Adding a Second Heatsink to My Laptop (MateBook X Pro)
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2020
- Mod Guide: bradshacks.com/matebook-x-pro...
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I add a second fin stack heatsink with connected heat pipes to the MateBook X Pro, after relocating the WiFi antenna.
1mm heat pipes: www.ebay.com/itm/352806654294
WiFi antennas: amzn.to/3s55HO5
Solder paste: amzn.to/3g3PZRc 
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This is the most impressive technical RUclips video about laptop I've seen.
Before i watched the video i saw this comment and thought "it can't be that impressive"
It IS impressive
I'm a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer graduated in 2011 working daily with industrial machinery, and I'm not ashamed to admit you impressed the hell out of me. That copper routed fan cover/heatsink... one of the finest ideas I have seen, and the low temp solder, I did not know that it came in paste form, I take many ideas to play with my old MSI GT70 and my new Dell G3. A couple of my customers have laser CNC's, so I will for sure will follow your lead.
Subscribing, and thanks a lot for the video :)
Thank you Ernesto for your encouraging words!
Low temp solder is very common in plumbing
This is a rare but much appreciated technical deep dive into modding a laptop. Even if I cannot support the company, I think the principles you laid out in modding the laptop is something worth learning. Hope you could do more for other models or brands of problematic laptops in the future, which to be frank, there are quite a lot of.
Windows 10+ bricked more than I could keep up with featurea I didn't ask for. I miss XP.
My man, you are amazing and an inspiration, I hope Huawei sees this and hires you as their leader in laptops, you are truly incredible.
Thank you, your encouragement means a lot to me.
The thing is... Huawei could've easily added another heatsink but they didn't because it would lower their profit margin, after all, their ultimate goal is to make a lot of money
@@kiyoponnn I’m not a huge fan of huawei but, I don’t really think they did this for that purpose
@@mlgoverrated745 Please don't reply with bs. explain your bs or don't reply at all.
@@mlgoverrated745 wait..... you are a child, opinion rejected. Keep quiet and learn something before attempting to educate someone who knows more than you.
what the heck! This is AMAZING! Makes me remember the good old days where people still mod parts and fix components instead of replacing the whole blocks.
Consoomer market. Women ruined computing..
If i had any laptop manufacturing plant i WOULDVE HIRED THIS GUY IMMIDIATELY
You can tell that you've put so much effort into this great video. This video marks a whole new level of your channel! Keep it going!
You've sold me on this product just by providing the extensive knowledge you've recorded. These tests are more valuable than any spec sheet I've seen before. Like many others in the comments are saying. Improving designs as opposed to replacing them entirely is a very commendable effort. I'll be subscribing to this channel and look forward to your future work :)
After watching this,
my brain: man, we gotta do this!
my hands: nope, we are not.
Dude! Excellent presentation! I wish we could see more technical explanations and dedication to document those tests results as well as you did from other youtubers. Thank you for your hard work.
Dang man. I like doing mods and understanding why things are built the way they are, then enhancing it to your experience. This is pretty technical too so I will be sure to take some pointers from you
Crazy level mods! Thanks for the incredible content!
Magnificent work and good tutorial for some newcomers for engineering stuff.
Keep it up, man!
Wow man, this is the most intuitive and impressive videos on the platform! Thanks amd Keep it going
This is so dope, I wish more people would do this and share it like you have!
Im really inspressed by your work, instead of going after a ready aftermarket solution like a coolpad, you tryed something different and let us know about it.
The creativity here is really cool to see. Didnt see it before. Great content. Thank you
Damn dude this is an amazing video, mad respect for doing such extensive mods on an expensive laptop!
That's not a macbook!
@@saadhussain6514 correct!!!
Wow. Props on the cutout. Also, somebody get this guy a job at Huawei or Dell laptop division
Very under rated channel. Best tech info i seen about heat dynamics
You made the engineer in us happy. Superb job and video. Instantly a FAN!
That was fucking awesome. I saw your website a while back, but was afraid of losing warranty. It just ended so I'm about to have some fuun! Glad your guide is still up and many thanks for sharing!
Very high quality production, keep it up 👌🏻👌🏻
Wow man really went into incredible detail. Definitely won my sub. I'm currently working on a video as well for some upgrades to a laptop.
Great in-depth video, my friend. Much obliged.
