. Canberra is a nice place - very quaint. Only been there once so far but I did like it :)
@@SurfacedStudio No problem! Yeah for some reason they seem to be one of the few that are actually picky with regards to memory selection.
I don't get this network card running...
I have the Aero 15-x9 and i used the same 9260 card as you.
But the Device Manager doesn't show this....anyone has the same issue?
Is one of the covers for your plants made out of a Core i9-9900K case?
Hahaha, looks like it hey
I also had the same issue with the RAM memory, but I noticed that with BIOS version FB07 it is working very well with both new modules, the problem appears when I upgraded the BIOS to FB08. Now I'm trying to somehow downgrade my BIOS version. If someone can suggest some downgrade hack, please ... ?
Could you tell me what is the part number of the left fan that doesn't rotate? I use it to play a game (Starcraft 2, which is not that demanding), the left fan started making loud noises until it stopped spinning now, I want to buy it with AliExpress or something
I do not know how to determine this.
I upgraded the ram with kingston Hyper X impact DDR4 2666. I'm telling you mate my aero15x is no longer a laptop. It is a monster. I'm waiting for my samsung 1TB 970 pro to be delivered.
Nice! I think that's the kit I've got listed in the comments, I wish I knew about it before buying my gskill crap
Jarrod'sTech I intended to buy the G.Skills ram but people told me the fancy label Ripjaw doesn’t really help with the performance. So I turn to Kingston for some reinforcement.
Changing wifi card fixed your problems ?
I saw something similar in forums about the memory situation, with recommended sticks not working. There are some that apparently work though, such as the HyperX HX426S15IB2K2/16 Impact 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) 2666 MHz DDR4 CL15 SODIMM Memory Kit. I'm going to try it myself. Gigabyte need to sort their act out.
Yeah I saw that too, we probably saw the same forum thread - I have it linked in the description.
@@JarrodsTech ah cool, nice one. Hopefully it'll work. By the way, do you see much reason to go for more than 16GB for gaming? 32GB is twice as much money and obviously still a risk.
Thanks for all your videos by the way, they've been super useful with deciding which laptop to go for (and I keep watching them anyway, even though I've bought my 15x now...!)
Nah 16GB is enough at the moment I think, if you've got dual channel then even better! No problem at all, cheers!
@James L , does this memory kit work?
@@lukag5478 I ended up buying a single 16GB Corsair stick and pairing it with the vcolor one that came with the laptop. It works well in dual channel and 2666 MHz. I can't remember the name of the model now but I'll try and look later.
For whoever is considering buying this laptop, please do not. I bought the Aero 15x v8 and the thermals are extremely poor, my mobo is fried after only one year, tech support from Gigabyte is trash and I will make it my own personal mission to share this information with as many people as I can. Save your 2k dollars and invest them in another machine, THIS IS NOT IT. You're welcome and please upvote
Not great but still a good machine, I use mine all the time and still like it. I have recently reviewed the newer OLED Aero and it is much better in most aspects, especially thermals, in my review I compare clock speeds with the 15x and you can see how far it's come.
Jarrod'sTech they have gotten back to me asking me to send it back for repairs a second time. We’ll see how it goes, great reviews though.
Hey Jarrod:
Here I am in Australia too thinking about buying an AERO 15 around boxing day as a gaming laptop. I have a simple question if you don't mind, as I am intending to put a second SSD in to boost the storage. It will be my first time ever to dig inside the internals of a laptop and I was unsure about whether the battery have to be removed or just simply disconnected for just putting in another SSD. I'm assuming just disconnect would be ok based on other videos I've watched but a certain answer is always more comforting.
Sorry for the long message, and if you ever read this, please stay safe throughout the rest of the pandemic :)
I only swapped SSD on this laptop but if I decided to repaste I would have been careful to follow what they poorly did in first place and replacing thermal paste with thermal paste, not pads. I would try to repaste it instead of using thermal pads around the main components. Anyway, great video ;)
Thanks! Yeah I may have done that if I had thicker paste, but wasn't sure about using Kryonaut there too so just went with the pads.
Does those gigabyte laptops have removable GPU (MXM slot) and CPU?
Hi Jarrod! What are the broblems with high temperatures actually?
Lower performance? Less comfortable? Do you think it can lower the lifetime of the the battery (lower it's effective capacity, faster than expected, to unusable values in 2-3 years)?
