1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,760 So the thing about modern laptops 2 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:03,500 is that there isn't a whole lot 3 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:05,400 that's designed to be upgraded about them, 4 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,320 except for one thing 5 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,600 that most people probably wouldn't think of. 6 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,720 Some laptops out there 7 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,160 can actually have their displays upgraded. 8 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,720 So we, and by we, I mean Alex, 9 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,680 ordered a replacement screen for our Acer Predator, 10 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:23,700 whatever this thing is. 11 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:24,540 What is this? 12 00:00:24,540 --> 00:00:26,160 Something Helios 300? 13 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,680 So we can go from 1080, 60 Hertz to 1080. 14 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,500 120 Hertz. 15 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:33,780 Also a bigger color game. 16 00:00:33,780 --> 00:00:36,160 Really? Yeah. 17 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:43,900 Well, why don't we do just that? 18 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:47,280 iFixit's Manta Toolkit comes with 112 bits, 19 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,840 including standard ones like Phillips and Flathead, 20 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,320 but also specialty ones. 21 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,040 Check it out today at the link in the video description. 22 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,580 So much like many of Alex's videos these days, 23 00:00:56,580 --> 00:00:58,900 he doesn't appear to have done a whole ton of planning. 24 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,560 In fact, he hasn't even opened the package 25 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:02,800 for the replacement screen, 26 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,860 but you validated that this works? 27 00:01:04,860 --> 00:01:06,460 Forums have said it should work. 28 00:01:06,460 --> 00:01:08,220 Forums have said it should work. 29 00:01:08,220 --> 00:01:09,700 Okay, yeah, hopefully. 30 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:11,140 I figure if this one doesn't work, 31 00:01:11,140 --> 00:01:14,420 we also have a Dell G3 that also should work, so. 32 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:15,240 With this? 33 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,080 Yeah. 34 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:19,020 There's a couple of key things 35 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:20,420 that you need to look out for. 36 00:01:20,420 --> 00:01:22,820 One is the actual physical size 37 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:24,460 of the display that you're buying, 38 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:26,400 but there's more to it than just, 39 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,840 oh, I've got a 15.6 inch laptop. 40 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,780 I buy a 15.6 inch panel and bippity boppity, 41 00:01:31,780 --> 00:01:34,020 because there's also the mounting points 42 00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:36,240 of which there are many standards. 43 00:01:36,460 --> 00:01:39,220 Also, there are a shocking number 44 00:01:39,220 --> 00:01:41,380 of display interfaces for laptops. 45 00:01:41,380 --> 00:01:43,760 So hopefully we're gonna have some luck today. 46 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,390 Why don't we, should we unbox this first? 47 00:01:46,390 --> 00:01:48,470 That's the one thing iFixit kits don't have. 48 00:01:48,470 --> 00:01:49,310 I don't know. 49 00:01:49,310 --> 00:01:51,630 I think this will work. 50 00:01:51,630 --> 00:01:52,950 Ha ha. 51 00:01:52,950 --> 00:01:54,330 It said on the eBay listing 52 00:01:54,330 --> 00:01:57,790 that it should also work for this and some Dell laptop. 53 00:01:57,790 --> 00:01:59,370 So we'll see, I guess. 54 00:01:59,370 --> 00:02:01,190 I mean, especially given that back 55 00:02:01,190 --> 00:02:03,310 when we reviewed the Helios 300, 56 00:02:03,310 --> 00:02:06,330 as I recall, we said pretty much the only issue with it 57 00:02:06,330 --> 00:02:07,410 was that the screen wasn't 58 00:02:07,410 --> 00:02:08,250 that great. 59 00:02:08,250 --> 00:02:09,090 Yeah, pretty much. 60 00:02:09,090 --> 00:02:10,070 So you guys gotta remember 61 00:02:10,070 --> 00:02:13,150 when you buy an LCD display assembly like this, 62 00:02:13,150 --> 00:02:14,950 it includes the front glass, 63 00:02:14,950 --> 00:02:17,990 the actual LCD in the middle and also the backlight. 64 00:02:17,990 --> 00:02:21,090 So we should be able to address the fact that it's 60 Hertz 65 00:02:21,090 --> 00:02:24,410 and the fact that the backlight isn't particularly bright. 66 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:27,430 And then this says, don't touch. 67 00:02:27,430 --> 00:02:30,430 Oh, like was I really not supposed to touch it? 68 00:02:30,430 --> 00:02:31,690 I figured we might as well liquid metal it 69 00:02:31,690 --> 00:02:33,550 while we're in there, so. 70 00:02:33,550 --> 00:02:36,310 Let's just replace the display and call that the project. 71 00:02:36,310 --> 00:02:37,310 But it can be just a bit quieter. 72 00:02:37,310 --> 00:02:39,650 It's not even a loud laptop. 