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uh steve from gamersnexus and us take this very laptop","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":978.0,"end_s":987.639,"text":"for a sub-zero overclocking adventure","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":983.36,"end_s":987.639,"text":"poor thing it's been through so much","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"most of the time when our viewers send us suggestions for videos honestly they're terrible but when kishorev and cat brought our attention to this little gem on aliexpress my interest was peaked my dander was raised my desire to witness a train wreck reached an all-time high what even is this this is a water cooling upgrade kit for the alienware area 51m gaming laptop that yes my friends seems to involve taking the included like heat pipe slash vapor chamber cooler screwing tubes onto it and dremeling holes out of the back of your like 4 000 gaming machine why would anybody create this pro how many people on earth bought these and then what percentage of them would have any interest in this how many of you want to hear about our sponsor block udoku is the free mobile game that combines the fun of sudoku and block puzzle games match blocks to complete lines and squares to get them removed click the link below and stay tuned to learn more at the end of this video let's begin by taking a closer look at what we got in the mail here this right here appears to be two contact plates so one for the CPU i believe this is going to be hard to say actually uh nope this will probably be CPU and uh one for the GPU with a total of three four seven heat pipes running over to exactly the same kind of rear exhaust radiators and sorry side exhaust as well that are included with the original cooler of this laptop what they've added is that what might have originally been just a regular metal plate or a vapor chamber on the original device instead has two fitting locations here and here and then they've actually included these are similar to but not the same as any fittings that i've seen before so these are a little tiny what are these 1 8 inch compressions something like that these are tiny so they've got a nice little collar on the tube there and a nice little o-ring this seals up and it appears to be that the idea is that you rip open the bottom of this machine take the cooler off and put this on there's a bunch of thermal pads a bunch of screws no instructions obviously so had you figured out yet how we're planning to hook this up to anything no it just came out of the box what do you think it arrived like 20 minutes ago didn't do any preparation i i got some tubes over here those are man tubes these are these are boy tubes i didn't know they looked like that until now oh boy holy crap did i pay 650 dollars for this uh i think it was slightly less than that but yeah basically like 400 in a bit you know what i'm really worried about though wherever this tubing runs right the heat pipes are on the back side of this right so there's got to be some kind of gap in here between where the CPU and gp are actually contacting and where these heat pipes are so our air cooling performance might be terrible oh probably yeah so do i need to go try and find like something we can adapt this tubing with like you honestly have no plan are you kidding no i honestly have no plan there's some gaff tape over there oh my god that's not going to work new plan we actually realized that our water cooled red camera uses 1 8 inch fittings so all we've got to do is pop off these tubes throw these new tubes on here and then bleed the loop if i recall correctly bleeding this loop was yeah it's really horrible the good news is that we actually didn't do a great job of bleeding this in the first place anyway so we don't really have anything to lose by accidentally unbleeding it you know what i don't even care i'm just going for it here you only live once alex sorry before you do that let's get a bucket oh sure yeah that makes sense i'm just going to open it on the table i'm even going to drink this water i'm not going to drink the water okay you ready and one and two and one oh there it goes all right as expected a quick shadow of the tomb raider benchmark had our CPU at 99 degrees and our GPU peaking at 75 degrees so there's clearly a lot of room for improvement and improve is what we will do i can open it up now right for those not familiar one of the cool things about the area 51m is that it packs a desktop core i9 9900k processor and a top-tier rtx 2080 ti graphics card of course that would be the reason that aftermarket liquid cooling thermal solutions might exist for it i've got a couple more screws there are you gonna know which screws go where like have you disassembled this before i would assemble it like seven or eight times okay so you're good then yeah it's pretty amazing this isn't even like the worst thing that's ever happened to it yes air will create condensation so i would limit air access to components i'll let you do that the very best that it could possibly be is equal it's not going to be and it's not going to be that until you water cooler and then hopefully it's way better well we obviously didn't finish this in time and me and Linus both went on vacation so i need to figure out how the heck we do this picking up from here i don't quite remember what we were doing but this goes on here can't be that hard i don't know i think oh yep okay yeah you can see that alienware solutions definitely a bit more sophisticated well i guess fans have to come off of this now fans go like that which means boop on the oem one it had a bunch of tape that sealed up the fans i guess we're just reusing it don't line up quite as well like if you look right here there's an additional i'm not totally sure how many fins that is the actual amount of fins probably isn't going to be the biggest issue it's that we're going to lose a bunch of air out the side here this is probably a huge performance boost just this little bit of tape on the oem heatsink here you can see they have a bunch of different like heights of the vrm coolers whereas in this all of this is the same height and they just give you a thicker thermal pad so the thermal resistance of this thing is going to be a freaking lot getting very close sorry go for the thermal grizzly cry or not i think that's what we used last time um no that has a real knock to a paste look to it so let's apply some of this bigger they go a god better the drop but legitimately on the GPU if you don't get all of this covered it can be a really bad time wow this does not spread as well as cry or not that is for sure well it spreads pretty well under the weight of heatsink it's probably fine right now then again how much do we trust that we're going to have good mounting pressure i'd give it about a 6 out of 10. well it's time oh this is not wait what so we've got four screws for the GPU here and then we've just got these four long fully tapped that go for the seat you're just go you're just hard mounting it so the thing is is that with something like this right here you would