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most of the time when our viewers send us suggestions for videos honestly

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they're terrible but when kishorev and cat brought our attention to this little

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my interest was peaked my dander was raised

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my desire to

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witness a train wreck reached an all-time high what even is

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this this

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is a water cooling upgrade kit

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for the alienware area 51m

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gaming laptop that yes my friends seems

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to involve taking the included

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like heat pipe slash vapor chamber cooler

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screwing tubes onto it and dremeling holes out of the back of your like 4 000

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gaming machine why would anybody create this pro how

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many people on earth bought these and then what percentage of them would have

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any interest in this how many of you want to hear about our

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let's begin by taking a closer look at what we got in the mail here this

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right here appears to be two contact plates so one for the CPU i

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believe this is going to be hard to say actually uh nope this will

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probably be CPU and uh one for the GPU with a total of

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three four seven heat pipes running over to exactly

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the same kind of rear exhaust radiators

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and sorry side exhaust as well that are included with the original cooler of

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this laptop what they've added is that what

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might have originally been just a regular metal plate or a vapor chamber

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on the original device instead has two fitting

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locations here and here and then they've

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actually included these are similar to but not the same as

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any fittings that i've seen before so these are a little tiny what are these 1

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8 inch compressions something like that these are tiny so

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they've got a nice little collar on the tube there and a nice little o-ring this

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seals up and it appears to be that the idea is that you rip open the bottom of

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this machine take the cooler off and put this on there's a bunch of

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thermal pads a bunch of screws no instructions

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obviously so had you figured out yet how we're planning to hook this up to

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anything no it just came out of the box what do you think

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it arrived like 20 minutes ago didn't do any preparation i i got some tubes over

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here those are man tubes these are these are boy tubes i didn't know they looked

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like that until now oh boy holy crap did

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i pay 650 dollars for this

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uh i think it was slightly less than that but yeah basically like 400 in a

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bit you know what i'm really worried about

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though wherever this tubing runs right

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the heat pipes are on the back side of this

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right so there's got to be some kind of gap in here

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between where the CPU and gp are actually contacting

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and where these heat pipes are so our air cooling performance might be

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terrible oh probably yeah

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so do i need to go try and find like something we can adapt this tubing with

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like you honestly have no plan are you kidding

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no i honestly have no plan there's some gaff tape over there oh my god that's

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not going to work new plan

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we actually realized that our water cooled red camera uses 1 8 inch fittings

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so all we've got to do is pop off these

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tubes throw these new tubes on here and then bleed the loop

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if i recall correctly bleeding this loop was yeah it's really horrible

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the good news is that we actually didn't do a great job of bleeding this in the

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first place anyway so we don't really have anything to lose by

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accidentally unbleeding it you know what i don't even care i'm just

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going for it here you only live once alex sorry before you do that let's get

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a bucket oh sure yeah that makes sense i'm just going to open it on the table

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i'm even going to drink this water i'm not going to drink the water

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okay you ready and one

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and two and one oh there it goes

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all right as expected a quick shadow of the tomb raider benchmark had our CPU at

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99 degrees and our GPU peaking at 75

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degrees so there's clearly a lot of room for improvement and improve

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is what we will do i can open it up now right for those not familiar one of the

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cool things about the area 51m is that it packs a desktop core i9 9900k

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processor and a top-tier rtx 2080 ti

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graphics card of course that would be the reason that

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aftermarket liquid cooling thermal solutions might

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exist for it i've got a couple more screws there

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are you gonna know which screws go where like have you disassembled this before i

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would assemble it like seven or eight times okay so you're good then yeah it's

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pretty amazing this isn't even like the worst thing that's ever happened to it

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yes air will create condensation so i would limit air access to components

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i'll let you do that the very best that it could possibly be

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is equal it's not going to be and it's not going

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to be that until you water cooler and then hopefully it's way better well we

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obviously didn't finish this in time and me and Linus both went on vacation so

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i need to figure out how the heck we do this

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picking up from here

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i don't quite remember what we were doing but this goes on here can't be

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that hard i don't know i think oh yep

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okay yeah you can see that alienware

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solutions definitely a bit more sophisticated

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well i guess fans have to come off of this now fans go like that

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which means boop

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on the oem one it had a bunch of tape that

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sealed up the fans i guess we're just reusing it don't line up quite as well

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like if you look right here there's an additional i'm not totally sure how many

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fins that is the actual amount of fins probably isn't

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going to be the biggest issue it's that we're going to lose a bunch of air out

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the side here this is probably a huge performance boost

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just this little bit of tape on the oem heatsink here

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you can see they have a bunch of different like heights of the vrm

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coolers whereas

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in this all of this is the same height and they

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just give you a thicker thermal pad so the

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thermal resistance of this thing is going to be a freaking lot getting very

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close sorry go for the thermal grizzly cry or

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not i think that's what we used last time um

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no that has a real knock to a paste look to it so let's apply some of this

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bigger they go a god better the drop but legitimately on the GPU if you don't get

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all of this covered it can be a really bad time

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wow this does not spread as well as cry or not that is for sure well it spreads

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pretty well under the weight of heatsink it's probably fine right now

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then again how much do we trust that we're going to have good mounting

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pressure i'd give it about a 6 out of 10. well

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it's time oh

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this is not wait what so we've got

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four screws for the GPU here

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and then we've just got these four long fully tapped

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that go for the seat you're just go you're just hard mounting it so the

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thing is is that with something like this right here