73 00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:42,070 Have you like Googled anything about this? 74 00:02:42,070 --> 00:02:44,350 Do we need to pop these rubber doohickeys off 75 00:02:44,350 --> 00:02:45,850 or like what's our deal here? 76 00:02:45,850 --> 00:02:52,070 I don't know. 77 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:53,290 I'm good, I'm clear. 78 00:02:53,290 --> 00:02:54,690 Why are things assembled with clips? 79 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:57,310 Hold on, hold on. 80 00:02:57,310 --> 00:02:59,590 Well, that was easier than I expected. 81 00:02:59,590 --> 00:03:02,410 This might be the shortest Linus and Alex 82 00:03:02,410 --> 00:03:05,070 do a weird thing adventure yet. 83 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:09,180 There's no way it's just that easy. 84 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:11,040 Cool, okay. 85 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,580 So those mount points look pretty similar. 86 00:03:14,580 --> 00:03:18,000 That interface looks pretty darn similar. 87 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,540 So you can check that out there. 88 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:22,430 Still plenty of time for us to break this. 89 00:03:22,430 --> 00:03:25,380 Should we get some more tape to put on there? 90 00:03:25,380 --> 00:03:28,320 Yes, based on that it just slipped out. 91 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:29,860 The other cool thing about this 92 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:31,720 is that there's lots of reasons 93 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,040 why you might want to replace the display in your laptop 94 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,880 other than being on the lookout for a performance upgrade. 95 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,000 Like, oh crap, that's not the right spot. 96 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:41,920 Oh shoot. 97 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,940 Like for example, it's a pretty common issue 98 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:47,120 to end up with an outline of your keyboard 99 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,700 scratched into your glass. 100 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:51,760 So for 55 bucks, you can get the thing as good as new. 101 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,020 That's freaking awesome. 102 00:03:53,020 --> 00:03:54,420 Okay, hold on. 103 00:03:54,420 --> 00:03:56,920 We may have spoken too soon. 104 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,680 Is it a touch wider? 105 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,040 No, it's the same. 106 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:00,880 Okay, what's going on here? 107 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,080 Maybe I just didn't pay close attention 108 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,120 to how this came out. 109 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,360 Oh, I think it just shifted a little. 110 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,460 Yeah, these just shifted. 111 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:06,280 Oh, okay. 112 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,800 So that's fine. 113 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,480 Yeah, if you wanna hold that. 114 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,240 So you just wanna make sure before you screw it in, 115 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:13,740 these little pieces right here, 116 00:04:13,740 --> 00:04:15,380 you make sure those are popped all the way through. 117 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:18,220 So you can see the frame, like the brace thing here. 118 00:04:18,220 --> 00:04:19,340 It's not quite aligned. 119 00:04:19,340 --> 00:04:22,250 See, now it's popped through. 120 00:04:22,250 --> 00:04:24,650 So we should end up with a nice flush mount now. 121 00:04:24,650 --> 00:04:28,690 So we don't even have to put the bezel on in order. 122 00:04:28,690 --> 00:04:29,530 What? 123 00:04:29,530 --> 00:04:30,670 No way. 124 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:33,100 That easy. 125 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:34,800 Dang. 126 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:35,840 All right. 127 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,300 So first thing we'll test is the brightness buttons then, 128 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:39,260 I guess, right? 129 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:41,200 Wait, are they working? 130 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,400 It doesn't look like it's doing anything. 131 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,400 But let's go ahead and change it to 120 hertz. 132 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:46,460 See if it works. 133 00:04:46,460 --> 00:04:49,460 So this is a handy dandy little utility by ToastyX 134 00:04:49,460 --> 00:04:51,880 called custom resolution utility. 135 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,000 And as far as we've been able to find, 136 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,620 it's the only one that allows you to actually set 137 00:04:57,620 --> 00:04:59,800 custom resolutions and refresh rates 138 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,060 when you have Intel integrated graphics 139 00:05:02,060 --> 00:05:04,540 and an NVIDIA dedicated graphics card 140 00:05:04,540 --> 00:05:06,440 running in like hybrid GPU mode. 141 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:07,860 It's really frustrating. 