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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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