My DIY gaming laptop (w/ desktop parts) is FINALLY done! Full Reveal

After 14 months of trying to figure out how the *&$#!^ to make this thing actually work (and look okay-ish in the process), we're finally here. If you haven't guessed, it's a custom DIY laptop built completely from scratch, with a Ryzen CPU and a Radeon GPU and everything else a regular desktop might have.

This is brand new, and I'm still figuring out the perks, but I'll make sure you can pitch ideas and vote on projects and such via Patreon.

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[Imdrekaiser]

I thought this was going to be a series that never finishes like all the other crazy builds, and then you uploaded the completed thing. This is very hype.

[milescarter]

Cheat code: JW H610i-P motherboard. It is a board that natively takes 18-20v and has a 160w modular GPU power header. It also lays the video card down flat off the top of the board with no risers. There is also another cheaper (80 vs 100-140) board that only has 120w power for a video card. Either way, simpler. Nice job finishing the project! Looks great.

[weerawat]

The best thing of this laptop is you uploaded all progress in one video. And trust me, when I didn’t see any “EP” thing in title, I didn’t skip a second.

[typothetical]

Things I learned from this project series:

-JB Weld is OP af

[jamncheese-]

bro i love how he says "built at home by an idiot"

[idan]

0:47 laptops arent scam.. nvidia naming is

[Zanthis]

"your mom inside" might be the greatest thing ever. I legit busted out laughing at work hahaha

[MrIssa]

Finally, someone answered my question: "Can you use desktop parts for a laptop?"

[leeminh]

thanks Youtube for recommending me this hidden gem of a channel

[Psiqo]

Theres 2 major things i take away from this project. 1 being the amount of time designing and planning this took, which many people fail to realize. 2 just how competitive a retail version of something like this could be. I like the idea of gaming laptops and their portability, but at the end of the day, they have miniscule upgradability and are generally very overpriced compared to their desktop counterparts. With that being said, i applaud this build and keep up the awesome work!

[Tex-E]

Would love to see a video which goes into a bit of the specifics and your testing on it! Like playing games and showing us its performance and temps.

[silverhawk]

If he keeps making content like this the channel will easily blow up to 1 mil subs.

[Ardenict]

What a genius engineering. Great work mate 👍👍

[dapz]

This is awesome, and I've been waiting for someone to do this for ages. When I was in high school I spent a lot of time trying to design a DIY, "thin" laptop based around the thin-mini-itx standard. I've been planning on revamping my design for years, but there were just some things I couldn't figure out how to do well enough, mostly cooling related. If I ever get to it, I definitely will return to this vid. Thanks!

[aidenradu-fwlk]

Tip: You can use solder to put the heat pipes and heatsinks together with no performance loss

[huhdidwhat]

Awesome video! I could watch this all day, I was sad when it was over.

[starbomber]

Amazed that it actually runs. A couple of things.

1. You are brave sir to trust the structure of this thing to 3d printed parts heat-welded together. An aluminum frame would go a long way to making it stronger, but it does seem to hold together for now.
2. Usually, heat-pipes are brazed together with their heat-sinks, but if it works it works.
3. Totally understand the battery bit. Granted, without a battery I donno if it's still a "laptop" but overall it's kinda insane that this idea worked at all.

[Guywiththetypewriter]

Aerospace Engineering Lecturer here and this has given me a brilliant idea after seeing the segment on cooling...

You know those Briefcase Laptop Bags? There's always this section either side of the laptops for tools etc...

Just... make the whole briefcase the laptop. Gives you room to slap in even the stock heatsinks / coolers for components, have slats you open (or bonus points for auto opening when you turn it on) to keep it weather proof...

[iamkelz]

The algorithm doing you justice sir, got a new subscriber 🙌🏾

[danielscreate]

Happy that youtube suggested this hardwork and awesomeness to me