I watched the other videos about upgrading that you mentioned.. they were good but yours seemed easier to understand if you're a person who hasn't done before and is interested in trying to do their own upgrading (like me!) I appreciate your explanations. I just ordered an XPS 15 and went into it with the understanding that I will be able to upgrade certain components in the future. Thanks very much!!
Here I am in 2024 watching this video to upgrade my xps15 9570 I bought 5 years ago, I plan on using it another 3 years, I upgraded to windows 11 and dual boot to Linux, i agree the WiFi it come with sucks fortunately i use it mainly over LAN. I'll re do the thermal paste, upgrade the ssd to 1TB and change the WiFi card. Thanks for the video, it helps me a lot.
i totally agree with you i own 9570, really i m happy with the purchase 2 yrs back, future ready laptop always helps to save your money in few years, i spend extra on buying 4k screen model, at this time i have ipad 2021 M1 still the dell xps is beast real life.
Totally agree Paul. I have this same laptop and configuration. I’ve had it for a while. Works great for Captivate as well as many other programs. And I’m someone that tends to have multiple programs open at the same time as Captivate as well as VMs and I have no issues at all. I did upgrade my RAM and SSD at purchase. Looks like I could have saved some $$$ which I’ll keep in mine next time.
Yeah, upgrades from the manufacturer are usually a little inflated. It would have not only cost me more to get these upgrades from Dell, the SSD wouldn't be as fast. I've actually since upgraded it again to the 2TB version of the same drive. The next upgrade for me will be a new machine.
I have a 2+ year old 9560 I'm finally getting around to upgrading because some keyboard keys died on me, once I ordered the t5 and kb I started looking around and upgrading to a faster 1tb + memorry + wifi is substantially cheaper than it was when I first got this thing. Then figured since I have to pull the motherboard out anyway might as well repaste it. While I'm totally comfortable doing this this was still a good video, been binge watching upgrade and repair videos to get myself worked up to do this since I'm not really looking forward to it, but at least pulling this apart isn't nearly as much of a pain as my razer blade is.
I always get that nervous feeling like I'm about to make a mistake that will cost me my two thousand dollar investment. In this case it was super easy and I would be comfortable doing this process again. I'm into tech but I'm not a technician.
@@CaptivateTeacher I've been working on hardware for almost 20 years now and I've been HP and Dell certified in the past. Laptops are just more annoying to work on by nature, though dell and older Lenovo/IBM laptops are generally much less of a pain than a lot of other brands I've worked on. I'm still very happy with this laptop even though it's 2 (3?) generations old at this point, didn't think i'd care that much about the 4k screen when I got it but I've come to love it even though I don't use the touch option pretty much at all.
@@nadtz I looked at some additional options when I was shopping for this laptop a year ago. I realized that touch wasn't going to be valuable and 4K wasn't a huge benefit for me either.
@@CaptivateTeacher I only got the 4k screen because I got great deal on a refurb unit. At the time the 4k model new was still around $2k I think, I got mine for $1400 which was actually less than a 1080 unit new. Also got the 512 SSD which I got lucky and they gave me at the time one of the better SSD's Dell was using. The fact that I'm still very happy with this laptop 2 years later says a lot, I usually swap laptops every year but I've been happy enough with this unit that I'd rather fix it and upgrade it than replace it.
@@CaptivateTeacher seriously? From 2,600 mbs to 3500mbs read? That read is already so quick. I agree the write difference is incredible -- 5x -- but given that it's already so fast, in what actual situations did you find it was much faster?? In what circumstances are you able to benefit from that additional speed-up? (I have this machine and am strongly considering the upgrade, but don't want to drop 500 bucks if I don't have to)
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Great video :) I actually didn`t unplug the battery on one occasion, i think it was when i took out the ram to take a photo of the label on it. but the next time i unplugged it when i changed the wifi card, or maybe it was the other way round... Laptop is working great, just as good as it was prior to me even opening the back of it. Maybe it was just luck that the battery was still plugged in while i was `fiddling around` with the hardware...I`ll be more mindful nex`t time. Ive built all my own computers (all desktop machines) since 2004, so maybe i was just lazy when i saw the plug on the battery was awkward to pull out and i thought maybe it will be ok, so i left it plugged in. Im actually going to put new thermal paste on both chips as this is a used 9570 that i bought a week ago, so its a good time to do some maintenance with it :)
Awesome video! I noticed the ssd had a thermal pad but it did not have a heatsink. Is it bad to use a thermal pad on the ssd without a heatsink? I am getting a xps 15 9500 and wanted to know if I should get thermal pad + a thin copper heatsink for the second ssd (it has two ssd slots). And in that case do I need to put a thermal pad on the ssd then the heatsink and then another thermal pad on top of the heatsink?
