WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.680 most of the time when our viewers send us suggestions for videos honestly 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:14.080 they're terrible but when kishorev and cat brought our attention to this little 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:16.560 gem on aliexpress 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:20.960 my interest was peaked my dander was raised 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:25.519 my desire to 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:29.439 witness a train wreck reached an all-time high what even is 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:31.840 this this 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:40.879 is a water cooling upgrade kit 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:44.800 for the alienware area 51m 00:00:40.879 --> 00:00:46.160 gaming laptop that yes my friends seems 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:51.360 to involve taking the included 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:55.600 like heat pipe slash vapor chamber cooler 00:00:52.640 --> 00:01:01.680 screwing tubes onto it and dremeling holes out of the back of your like 4 000 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:06.880 gaming machine why would anybody create this pro how 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:11.119 many people on earth bought these and then what percentage of them would have 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:15.119 any interest in this how many of you want to hear about our 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:18.960 sponsor block udoku is the free mobile game that combines the fun of sudoku and 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:22.080 block puzzle games match blocks to complete lines and squares to get them 00:01:20.479 --> 00:01:26.759 removed click the link below and stay tuned to learn more at the end of this 00:01:23.759 --> 00:01:26.759 video 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:42.320 let's begin by taking a closer look at what we got in the mail here this 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:48.079 right here appears to be two contact plates so one for the CPU i 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:52.560 believe this is going to be hard to say actually uh nope this will 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:57.119 probably be CPU and uh one for the GPU with a total of 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:03.360 three four seven heat pipes running over to exactly 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:06.000 the same kind of rear exhaust radiators 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:09.840 and sorry side exhaust as well that are included with the original cooler of 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:14.959 this laptop what they've added is that what 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:20.400 might have originally been just a regular metal plate or a vapor chamber 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:26.480 on the original device instead has two fitting 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.120 locations here and here and then they've 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:33.360 actually included these are similar to but not the same as 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:36.959 any fittings that i've seen before so these are a little tiny what are these 1 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:40.720 8 inch compressions something like that these are tiny so 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:45.760 they've got a nice little collar on the tube there and a nice little o-ring this 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:51.280 seals up and it appears to be that the idea is that you rip open the bottom of 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:56.560 this machine take the cooler off and put this on there's a bunch of 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:00.239 thermal pads a bunch of screws no instructions 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:03.440 obviously so had you figured out yet how we're planning to hook this up to 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:06.560 anything no it just came out of the box what do you think 00:03:04.959 --> 00:03:11.519 it arrived like 20 minutes ago didn't do any preparation i i got some tubes over 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:17.360 here those are man tubes these are these are boy tubes i didn't know they looked 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:20.560 like that until now oh boy holy crap did 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.920 i pay 650 dollars for this 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:25.920 uh i think it was slightly less than that but yeah basically like 400 in a 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:31.040 bit you know what i'm really worried about 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:33.519 though wherever this tubing runs right 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:36.640 the heat pipes are on the back side of this 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:40.319 right so there's got to be some kind of gap in here 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:44.400 between where the CPU and gp are actually contacting 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:49.280 and where these heat pipes are so our air cooling performance might be 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:50.959 terrible oh probably yeah 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.680 so do i need to go try and find like something we can adapt this tubing with 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.920 like you honestly have no plan are you kidding 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:02.000 no i honestly have no plan there's some gaff tape over there oh my god that's 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:05.920 not going to work new plan 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:12.959 we actually realized that our water cooled red camera uses 1 8 inch fittings 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:15.760 so all we've got to do is pop off these 00:04:12.959 --> 00:04:19.359 tubes throw these new tubes on here and then bleed the loop 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:23.600 if i recall correctly bleeding this loop was yeah it's really horrible 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:26.960 the good news is that we actually didn't do a great job of bleeding this in the 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.240 first place anyway so we don't really have anything to lose by 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:35.440 accidentally unbleeding it you know what i don't even care i'm just 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:40.560 going for it here you only live once alex sorry before you do that let's get 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.440 a bucket oh sure yeah that makes sense i'm just going to open it on the table 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:47.120 i'm even going to drink this water i'm not going to drink the water 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:53.840 okay you ready and one 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:56.320 and two and one oh there it goes 00:04:53.840 --> 00:05:01.680 all right as expected a quick shadow of the tomb raider benchmark had our CPU at 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:03.280 99 degrees and our GPU peaking at 75 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.759 degrees so there's clearly a lot of room for improvement and improve 00:05:05.919 --> 00:05:11.680 is what we will do i can open it up now right for those not familiar one of the 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:18.479 cool things about the area 51m is that it packs a desktop core i9 9900k 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:20.160 processor and a top-tier rtx 2080 ti 00:05:18.479 --> 00:05:23.680 graphics card of course that would be the reason that 00:05:22.479 --> 00:05:27.600 aftermarket liquid cooling thermal solutions might 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:32.479 