142 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:10,820 The Intel utility has an interface for it. 143 00:05:10,820 --> 00:05:12,020 You can key it in. 144 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:14,020 And then from my experience anyway, 145 00:05:14,020 --> 00:05:15,040 it just spits out errors. 146 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,300 For the most part. 147 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:18,660 Yeah, it just says like bandwidth not available or something. 148 00:05:18,660 --> 00:05:19,640 Which is ridiculous 149 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,340 because you could even set something lower in some cases 150 00:05:22,340 --> 00:05:25,180 and it'll be like, oh, maximum bandwidth exceeded. 151 00:05:25,180 --> 00:05:26,500 Oh, for crying out loud. 152 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:27,820 Why always? 153 00:05:27,820 --> 00:05:29,080 Didn't even warn us either. 154 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,160 I just hit restart. 155 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,600 One eternity later. 156 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:33,600 Quick, quick, get over here. 157 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,620 It rebooted once already, but it's... 158 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:37,520 What? 159 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,800 That is definitely 120 hertz smoothness. 160 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,640 Look at that. 161 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,460 Isn't that beautiful? 162 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:43,340 It's beautiful. 163 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:45,040 So we can go ahead and pull this off. 164 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:51,500 That is a much, much nicer display 165 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:53,300 than what was on here before. 166 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:55,580 We should probably like fire up a game or something then. 167 00:05:55,580 --> 00:05:56,420 Right? 168 00:05:56,420 --> 00:05:58,140 Oh, for crying out loud. 169 00:05:58,140 --> 00:06:02,340 Oh, I managed to walk into a trap already. 170 00:06:02,340 --> 00:06:03,780 That, okay. 171 00:06:05,980 --> 00:06:08,540 Gaming in 2018, ladies and gentlemen. 172 00:06:08,540 --> 00:06:09,380 So there you have it. 173 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:10,780 There's not really much else to say. 174 00:06:10,780 --> 00:06:13,020 Everything that's good about high refresh rate, 175 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:16,920 120 hertz gaming is now officially good about this laptop. 176 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:17,760 And all you have to lose. 177 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,500 is 55 Canadian rubles, about a half an hour of your time, 178 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:23,520 assuming that you're totally incompetent, 179 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,900 and well, brightness adjustment, 180 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:27,660 which is sort of the biggest problem, 181 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:31,540 but something that if your use case is predominantly gaming, 182 00:06:31,540 --> 00:06:34,480 I think you still might wanna consider. 183 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,260 Speaking of things to consider, our sponsor. 184 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:41,080 Rosewill's Prism S500 case offers RGB lighting 185 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,920 with a sleek and unique design at an affordable price. 186 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,280 It's got dual LED RGB ring fans 187 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,340 that emit more light to your internal components. 188 00:06:48,340 --> 00:06:50,240 That is sort of the point of RGB fans. 189 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,860 It's got a tempered glass panel to show off your internals, 190 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:54,800 not to mention the beautiful RGB. 191 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,220 RGB is kind of a theme here. 192 00:06:56,220 --> 00:06:58,300 It's got a top power supply mount and shroud 193 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:00,800 to help tuck away extra cables for easier cable management, 194 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,560 and it's got an RGB front strip for still more RGB. 195 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,180 Check it out at the link in the video description. 196 00:07:07,180 --> 00:07:08,180 So thanks for watching, guys. 197 00:07:08,180 --> 00:07:09,880 If you disliked this video, you can hit that button, 198 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,380 but if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed, 199 00:07:11,380 --> 00:07:12,860 and maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff 200 00:07:12,860 --> 00:07:14,720 we featured at the link in the video description. 201 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:15,860 Also down there is our merch store, 202 00:07:15,860 --> 00:07:17,100 which has cool shirts like this one 203 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,600 and our community forum, which you should totally join. 204 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,800 I can't believe how smoothly this went. 205 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,960 It almost takes the fun out of it, almost. 206 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,660 I mean, this puts the fun back into it. 207 00:07:26,660 --> 00:07:27,500 This is great.