WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is going to be pretty relaxed i'm going to try and channel my my inner oztalks hardware here now initially i was going to do uh just single core gaming intel versus amd edition but the testing for that takes shockingly long because of how slow those configurations are with one core so i had to do an alternative video idea subscribe if you want to see that though because that's coming out next week so for today's video i'm going to open up this two-year-old dell xps 15 which it's starting to behave really weirdly it's starting to behave a bit like it's kind of nursing a drug addiction under the radar without its family members knowing so yeah maybe it's thermally throttling because it's got stock two-year-old dull thermal paste on there so i'm gonna re-paste it clean it up and see if we can fix the issues with this laptop this laptop is about two years old at this point uh but it's still got some pretty hefty specs in it it's got an i7 8750h which is a six core 12 thread mobile cpu and then it's got a gtx 1050 ti with uh 16 gigs of ram so it's not a gaming machine especially considering the fact that this has the 4k touchscreen in it but that display is probably the most beautiful display i've ever seen on a device it really is spectacular although it does need some maintenance it throttles pretty much immediately just opening applications on the desktop and stuff which is really weird and i think almost all of that has to do with the fact that this still has the stock thermal paste on it that thermal paste quite frankly on the best of days is a bit of an embarrassment so yeah hopefully a new fresh bit of thermal paste will will help fix that also clean out any dust and stuff like that but as you can see except for a little bit of dirt for a two-year-old laptop it is in pristine condition oh this is the wrong hex screw size let's see there we go so the hex size is t5 screw size that is a very it's it doesn't feel like a very strong screw head so you kind of want to do it very gently when you open it up so that you don't strip anything i quite like that they hide all of this information under this little door it keeps the design nice and clean and there we go there is the inside of this laptop and for a two-year-old laptop it it's not that dirty inside actually um you know you can see there's a bit of like dust and debris building up there but when i take this off i'll i'll clean that out a bit better but it actually looks a bit a bit better than i was expecting so with that let me just start taking out screws and see what happens i'm curious to see how easy it is to clean this bad boy um more screws here's one that looks like it's involved oh what's this is this like a like a warranty void if removed screw situation here not that that really matters because it is a two-year-old laptop at this point so it's it's warranty isn't really applicable anymore yes there is a screw under there it's the thing if you if you can't get something off on a laptop just look under bits of tape so that's where they always hide it they actually make it really easy for you to upgrade stuff i mean yeah you've got easy access to the m.2 drive i don't see an extra one i think there is just one drive on this laptop but that's not too bad you've got easy access to both ram slots so that's nice as well you've got access to the wi-fi card yeah so they're not like artificially restricting upgradability options on this laptop as much as some other ones that's always that's always really nice to see okay so we've got all the screws off let's see if we can i've got all the obvious screws off let me put it like that uh so let's see if we can just lift this stuff off oh that's routed in through there okay so here oh no they've got one of these connectors these these kinds of connectors i really hate because they're usually a massive pin in the pot to get back in but let's see oh that was actually really easy to get out never mind i take that back yeah there's not that much dust i mean there is there is a little okay there is some dust in here there is definitely some some dust in here it's just a little bit of fluff though but that still blocks stuff up okay so this one looks like it's got about the same amount of peach fluff in there as the other one it's not too bad actually after two years uh that's pretty clean i have to admit it's not been the most heavily used laptop uh in all honesty it was about five months where it was used very heavily and then after that it's just been kind of like a backup computing device but yeah still it's it's much cleaner than i thought it was gonna be i'm curious to see what it what the thermal paste looks like under under this whole setup here so it's stuck down a little oh there we go that was nice and easy and that is what the thermal paste looks like it's actually not that bad for a two-year-old laptop that's better than i was expecting and especially considering the fact that this is just the stock thermal paste i mean it's it's not in ideal condition it'll definitely help a lot repasting it but yeah it's a bit better than i was expecting so let's clean it off and re-paste it put it all together and see if that made a difference cleaning this stuff off is always really easy i just use a bit of isopropyl alcohol with just paper towel and you kind