If it gets too high, the components will throttle back to prevent themselves going hotter which will reduce performance. Technically higher temperatures will reduce life of the parts, but how much this practically matters I do not know, I've never seen any good information about this.
I am happy to hear that the thermal compound change did not make any sense ;-) Sorry for you though!
Haha, yeah seems that the heatpipes/sinks are the bottleneck rather than the interface material between the dies.
@@JarrodsTech thx for your comment :-) Btw. my Aero 15 is now defective. Reports an nVidia usb Controller issue and sucks 37w of power in battery saver mode (cpu package 6w and nVidia gpu fully off, no wifi). Happened after 2 days and no response from Gigabyte in 5 days :-(
For the life of me i cannot find a qualified memory list from Gigabyte for my AERO 15 Classic-SA model. Where did you find your list?
Thanks for the info and the great video.
Do the newer iterations of the Aero 15 and 17 (the ones with the Aero on the lid rather than Gigabyte logo) still have the limitations on upgradability as the older editions? I'd like to get the 17" HDR 1660 Ti version but it needs a serious upgrade to the RAM and storage to be usable for my editing needs.
Not sure as I haven't attempted there, sorry. The new models are definitely big improvements over this one in other ways such as cooling, could try asking Gigabyte support for supported memory for the new models and see if they match what I showed in the video.
Thanks, mate. That's a good idea. I'll do that. Do you know if there are any other 17" laptops with comparable screens around the same price point I should check out? It seems like the 15" models are always the ones that get the fancy screens.
Hi Jarrod,
So what are my options that work if I want to have 32GB of RAM in my Aero 15x?
I still don't really know, can try the supported memory but as mentioned I had issues with that, best bet is to Google search and find forums of people saying what kits they had success with - there are some here in these comments.
@@JarrodsTech alright, thanks for your response!
Hey Jarrod, I just did my thermo solution with kryonaut(cpu and gpu) and thermo pads, CPU undervolt of -0.150 and I also lapped the heatsink to a near mirror finish for the CPU and GPU. All benckmarks I run now with the fan on full never get thermo throttled, unigene superposition, heaven, cinebench 15, 20. But I do get power limit throttled. I guess that's a win :). Oh yeh and one other thing, I put a blob of kryonaut in the middle of the die as I was afraid I might be air bubbles if I spread it on.
Nice, can't remember if you can raise the power limit on the 15x, but I know the newer models support that which is good if you have the thermal headroom. Anyway nice to hear it helped, thanks for sharing the result!
That’s too bad about the memory upgrade ): at least you were able to get more storage and the WiFi card looked like fun to install and easy to get to. Overall I think that laptop is easy to work on if I were you I would definitely open it again and do liquid metal. Maybe when you’re back from traveling or have some extra time as I know AU can be a pain to have stuff shipped there. Hope you’re able to find a new setup for internet I know it can be slow (My gf is currently vacationing in Perth). Laptop looks pretty light and easy to take though so I’m definitely jealous!
I have the Helios 300 and have done an SSD upgrade, undervolted cpu and OC gpu as well as liquid metal and upgraded to a 120hz panel. Temps avg 64-70 when gaming on high settings (mhw, bo4, destiny2). I think u said ur gf has one? I recommend Liquid metal for this one.
Yeah LM could be worth a go in the future, just need more time/preparation 😛 nah no Helios 300 here, my partner's laptop is some old Sony that needs to be replaced 😰
Hey Jarrod, Wouldn't it help use a laptop cooling pad fan unit? Have you tested them? Which one would you recommend?
Yeah could help a bit, depends on the design of the laptop and how open the bottom is. I have only ever tested one, the Thermaltake Massive 20 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/Zx2EnUD-DoM/v-deo.html I also try to use it in the temperature testing in my full reviews, so you can see how the new Aero 15 X9 goes with the cooling pad in this graph: ua-cam.com/video/RyI1ybG95JM/v-deo.html no change to CPU temp in that specific instance as the laptop is thermal throttling, however if you wait for the next graph in the video you can see performance is still improved.
Very nice. I was hoping to snag one of these but i managed to get a dell g3 for only $1100. What do you recommend i upgrade first? As i got the lowest spec model and i want it to be optimized for travelling and gaming
Hmm the lowest one is single channel memory if I recall? I guess if you have enough disk space going to dual channel memory will give you the biggest performance boost in games, or if you have a HDD only going to an SSD would probably be a better first move.