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you would only be able to screw in these a certain amount before either they

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bottom out and i trust that these are the correct length for when they bottom

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out because the the CPU socket's actually pretty

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sensitive to like pressure variations you'll get very different thermal

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results based on if you have like 30 versus 60 psi of

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force pressing down on the thermal paste and also if you press too hard you can

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have just stability issues and kill something

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this is going to be the worst part for sure so

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if you look here i need to press down

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on the heatsink and sort of line up this screw at the

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same time in order to mount the CPU oh that feels

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gross and kind of see the whole pcb flexing as i put that in we're just

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gonna have to guess the mounting tension on these

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so i think that feels about good i guess

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i'm just guessing it's really hard to tell what's mounting pressure but also

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not all of the thermal pads are the right size

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so if you kind of look sort of like right here you can see that

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one of them super squished down well the other one it's like barely

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touching not the best engineered thing i've ever seen for better or for worse

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that's on and let's call Linus for the next bit get

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out the dremel oh they're so close to missing with just

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just a tiny bit of thought and care

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they could have made it so you could just stick it through one of the existing holes yeah

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what a bunch of idiots oh

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why are we doing this Linus yeah it seems pretty unnecessary we all

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know the answer is gonna be it sucks wow you didn't do a very nice job there what

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what's wrong with it oh you're being such a hater right now you only needed

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to take off a tiny bit on the top you didn't need to get all this on i was rounding it

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yeah if we're gonna grind it away we might as well grind it away all the way

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to there does that look good to you yeah looks good let me rephrase the question does

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that look like enough clearance to use

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let's get to put this on and

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we're good all right step one

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don't use this yeah let's see how it holds up as an air cooler oh man this is

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gonna be so bad no faith no my expectations are incredibly low 350

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bucks i paid for this thing 350 dollars of e-waste it was more like 450 but yeah

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look at the original cooler compared to that thing it's like quality you know it

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was so scary like you see how those have like the nice springy screws and stuff

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yeah it was just a hard match just all hard mouse mount oh that's not good

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that's not good for the kind of tolerances you have on things like a laptop circuit board okay

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and the fan is already low ramping did you just run it like right away oh yeah

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that does not we already peaked at a hundred

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oh man my expectations are so much lower than they were before

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it's not just way worse in terms of average FPS like it's it's unplayable

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because it's like hitching and stuttering all over the place but of

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course you don't downgrade your air cooling so that you can have better

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water cooling if you're not gonna water cool

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so let's go ahead and give this thing

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a hit of adrenaline shall we courtesy of

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lttstore.com i mean hey they included pretty good

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quality tubing so that's a plus yeah unless you happen to like have a

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water cooled red around it'll be pretty hard to adapt to anything else but yeah

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do we have a power source for this yes oh my god do we have to use that can we

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please just use one of those that wall adapters i couldn't find them ah

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okay turn the laser i need to plug it in yep that'll help

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confirmed there are air bubbles

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just come out there it goes we have circulation

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we just need to not breathe on it too hard oh we check for leaks

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no well it's leaking a bit oh snap just

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give it a little wiggle waggle i also have a really good solution for this we

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just tilt it up a bit then the water's just going to fall out of the laptop you

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don't have to worry about it brilliant okay so we're idling at 30 degrees 30 to

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35 degrees now we just dropped 10 degrees at idle hmm that's really

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stuttering it's not looking great jeez that's

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not great that's bad enough that i want to see if there's something

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else on the go here yeah the CPU was a

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maximum of 79 degrees wow

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and the GPU got up to uh 71. that's really good so yeah that

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is really good so i quit tomb raider we're going to

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just restart it i'm going to make sure that everything on the system's working

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like we didn't like do anything last time and it just

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worked yeah i wonder if it was just from how heavily it was thermal throttling

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before or something yeah i don't know i'm

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it kind of invalidates our earlier results but it has been a week and i'm

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gonna just update everything okay sure fine maybe tomb raider updated

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and it doesn't like the old drivers or something i don't know computers are

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stupid okay we're back we've installed

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the alienware center and the Windows update hopefully that

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makes all of this make sense okay we're aiming for 129.

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okay sounds good that looks good yeah that's much better

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that looks very promising because before it was like 70 FPS and a hitching last

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before here this is dead smooth yeah with it not throttling the water is uh

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substantially hotter so we go all the way from 26 and a half degrees at the

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outlet to 45 at the inlet i think this is going to

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crush the stock numbers it seems like it although also like when it's looking at

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the sky there you always get a lot of FPS i know but this still looks really

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good it does yeah

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okay that's not as much better as i had perhaps hoped given the given the

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expense and inconvenience 82 degrees on the hottest core and the

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GPU is at 71. neither of them is throttling so i guess what you're trying

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to say then is that any throttling that this laptop did on its air cooler was

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negligible yeah

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marginal okay well let's go ahead and drain the

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water out of it and get a new air cooled with the aftermarket cooler run yeah

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because if that's close or the same i guess with water in

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it maybe the issue we were having with performance was related to how hard it

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was throttling before fans definitely ramped up earlier this time they're

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going they're going boys trying to keep it under control

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127 FPS so it's anywhere from marginally

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worse to marginally better and you get to spend 450

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plus several hours of your time and have a bunch of stuff hanging off your laptop

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also enjoy the one where uh steve from gamersnexus and us take this very laptop

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for a sub-zero overclocking adventure

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poor thing it's been through so much