**Upgrading Lenovo's Gaming Beast: A Granny's Guide**

I was determined to give my gaming setup a makeover, and I was not alone in this endeavor. My granny, being the tech-savvy person she is, joined me on this journey. Together, we set out to upgrade our Lenovo device, with its surprisingly upgradable innards.

**The Journey Begins**

As we delved deeper into the world of Lenovo's product teardown guides, we were surprised to find that upgrading was not as straightforward as we thought. According to their video guide for a different model, we had to pry open a crucial component, which led us to the real challenge: removing the standoff.

**The Brutality Begins**

This is where things got messy. The video guide showed a different model's back being opened with some serious force, and we knew we were in for a rough ride. As we attempted to replicate this process on our device, we realized that it was not meant to be opened like that. My granny had an... interesting way of opening the display.

**Inside the Device**

After carefully unscrewing the back, we were finally able to see what lay within. To our surprise, it was surprisingly upgradable in here! We could replace the Wi-Fi card, upgrade the m.2 storage, and even add more RAM (with some creative problem-solving).

**Upgrading Granny's Gaming Setup**

With our newfound knowledge, we decided to upgrade the device with a bit more RAM. This granny gaming setup was starting to take shape, and we were excited to see how it would perform.

**Putting It All Together**

Once we had upgraded the device, we put all the parts back together, hoping that it would work as smoothly as before. We replaced the display, added some new RAM, and even got my granny her favorite mousepad (which just so happened to be the same one she used for years).

**The Final Test**

With our granny gaming setup complete, we fired up GTA 5, and to our surprise, it was running a lot smoother than before. We also ran some tests on Fortnite, and while it still wasn't perfect, it was definitely an improvement.

**Conclusion**

Upgrading Lenovo's device may not have been the most straightforward process, but with perseverance and creativity, we were able to create a granny gaming setup that was surprisingly effective. While it may not be the most powerful setup out there, it's a testament to what can be achieved with some TLC and a bit of flair.

