How To Upgrade Your Gaming Laptop - The ULTIMATE Guide!

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This is the ULTIMATE guide to upgrading your gaming laptop!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Upgrade Your Gaming Laptop!
0:18 1. Warranty - Do Upgrades Void Warranty?
0:56 2. How To Open Your Gaming Laptop
1:15 2.1 Watch Out For This Annoying Stuff
1:35 2.2 Important - Track Your Screws!
1:49 2.3 Which Screwdriver Bits You Need
2:17 2.4 Using Pry Tools to Open Laptop
2:38 2.5 More Silly Stuff to be Aware of…
3:03 2.6 Putting Laptop Back Together
3:07 2.7 Laptop Not Powering on After Opening?
3:15 3. Identifying Internal Components
3:22 4. Battery - You MUST Do This Before Other Upgrades
3:45 4.1 How to Unplug Battery
4:05 4.2 Can You Upgrade Your Battery?
4:57 4.3 How to Upgrade Battery
5:07 4.4 Battery Upgrade Results
5:19 4.5 Swap Degraded Battery for New Battery
5:33 4.6 How to Identify Battery Model & Buy New
5:43 4.7 Removable Batteries
6:05 5. Storage Upgrades
6:15 5.1 M.2 Slots - How Many do you Have?
6:51 5.2 M.2 Drive Sizes
7:12 5.3 Make Sure Bigger Drives Fit Your Laptop!
8:20 5.4 SSD Coolers
8:36 5.5 PCIe or SATA for M.2 SSD?
9:06 5.6 M.2 Socket Key Differences
9:55 5.7 SATA/PCIe Gen 3, 4 & 5 Speed Differences
10:27 5.8 Can You Upgrade the PCIe Version?
10:46 5.9 Gen 4 Doesn’t Always = Faster Than Gen 3
11:09 5.10 Backwards Compatibility
11:27 5.11 Everything to Consider When Picking a New SSD
11:59 5.12 How Much Disk Space to Choose?
12:30 5.13 How to Install M.2 SSD
13:10 5.14 Clone Existing OS, or Reinstall Fresh?
13:32 5.15 Important - Beware of Automatic Bitlocker Encryption!
15:00 5.16 2.5” Drives, SSD or HDD?
15:32 5.17 How to Install 2.5” Drive
15:45 6. Memory (RAM) Upgrades
15:47 6.1 How Many RAM Sticks Does Your Laptop Support?
16:18 6.2 How Much RAM Capacity is Enough?
18:04 6.3 DDR4 or DDR5 Memory?
19:17 6.4 Memory Speed Depends on Your Processor
20:30 6.5 Important - Why to Use 2 memory Sticks
21:11 6.6 Memory Banks, Ranks & Timings
21:57 6.7 Why Choosing RAM is Hard
22:20 6.8 Everything to Consider When Picking New RAM
22:38 6.9 Ideally Use Same Memory Stick Capacity
23:07 6.10 How to Change RAM Sticks
23:33 7. Wi-Fi & Ethernet Upgrades
23:49 7.1 Fast Wi-Fi is Relatively Cheap
23:58 7.2 How to Check Current Wi-Fi Version
24:09 7.3 Which Wi-Fi Version to Upgrade to?
24:47 7.4 Wi-Fi Card in its Natural Habitat
24:56 7.5 Which Wi-Fi Card Types Fit in Your Laptop? Understanding M.2 Keys
25:47 7.6 Watch Out For Intel’s Proprietary CNVio!
26:52 7.7 Why AMD Laptops Don’t Use Intel Wi-Fi, But you can Upgrade to it
27:25 7.8 Wi-Fi Speed Differences - Why Intel is Recommended
27:52 7.9 Best Wi-Fi Card for Most People?
28:11 7.10 Windows 10 Users Need More Work for Wi-Fi 6E
28:21 7.11 Limited Wi-Fi 7 Options (For Now)
28:39 7.12 How to Change Wi-Fi Card
29:00 7.13 Install New Drivers - Download a Copy Before Upgrade
29:53 7.14 Soldered Wi-Fi? Try This
30:28 7.15 Ethernet Upgrade?
30:41 8. Cooling Upgrades - Why Heat = Bad
31:03 8.1 Why Most Laptop Thermal Paste is Bad
31:42 8.2 How Often to Change Paste?
32:31 8.3 Important - Liquid Metal - Watch Out!
33:45 8.4 Which Thermal Paste to Use?
34:08 8.5 How to Remove Cooler
34:36 8.6 Cleaning Off Old Paste Residue
35:07 8.7 Applying New Thermal Paste
35:31 8.8 Jarrod Rants at Years of Thermal Paste Comments
36:02 8.9 Honeywell PTM 7950 Application
36:08 8.10 Thicker VRM Paste, I Replace With Thermal Pads
36:21 8.11 Putting Cooler Back
36:40 8.12 Temperature Differences
37:01 8.13 Cooling Pads & Stands - An Easier Alternative
37:40 8.14 Liquid Cooling Upgrades 💦
38:06 9. Screen Upgrades
39:30 9.1 A Better Alternative
39:55 10. CPU & GPU Upgrades
40:05 10.1 Why Most Laptops Don’t Support This Upgrade
40:44 10.2 Laptops With Upgradeable CPU or GPU, & Why They Aren’t Great
41:18 10.3 Is This The Future of Upgradeable Laptop CPUs & GPUs?
41:36 10.4 Secret Stuff Coming Soon…
41:53 10.5 Thunderbolt External Graphics (eGPU) “Upgrade”?
42:42 10.6 Thunderbolt 5 Might Change Things Soon
43:04 Make Your Upgraded Laptop Last Longer