only be able to screw in these a certain amount before either they bottom out and i trust that these are the correct length for when they bottom out because the the CPU socket's actually pretty sensitive to like pressure variations you'll get very different thermal results based on if you have like 30 versus 60 psi of force pressing down on the thermal paste and also if you press too hard you can have just stability issues and kill something this is going to be the worst part for sure so if you look here i need to press down on the heatsink and sort of line up this screw at the same time in order to mount the CPU oh that feels gross and kind of see the whole pcb flexing as i put that in we're just gonna have to guess the mounting tension on these so i think that feels about good i guess i'm just guessing it's really hard to tell what's mounting pressure but also not all of the thermal pads are the right size so if you kind of look sort of like right here you can see that one of them super squished down well the other one it's like barely touching not the best engineered thing i've ever seen for better or for worse that's on and let's call Linus for the next bit get out the dremel oh they're so close to missing with just just a tiny bit of thought and care they could have made it so you could just stick it through one of the existing holes yeah what a bunch of idiots oh why are we doing this Linus yeah it seems pretty unnecessary we all know the answer is gonna be it sucks wow you didn't do a very nice job there what what's wrong with it oh you're being such a hater right now you only needed to take off a tiny bit on the top you didn't need to get all this on i was rounding it yeah if we're gonna grind it away we might as well grind it away all the way to there does that look good to you yeah looks good let me rephrase the question does that look like enough clearance to use let's get to put this on and we're good all right step one don't use this yeah let's see how it holds up as an air cooler oh man this is gonna be so bad no faith no my expectations are incredibly low 350 bucks i paid for this thing 350 dollars of e-waste it was more like 450 but yeah look at the original cooler compared to that thing it's like quality you know it was so scary like you see how those have like the nice springy screws and stuff yeah it was just a hard match just all hard mouse mount oh that's not good that's not good for the kind of tolerances you have on things like a laptop circuit board okay and the fan is already low ramping did you just run it like right away oh yeah that does not we already peaked at a hundred oh man my expectations are so much lower than they were before it's not just way worse in terms of average FPS like it's it's unplayable because it's like hitching and stuttering all over the place but of course you don't downgrade your air cooling so that you can have better water cooling if you're not gonna water cool so let's go ahead and give this thing a hit of adrenaline shall we courtesy of lttstore.com i mean hey they included pretty good quality tubing so that's a plus yeah unless you happen to like have a water cooled red around it'll be pretty hard to adapt to anything else but yeah do we have a power source for this yes oh my god do we have to use that can we please just use one of those that wall adapters i couldn't find them ah okay turn the laser i need to plug it in yep that'll help confirmed there are air bubbles just come out there it goes we have circulation we just need to not breathe on it too hard oh we check for leaks no well it's leaking a bit oh snap just give it a little wiggle waggle i also have a really good solution for this we just tilt it up a bit then the water's just going to fall out of the laptop you don't have to worry about it brilliant okay so we're idling at 30 degrees 30 to 35 degrees now we just dropped 10 degrees at idle hmm that's really stuttering it's not looking great jeez that's not great that's bad enough that i want to see if there's something else on the go here yeah the CPU was a maximum of 79 degrees wow and the GPU got up to uh 71. that's really good so yeah that is really good so i quit tomb raider we're going to just restart it i'm going to make sure that everything on the system's working like we didn't like do anything last time and it just worked yeah i wonder if it was just from how heavily it was thermal throttling before or something yeah i don't know i'm it kind of invalidates our earlier results but it has been a week and i'm gonna just update everything okay sure fine maybe tomb raider updated and it doesn't like the old drivers or something i don't know computers are stupid okay we're back we've installed the alienware center and the Windows update hopefully that makes all of this make sense okay we're aiming for 129. okay sounds good that looks good yeah that's much better that looks very promising because before it was like 70 FPS and a hitching last before here this is dead smooth yeah with it not throttling the water is uh substantially hotter so we go all the way from 26 and a half degrees at the outlet to 45 at the inlet i think this is going to crush the stock numbers it seems like it although also like when it's looking at the sky there you always get a lot of FPS i know but this still looks really good it does yeah okay that's not as much better as i had perhaps hoped given the given the expense and inconvenience 82 degrees on the hottest core and the GPU is at 71. neither of them is throttling so i guess what you're trying to say then is that any throttling that this laptop did on its air cooler was negligible yeah marginal okay well let's go ahead and drain the water out of it and get a new air cooled with the aftermarket cooler run yeah because if that's close or the same i guess with water in it maybe the issue we were having with performance was related to how hard it was throttling before fans definitely ramped up earlier this time they're going they're going boys trying to keep it under control 127 FPS so it's anywhere from marginally worse to marginally better and you get to spend 450 plus several hours of your time and have a bunch of stuff hanging off your laptop yeah not recommended but you know what i do recommend checking out this segway to our sponsor block udoku is a combination of sudoku and block puzzle games that's easy to play but surprisingly hard to master the objective is to fill up lines and squares to keep the board clean you can destroy several elements at once to make a combo and make several successful moves in a row to get a streak tournament mode has finally landed so you can join the community and compete with others you can compete against your own high scores or with other players take part in events solve block puzzles and get unique medals and trophies so download today using the link in the description and leave a comment with your high score so thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video you might also enjoy the one where uh steve from gamersnexus and us take this very laptop for a sub-zero overclocking adventure poor thing it's been through so much"}