Thanks for joining me on this journey, and I hope you found it entertaining and informative!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is by far the cheapest all-in-one computer I could find at Best Buy it was like half the price  of the year up and in today's video we're gonna do some horrendous gaming on it the performance mode  is trying real hard to get fortnite running on this system but first today's video is sponsored  by the Lexar NM 790 now available in up to four terabytes so you can cram it full of as many  anime dating Sims as you can imagine you weirdo it may be d-ramless but it doesn't stop it from  blazing speeds making it a fast and affordable way to add a whole bunch of nvme storage to your  system and it's compatible with the PS5 making it nice and versatile if that sounds good to you  check out the link in the video description thank you lexor for sponsoring today's videothank younow for those of you that don't know an all-in-one computer is basically just a  monitor with some Chromebook Hardware glued to the back of it you can think of it like  a Kirkland brand iMac you know the kind of thing you buy for your grandmother so they  can spend eight hours a day playing Solitaire on it and getting scammed  on the internet but in today's video we're gonna see what else granny can play on itforeign I think this may also count as a full gaming setup because of the E-Waste peripherals oh  it's a Lenovo essential keyboard and mouse combo gen 2. oh the keyboard's got like a mouse  scrotum although excitingly the mouse testicle seems to be Wireless fancy whoa I think this is  going to be my new main gaming mouse it looks like a beast Jokes Aside it is awesome that it comes  with batteries although on the flip side it means it's not rechargeable which is a lot less awesome  I feel like that is some very necessary plastic use why couldn't they just package it like that  some more plastic very nice oh it's so nice of them to include instructions on how to  put batteries in the peripherals for all of the grannies that are gonna buy these oh yeah that  is a beast just add some stranger grease and it'll feel like you're at your local libraryit uses an external power brick that's so annoying although it is 90 Watts so  this system clearly isn't messing around foreignoh it's so cute it does really look like a system your granny would buy it's even got like a little  storage pouch here for knitting needles it's got this little pop-up webcam thing so that it's you  know your granny can hide her identity while she's being scammed on the Internet it's low enough that  there's no way for you to ergonomically interact with it that's very on brand it's actually got a  good range of movement so you can comfortably look down at it it's quite a sturdy thing  shaking the table and there's not much like not much display wobble which is pretty cool  turn it around wow it's actually really heavy considering how small it is around the back it's  nice and stylish you can see we've just got this single like metal strut that keeps the display  up we've got some usable i o on the back here is a sticker that gives us a hint that is the  power of this system that feels like it wants to come off but at the same time it really doesn't I  then spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to pry the flap off but we got there eventually  oh there we go what this is is that the higher end model has like a like a DVD drive in here  so this just covers up the empty space for that you may actually be able to buy it as  an add-on accessory later or see on lenovo's website if that is in fact the case but with  that let's set it up turn it on and see what kind of Hardware granny is packingoh that's kind of like floppily attached like thatwow that just pops open like that I've already noticed my favorite thing in the world we've  got McAfee just pinned to the taskbar down here let's see what other VD granny has to deal with  yeah that's kind of it in terms of CPU we've got a Pentium 7505 a dual core 4 threat Powerhouse which  I'm very curious to see how it performs the igp you were gaming with just says UHD Graphics which  is a great sign oh it's got a touch screen I just noticed that I was gonna like sarcastically point  at the Intel UHD Graphics but that's pretty cool oh and finally we've got a single eight gig stick  of 3200 megahertz Ram now the fact that that's one of two does imply that the ram is upgradable  so after I do the first round of gaming tests I will try and break the back off and then see how  easy it is to upgrade the Ram configuration but for now let's try and play some gameswhoa this display is surprisingly good it looks nice oh Pentium you spoilers with 30 frames per  second that has dipped down to the 20s once we go outside oh oh it looks so terrible is this really  running at MVP it's so pixelated I I guess GTA 5 really needs the bit of anti-aliasing wow it's  been a while since I've done this drive in GTA 5. it's not going great we're hovering just above 24  frames per second which in all fairness we don't need more than that you know the I can't seem oh  oh yeah it's this kind of GTA 5 experienceoh yeah this is this is going very well at least the fact that  the floor isn't rendering does give us quite a frame rate boost oh yeah  there's just buildings popping in and out of existence that doesn't break immersion at allcool things are staying in place and we're almost getting 40 frames per second I  don't know for granny gaming this is pretty impressive in this new 70 year old game and  it also does my favorite thing where the igpu is bottlenecked by the CPU it's attached tonow as we all know Granny's love fortnite so I'm gonna give this a bit of a try I'm  gonna use performance mode because it apparently is meant for it to run on  potatoes like this so let's see what kind of performance we get with this damn this is some  Next Level fortnite going on here oh there's there's a player hereno way oh my God I actually lost yeah not meaning to bully children but I feel like that that person  needs to uninstall fortnite and after that brief distraction I turned my toxicity back to the  granny system the performance mode is trying real hard to get fortnite running on this system and  it's not even because of the UHD Graphics I've never seen an igpu bottleneck this hard   new it looks like granny is gonna have a tough time pawning noobs in CS go at least the 1080p  oh yes that feels way better can you oh no that doesn't work oh  no never mind okay gone came with the touchscreenew it does look like DOTA isn't quite on the menu for granny this is 1080p low settings but with  like 50 render resolution so it looks like garbage and it's not actually running at 1080p now this  was a bot match and because of the CPU situation I'm sure a real game of DOTA would perform better  but I wasn't willing to grieve a game with actual people in it using this system so I decided to  move on to something a bit more demanding  now when it comes to Battlefield 5 it's 720p low  settings aside from again highlighting that hilarious CPU bottleneck but it's I was gonna  say not too bad but 30 frames per second is not playable in Battlefield 5. but maybe we could do  something about it let's drop the resolution scale to 25 at 720p and see what happenswell aside from it looking like the game's being censored it's not made a huge difference to the  frame rate because well we were a CPU bottleneck anyway I learned very optimistically trying to  play some cyberpunk which went well okay never mind that's not a thing that's gonna happen so  I guess now we get to tear this bad boy open and see how we can upgrade it foreign I think  this slot on the bottom of the display is maybe where we add more RAM which was some real wishful  thinking on my part because obviously it wasn't going to be that easy oh oh it's just like a hot  swappable storage Mount useful but not what we're looking for also I don't see a way to get deeper  into the system through that hole so I guess we're gonna have to start looking under things like this  hey there we go there's a screw oh that just like popped the whole world out which is where  I ran into a bit of a roadblock nothing else I did led to more of the world popping out  and after ages of struggling I ended up on lenovo's website where they have  video guides about how to tear down their products which is pretty cool so according  to Lenovo you have to kind of pry this bit off oh yeah there you go yes and then with  this you can remove the stand but once I got the standoff was when the real brutality started ahthe novo video of a different model you like really have to go to town on the  base of it to get it open like that that man is is doing some terrible things to  that oh this is the display I'm definitely breaking salmon hereit really does not feel like this is meant to open up  there we go oh I don't I don't think I was meant to do that ohthat was the worst opening I think I've ever had to do on a device traumatized  I examined the system for irreparable damage and then unscrewed the back to see what kind  of upgrading we could do and then this should just oh oh we're finally inside  now aside from the fact that you essentially have to break apart space time to get in here  it's surprisingly upgradable in here you can replace the Wi-Fi card you can upgrade the  m.2 storage granny can even upgrade the laptop Ram it uses once she destroys it open are cute  little celerons under here with one huge heat pipe that runs to a pretty substantial bit of  heatsink up here with a big blower fan it's a reasonably neat solution they just need to  make it way easier to get inside with that let's drop some more RAM in herecool so now that we've upgraded the grannytron we just have to break  it back together and then see how much more gaming performance we gotnow I also asked Anna to go out and buy the granniest mouse pad she could find  and funnily enough I'm pretty sure this is the exact mousepad My grandmother used for yearsand with that addition it's finally time to experience the granny gaming setup in its full  power oh I did do a bit of damage to the display look at that but on the bright side the ram is  running at its full 3200 megahertz which is good whoa GTA 5 is running a lot better with the 16  gigs of RAM you can see that it's immediately used a lot more than it had available uh initially and  it feels better I mean granted this is still 720p low settings so it's not an impressive result but  it's better oh wait let's see if it works with 1080p now oh yeah no it's it's still okay no it's  still doing that on the bright side the built-in Benchmark went from this at 720p low settings  what is happening five minutes later I'm literally never seen that happen  actually running so that's a lot better hey look at 720p CS go running like a beast  it's a bit stuttery but we are getting not quite 100 frames per second depending on  where we're looking whoa fortnite is doing way better look at that we can I mean I was  about to say we can see individual leaves but it is still very Blobby I mean there you have  it all granny needs to do to get a reasonable 1080p fortnite experience is Savage the back  of her device and put some new Ram in it which seems very reasonable to me interestingly this  granny gaming setup did cost very similar to the gaming setup in the previous video but  performed quite a lot worse so there is that if you missed that video a suggestion for it will  pop up in a second other than that thank you for watching and until the next video bye-bye