Did you make any changes to the laptop using ITU? Like any since you have had the laptop. I have kept mine on the default settings and using ITU, have noticed that my two RAM sticks are running at 2400mhz when their both 2666mhz and I keep on seeing something saying current limit throttling.
Thanks
Not sure what ITU is, if you mean XTU, then no I run mine at stock. Mine is DDR4-2400 as well, it's because the two sticks are different and support different speeds at different timings, you can check this in HWInfo.
@@JarrodsTech Thanks for the quick response.
Took long time
Saw the community post image like 1 month ago
Anyways love your video
Yeah my backlog of immediate videos to make with products I have to send back is continually like 10 videos, and the list of videos I want to make when I have spare time is about 40+, so it takes time to get to different projects unfortunately. Also after I made the community post, someone suggested upgrading the WiFi, I thought that was a good idea so had to wait for delivery on that too, as well as the cooling pads which I only decided to get last minute.
@@JarrodsTech nice loving these videos
Cheers!
@@JarrodsTech i have hearx aussiee drink a lot
hey Jarrod
thank you for this video - i used it when I added a new SSD. 1 question though, what wifi card did you replace in your laptop? My Aero 15w OLED uses the killer ax1650x and its just awful and wanted to know if you'd recommend the wifi card you are using for this laptop.
cheers
I just stick to the Intel ones, today I'd go AX210NGW
@@JarrodsTech cheers for the suggestion
@@JarrodsTech I put the AX200NGW inside and the wifi speed is just as awful - maybe it's just a Aero15 OLED problem... shame.
Hi @Dave, I want add a second ssd too, but I don't know if the second nvme can be PCIe or SATA. I've a Aero 15 Oled WA (i7-9750H, 2060). What nvme did you buy?
@@CapitanUniverso I bought the WD_BLACK 1TB SN750 NVMe - highly recommend.
Hey J. Very nice video. Just 2 questions maybe you can help.
1. Do you think the price for current laptop models will drop significantly after the CES and new video card?
2. For gaming purpose and light video editing, what model you would recommend? I am looking for a light and thin laptop but the price in AUD is not very affordable (for example models with ROG logo)...
I recently bought my 15x as well during a black friday sale, for 1750 USD. Considering the prices of desktop RTX series cards, I wouldn't be surprised if the new laptop cards are sold at a premium as well rather than replacing the older ones. For the ROG related question, biggest killer for me was their battery life. Most of those are ~55w, which just doesn't cut it if you ever plan to actually use the laptop off the charger. Biggest real competition to me was MSI (around the same price) or Razer (if you're willing to pay significantly more for a more premium build).
Thanks!
1. Not sure if significantly, but there may be some sales, hard to really know just have to wait and see.
2. I went with this one for video editing, otherwise anything with the 8750H and Nvidia graphics will probably just do fine, problem with cheaper gaming laptops is they tend to cut costs on the screen.
BerserkFury89 Agree. I always appreciate the design to replace hard drive with m.2 SSD to leave more space with battery. Yes the SSD is more expensive and not that reliable, but I don't see that as a problem over time. As for price, I am considering MSI as a good alternative.
@@michaelz379 I probably would've gone with the MSI if not for the black friday sale I caught for the 15x. It was a good $200 cheaper than the MSI, so I couldn't pass up that deal.
Been doing liquid metal on several laptop,using conformal coating and kapton tape, you can get up to 20 degree difference in certain case. My own a hp specter pro 15 inch dropped 16 degree under load. I would definitely go that route if i was you. There no risk involve as long you take your time.
I wonder if that's the case with this laptop though, I've read about other people doing it on the Aero 15x and still had almost no difference, may just be that the heatsink isn't big enough / not enough fan power to remove the heat.
Dear sir wich is best for photo editing and games aero 15x 4k screen or Fhd 144 mhz screen ? I want natural color for priting photos ☺
I actually have a whole video comparing the 1080p and 4k Aero here which answers this: ua-cam.com/video/92Hp1aW2_Fs/v-deo.html
When the theoretically easiest upgrade is the practically most complicated one ...
