DIY Laptop Cleaning

This is how to clean your laptop with a toothbrush and a screwdriver. I get asked this question all the time and here it is. Enjoy.

[dannyg]

Go take your brother's toothbrush... that's now the most important thing to keep in mind while going through the process

[Genta.Aditya]

I am someone who's used to disassembling laptops and pc just to tinker around or cleaning up.
Not watching this for the guide, but watching the process of cleaning a filthy laptop is just so satisfying.

[minemasterSAM]

I’ve never opened up my laptop (or any functional computer) before, but hearing you clean it every three months even though you’re not in a dusty environment is making me consider doing it.

I’ve owned my laptop for 2 years now, never cleaned it.

[docolemnsx]

Make sure to take note of any potential quick upgrades you can make while it's open, it may come in handy one day. I took my mom's laptop apart for cleaning a couple years ago, a whatever-generation dual core from Intel with 4gb ram and running windows 8 from a friggin hdd, so I quickly found some sodimm locally and a 500gb ssd and threw those in as well. Could have upgraded the cpu as well, since it was socketed, but the only mobile quad core I found in the entire country - that had a somewhat similar wattage - was about $150 so I gave it a pass. Installed win10 on the new ssd, and with the memory now maxxed out at 8gb it still runs smooth today!

[Ice_]

I’ve changed my ps3 thermal paste last year and that thing became as silent as a series X. Holy cow was that a game changer. 11 years and the old thermal paste was like as hard as an old eraser that just smears the lead rather than removing it off the paper.

[charginginprogresss]

That bed part felt personal. I keep my laptop on my lap tho.

[keeganplayz]

Hey, that's the model I have! Thanks for the cleaning advice. I will clean the laptop properly now.

[protim]

I recently bought a second hand hp 8470p. It had so much dust in the heat sink it was overheating like hell. The thermal paste was rock solid. I opened it up, cleaned the heatsink, applied some new thermal compound and boy the changes were noticeable.
To all laptop users, always take good care and time to clean your devices.

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It's overkill to clean it every 3 month. Even with heavy use, it's gonna take years to clog like in the video.

[CalvinTan-pl]

This tips is really helpful. I had bought a laptop for 7 years and I just get courage to open my laptop by myself recently

[fadhil]

Exactly! People on reddit always try to change the paste once every 3 months or so but in reality the fans are usually the problem. Just gotta clean them up

[akioyuja]

Another note as to why keep the fan still when using compressed air. Spinning fan is a generator. You might blow something in your laptop doing that. So better keep it still (if you can remove it it's better) sometimes. Overheating problems arise even if you do this and that's because the fan gets slower due to no oiling for long time. Get a syringe and pump the axe with some machine oil to lossen the fan and voila. Hopefully it helps other people too

[thelongboarddude]

You operate it in a clean environment and do this every 3 months?? You are the type of person to do an oil change every 1K miles 😂

[Zack_Zander]

Would’ve been nice to have this video last year when cleaning my laptop, but I’m keeping this tabbed for when I would need it again

[daffendorf]

some tips for the screws

take some adhesive tape and use the sticky side to put your screws so you'll not forgot which screw goes where

[akinahara]

As much as I want to take apart the laptop to clean the fan, I'm too scared to even take the screws off because of the consequences

[gilman]

The Greatest Technician That EVER Lived!👌👍😁

[Fire-wujp]

I love these vids, they always have some sort of humour while educating people about tech. Keep it up bro

[Bri_]

THANK YOU!

I didn't know I could or should be cleaning inside my laptop. Now my baby will live longer.

[lairlair]

Learnt to do that on a second hand PS4. Dramatically improved the quietness and also I probably had enough dead skin dna samples to clone the previous owner