exist for it i've got a couple more screws there 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.600 are you gonna know which screws go where like have you disassembled this before i 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:39.280 would assemble it like seven or eight times okay so you're good then yeah it's 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:43.919 pretty amazing this isn't even like the worst thing that's ever happened to it 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:49.680 yes air will create condensation so i would limit air access to components 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.039 i'll let you do that the very best that it could possibly be 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.639 is equal it's not going to be and it's not going 00:05:54.960 --> 00:05:59.919 to be that until you water cooler and then hopefully it's way better well we 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:05.680 obviously didn't finish this in time and me and Linus both went on vacation so 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:09.280 i need to figure out how the heck we do this 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:11.759 picking up from here 00:06:10.479 --> 00:06:15.199 i don't quite remember what we were doing but this goes on here can't be 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:19.919 that hard i don't know i think oh yep 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.680 okay yeah you can see that alienware 00:06:19.919 --> 00:06:24.560 solutions definitely a bit more sophisticated 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:29.680 well i guess fans have to come off of this now fans go like that 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:32.720 which means boop 00:06:30.479 --> 00:06:35.440 on the oem one it had a bunch of tape that 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:39.600 sealed up the fans i guess we're just reusing it don't line up quite as well 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:42.479 like if you look right here there's an additional i'm not totally sure how many 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:46.960 fins that is the actual amount of fins probably isn't 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:52.880 going to be the biggest issue it's that we're going to lose a bunch of air out 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:56.560 the side here this is probably a huge performance boost 00:06:54.479 --> 00:07:00.880 just this little bit of tape on the oem heatsink here 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:04.479 you can see they have a bunch of different like heights of the vrm 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.319 coolers whereas 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.720 in this all of this is the same height and they 00:07:09.919 --> 00:07:14.240 just give you a thicker thermal pad so the 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:18.000 thermal resistance of this thing is going to be a freaking lot getting very 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.680 close sorry go for the thermal grizzly cry or 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:26.400 not i think that's what we used last time um 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:29.919 no that has a real knock to a paste look to it so let's apply some of this 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:34.160 bigger they go a god better the drop but legitimately on the GPU if you don't get 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:37.440 all of this covered it can be a really bad time 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:41.039 wow this does not spread as well as cry or not that is for sure well it spreads 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:44.960 pretty well under the weight of heatsink it's probably fine right now 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:48.479 then again how much do we trust that we're going to have good mounting 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:52.880 pressure i'd give it about a 6 out of 10. well 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:56.039 it's time oh 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:03.599 this is not wait what so we've got 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:09.199 four screws for the GPU here 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:13.840 and then we've just got these four long fully tapped 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:17.599 that go for the seat you're just go you're just hard mounting it so the 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:22.240 thing is is that with something like this right here 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:27.039 you would only be able to screw in these a certain amount before either they 00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:30.400 bottom out and i trust that these are the correct length for when they bottom 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:34.800 out because the the CPU socket's actually pretty 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:38.560 sensitive to like pressure variations you'll get very different thermal 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:43.120 results based on if you have like 30 versus 60 psi of 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:47.440 force pressing down on the thermal paste and also if you press too hard you can 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:50.080 have just stability issues and kill something 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:57.200 this is going to be the worst part for sure so 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:59.760 if you look here i need to press down 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:02.880 on the heatsink and sort of line up this screw at the 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:08.800 same time in order to mount the CPU oh that feels 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:12.320 gross and kind of see the whole pcb flexing as i put that in we're just 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:18.720 gonna have to guess the mounting tension on these 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:20.399 so i think that feels about good i guess 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:26.000 i'm just guessing it's really hard to tell what's mounting pressure but also 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:30.000 not all of the thermal pads are the right size 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:34.480 so if you kind of look sort of like right here you can see that 00:09:31.920 --> 00:09:37.920 one of them super squished down well the other one it's like barely 00:09:35.839 --> 00:09:41.760 touching not the best engineered thing i've ever seen for better or for worse 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:45.200 that's on and let's call Linus for the next bit get 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:51.360 out the dremel oh they're so close to missing with just 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:52.560 just a tiny bit of thought and care 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:57.600 they could have made it so you could just stick it through one of the existing holes yeah 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:01.200 what a bunch of idiots oh 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:06.000 why are we doing this Linus yeah it seems pretty unnecessary we all 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:09.839 know the answer is gonna be it sucks wow you didn't do a very nice job there what 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:13.279 what's wrong with it oh you're being such a hater right now you only needed 00:10:11.839 --> 00:10:17.519 to take off a tiny bit on the top you didn't need to get all this on i was rounding it 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:20.000 yeah if we're gonna grind it away we might as well grind it away all the way 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:26.959 to there does that look good to you yeah looks good let me rephrase the question does 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.959 that look like enough clearance to use 