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You think the aero 15x battery can be used in the overpower 15+ or 17+. The layout looks almost the same to add this battery but idk if it a good idea to try if I have clearance. If you dont think there nothing wrong can I get the dimension of this batter please
Honestly not sure, though I did hear that you can buy better batteries for those now: ua-cam.com/video/mpYQuqgsiGM/v-deo.html
I have the Aero 15 YA (i7 9750 with RTX2080 MaxQ).. Under high loads it's just shutting off.. but it doesn't shut off during stress testing... I'm not sure what to do - whether to try undervolting the CPU and/or GPU or whether to just send it back to Gigabyte for warranty inspection? Or maybe to try re-paste? It's about a year old and I just bought it second hand..
Never heard of that happening, definitely not normal. Get in contact with Gigabyte.
Hey mate, I am looking for a premium laptop, currently my top picks are Surface book 2, XPS 15, Razer Blade 15,aero 15x and if not these than MacBook Pro 15 (vega 20), I will be using creo, catia and solidworks for college work and bit of light gaming.
My main concern is reliability, I’m from India and, Razer, gigabyte and surface book doesn’t have support here.
I could ship it if there’s any problem but it’s going to be my main computer.
And I am also waiting for 2019 products if they got anything special.
Or are there any other laptops I should consider?
So can you please help me through purchase.any suggestion would be helpful.
Thanks.
(Sorry for my bad English)
Hey! I've heard good things about the surface book 2 and XPS 15 but unfortunately haven't had the chance to try them out myself. For what you're doing either of those would probably be my preference if you've got the budget available. Definitely worth waiting til at least CES In January (2 weeks away now), I believe there will be new laptop GPUs announced there, I'll be going there so I'll do some videos on the new laptops there 👍 I don't think I'd add anything else to your list, it's pretty solid already. The Aero/Blade have the advantage of higher tier graphics with the 1070 Max-Q, so depends whether you think that extra power would be useful for the apps you're using.
Jarrod'sTech thanks for reply mate
I am waiting for upcoming laptop and will decide after that
And I will surely see your video😃
No problem!
Hi! Thanks for brief and structured video. I'll probably will have experience with changing SD Card Reader because it doesn't work and in device manager status is: Unknown USB device (Port Reset Failed). Would you please kindly tell me is that possible to change SDcard module, or it is soldered to the Mother Board?
That's strange, have you tried the drivers from the support page of the Aero 15x, or otherwise using their software that gets updates for the different parts? Forgot it's name.. Don't think it's replaceable, but I also haven't looked at it and don't know much about that part.
@@JarrodsTech I was reinstalling Windows, and yes I use Smart Update from Gigabyte. Several minutes ago solved problem by flashing BIOS it works now, Hooray! Thank you for your reply!
Good to hear it's working now!
If I don't mind the slower write and read speeds of SATA... any reason not to use the cheaper SATA M.2 SSDs?
Not really, depending on their speeds, just because SATA doesn't mean they'll all be the same, might have one that is 500mb/s and another that is 200.
Hi, could anyone confirm to me what is the maximum storage I am able to use on my Aero 15x v8? Can I add two NVMe of 2TB each? What is the total maximum and what is the maximum per "port"? That would be great to know. Thank you.
I'm not sure, gigabytes own information says 512gb drives are officially supported, but obviously this isn't actually a hard skin it because I run a 1tb one just fine. If no one else knows this and can answer your comment you might just have to contact gigabyte directly and find out
Update: hyper X 32G arrived few weeks back, didn’t work initially, had to mix the v-color and hyper x ran in dual channel 2400; ran like that for a week, no drama; just updated the BIOS to the newest release F09/F08, installed both stick of Hyper X, now it’s running in dual channel 2666. YES!
Nice! Thanks for sharing your experience with it 👍
i m So So So Thnk ful to you for this video
Sorry it took so long 😉
Jarrod'sTech np mate nice video btw just a question to ask that Is Kingston HyperX Memory at 2666 CL15 supported by this laptop
The one I list in the description? A few people say it is, unfortunately I can't justify spending $500 AUD to buy it and find out though.
I wonder the wifi performance as I'm having trouble with my 2017 AERO 15. The wifi is unstable and will disconnect if I play games. I checked on other devices and the wifi is fine except on my laptop. Also the wifi will disappear after few times of disconnection, I've tried every solution including clean reset but it still happening. My last solution now is to change the wifi card but I wonder if it actually worth it to swap the card and the problem may occur again. Also the wifi card is not the same model.
If you're using the latest drivers and have tested using the laptop close to the access point to rule out stuff being in the way, probably time for a new card, they usually aren't very expensive