of gently clean it off and then uh q-tips work really well for cleaning up around the actual dye that's much more difficult to get to but just be careful so that you don't damage anything accidentally that thermal paste is actually very dry we've got a couple of stains on the copper here that i can't really get off i mean it's not a huge deal it's always nice to get it as clean as possible but it doesn't really matter that much i'm definitely i'm definitely one of the one of the that'll do types of people when it comes to this kind of stuff what always blows my mind about these laptops is how tiny their cooling solutions are there's just these two small bits of aluminium fin array with two heat pipes and that's what you use to cool a gpu and a cpu it's no wonder this stuff just always overheats but i mean it's such a small laptop you know there's not space for better cooling and then as far as airflow goes that's about it you've got these two these two little cutouts here and then there's a bit of space out the back of the laptop as well so again it's no surprise these things overheat so easily because there's just so little room for cooling that is quite a lot of thermal base for the dye size i may actually lift some of that off and now you just kind of line it up and drop it down there we go and then just screw it down close everything up and then you're good okay there we go so that should be making decent contact okay the next step i'm just gonna kind of re reinstall these little fans i actually very rarely work with laptops uh this is like this is like the third time in my life i've been inside a laptop um so yeah this it's everything's so much more fiddly in here than it is on the inside of a of a full-sized system watch me break this connector as i try and plug it back in okay is that the wrong is that the wrong way around and i'm pretty sure it's the right way around it's just refusing to go in it it's just refusing to go in i mean that feels like it's more pressure than you should be putting on did i like break it taking it out let's try the other side and see if that that's more forgiving they're on the right side right yeah i mean the screw holes line up like they're they're they're on the right part of the thing oh i'm so dumb been struggling for like what 15 minutes and then look at that it's just it was just the wrong way around look at how easily that went in like a spring breeze into a tunnel full of angels why is the way that it's supposed to go in around the most inconvenient way to get the connector in like it's it's situated in a way that makes it seem like the way i was trying was the correct way because it was the path of least resistance but that's also why you should take you should pay a lot of attention when you're taking it apart you shouldn't be like me where you zone out and dream about frolicking in fields full of unicorns or whatever while you're busy taking the thing apart but see like this one the connector it just feels more unconsensual when it comes to the actual direction of the connector and there's me making excuses for me being stupid okay so that's plugged in uh they're both plugged in now hopefully i didn't damage a connector or anything like that during that process um but yeah there we go now i'm gonna screw everything back on and then see what kind of temperature difference we get from just doing this little thing let's see what happens when we launch ida 64. so when i launched ida 64 before the moment i started it it would hit like 100 degrees celsius and then thermally throttle and then the fans would like slowly kick in and alleviate the the thermal situation let's just say start and see if it immediately throttles like before that that is definitely better the fans haven't ramped up yet but at this point it was thermally throttling before it's just all throttling i think it just doesn't need to go any louder i think that's why it's not ramping up more let me actually just get my microphone closer to it like that's that's better look at that i actually helped i fixed the tech thing shouldn't sound that excited about that actually okay now it's starting to kick up to the point that it immediately went to before the replays so let me again just here's a it's getting jet turbine levels noisy here but it's it's taken much longer to get there after about what 37 minutes now we're getting pretty good temperatures here so that was such an easy fix uh hopefully the laptop behaves a bit better now because you know when it starts thermally throttling when you just open applications that really destroys the desktop usability of the system and with that when it comes to extended loads we had about a six degree celsius drop in in cpu package temperature which is pretty good for just a re-paste but that's not even the thing that we're the most excited about the fact that it doesn't just immediately throttle constantly while opening desktop applications that's exactly what we wanted to fix and that quick replace did that so yeah if you enjoyed watching me just struggle to repaste some random bit of tech stuff do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one uh next week on wednesday i'll have that single core intel versus amd video come out and i think those results so far seem really interesting so i can't wait to get to finish up with that video so until the