Heatsink Soldering & First Run - DIY Laptop Water Cooling - Part 2
Ғылым және технология
Now after finishing my previous project "Laptop Modding Adventure" it's time for a new laptop with a new project!
This time I want to explore the possibilities and benefits of water cooling in a laptop.
There are a hand full of commercial water cooled laptops out there. But what about all the laptops which didn't come out with water cooling support originally? How big the temperature drop will be? By how much does the performance increase? Are the fans quieter?
Let's find out together and see what we can achieve with a water cooling loop inside my laptop (XMG APEX 15 MAX with RTX 3070).
Parts of this video are sponsored by XMG. I did not receive any money to advertise them. I just told them about my plans and they sent me over a replacement heatsink for the XMG Neo 15 (which integrates a waterpipe), an XMG Oasis water cooling unit and Frankenstein, the star of this video.
00:00 - Intro
01:21 - Clean Up
02:12 - Soldering the Waterpipe
04:42 - Installation & Equipment
06:24 - Invalid Results & Case Mod
10:32 - Results
12:39 - Outro
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Links:
XMG Oasis (external laptop water cooling unit)
www.xmg.gg/en/xmg-oasis/
Igor's Lab
www.igorslab.de/en/
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I really hope your build is going well. Keep checking back to see if you have made an update to see how you knock it out of the park. If not for you I wouldn't have though to use a hotplate to finish modding my GP66 to be bicooled, I can't thank you enough. Can't wait to see how your build ends up!
Someone on Aliexpress was selling heatsinks for different model of Clevo laptops that where designed for external water cooling about a year ago. Sadly, I have not been able to find the shop anymore, but I always thought of how awesome it would be to have a Clevo X170 with water cooling on it.
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
That would be an interesting side project. Unfortunately I got no X170 barebone. If someone of you wants to have an XMG Oasis compatible solution for the X170 very badly: buy a spare heatsink and bottom case + bottom cover and send it to me ;) It would take a while to get it done though.
Great to see this update, have been watching your series on this laptop with interest
This is so cool! So much effort to make this possible! I really enjoyed to see that everything ran smooth. Can't wait to see the next update 😉 P.s. I'm jealous 😋
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
Thanks José! :) Ha finally made you jealous! You and your golden RTX 2070 mobile GPU... Still healous ;)
Great job! I have same project. In the video was very interesting how you soldering the heat pipe on the top. Waiting for the next part video. Thank you! Keep going M8!
I have been waiting for this for months. At last!
Awesome cant wait to see more
Valiant effort, love it. But what really grinds my gears is how laptops are even designed to overheat so much. Every laptop I've owned since 2015 had major overheating problems, I've had 2 razers, a lenovo and now I got a ASUS ROG Zephirus. Still the same nonsense design. I've been using a fan stand on all of em and they can't handle webbrowser + a game open at the same time without risking overheating. TBF I tend to have 50 tabs open but still. I just hate having my laptop overheat and crash so frequently, it only gets worse over time, even factory resetting only works for a month or so before problems come back again.
I like how you do this just because you can!
@Broockle
Ай бұрын
I imagine there was a lot of overheating frustration which prompted this measure.
I loved the video❤❤
Wow i missed this new series and i'm catching up only now, again, really cool project. Sometimes the modding process satisfies more than using the product itself ang getting useful results even more! For the custom part are you going to use round pipes? you can follow the hestsink shapes and heights with a round pipe and after that you can crush it to obtain a more oval shape for better surface area and easy soldering...like a heatpipe😂
I just run my laptop with the case open, with an extra fan. Definitely interested in this project tho, Would be nice to get something like this going.
Aliexpress sells pre-bent water pipe with knurled insert nuts soldered at the ends. They are really soft and really easy to bend.I end up routing with my own pipe since the ones they sell aren’t long enough. I used some thin refrigerant pipe and hammered it flat to around 2.5mm so it fits without modification. I got almost 30C drop to under 60C on the GPU with a passive cooled water loop. I have a post on Reddit but I couldn’t post link here rip
Nice project man, you can add on top of that cooling mod a custom made cooling pad. I've buy 2x 140mm Artic p14 pwm co, 1 12v fan controller with knobs, a cheap 12v power brick. Than i have add some soft rubber strip on top of the fan case (to make a good seal against underneat panel), i also have do a cheap support to all that and i have 7 to 10°C lower temp with 1000/1200rpm less, basically from 15 to 20°C with fixed laptop fan speed. With that i can cool all the component that are overclocked (now cpu, ram, chipset, forced max dynamic boost, custom unvervolt progressive curve for gpu, n°5 in the world with cpu profile for 11800h with an 1050€ laptop and numer 62 in timespy for 11800h and 95w 3060mobile). Obviously to have a good result you need to cover all the air intakes with the fan area, but using Artic p14 pwm c0 i have the same noise as the noctua with less noise from laptop fan, much more cooling for all the components and i have spend oly 50€. Try it, you can have some serious improvement. Also, if you're not using liquid metal, use Honeywell ptm 7950 sheet version, the best themal interface after liquid metal but without the risk of shotrcircuit.