My version of the Dell XPS 15 came with just the thermal pad for the SSD. My guess is the thermal pad, which came into contact with the bottom shell of the case, was enough to dissipate the heat. When I run Samsung SSD software it reports the temperature. It always seems low to me. Of course the new XPS might be different. You should definitely do some research this.
how much can you actually tell the SSD speed difference in day to day usage? i'd have guessed the law of diminishing returns would very much apply here.
I think for most day to day activities like working with office documents or web surfing won't show the differences, however part of my work is video editing and rendering of those videos. The before and after experience is very satisfying.
Sorry, I don't recall. I think I purchased a pack of different sizes and selected one by eyeballing it against the original thermal pads that were on the SSD.
Great video, Paul. I’m thinking about buying this laptop for our video editing needs. I’m very new to laptops and upgrades, so this might be a simple question, but is it necessary to change the thermal paste when upgrading the RAM and memory card? I read other comments and I see that there was a noticeable temperature difference experienced.
No. It's not required. In fact changing the thermal paste is probably the most risky parts of this procedure. You could accidentally put not enough paste on your CPU and GPU. You could also accidentally bend the thermal pipes when removing them. That said, my logic was that I don't want to be opening up my computer too often so why not repaste while I had it open. Hope that helps.
Hi Paul, I have a dell XPS 7590 and I’m looking to upgrade the ram. It currently has 16 gb of DDR4. Can I upgrade to 64 (2 x 32) of am I limited to 32 gb? Also, when upgrading the ssd, how can I retain in windows license? Thanks!
Awesome video. Any test before/after on the temperature of the cpu/gpu under load? I'll upgrade my ram and am wondering if it's useful to apply some better thermal paste I have around.
This isn't scientific but there is a noticeable difference. Under a stress test I was getting pretty consistently the high 90 degrees Celsius. after applying new thermal paste and undervolting I'm getting low 80s under the same stress test.
I just upgraded and use thermal grizzly its really good, dropped about 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit . I also upgraded to intel’s ax 200 wifi 6 card, i jumped from 100-200 mbps to 400+ mbps Btw i have a 1gig speed . Or u can upgrade to killer 1650 if u don’t wanna go through installing the intel drivers. Make sure update everything before doing all the mods. Such as dell update and ur windows update
My guess is that you can but please check to be sure. When someone asks me to upgrade their PC, I usually go to a website like www.crucial.com/ and select Scan My Computer to be sure you select the right parts (even if those parts don’t come from Crucial).
I am looking for used dell exs15 9570. But the seller said " it's up to i9 because of a few installations added that's why but it's the same features just has a swifter browser and a few new games. " So i confused and hesitate to buy
The GPU is hard-wired into the motherboard so I don't think so. Maybe there is an external GPU that can be added to this laptop but I'm not sure. For my graphic purposes this machine does fine.
A lot depends on when you're reading this but based on this article I think you would find the right RAM for your system. www.techradar.com/news/best-ram
Check with Dell to make sure but I don't see why not. Of course I make no guarantees like I said in the video. Anything you do to your computer is at your own risk.
Great video! The best one I could find to help me upgrate my laptop.
You're welcome Tucker The Dog, and thanks for watching.
I watched the other videos about upgrading that you mentioned.. they were good but yours seemed easier to understand if you're a person who hasn't done before and is interested in trying to do their own upgrading (like me!) I appreciate your explanations. I just ordered an XPS 15 and went into it with the understanding that I will be able to upgrade certain components in the future. Thanks very much!!
You're most welcome and thanks for watching.
Here I am in 2024 watching this video to upgrade my xps15 9570 I bought 5 years ago, I plan on using it another 3 years, I upgraded to windows 11 and dual boot to Linux, i agree the WiFi it come with sucks fortunately i use it mainly over LAN. I'll re do the thermal paste, upgrade the ssd to 1TB and change the WiFi card. Thanks for the video, it helps me a lot.
You're welcome and thanks for watching.
i totally agree with you i own 9570, really i m happy with the purchase 2 yrs back, future ready laptop always helps to save your money in few years, i spend extra on buying 4k screen model, at this time i have ipad 2021 M1 still the dell xps is beast real life.
Still using this laptop today. I upgraded the SSD again to a 2GB version of the same.
