laptops have a problem they're hot loud and kind of slow which is more like
three problems but today we are gonna solve all of them at once in this
ordinary looking brown box here is the electronics liquid propulsion package or
pp as i like to call it it's a water cooling add-on that can apparently drop
a laptop's temperatures by 20 degrees
but i'm gonna have to see that to believe it i'm seeing it
i'm still not sure if i believe it but i believe i'm gonna tell you about
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now this is not the first time a laptop has been water cooled and it's not even
the first time we've seen a water cooled laptop the ASUS gx800 had this massive
dock to keep its dual gtx 1080s from
freaking desoldering themselves and we have actually water cooled the alienware
area 51m twice incredibly it survived sort of sort of
what's different about the electronics lpp is that the price
isn't super out there compared to a normal laptop wow it's really light
actually kind of feels cheap the water cooler is only 200
although yeah that's not that cheap but it's a lot better than the 5 000 premium
that ASUS charge for the gx800 i guess and the script just says yolo vlog here
so i guess this is where we install it and
there's really not much to it hey can i open it uh not yet no
i want to open it though it looks like
there's clips oh it definitely has
nasty plastic clips on it so far i have
broken zero of the clips almost zero of the clips
so look at that we've got some anti-vibration foam around the pump
we've got a 120 millimeter radiator we've got a reservoir that is actually
very thoughtfully designed and implemented it's right above the pump so
it's always getting even if it evaporated a bunch of the water away
it's always going to be getting the freshest least bubbly water
you've got a little window on the front where you can monitor your coolant level
that's really convenient and then over on the other side you've got
is this worth prying off just to see the 120mm fan oh wow this one's coming off
way easier why did i even need a tool before there it is 120 millimeter fan
and a little control board that's going to be distributing power to our pump and
our fan and then just got a single dc input at the back there probably 12 volt
if i had to guess you just take the laptop power plug it in the back and
pass it through it passes through power to the laptop
how the f does that work oh i see
so it just like siphons off some of the
power being passed through this just thing that just is sticking out here
yeah i've seen dumber things in terms of coolant routing everything's like smart
they have someone there that is sensible and like knows water cooling like even
just little things right like having the fittings up at the top that's going to
allow the air to bleed out of it much more easily so you've got it coming in
this way coming up here going through the radiator and then coming out to the
top of the reservoir that's going to create very little turbulence which is
going to create very few bubbles in the res to be sucked back into the pump
i like it i mean this could be the world's cheapest crappiest pump for all
i know but at least the layout of the loop is thoughtful i don't know if 200 is what i
would want to pay for aio tier hardware but something to
consider is that this is going to be a pretty low volume product i would
imagine and something's got to account for the tooling costs of creating these
plastic molds huh look at that that did it say
whatever you want about the cooling solution though the SSD in here looks pretty good gen 4x4 samsung SSD
what else we got shake in here this looks like 32 gigs of ddr4
wait is this ddr5 oh cool
4 800. oh uh are we even allowed to like talk
about this hardware yet because this would be 12th gen then yes 12th gen
oh oh there's a node in here important this is pre-production
hardware and the CPU and GPU are under embargo we can show temps and power draw
nothing else or NVIDIA and Intel we'll light a big bag of poo on fire and leave
it on our front doorstep read you loud and clear now that i'm done getting
distracted by the shinies let's turn our attention to the star of the show the
integrated water cooling the aluminum heatsinks are enough to effectively cool
the laptop but what i'm imagining is that when you add the water cooling
system the fans won't have to work as hard which should theoretically make it
quieter and your internal temps should get lower i mean i i think i can see how
this could conceivably work look at this you've got contact with the CPU right
here and it runs all the way over all three of these heat pipes
and comes over to the GPU and then even runs over the area where your video
memory and your vrms probably are unless
the brm's over here and then comes out back across the CPU and out it goes
electronics what do they claim 20 degrees improvement
wow now to be clear that's not enough that you could just run it on water cooling