This is a good technical information video about cooler system's for aptops and modding with thermal pipes.
Tks for tech your analsys about it.
Absolute madman. 10/10 would watch again
Amazing quality content, it's hard to find it in the DIY world.
Checked your mod guide article, and other mod videos. Just adding 2 pencil heat pipes made a big difference. Addressed the thermal throttling and overheating. But you went even further with other mods, and made a new cooler design in this video. My summary: OEM's cut corners very badly on both laptops and desktops. They pinch every penny, especially on cooling. They let out a bad build or design just to save $20-$40. I'd happily pay the difference for the performance gains, and quality of life. No computer can perform when it thermal throttles. A computer needs enough heatsink material to absorb the heat, then dissipate the heat. Such as CPU radiators, fans, and vents. The laptop form factor is more sensitive to thermal throttling. Your mods focused on adding more heat sinks material: heat pipes, copper plates, and and thermal pads. From what I read previously your temperature results were impressive. Wish you focused more on the before and after temps, and clock speed performance. I hope you sent the manufacturer this video as feedback. Good tutorial and project. 👍
Bro awesome content you seriously deserve more attention
Awesome demonstration; well laid out formatting of the challenges and data collection!
I've never soldiered heat pipes yet, but it's probably like soldier copper pipes while water is still dribbling through them. You just need more heat, or maybe add heat to the whole surface to get no thermal transferring.
I stumbled across your video because I was looking to extend a heat pipe in my A315-41G-R5U3 craptop that has a blank fan space. I struggle with thermal issues on this Ryzen 3 2200U system and wondered how simple it would be to extend the thermal pipe to cover two shrouds. Your video has helped and inspired me considerably to consider how to tackle the concept of extra cooling and higher benchmarking.
Thank you!
I was very impressed by this video. Thorough explenations
You taught me things and gave me ideas. Well done and thanks.
How come you only have 5k subs? I mean u clearly deserve more with the amount of information you're giving and you brother you are incredible keep up the good work and good luck thanks ^_^
Love this, subbed and I hope for more of this kind of content
This is by far the best job application I've ever seen.
Very clean mod, I'm impressed, infinitely better looking than when i added a 1070N MXM to my HP Zbook & a custom heatsink to the dvd drive bay to handle it to handle it
super bien la verdad gran video, es algo que se me habia ocurrido y no habia encontrado un tutorial tan detallado, muchas gracias.
that was insane, thanks so much for sharing!
This is some legendary stuff.
One of the most comprehensive mods I've seen by anyone in a long time! If I had heat pipes back in the 90's! The first time I added cooling capacity to a GPU was My Diamond Stealth II...Radio Shack and a handful of heatsinks, a small 12VDC fan and fortunately/unfortunately super glue! I got the card from 35 Mhz to 70 Mhz stable, it would artifact noticeably @ 72 Mhz. I absolutely shouldn't have used superglue, somehow it worked, never fried the card and I still have it!
very didactic and interesting you deserve so many more views
Awesome man now I know that you can solder heatpipes without them blowing up🙌
What an amazing job!
nice work man, cheers from brazil
wow. just wow. thanks for the video sir. really enjoy it
this video is very informative and your methods are intelligent
You earned a sub...
And deserve many more!
Dude this is sick, I don't have a mate X but I'm going to try and do this to my laptop
Aw man I tough I'm the only crazy about all this haha. I had made some really crazy cooling stuff in laptops but never did videos about. I'm still working on 2 rn.
Really amazing work my friend!
Would love to see your work!
insane content, dude
Thanks for posting the work you've done on this laptop. Now I know what I need to do to get my Matebook to cool better.
Great work!
Best video on youtube i've ever seen.
this my first video by u this was amazin❤
Really nice mod! Love it! The soldering part it's hard to do but i think it can be better for more performance with better tools maybe XD, you talked about airflow to cool down better the heatsinks too but the problem is different, like for example, putting the thin layer of copper on the fan to protect it, you could've put just graphite on top to shield it from the heat.
Instead like that you're taking cold air outside, it come through the chassis, cooling parts and taking heat, and last part the air comes on top of the thin layer of copper on the fan hole, taking more heat from that and pushing warmer air to cool down the heatpipes.
another big problem it's with the exit of the air like a bottleneck for airflow. but i repeat, nice job i really like it! :D i've made a few mods on customers laptop, ultrabook or gaming laptop to manage the channeling of air better to just take air from the outside cold and use it to cool down just the headpipes at the end, reducing the inside heat of many components.
