This INSANE Watercooled Laptop Has a Huge Problem! - Eluktronics Prometheus Prototype

Laptops are loud, run hot, and are kinda slow, but Elucktronics has found a solution to all of those problems.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:02 Watercooled Laptops
1:53 Open It
4:01 The Laptop
6:30 Using It
9:40 Results
12:16 Outro

[eluktronics]

Thanks for your feedback! We’re really excited to have a literal game changing cooling solution for our performance laptops. Yes, yours was simply an early engineering sample and all of the sound concerns for our production version have been addressed. The water reservoir has been redesigned to greatly reduce bubbles. The internal PCB has also been enhanced to reduce audibility of the cooler. Also, the cost will only be $99.99 when bundled with laptop purchase. Much more to come!

[MarkBerberoglu]

Could you imagine the next generation of this? A docking solution with a thunderbolt connector or two for power and data delivery, and water cooling?!

[dumpsterdawg]

Linus: "So far I have broken zero of the clips...almost zero of the clips"
Eluktronics: "Introducing our clipless case design"

[victorstewart]

The level of disappointment shown by Linus even in the face of the amazing performance numbers is the best proof of how insanely promising this thing is.

[thexgamer]

Linus: *Laptops have 3 problems: They’re hot, loud and kinda slow.*

Me looking at my 10-year-old laptop: *Hey, he’s talking about you, buddy.*

[MRTCole]

"Must have broken in shipping" would have been a perfect time to cut to some clips of him prying the case open, overfilling the port, using his hands to slow down the fan and pump, and purposefully knocking it over lol.

[BlackHoleForge]

I'm so glad you guys included the audio for that water pump. I installed a thermaltake AIO 120 water cooled radiator. I kept hearing a clicking noise, and I just assumed it was my hard drive. But then I remembered I installed and nvme SSD. Thanks to your video I realized the sound is just coming from a few air bubbles that are trapped in the sealed system.

[LucasBustamante]

Yo guys, I'm one of the first owners of a notebook with this liquid cooling (XMG Neo 15 - the European counterpart of Eluktronics), and I can tell you it is freaking awesome. It is much easier to use than I thought it would be. When you unplug the liquid cooling connector, the male connector cuts all water flow, so when it's unplugged it doesn't spill or drop any liquid no matter how you hold it. The holes in the female connector in the notebook chassis are small enough so that there is a resistance that the liquid inside the laptop has to break through to get out, so it doesn't spill by itself (Think of a syringe full of liquid that you have to press to get the liquid out, it's the same concept).

When I want to move my notebook to another location, I unplug the liquid cooling connector (which leaves one or two drops of liquid at the table), and I take the laptop to a sink. While moving the laptop with liquid inside, it doesn't spill no matter how I hold it, which was my biggest fear before buying this. At the sink, I use a manual air pump that they ship with the laptop to blow air through the liquid cooling female connector to get all the liquid out, and I'm good to go. I do this in 30 seconds or less, it's pretty convenient. I have posted a small amateur video on my "channel" going through this process if anyone is curious.

The temperatures that I observed in GTA V were:

Liquid cooling OFF:
- GPU: 86°~ (capped at max temp allowed by NVIDIA)
- CPU: 86°~90°

Liquid cooling ON:
- GPU: 62°~
- CPU: 72°~82°

[cadventures]

One thing I'd like to see would be some sort of cooling dock where there near silent 120mm fans sucking the heat out of the laptop. If not just done as a cheap aftermarket add-on, it could probably work really well.

[geekehUK]

This has the beginnings of something potentially awesome. What needs to happen is instead of putting out a single substandard product compatible with a single laptop that will out dated in 6 weeks, if at all possible they should try and get a patent on the design for an integrated water loop with a hassle / leak free quick connect plug and socket combo. Also they should integrate a USB 3.1/3.2 link into the connector, it doesn't have to be a standard USB C connector on the back of the laptop, although for the sake of serviceability it's probably better terminating in a USB C on the cooling block side. This will allow for custom software to pass thermals to the cooler to regulate pump and fan speeds, (as well as all important RGB sync data) and also allows you to either do away with pass-thru laptop power design, as it can now draw its power from USB, or alternatively, you could have a second dedicated PSU for the cooler with enough headroom to be able to provide extra power to the laptop over USB C if the lower temps afford it the ability to boost-clock the CPU / GPU and if the laptop's primary charger isn't beefy enough to give it the extra juice required.
The point of all of this should be to design a standard and then license it out to laptop manufacturers, so that they can make a cooler or range of coolers and they'll all be plug n play compatible with any laptop using their design.
The way to make the big bucks is to own a tiny piece of intellectual property and get a handful of companies to adopt it as a 'standard' there's no need to be greedy, heck they could license the loop and connector design for laptops for free (at least for a few years) and just make their money on the coolers. Just imagine getting to the point where anything called a "gaming laptop" is almost guaranteed to have an Eluktronics Cooler Connector on the back, probably next to its Kensington lock mount. And where you'd be willing to spend $200 - $X000 on a fancy water cooler, or some ultra insane vapour chamber phase change cooling unit, because 1 it actually works and 2 it'll be compatible with my next laptop and the one after that as well.
People would welcome with open arms the ability to just bring your laptop over to the desk and plug a single connector in at the back, or even drop it into a dock and instantly you have desktop level cooling and power, and a built in powered USB hub for keyboard, mouse, ethernet, sound. Heck make it thunderbolt compatible and you could even include full port replication including display port or even an external GPU. Develop a standard and people will create implementations across the spectrum from one extreme to the other.

So yeah that's what I'd like to see. And if Eluktronics don't do it, then LTT should, design a leak-proof, snap-fit all in one connector for water/data/power, patent it, then licence it for peanuts, if possible make it genderless that way it's much cheaper to manufacturer twice as many of the same connector vs needing male and female versions.

[BoisterousBastards]

Linus: flips over the cooler and lets it hit the table
Also Linus: It sounds broken!

[pranavasaye]

I wish In the future there would be an universal standard that all gaming laptop follows so that they can all be plugged in to a water cooler like this, it would be dope asf

[LordHonkInc]

I think the "siphoning power off the laptop PSU" is a pretty solid solution (and one I often use for my Pi projects): The pump and fan draw, what, a handful watts max, so the PSU should more than have enough headroom, and I personally would much prefer to use as few transformers as possible (can't stand it when my speakers, USB hub, external drives etc all want their own separate wall wart just to get the same 12V DC in).

[yashjain_]

one of the great things is that you can change the flow direction, like you can prioritise cpu over gpu or vice versa

[Neoxon]

For a second, I thought this was gonna be another water-cooled laptop experiment. Also, I find it funny how LMG made a big deal about trying to move away from vlogs, yet the writers just threw one big one at Linus.

[HanifNGX]

Alex calling Eluktronics

Alex : The fan sounds funny
Eluktronics : did you guys drop it?
Alex : (hung up) 10:26 i just confirm it’s broken

[Dzone]

The little "SUP" over the external cooler when Linus said it was loud got me - y'all got them jokes Editors, y'all got them jokes.

[xalderin]

This would actually be pretty amazing, imo. Especially if they got it working even better, when it releases. ^_^ Would love to see a review with the Launch version, to see what all got improved and to see if the temps even got improved.

[mikearisbrocken]

"Don't open it yet"
[Linus opens it anyway]
"It's broken"
[Surprised Pikachu face]

[immDroidz]

This concept is absolutely brilliant, if it gets a few more months in the engineering room i could actually consider buying a gaming laptop for when I'm on the move. My biggest complaint with laptops has been the cooling, both because of the audio and the thermal throttling.