next video bye-bye youtoday's video is going to be pretty relaxed i'm going to try and channel my my inner oztalks hardware here now initially i was going to do uh just single core gaming intel versus amd edition but the testing for that takes shockingly long because of how slow those configurations are with one core so i had to do an alternative video idea subscribe if you want to see that though because that's coming out next week so for today's video i'm going to open up this two-year-old dell xps 15 which it's starting to behave really weirdly it's starting to behave a bit like it's kind of nursing a drug addiction under the radar without its family members knowing so yeah maybe it's thermally throttling because it's got stock two-year-old dull thermal paste on there so i'm gonna re-paste it clean it up and see if we can fix the issues with this laptop this laptop is about two years old at this point uh but it's still got some pretty hefty specs in it it's got an i7 8750h which is a six core 12 thread mobile cpu and then it's got a gtx 1050 ti with uh 16 gigs of ram so it's not a gaming machine especially considering the fact that this has the 4k touchscreen in it but that display is probably the most beautiful display i've ever seen on a device it really is spectacular although it does need some maintenance it throttles pretty much immediately just opening applications on the desktop and stuff which is really weird and i think almost all of that has to do with the fact that this still has the stock thermal paste on it that thermal paste quite frankly on the best of days is a bit of an embarrassment so yeah hopefully a new fresh bit of thermal paste will will help fix that also clean out any dust and stuff like that but as you can see except for a little bit of dirt for a two-year-old laptop it is in pristine condition oh this is the wrong hex screw size let's see there we go so the hex size is t5 screw size that is a very it's it doesn't feel like a very strong screw head so you kind of want to do it very gently when you open it up so that you don't strip anything i quite like that they hide all of this information under this little door it keeps the design nice and clean and there we go there is the inside of this laptop and for a two-year-old laptop it it's not that dirty inside actually um you know you can see there's a bit of like dust and debris building up there but when i take this off i'll i'll clean that out a bit better but it actually looks a bit a bit better than i was expecting so with that let me just start taking out screws and see what happens i'm curious to see how easy it is to clean this bad boy um more screws here's one that looks like it's involved oh what's this is this like a like a warranty void if removed screw situation here not that that really matters because it is a two-year-old laptop at this point so it's it's warranty isn't really applicable anymore yes there is a screw under there it's the thing if you if you can't get something off on a laptop just look under bits of tape so that's where they always hide it they actually make it really easy for you to upgrade stuff i mean yeah you've got easy access to the m.2 drive i don't see an extra one i think there is just one drive on this laptop but that's not too bad you've got easy access to both ram slots so that's nice as well you've got access to the wi-fi card yeah so they're not like artificially restricting upgradability options on this laptop as much as some other ones that's always that's always really nice to see okay so we've got all the screws off let's see if we can i've got all the obvious screws off let me put it like that uh so let's see if we can just lift this stuff off oh that's routed in through there okay so here oh no they've got one of these connectors these these kinds of connectors i really hate because they're usually a massive pin in the pot to get back in but let's see oh that was actually really easy to get out never mind i take that back yeah there's not that much dust i mean there is there is a little okay there is some dust in here there is definitely some some dust in here it's just a little bit of fluff though but that still blocks stuff up okay so this one looks like it's got about the same amount of peach fluff in there as the other one it's not too bad actually after two years uh that's pretty clean i have to admit it's not been the most heavily used laptop uh in all honesty it was about five months where it was used very heavily and then after that it's just been kind of like a backup computing device but yeah still it's it's much cleaner than i thought it was gonna be i'm curious to see what it what the thermal paste looks like under under this whole setup here so it's stuck down a little oh there we go that was nice and easy and that is what the thermal paste looks like it's actually not that bad for a two-year-old laptop that's better than i was expecting and especially considering the fact that this is just the stock thermal paste i mean it's it's not in ideal condition it'll definitely help a lot repasting it but yeah it's a bit better than i was expecting so let's clean it off and re-paste it put it all together and see if that made a difference cleaning this stuff off is always really easy i just use a bit of isopropyl alcohol with just paper towel and you kind of gently clean it