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:33.760 let's get to put this on and 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.839 we're good all right step one 00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:41.040 don't use this yeah let's see how it holds up as an air cooler oh man this is 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:46.399 gonna be so bad no faith no my expectations are incredibly low 350 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:51.519 bucks i paid for this thing 350 dollars of e-waste it was more like 450 but yeah 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:56.320 look at the original cooler compared to that thing it's like quality you know it 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:00.640 was so scary like you see how those have like the nice springy screws and stuff 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:04.399 yeah it was just a hard match just all hard mouse mount oh that's not good 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:11.360 that's not good for the kind of tolerances you have on things like a laptop circuit board okay 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:15.120 and the fan is already low ramping did you just run it like right away oh yeah 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.519 that does not we already peaked at a hundred 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.279 oh man my expectations are so much lower than they were before 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:29.600 it's not just way worse in terms of average FPS like it's it's unplayable 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.600 because it's like hitching and stuttering all over the place but of 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:36.640 course you don't downgrade your air cooling so that you can have better 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:42.880 water cooling if you're not gonna water cool 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:45.120 so let's go ahead and give this thing 00:11:42.880 --> 00:11:49.839 a hit of adrenaline shall we courtesy of 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:54.560 lttstore.com i mean hey they included pretty good 00:11:51.920 --> 00:11:58.240 quality tubing so that's a plus yeah unless you happen to like have a 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:02.560 water cooled red around it'll be pretty hard to adapt to anything else but yeah 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:06.720 do we have a power source for this yes oh my god do we have to use that can we 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:11.279 please just use one of those that wall adapters i couldn't find them ah 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:18.240 okay turn the laser i need to plug it in yep that'll help 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:20.160 confirmed there are air bubbles 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:23.920 just come out there it goes we have circulation 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:29.120 we just need to not breathe on it too hard oh we check for leaks 00:12:26.079 --> 00:12:31.040 no well it's leaking a bit oh snap just 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:35.040 give it a little wiggle waggle i also have a really good solution for this we 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:39.519 just tilt it up a bit then the water's just going to fall out of the laptop you 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:45.519 don't have to worry about it brilliant okay so we're idling at 30 degrees 30 to 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:50.639 35 degrees now we just dropped 10 degrees at idle hmm that's really 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.880 stuttering it's not looking great jeez that's 00:12:52.720 --> 00:13:00.000 not great that's bad enough that i want to see if there's something 00:12:56.880 --> 00:13:02.240 else on the go here yeah the CPU was a 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:07.279 maximum of 79 degrees wow 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:12.000 and the GPU got up to uh 71. that's really good so yeah that 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:16.160 is really good so i quit tomb raider we're going to 00:13:14.160 --> 00:13:19.680 just restart it i'm going to make sure that everything on the system's working 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:23.920 like we didn't like do anything last time and it just 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:27.200 worked yeah i wonder if it was just from how heavily it was thermal throttling 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:30.079 before or something yeah i don't know i'm 00:13:28.560 --> 00:13:34.399 it kind of invalidates our earlier results but it has been a week and i'm 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:39.040 gonna just update everything okay sure fine maybe tomb raider updated 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.600 and it doesn't like the old drivers or something i don't know computers are 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:45.920 stupid okay we're back we've installed 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:50.320 the alienware center and the Windows update hopefully that 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:54.560 makes all of this make sense okay we're aiming for 129. 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:58.959 okay sounds good that looks good yeah that's much better 00:13:56.560 --> 00:14:04.240 that looks very promising because before it was like 70 FPS and a hitching last 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:09.839 before here this is dead smooth yeah with it not throttling the water is uh 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:13.279 substantially hotter so we go all the way from 26 and a half degrees at the 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:21.199 outlet to 45 at the inlet i think this is going to 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:23.680 crush the stock numbers it seems like it although also like when it's looking at 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:30.040 the sky there you always get a lot of FPS i know but this still looks really 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:30.040 good it does yeah 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:36.639 okay that's not as much better as i had perhaps hoped given the given the 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:41.279 expense and inconvenience 82 degrees on the hottest core and the 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:44.399 GPU is at 71. neither of them is throttling so i guess what you're trying 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:50.959 to say then is that any throttling that this laptop did on its air cooler was 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:50.959 negligible yeah 00:14:51.040 --> 00:14:58.399 marginal okay well let's go ahead and drain the 00:14:55.760 --> 00:15:02.320 water out of it and get a new air cooled with the aftermarket cooler run yeah 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:07.360 because if that's close or the same i guess with water in 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:11.440 it maybe the issue we were having with performance was related to how hard it 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:15.360 was throttling before fans definitely ramped up earlier this time they're 00:15:12.959 --> 00:15:20.320 going they're going boys trying to keep it under control 00:15:16.839 --> 00:15:22.880 127 FPS so it's anywhere from marginally 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:27.760 worse to marginally better and you get to spend 450 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:31.680 plus several hours of your time and have a bunch of stuff hanging off your laptop 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:35.040 yeah not recommended 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:39.839 but you know what i do recommend checking out this segway to our sponsor 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:44.240 block udoku is a combination of sudoku and block puzzle games that's easy to 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