like these tubes are very secondary compared to the heat pipes that make up
the air cooling system it's just that the biggest challenge in a laptop is how
little space you have to work with so the heat sinks are always crazy small
and the fans are crazy inefficient because they have to be these super low
profile fans this takes that and ideally
solves both of those problems nice big radiator nice big fan is that the tai
can yeah hey i recognized the car yeah it's even the color we had yeah like the
exact one that i drove looks better in person
well it didn't take us long to thermal throttle it already detected thermal
throttling so that's cool we reached a maximum of 88 degrees on
the CPU how's our GPU doing 82.3
GPU power 130 watt alex has already run
more scientific versions of these benchmarks but i just want to experience
it oh well that was easy
that really that's the seal okay i have
one more bit of advice for the engineers at electronics i would like to see
um a bit more of a permanent top seal because this is the sort of
thing that if left unattended a little sibling or a pet could easily knock over
and if the water did in fact come out it could easily make its way
to being sucked into the fans of your laptop i don't like that
see this is why brands should send us products before release like the number
of things like that that we could prevent they just sent it to us you know
and the second to last revision like here's an example i might have told them
well this would have to be at an earlier stage but i might have told them to put
these on the back so that the tubes
aren't sticking out the front this end appears to be just a quick connect so
oh look at that that's actually kind of awesome then you
just pull back here and the thing pops out
wow this has a very engineering sample vibe to it
they literally just ca glued two
different diameters of tubing together to make this filler
for it i mean for me i only live once so i'm not gonna
use it but jesus christ don't do that no i i believe that i will use it i will
actually use it for a change i'm very offended that this is here by the way instead of
an lttstore.com water bottle great water bottles keep your drinks cool and you
even cooler
yeah this would be not the greatest job in the world
i feel like i'd get better at it though hey lions can you game now
no no i have to fill up my oh i think i
finished filling it all right i'm gonna try to power it on you ready okay
there's some unfortunate news though the laptop is crazy quiet
but this thing is freaking loud okay let's see if we can solve that
i would not recommend filling it all the way because this vent here yeah you see
that it's uh it stays open
i am
super confused right now there's no way it is supposed
to be this loud okay so we can monitor the fan but can we control the fan
not that i can see what a letdown
i am so disappointed right now shut up
you know just shut up shut up
shut it up just shut up you know just shut up
with the complexity of this board in here it seems like it should be able to
handle fan control okay alex i'm doing it
here's what we're gonna do what what are you doing i'm controlling
the fan speed and i'm controlling the pump
i'm getting them both at a reasonable level are you seriously changing game
settings right now while i have my thumb freaking burning on a fan
okay so let's see CPU hit a maximum of 80 degrees
although it seems like it was drawing
what an average of 55 watts instead of the 45 that it was before that's cool
how's our GPU doing GPU max of 66.9 so
that's way better yeah and it's been drawing 127
looks like 100 average 125. so about the
same although that's probably just power limited
well i just um so let down right now
it sounds broken it really does sound broken i think it
must have just broken yeah it might be broken so i have confirmed that it is
broken and should not sound like that cool uh but that doesn't account for
that it has no speed control what is working though it
works great like look at this yes this is wonderful
it's a lot better it's a lot a lot like look at this
sustained hundred watts on the CPU was like 50 before
yeah it's a massive difference that's pretty cool
looks like it's helping out the CPU the most
well i'm guessing the GPU temps are way lower
oh for sure yeah
that's awesome like 58 degrees massive drop in GPU temps and literally
doubled your CPU power like not bad just has to work
not a perfect product but when it works
boy is this ever a fast laptop that gets even faster when you hook it up to the
external cooling system they've just definitely got a couple of little wrinkles to iron out just like i always
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if you guys enjoyed this video go check out the one where we water cooled in alienware with a weird thing we found on
aliexpress it cost way more and didn't work nearly as well i really think
they're on to something just gotta
iron wrinkles