Sometimes with HP or other stuff Asus too, had to cut a hole near the hole of the fan to take air directly and putting a filter beneath.
With this kind of thin laptop it's hard to mantain good temps, larger heatsinks can make magic sometimes, like a good thermal paste.
but i can see you've reduced by a good 10-12° the top on some cores. that's great.
very great work, i came arround here when i searched for Notebook improvments, and you made it like a whole new way. just increasing the power limit and adding new thermalpaste was to borring for you i guess? ^^ i will also try that with my notebook, thx for that ^^
super entertaining video!
You are doing a good job.
Great job!
4:38 holy shit you explained this a hell of a lot better than i have any time ive tried.
undervolting is also a huge help when it comes to changing these curves for the better, all without needing to modify cooling at all.
ive managed to greatly improve performance on my dell lattitude 7490 with its i5-8250u by both undervolting the hell out of the cpu, setting it to use 35 watts during PL1 and putting thermal pads on what i think are the vrms and along the heatpipe to touch with the bottom panel.
all of this means gained me an extra 1500 points in the cinebench r23 multicore test and made gaming on it much more bearable, it can now sit at 30 watts of power usage while gaming and occasionally spike higher when it needs to instead of sitting at 15 with low fps and lots of stuttering.
Good Job! Elegant solution) I actually had to mount large flat coper heatsink 15x7x1.5 with thermal pad (don't want void the warranty) directly to the heatsink (had to buy and make custom backplate for my 7790 50usd) the heatsink and the 2 blower fans sticks out 1.5 cm, but the laptop gained huge performance buff! 9750h max power now 80+watt it was 30+ max, and the 2060 clocking@1850 MHz! In games max temp is around 70c, in stability tests 92 max. I just hate when manufacturers limit performance with bad cooling and power limits!
This is just brilliant!!!
maduuuudeee ! long time no see .
This is so cool!
I've modded my own MateBook according to your guides, and I'm happy with the result!
I can do some heavy DS stuff like running clusters and some even heavier Robotics stuff like CAD and it just works!
Maybe you can try scavenging a curved heatpipe from a spare laptop's cooling system so that it will cover the finstack completely, and gently bend and come into the contact with main heat pipes
There are plenty of spare cooling systems on Amazon or eBay, you can definitely find one that fits your needs
This is not the 2020 version right?
@@provamaggio954 2018 i5/8gb
@@yuriysukhorukov391 you think these tutoriaps would work on the new one also?
@@provamaggio954 it's very dangerous to try these on your laptop, specially they are new ones.
Dude Smart as Hell! I wish I was like him
Cool stuff!
Good job mate )
This is soo good of a vidio. Apritiate your work.
amazing mod
Remind me to watch this again once I'm not afraid to damage my matebook.
What an awesome video
Wow this is an amazing video about laptop modding, i would love to mod my laptop.
thanx for good work
Hey Brad, awesome stuff, thanks for the upload! You inspired me to try modding my laptop as well. So far my possibilities to scan the fan case are limited. Do you still have the scan / trace available? I could really use it. Thank you!
vous êtes doué bravo félicitations pour votre Mod👍👍👍👍
I had an issue with my HP victus laptop with frequent fan ramps
I fixed it by adding some copper tape to improve thermal mass and conductivity to the finstack, it is running much cooler now and it doesn't ramp up nearly as frequently
Man, you rock!
Amazing video. One more thing that can help out is using liquid metal. In my laptop I changed the thermal paste, undervolted the CPU and I'm running 15 degrees Celsius cooler on the cpu, and 12 degrees cooler on the GPU. It is so much better that right now I can literally run it with the fans off if the load is relatively low. By doing this, and tuning the memory, u was able to beat the #1 spot and I currently hold the world record on Intel XTU for the 6700hq processor.
Thanks for the amazing ideas. I will try to add some more heat pipes to help lower the temp just a tiny bit more, and I'm also 3d printing an enclosure to replace the dvdrom with a big fan.
Is it possible to undervolt your processor? Can you change memory timings?