Totally agree Paul. I have this same laptop and configuration. I’ve had it for a while. Works great for Captivate as well as many other programs. And I’m someone that tends to have multiple programs open at the same time as Captivate as well as VMs and I have no issues at all. I did upgrade my RAM and SSD at purchase. Looks like I could have saved some $$$ which I’ll keep in mine next time.
Yeah, upgrades from the manufacturer are usually a little inflated. It would have not only cost me more to get these upgrades from Dell, the SSD wouldn't be as fast. I've actually since upgraded it again to the 2TB version of the same drive. The next upgrade for me will be a new machine.
I have a 2+ year old 9560 I'm finally getting around to upgrading because some keyboard keys died on me, once I ordered the t5 and kb I started looking around and upgrading to a faster 1tb + memorry + wifi is substantially cheaper than it was when I first got this thing. Then figured since I have to pull the motherboard out anyway might as well repaste it. While I'm totally comfortable doing this this was still a good video, been binge watching upgrade and repair videos to get myself worked up to do this since I'm not really looking forward to it, but at least pulling this apart isn't nearly as much of a pain as my razer blade is.
I always get that nervous feeling like I'm about to make a mistake that will cost me my two thousand dollar investment. In this case it was super easy and I would be comfortable doing this process again. I'm into tech but I'm not a technician.
@@CaptivateTeacher I've been working on hardware for almost 20 years now and I've been HP and Dell certified in the past. Laptops are just more annoying to work on by nature, though dell and older Lenovo/IBM laptops are generally much less of a pain than a lot of other brands I've worked on. I'm still very happy with this laptop even though it's 2 (3?) generations old at this point, didn't think i'd care that much about the 4k screen when I got it but I've come to love it even though I don't use the touch option pretty much at all.
@@nadtz I looked at some additional options when I was shopping for this laptop a year ago. I realized that touch wasn't going to be valuable and 4K wasn't a huge benefit for me either.
@@CaptivateTeacher I only got the 4k screen because I got great deal on a refurb unit. At the time the 4k model new was still around $2k I think, I got mine for $1400 which was actually less than a 1080 unit new. Also got the 512 SSD which I got lucky and they gave me at the time one of the better SSD's Dell was using. The fact that I'm still very happy with this laptop 2 years later says a lot, I usually swap laptops every year but I've been happy enough with this unit that I'd rather fix it and upgrade it than replace it.
@@nadtz Thanks for sharing and of course thanks for watching.
I upgraded my 5 year old xps 15 9550 to this exact SSD. The speed difference is absolutely incredible.
Yeah it was very noticeable for me as well.
@@CaptivateTeacher seriously? From 2,600 mbs to 3500mbs read? That read is already so quick. I agree the write difference is incredible -- 5x -- but given that it's already so fast, in what actual situations did you find it was much faster?? In what circumstances are you able to benefit from that additional speed-up? (I have this machine and am strongly considering the upgrade, but don't want to drop 500 bucks if I don't have to)
Thanks for all the useful information
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Great video :) I actually didn`t unplug the battery on one occasion, i think it was when i took out the ram to take a photo of the label on it. but the next time i unplugged it when i changed the wifi card, or maybe it was the other way round... Laptop is working great, just as good as it was prior to me even opening the back of it. Maybe it was just luck that the battery was still plugged in while i was `fiddling around` with the hardware...I`ll be more mindful nex`t time. Ive built all my own computers (all desktop machines) since 2004, so maybe i was just lazy when i saw the plug on the battery was awkward to pull out and i thought maybe it will be ok, so i left it plugged in. Im actually going to put new thermal paste on both chips as this is a used 9570 that i bought a week ago, so its a good time to do some maintenance with it :)
Removing the battery is good precaution but you'll probably be fine.
"Again" lol. Great video man.
Thanks
Awesome video! I noticed the ssd had a thermal pad but it did not have a heatsink. Is it bad to use a thermal pad on the ssd without a heatsink? I am getting a xps 15 9500 and wanted to know if I should get thermal pad + a thin copper heatsink for the second ssd (it has two ssd slots). And in that case do I need to put a thermal pad on the ssd then the heatsink and then another thermal pad on top of the heatsink?
My version of the Dell XPS 15 came with just the thermal pad for the SSD. My guess is the thermal pad, which came into contact with the bottom shell of the case, was enough to dissipate the heat. When I run Samsung SSD software it reports the temperature. It always seems low to me. Of course the new XPS might be different. You should definitely do some research this.
how much can you actually tell the SSD speed difference in day to day usage? i'd have guessed the law of diminishing returns would very much apply here.
I think for most day to day activities like working with office documents or web surfing won't show the differences, however part of my work is video editing and rendering of those videos. The before and after experience is very satisfying.
