WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640 The second that tech companies like Sony 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:10.360 and Asus started putting liquid metal in their electronics, it was a matter of 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:15.360 time before this happened. Through some combination of an imperfect seal and 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:20.080 maybe a little bit of user carelessness, some of the liquid metal in my Asus ROG 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:25.080 Flow X13 laptop leaked out from under the cooler, which resulted in this. Man, 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:28.720 I still want to try to resurrect it, but if I'm being honest, this thing is 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:34.920 probably hooped. See, regular thermal paste is intentionally so non-conductive 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:39.120 that we were able to game on a PC that had its CPU socket literally filled with 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:44.800 the stuff. Liquid metal on the other hand, well, it's highly conductive. It's 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:48.800 metal. And it only takes the tiniest spill to bridge a couple of contacts, 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:53.920 cause a short, and probably brick your device. Man, I really hope not. This is 00:00:51.040 --> 00:00:58.120 like a current-gen one with like a 4070 in it, but nothing's over till it's 00:00:55.720 --> 00:01:02.160 over, and this isn't over until we dig deeper and see if we can resurrect this 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:07.465 machine. Just like I'm going to resurrect this 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:11.760 Segway THROUGH OUR SPONSOR. >> [laughter] 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:15.960 >> PLAUD. THEIR NOTEPIN IS A transcription assistant that goes where you go, easily 00:01:13.880 --> 00:01:19.800 clipping onto shirts or notebooks, and using the power of AI to summarize and 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:25.160 highlight key points of meetings or conversations. Get 20% off by using our 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.160 link today. 00:01:28.425 --> 00:01:30.445 >> [music] 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:39.680 >> After my Framework investment disclosure, the first thing I've got to do is come clean to you guys because I 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:43.280 have not exactly been careful with this machine. I'm talking everything from 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:48.840 holding it by the corners while I'm typing on it, tossing my computer 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:51.840 backpack around with the laptop in it, 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:54.880 uh lttstore.com, and even while it's 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:57.840 still warm, putting it vertically into 00:01:54.880 --> 00:02:01.760 my bag, which is perhaps the most dangerous thing I did. But real talk, 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:05.640 aren't we all a little careless sometimes? I mean, this doesn't seem 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.280 that bad, does it? Stop it. No, leave it alone. There's 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:14.400 been no real damage to the chassis, so Asus has clearly built a pretty rugged 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:16.920 machine, at least on the outside, but a 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:21.560 sudden impact, especially while the machine is warm, may have contributed to 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:24.920 jarring some of the liquid metal loose from the protective shim. First, I'll 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:29.360 just give you guys a bit of a tour of what I saw when I first opened it up. 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:33.160 So, I cracked it open and first noticed this. The way it was spread out told me 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:36.800 that there had been some force involved in the liquid metal coming loose. I then 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:43.560 continued to poke around inside, finding liquid metal on this heat spreader here, 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:46.200 on the PCB here, and as far away as this 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:50.480 screw in the corner of the machine here. That one was scary. That is very far for 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:53.960 it to travel. The symptoms weren't actually exactly what I showed you guys 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:58.360 at the beginning of the video. It does power on, it just 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:01.320 doesn't [music] boot. So, I'm maybe a little bit hopeful, but not that 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:06.960 hopeful. Oops, I'm definitely doing these in the wrong order. Oh, what is it going to be? 