You are awesome buddy
Wow, this is exaclty the kind of videos I was always searching for. I wonder if such mods can be made with a XPS 13 9370 as the bottom cover is very tighty cnc machines and doesnt seem to leave room for heatsinks.
xps 9370 has it little heatsink
Wow! Go Bears! Whats your major?
Also, thanks for the video! Incredibly impressive. Your site has helped me debug a lot of different issues!
I'm in mechanical engineering. You are very welcome. You go to Berkeley too?
@@BradsHacks I am not, I am a senior at UC Santa Cruz. You've probably heard about all the protests going on here, so classes have been blocked by picket lines almost all quarter. I do know a lot of people at Cal though, including some Mech Engineers!
very interesting! thanks
understand now how the fan system (bad design) of the 2020 MacBook Air works...thx Brad Ling!
You should get a hold of the Dell xps 13 2-in-1 7390 and analyze it's cooling.
love this video
Very good work, impressive. Do you have any ideas for hp 15 da1000 series.
SCHWIFTY!!! ;-) nice mods bro
Good effort. I think it's the hot air that's being pulled by the fan which is really a bottleneck. Temperature difference is needed for heat transfer. Very interesting experiment.👍
Yeah, if we think of it as extracting 4 or 5 watts as a bonus from what was going to be waste heat, that's not too bad haha
From doing construction, i know this video is 3 years old now. Pickup a caulking scraper, that will help making the glue and liquid solder much cleaner when attaching and detailing edges and scrapes off any excess uniformly.
Also, this is an awesome video and gives me a few ideas to readjust some issues i been having with a couple of GPUs. Looking at how the heatpipes were designed and layout of the entire heatsink, i think temps would have benefited layering one stack 1x4 copperheatpipes of the same length for the longer pipes, and 1x3 stack of short length copper shims to make bridging contact from pipe to the copper shroud. That would help with spacing and coverage. Yeah, that heatsink design is not very good. Heatsinks like that i have normally seen 2 fan arrays on the opposite sides of the laptop and plus that fan is way too small to try to push heat from that kind of length of heatpipe.
I have a dell optiplex 7480 that has the worst design flaw i have seen where the screen latch covers the vents for the CPU and only has a few millimeters of room to blow air through. There is no way of modifying the vent but i do plan on getting back in there to place some thin shims on the heatpipes and one on the Cpu to get the temps down
bro, love ur projects. It will be great if you can improve Apple Macbook heating problems.
Hi Brad. I have ordered everything on your shopping list for the MXB 2018 upgrades.. Except graphite sheets, I can't find them anywhere either. Any recommendations? Thanks for your great work brother.
Have you checked out any Framework laptops? Would be interested to see how you would go about improving their cooling design
It's hard to tell from the video but it seems like some of the solder paste flowed under the bridge heatpipes to where the big heatsink plate is (last solder, 15:17). If the gap is filled and making contact with the plate then that could limit the thermal performance.
I require only these types of hacks from ur Channel
never give a mechanical engineer free reign over a workshop lmao
Hey Brad! Its been a few years since you published this video, and a few days since i discovered your RUclips channel! What you did is super impressive and as someone who mods laptops personally, I love what you've done! Is this still your daily driver? How is it doing? Have you considered lapping the heatsink contact plate?
Thanks! I passed this 2019 MateBook X Pro to my dad, and he still uses it. I put liquid metal on it, but no other mods since then. I've switched between 10+ laptops since 2019 and am currently using a 2024 MateBook X Pro.
@@BradsHacks Neato! Have you gone inside yet? How's the thermals in the new machine? Planning on doing any mods to it? I'd love to hear about your future exploits!
I think laminar flow isn't an issue since this 'air chamber' is so thin, so the heat exchange should be sufficient. Instead of the fins, have you thought about guiding the airflow for a better heat exchange? For example, the air comes in through the right speaker hole didn't cover much of the plate area, and this is the shortest distance(might also be the lowest drag) path for air. Will blocking/half-blocking this hole, or add a divider between right half of the mb and battery improve thermal performance? By doing this, less air is going through this hole/ air go through this hole is guided to travel through a larger plate area.
Sorry to comment late but -- regarding the fin stack not being directly covered by heat pipes, do you imagine this would have been solved by soldering yet a third heat pipe diagonally from the original heat sink to them? (even without a soldered connection with your improved copper fan cover)
Nice job man, but undetvolting? Can you do a tutorial on throttlestop indervolting?