Are you able to upgrade the graphics card?
No. the NVIDIA video card is part of the motherboard.
Nice informative video. What size of heat pad did you get for this XPS?
Sorry, I don't recall. I think I purchased a pack of different sizes and selected one by eyeballing it against the original thermal pads that were on the SSD.
Hi
How about upgrading the GPU, is it possible?
+Motoform prototyping it’s soldered to the main board so it’s not something you could do.
Great video, Paul. I’m thinking about buying this laptop for our video editing needs. I’m very new to laptops and upgrades, so this might be a simple question, but is it necessary to change the thermal paste when upgrading the RAM and memory card? I read other comments and I see that there was a noticeable temperature difference experienced.
No. It's not required. In fact changing the thermal paste is probably the most risky parts of this procedure. You could accidentally put not enough paste on your CPU and GPU. You could also accidentally bend the thermal pipes when removing them. That said, my logic was that I don't want to be opening up my computer too often so why not repaste while I had it open. Hope that helps.
That does help. Thank you!
SamusIroc you’re welcome.
Hi Paul, I have a dell XPS 7590 and I’m looking to upgrade the ram. It currently has 16 gb of DDR4. Can I upgrade to 64 (2 x 32) of am I limited to 32 gb? Also, when upgrading the ssd, how can I retain in windows license?
Thanks!
I would check with Dell to be certain. I am only aware of the 9570.
Awesome video. Any test before/after on the temperature of the cpu/gpu under load? I'll upgrade my ram and am wondering if it's useful to apply some better thermal paste I have around.
This isn't scientific but there is a noticeable difference. Under a stress test I was getting pretty consistently the high 90 degrees Celsius. after applying new thermal paste and undervolting I'm getting low 80s under the same stress test.
I just upgraded and use thermal grizzly its really good, dropped about 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit . I also upgraded to intel’s ax 200 wifi 6 card, i jumped from 100-200 mbps to 400+ mbps Btw i have a 1gig speed . Or u can upgrade to killer 1650 if u don’t wanna go through installing the intel drivers. Make sure update everything before doing all the mods. Such as dell update and ur windows update
@@tenzinchoklang4525 Good information and advice.
I wanted to ask, since I didn't see it in the video, how did you backup or restore your windows set-up? Through a removable boot drive?
Yes.
I just bought the same laptop plan on applying paste - how’s it after a year?
It's been running well
Hi, please inform how thick the thermal pads you used were ? Tnank you.
2mm
@@CaptivateTeacher Thank you, though i need to say that might were too thick, Iam planning to use 1 mm for the same task. Or maybe 1.5 the most ?
It's important that the pad for the SSD makes contact with the outer case to assist with heat dissipation.
@@CaptivateTeacher I agree with you for the ssd. My reference is for the chips under the heat sink. Any thoughts and help are wellcome.
@@dimosthenismagos7982 I had some 1.5mm pads I cut up and used for that.
Do the labels of the RAM need to face down because I saw an other video (The Tech Chap) where he said to put them face up. Help pls
There is a notch that will only allow it to snap in on this case the one way. For the memory I purchase they showed up facing down.
Can I use the same setup (parts) for my xps 7590
My guess is that you can but please check to be sure. When someone asks me to upgrade their PC, I usually go to a website like www.crucial.com/ and select Scan My Computer to be sure you select the right parts (even if those parts don’t come from Crucial).
@@CaptivateTeacher thank you so much!
Kristy Lau you’re welcome
Is it possible to upgrade cpu i7 gen8th to i9gen8th?
No. Laptops have processors and GPUs soldered directly on the motherboard.
I am looking for used dell exs15 9570. But the seller said " it's up to i9 because of a few installations added that's why but it's the same features just has a swifter browser and a few new games. "
So i confused and hesitate to buy
the Dell XPS 9570 was available in several configurations. It probably was likely an i9 processor to begin with.
can you replace the gpu with gtx1070m?
The GPU is hard-wired into the motherboard so I don't think so. Maybe there is an external GPU that can be added to this laptop but I'm not sure. For my graphic purposes this machine does fine.
which company's RAM is fastest in terms of performance?
A lot depends on when you're reading this but based on this article I think you would find the right RAM for your system. www.techradar.com/news/best-ram
I want to change my i5 to i7😝
This is not an upgrade that is available, unless you want to change the entire mainboard. It would be cheaper to buy a new laptop.
Can we 2tb ssd in it ?
Check with Dell to make sure but I don't see why not. Of course I make no guarantees like I said in the video. Anything you do to your computer is at your own risk.