Waiting for part 3
So inspiring content, but it is very difficult to repeat.
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
Yes it is, absolutely true. But hey, at least I discovered by accident that removing the back cover benefits temperatures greatly. Planning on a video about that in combo with my 3D printed laptop stand. Tremendously improved temps and fan noise.
Wow, finally someone did it. I'm also interested in doing something like this with my new laptop but I don't wanna solder anything, what do you think about using thermal pads instead?
Nice job, I also watercooled some laptops e.g. legion y520, asus gl552v and now I'll do clevo nh55 - parts are on its way :)
@aymantashfique3194
11 ай бұрын
@albertwesker4266 i have a lenevo legion y740. And I believe the insides are quite similar. Could you tell me how you've done it? And what are the benchmarks?
@albertwesker4266
9 ай бұрын
@@aymantashfique3194 How ?? By adding copper waterblock onto laptop heatpipes ( soldering required ) and making external watercooling system. The temps under gaming are around 47-50 degrees celsius on cpu and gpu. Laptop is dead silent, and external water cooling system also dead silent - noctua fans used :)
Still waiting for PART 3!!!!
Hi, thanks for the video where did you get the water pipe?
It will be great for AMD 16 CORE 7945HX laptops with desktop chips.
💪🏻 keep going, good results as always, i have the 3000 ryzen version of that laptop and i daily drive it without the bottom cover, i was wondering if you can make available the stl file for the stand that you jave 3d printed so i can use a more elegant solution 😅 thanks
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
Yep I will share it on my website soon :) But keep in mind that it is made for use without the whole bottom case, not just without the bottom lid/cover. I could make another updated version with shortened pillars for usage without bottom lid/cover only. You will need longer M2.5 screws though. Also beware that under the middle screw hole is the PCB. If you screw in a screw which is too long you can damage the mainboard. Give me some days to update my website and you will find the STL there.
That's an impressive and risky job you did there! Since you know XMG, do you think their 4,100€ neo 17 rtx 4090 will go on sale any soon? Or should I buy it at this price?
Finally
Hola , donde puedo encontrar conectores para que no salga el agua cuando de conecta/desconecta ???
Great series. Do you think you can improve cooling even more by maybe adding additional heat pipes to the fan or does the Fan not have enough space for that?
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
No space left, no. But I don't think the heatpipes are the problem. I think it's the fan stack's surface area. If that would be bigger the laptop would be cooler. Plus the fans need more room on the intake side.
pretty cool project though personally id love to have a mod that can easily be removed so base laptop can still be used as is my plan for an aio setup is to just mount the cold plate on top of the copper heatsinks and add thermal paste to it instead of thermal pads but it will get a bit messier
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
The base laptop can be used as is. The heatsink with the waterpipe on top still works as it used to. The laptop can still sit flat on table just as before. You only need to drain the waterpipe before every transport.
@meareAaron
Жыл бұрын
@@3DAndStuff pretty cool that its removable just a bit bulkier i guess a way to mount an aftermarket aio would be a cool mod too i have something similar on mine but its nowhere near as engineered as yours mines literally hanging by a velcro strap hahaha
I wish I could get you to help me out. I started a project to build my own loop but I lack soldering skills
When will you continue this?
Can AIO install possible??
Great experiment! I have a question regarding solder paste.13:15 What quality are you using for this mod? I need a good quality one to add some heat pipes to my Notebook's cooling system.
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Actually it's Adafruit's Low Temperature Maker Paste in this video. But all low temperature solder pastes with Bismuth in it will work just as good. The Adafruit one was just easier available at the time.
@lucamagni99
Жыл бұрын
@@3DAndStuff Understood! I actually didn't take into account the fact that it is important to use a paste that has the lowest possible melting point, to avoid compromising the other saltings on the original structure of the dissipating solution. Regarding XMG Noebooks, do you have any news on Ryzen 7000 Desktop support? I can't wait for your next video to come out!
Where's part 3?
Hello! I would like to know how you worked around the Oasis without Bluetooth. Thanks.
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
For now I have just used the Oasis prototype unit "Frankenstein".
where is the update
those metal clamps looks familiar. Do you worked/ are working in a telecomunications job ?
@3DAndStuff
Жыл бұрын
No I just found them online while looking for mini metal clamps.
Why can’t / where can we get this in USA? Didn’t see on Amazon, and their websites not useful either.
@jaytea2140
6 ай бұрын
Just has kits for their laptops. Nothing DIY like this. ):
overclock it :)
Couldn’t you just us thermal glue and us clamps
How to Destroy your Heatpipes or blow them up in your Face.