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:12.880 More dead? I'm giving myself a 20% chance of this thing working again after 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:14.640 today. Oh my god. I thought like, oh, 00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:19.880 it's probably that time that I like really tossed my bag, and it probably 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:25.240 all came No, no, no. This has been like seeping out, boys. Just like Sony, Asus 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:30.360 developed a gasket that is intended to keep all of the liquid metal between the 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:33.960 CPU die and the cooler without allowing it to leak out onto the sensitive 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:38.720 components that either could be shorted out or, in some cases, even corroded. Uh 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:44.320 most liquid metal that I'm aware of contains gallium, [music] which is highly corrosive to aluminum, 00:03:42.200 --> 00:03:48.040 for instance, which is often present in computer systems. In order to achieve a 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:51.880 good seal, it's typical to have a protective covering around the chip that 00:03:49.880 --> 00:03:57.600 the gasket seals against. As we can see here, though, the mounting pressure of 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.480 these springs is not that high, which 00:03:57.600 --> 00:04:04.440 appears to have allowed the liquid metal to seep out in between. And it's 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:08.200 like everywhere. To be clear, there's nothing 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:12.120 wrong with using a low mounting pressure. Dawsdude1, back when he came 00:04:10.320 --> 00:04:16.040 up for our collab upgrading MacBooks, pointed out that Apple uses extremely 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:19.600 low mounting pressure on some of their cooling solutions. The difference is 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:23.800 that Apple uses [music] a special thermal compound that is designed for 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.520 low mounting pressure applications. Liquid metal, on the other hand, 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:30.520 definitely benefits from high mounting pressure and definitely benefits from 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:36.680 not spilling all over the place. Sorry, Asus, I'm not trying to harp on you here, but like, yikes. Do you think 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.378 trying to turn it on and off again was dangerous? 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:44.880 >> Yep. >> [laughter] >> Applying power to any device that you 00:04:41.960 --> 00:04:49.960 think has been shorted or corroded or experienced liquid damage in any way is 00:04:47.400 --> 00:04:53.720 extremely risky and dangerous. I had no way of knowing, however, that that was 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:57.520 the issue with this device because I hadn't opened it up yet, and I hadn't 00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:01.240 exposed it to any water or corrosive materials. The leak was inside us all 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:04.400 along. The real leak was the friends we made along the way. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:08.840 I was really hoping to avoid taking out the battery, but I don't think that's 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:12.600 happening. That tray? Oh my god, it's just tape. My 00:05:10.200 --> 00:05:16.520 motherboard is taped in. Okay, if it's all over the back, I think we could 00:05:14.403 --> 00:05:20.960 [music] be cooked. The back is clean. Well, that's a good sign. How the devil 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:24.160 did it make it all the way over here? I have a theory. If it was traveling along 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:27.000 the heat pipes of the cooler, it was probably staying warm the entire time while it was traveling down. 00:05:26.848 --> 00:05:33.120 >> [music] >> Interest. You know what? We might be able to 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:37.720 resurrect this bad boy after all. First thing we need to do is clean it. 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:40.960 And speaking with Allen Splave, who you guys might remember from some recent 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:45.240 overclocking adventures we've done, he said the best thing is an organic 00:05:43.280 --> 00:05:49.160 solvent. So, I guess good old-fashioned isopropyl and elbow grease? Allen 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:53.200 recommends starting with a spatula or a scraper. So, we're going to get up as 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.200 much of this as we can using that before we start to wipe. Step two, wipe up as 00:05:55.520 --> 00:06:00.640 much of the grease as possible with paper towel. I don't know how well this 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:05.000 is going to work for in between some of the components on the board. Oh god, 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:09.600 there was a lot in that crack for this fan filter. As soon as I started to wipe 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:13.480 here, it spread out like nuts. I think it's kind of a cool aesthetic. 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:17.520 Yeah, thanks, Stephen. How much you think's under here? Oh, not bad. So, 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:20.960 there's a bit here, here, here, here, and here. [music] These little balls 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:25.320 here that are shorting out on stuff, these are bad balls. He really 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:29.040 recommends spatulating this before I cuz I feel like I've got kind of an 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:32.080 opportunity here to kind of slide it all off of this thing. I mean, if you want 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:35.040 to say in front of the world that you think you know better than Splave. 00:06:33.960 --> 00:06:39.720 I'm just going to >> To be fair, the instructions you you [music] sent it seems like they're for 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:42.080 his like hybrid product, right? >> No, it should be fine. You know what? 