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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