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[ancaagn]

Step 1: make sure to buy a laptop that isn’t soldered on like a macbook

[ahgflyguy]

2:55 “it’s a crap design”. Jarrod unfiltered is the only Jarrod for me.

[michaellim]

Just to share, I reapply thermal paste for you and cpu on 2022 Asus rog zephyrus 16 with ptm7950 and the changes was day and night. Liquid Metal on cpu was oxidised and thermal paste on gpu was dried out after 1.5 years of use. After replacing with ptm, I got more than 15 degree diff on gpu and similar cpu temp as Liquid Metal. Ptm for the win as it’s very good in thermal performance and easy to apply!

[aditya-ukxw]

The 2020 legion 5 upgrade video nostalgia hitting hard

[Kitminigun]

1:35 i lost more screws than i could even imagine

[unionofslavstanrepublics]

Just *slightly* longer than your previous upgrade guides but I'm not complaining!

23:36 lol 😂

[funkyfresh]

Thank you so much for this video. I have ASUS TUF A15 for my first ever gaming laptop. I used your recommendations and tips to boost my ram and add an extra ssd. It was flawless.

[onlylemons]

Can you make a guide for cleaning laptop fans?

[salihamouhoub]

Thank you, you didn't say anything useful about changing the processor

[Ocelot]

There is a channel called “The Gizmo Pro” that is using your graphs to talk about the Razer blade 18. I don’t know if he gave you proper credit so just giving you the heads up.

[willwunsche]

Those stickers are illegal I believe it's just it's too time consuming to report them/most people don't know how or where to report them myself included

[claudelmccauley]

Never put a long screw into a short hole or a short screw into a long hole 😅😅😅

[Legitti]

How can some laptops like last year Legion 7 pros list that it supports up to 6000mhz ram when i9 processor inside supports only up to 5600mhz?

[mr.normalguy]

Really glad you made this video. It'll come in handy in the future.

[everyone]

Everytime I open a laptop, I end up downgrading it with atleast 2-3 screws

[HeyHarfy]

Jarrod, if i replace the SSD, which has the OS installed in it, from one slot to another of the same Motherboard (PC or Laptop), will we have to reinstall the OS and other programs all again?? And also what about the Data in it??

[pasunurusaivineeth]

Recently bought IdeaPad Pro 5 which has 16gb soldered ram. Wanted 32gb but could not compromise on other specs for it. Is it possible to unsolder down the line?

[FrostyLucas]

Legendary video aside, that t-shirt is kinda 🔥

[denverag]

Used to be you chose between and SSD and HDD for your 2.5 inch bay because one offered speed, the other offered space. Now that HDDs in 7mm form factor top out at around 2TB, but SSDs can go up to 8, and even 16TB, the only time i would put an HDD in a laptop is if it is meant as a file server or something, because laptops are meant to be moved around, hard drives are not, and with a 2TB SSD costing around $100 for a mid range, there is no reason to go for a $70 HDD, the SSD will almost certainly last longer, and probably end up costing you less in power in the long run.

[Punam]

Can you make a detailed video on ryzen 8000 series...you haven't unboxed any....I really want to see performance of ryzen 7 8840hs of lenevo loq