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:47.160 Here's what we're going to do. We're going to pull this off, and we're going to wipe that off. Okay, good. That wiped 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:52.560 off super clean. The bottom of this heat spreader, though, yuck. Oh, man, we 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:58.560 started out so tidy. This has clearly devolved at this point. 00:06:55.200 --> 00:07:01.400 Okay, mostly clean. I mean, I'm like 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:06.120 oscillating between extremely confident and zero confidence here. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:10.680 Sounds like me in high school. I found your problem, Asus. You've got so much 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:15.520 freaking liquid metal in here. Look at all of this. Does more liquid 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:18.720 metal result in better performance? No. But it results in a more consistent 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:22.360 application where you definitely won't have too little. Can you see all that? 00:07:20.640 --> 00:07:26.360 That's all the stuff that's not even on the die. I understand why they would do 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:30.240 it this way because if you have too little liquid metal, it's obviously not 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:33.440 going to be able to do its job. Not a big chunk of it. At what point would you 00:07:31.880 --> 00:07:37.760 just go, we're going to dip it? Basically, if you get off as much as you 00:07:35.320 --> 00:07:40.400 can, and it's not enough. Yeah, you can do the dip. But I'm going to try to get 00:07:39.200 --> 00:07:45.200 off as much as I can. I'm going to try to set a good example here. See, that little dot contains now, but once it 00:07:44.080 --> 00:07:50.240 melts, the way this stuff spreads out, man. Actually finding the knife blade pretty 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:53.400 good for removing chunks of it. But isn't that dangerous for damaging the 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.840 PCB? I mean, what am I going to do? Make it more dead? Imagine if Yeah, imagine 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:01.560 if I was to Oh. [ __ ] Ah, shoot. 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:06.600 What'd you do? I was trying to peel liquid metal off of a little capacitor, 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:10.960 and I pulled it up. [ __ ] Did I rip the pad off, though? Maybe 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:15.760 not. I think we can salvage this. >> got soldering tools. Yeah, we got 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:18.880 soldering tools. Ooh. Yeah, I see. I think the pad's intact. Okay, well, if 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:25.120 the pad's intact, we're Yeah, we're fine. Fine. Oh, no. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:30.480 Dude, I think the liquid metal is loosening the solder. What? 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:34.520 That doesn't even make any sense. What's the material of solder? If it's 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:38.840 lead-free, then it's usually tin and or silver. This one right here was like 00:08:36.599 --> 00:08:42.880 flooded in liquid metal and [music] just lifted right off. Liquid metal can 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:46.400 absorb into solder, making it brittle and causing components to detach [music] 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:49.360 from the board. I knew I didn't push on it that hard. 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:52.400 >> Dude, we're using a knife. No, no, yeah, but I was I was using the knife as a 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.320 delicate tool. [music] That's what my father's murderer said. Are we going to try and attach 00:08:55.480 --> 00:09:01.880 components to the board? >> I think we should try. Before we can reattach those components, however, I do 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:05.920 want to get off as much of the liquid metal as we can. So, what we're going to 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:09.680 do is use this hot air station at the lowest possible temperature, and then 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:14.160 use some solder wick to try to get up the last bit of it. And it just walks 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:19.000 around. Get over here, buddy. It's not grabbing the solder wick. Mhm. You know 00:09:16.400 --> 00:09:21.680 what? New method. I'm using the solder wick as a brush. This might be our best 00:09:20.920 --> 00:09:26.440 bet right now. >> I can't wait for the 500 comments all 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:28.440 detailing the better ways to do this. Oh, yeah. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:33.440 If you guys wanted the better way, you wouldn't watch LTT, though. 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:37.640 Man, I wish I could blow even harder, which normally would not be something 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:41.480 you would want. You can actually see a lot of the little pieces making their 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:44.920 way to the edge here. This is crazy. I would never do this to a working board. 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:48.840 Oh, yeah. Oh, we're moving it. See that? 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.080 Not really. You don't see it moving? >> Yeah, look at all that residue that you're creating. 00:09:50.280 --> 00:09:56.200 >> Andrew sees it. >> Yeah, I got it. Yeah, but the residue I can deal with. A big glob between these 00:09:54.680 --> 00:09:59.880 components that's bridging them, I can't. You can see how much of it I'm 00:09:57.880 --> 00:10:02.760 getting out of there now though. Okay, 00:10:01.040 --> 00:10:06.920 okay, things about to get crazy. We're already way past the crazy crazy zone, 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:09.760 man. That's what you think. 