off and then uh q-tips work really well for cleaning up around the actual dye that's much more difficult to get to but just be careful so that you don't damage anything accidentally that thermal paste is actually very dry we've got a couple of stains on the copper here that i can't really get off i mean it's not a huge deal it's always nice to get it as clean as possible but it doesn't really matter that much i'm definitely i'm definitely one of the one of the that'll do types of people when it comes to this kind of stuff what always blows my mind about these laptops is how tiny their cooling solutions are there's just these two small bits of aluminium fin array with two heat pipes and that's what you use to cool a gpu and a cpu it's no wonder this stuff just always overheats but i mean it's such a small laptop you know there's not space for better cooling and then as far as airflow goes that's about it you've got these two these two little cutouts here and then there's a bit of space out the back of the laptop as well so again it's no surprise these things overheat so easily because there's just so little room for cooling that is quite a lot of thermal base for the dye size i may actually lift some of that off and now you just kind of line it up and drop it down there we go and then just screw it down close everything up and then you're good okay there we go so that should be making decent contact okay the next step i'm just gonna kind of re reinstall these little fans i actually very rarely work with laptops uh this is like this is like the third time in my life i've been inside a laptop um so yeah this it's everything's so much more fiddly in here than it is on the inside of a of a full-sized system watch me break this connector as i try and plug it back in okay is that the wrong is that the wrong way around and i'm pretty sure it's the right way around it's just refusing to go in it it's just refusing to go in i mean that feels like it's more pressure than you should be putting on did i like break it taking it out let's try the other side and see if that that's more forgiving they're on the right side right yeah i mean the screw holes line up like they're they're they're on the right part of the thing oh i'm so dumb been struggling for like what 15 minutes and then look at that it's just it was just the wrong way around look at how easily that went in like a spring breeze into a tunnel full of angels why is the way that it's supposed to go in around the most inconvenient way to get the connector in like it's it's situated in a way that makes it seem like the way i was trying was the correct way because it was the path of least resistance but that's also why you should take you should pay a lot of attention when you're taking it apart you shouldn't be like me where you zone out and dream about frolicking in fields full of unicorns or whatever while you're busy taking the thing apart but see like this one the connector it just feels more unconsensual when it comes to the actual direction of the connector and there's me making excuses for me being stupid okay so that's plugged in uh they're both plugged in now hopefully i didn't damage a connector or anything like that during that process um but yeah there we go now i'm gonna screw everything back on and then see what kind of temperature difference we get from just doing this little thing let's see what happens when we launch ida 64. so when i launched ida 64 before the moment i started it it would hit like 100 degrees celsius and then thermally throttle and then the fans would like slowly kick in and alleviate the the thermal situation let's just say start and see if it immediately throttles like before that that is definitely better the fans haven't ramped up yet but at this point it was thermally throttling before it's just all throttling i think it just doesn't need to go any louder i think that's why it's not ramping up more let me actually just get my microphone closer to it like that's that's better look at that i actually helped i fixed the tech thing shouldn't sound that excited about that actually okay now it's starting to kick up to the point that it immediately went to before the replays so let me again just here's a it's getting jet turbine levels noisy here but it's it's taken much longer to get there after about what 37 minutes now we're getting pretty good temperatures here so that was such an easy fix uh hopefully the laptop behaves a bit better now because you know when it starts thermally throttling when you just open applications that really destroys the desktop usability of the system and with that when it comes to extended loads we had about a six degree celsius drop in in cpu package temperature which is pretty good for just a re-paste but that's not even the thing that we're the most excited about the fact that it doesn't just immediately throttle constantly while opening desktop applications that's exactly what we wanted to fix and that quick replace did that so yeah if you enjoyed watching me just struggle to repaste some random bit of tech stuff do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one uh next week on wednesday i'll have that single core intel versus amd video come out and i think those results so far seem really interesting so i can't wait to get to finish up with that video so until the next video bye-bye you