00:10:10.040 --> 00:10:15.360 Guess what? It's lined day. We are squeezing the Do you want a smaller 00:10:13.400 --> 00:10:17.520 vessel? Nope. 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:24.840 I don't think we're going to get much cleaner than that. Now I just have to clean off these caps that fell off the 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:28.440 board. Those kind are non-polarized. Nice. And with this cleaned up, we can 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:32.082 head over to the workshop and try and reattach them. I mean, look, Das Dude 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:34.840 one did stuff that was like a tenth [music] this size. So, if I can't do 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:39.120 this, then I might as well just hang up my screwdriver. This is wild, dude. I 00:10:37.280 --> 00:10:41.840 was not expecting this adventure to be so interesting. Damn, there's still a 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:45.840 little bit of liquid metal on that one. Oh, we'll wipe it off. There. Okay, 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:50.480 where's our tweezers at? I actually never really work at this station, so 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:53.320 that one goes there, and this one goes here. Hey Justin, you might want to have 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:56.560 a look at this. There's one that I'm not 100% sure on, and it's the right 00:10:55.160 --> 00:11:00.640 >> side one here. It looks okay to me though. To find out if that pad's intact, Justin's throwing some flux on 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:03.720 the board, and then he's going to tin it. If the tin sticks, 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:08.762 it means the pad's still there. Well, we appear to be okay. Nice. Yeah, just do 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:11.839 the one, Justin. >> [laughter] 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.000 >> I'm just messing with him. I said I'd do it. 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:21.680 I gave up. Justin's doing it. Okay, so you got one on. I feel a lot better 00:11:19.880 --> 00:11:24.040 because this is taking him a little while. 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:29.880 Oh, jeez. Yeah, oh, I guess you're done then. >> you go, Mr. Lines. Brilliant. 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:35.320 And you guarantee it works, Justin? Yeah, 100%. It's not going to fail. 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:36.200 Barring what Linus did. Wait. 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:40.203 Yeah, you can't even tell where it was, dude, can you? I know you put it in the wrong spot. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:42.223 What do you mean? >> [laughter] 00:11:43.839 --> 00:11:50.720 >> All right. >> for real this time. Yeah, I mean, that kind of looks on there, right? I was poking poking it 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:54.440 with this. It wasn't moving, so I think it's okay. Okay. Well, let's see if it 00:11:52.760 --> 00:11:58.480 works. Good luck, everybody. Good luck, everybody. 00:11:56.640 --> 00:12:01.880 Ah, fudge. I got so absorbed in the adventure that I forgot to clean the 00:11:59.839 --> 00:12:05.600 cooler. Dude, what an adventure this has been, whether we get a working laptop 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:08.760 out of it or not. Yeah, the real laptop was the friends you made along the way. 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:13.280 Thanks, David. Time to get my birth-iversary on. Hell yeah. Everybody, 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:17.320 it's Justin's birthday. Hey, happy birthday, Justin. Oh, thank you. The 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:19.920 real birthday. I mean, there's certain things that I 00:12:18.280 --> 00:12:25.480 don't really have to plug in just to find out if it's going to work, like these Wi-Fi antennas, but feel like if 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:29.560 I'm putting it back together, I might as well swing for the fences, right? 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:33.720 >> Yeah, baby. Is uh liquid metal good for you? Oh, dude, Silver Surfer. Direct 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:37.080 contact with liquid metal can be harmful. 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:40.480 And the severity depends on the specific type of metal. 00:12:38.760 --> 00:12:46.120 Liquid mercury Okay, no. What is it? Is it liquid Yeah, but what is it? >> It's a gallium. Yeah, you're fine. No, 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:51.240 I'm just So long as you don't ingest it. Uh okay, let's get some PTM 7950. 00:12:50.160 --> 00:12:56.560 So, we were looking it up. Are your fingers feeling tingly yet? No. But 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:00.040 my brain is feeling pretty excited about my laptop working again. Unlike the 00:12:58.560 --> 00:13:03.560 liquid metal we had on here before, it doesn't actually matter if we apply too 00:13:01.680 --> 00:13:08.080 much PTM 7950 [music] because it is non-conductive, and it is an ideal 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:11.249 thermal paste for direct die cooling like we're doing here. I still can't 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:15.440 believe that it knocked those components [music] off the board. Yeah, does that 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:19.760 mean that there's more than a little bit on it? Potentially. But they didn't 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:23.720 break right now, so Yep. So, they're not my problem. Okay, 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:26.120 battery's connected, boys. This is it. It's showtime. 00:13:25.659 --> 00:13:28.989 >> [sighs] >> Ah. >> [laughter] 00:13:29.160 --> 00:13:35.440 >> Work. It continues coming to screw I really want this to work. I really like 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:39.520 this laptop. And now that I've gone and trashed on Asus's thermal compound, 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:43.280 Asus is probably not going to send me another one. So, I really need to fix 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:47.360 it. Here we go. Oh, these are coming soon, by the way. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:52.800 Finally, I just saw the final packaging design very recently. I'm super super 00:13:49.920 --> 00:13:55.720 excited for our cables. Is it even Is there a charging 00:13:53.839 --> 00:13:59.440 indicator? Normally, yes. Wow, this is like 00:13:57.680 --> 00:14:06.280 more deader than I would have anticipated. The only thing I'm thinking 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:07.920 is that cap might not be 00:14:06.280 --> 00:14:11.959 on right. Is it worth putting all the screws in like It is probably worth 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:15.600 trying, yes. Wait, I missed a fan header. Okay, that 00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:19.720 actually might prevent it from doing anything. Like a couple I can see, but 00:14:17.839 --> 00:14:25.160 for it to not have any indication whatsoever that I have something plugged 00:14:22.040 --> 00:14:25.160 into it, like 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:29.249 The charging light's on. >> [sighs] 00:14:29.520 --> 00:14:36.240 >> This is this is the behavior that I saw before. So, let's not get too excited 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:40.600 here. I think we're cooked. 00:14:37.880 --> 00:14:44.400 Try the like Asus charger. Who knows? It can be a thing though. Using the OEM 00:14:42.400 --> 00:14:47.880 charger can enable it to quick charge a little bit faster from a very dead 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.600 state. Hey, well, definitely thinks it's charging still. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:59.440 So thirsty since I didn't drink anything today. >> Five minutes later. 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:07.680 No days through. As tragic as that was, we still want to 00:15:05.800 --> 00:15:11.200 find out if the liquid metal is worth risking the life of your laptop for. To 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:18.480 do that, we're going to hand this laptop over to the lab so they can test it before we replace the liquid metal with 00:15:14.640 --> 00:15:20.400 PTM 7950. Well, we [ __ ] around. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:25.920 Time to find out. Unfortunately, we were not able to repair my machine, but we do 00:15:24.079 --> 00:15:30.079 have our backup machine here, and we ran a bunch of tests in the Labs with the 00:15:27.959 --> 00:15:35.079 liquid metal from the factory, and now we've replaced it with PTM 7950 to find 00:15:32.880 --> 00:15:39.240 out. We really like F1 24 as a thermal benchmark because, yes, it stresses the 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:43.680 system extremely hard, especially when we're running it with ray tracing like 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:46.440 this, but also, it's a real-world load. 00:15:43.680 --> 00:15:49.440 We're not in just running a power virus. That's what they're called? Really? 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:55.120 Yeah. Sounds so hardcore to say. Like combustor or like OCCT. That's my 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:55.120 favorite metal band. 00:15:55.680 --> 00:16:01.120 And this is not what we expected. We 00:15:58.680 --> 00:16:03.959 intended to just do an ad hoc test here on the set and be like, "Hmm, yeah, 00:16:02.280 --> 00:16:07.440 well, the CPU temperatures are they look about the same." Yeah, that's not what 00:16:05.400 --> 00:16:13.320 happened. It turns out that our result was that with the PTM 7950 thermal pad, 00:16:10.560 --> 00:16:17.760 we actually got either slightly better thermals or we got about the same 00:16:15.680 --> 00:16:21.880 thermals with a slightly higher clock speed on the CPU, meaning that the 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:26.400 liquid metal did not outperform our phase change thermal pad except in 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:30.360 extreme CPU loads. So, we can see why Asus chose to use it. We need to be 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:34.839 really careful about this because that pad is available on lttstore.com, and we 00:16:32.760 --> 00:16:39.040 didn't want to oversell it. We don't know for sure if on a higher-end 00:16:37.160 --> 00:16:42.520 configuration of this laptop, you would get the same result. Remember, this is 00:16:40.880 --> 00:16:46.680 not quite the same machine that we originally started with. Maybe Asus has 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:51.320 certain configurations where the liquid metal really does give a tangible 00:16:48.560 --> 00:16:59.000 benefit, but as far as it went here, no, it didn't. And PTM 7950 is supposed 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:01.360 to improve ever so slightly over time 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:05.160 while lasting a very, very long time, which I couldn't necessarily say about 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:09.880 my liquid metal situation. So, take all of this with a grain of salt like you 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:11.320 take our sponsor. Take it. Plaud. No 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:14.679 time to take notes? Terrible at multitasking? 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