MSI GS65 Laptop Teardown and Liquid Metal Mod - 20C Lower

[@Rick-dq2rw]

Wonderful video, I did the same and now under the stress test, I got nearly 20 degrees down as well. There is no throttle at all under AIDA64 FPU test for 10 minutes!!! Cinebench from 989 to 1116

[@Lolmontaz]

Hi, was just wondering if that result was with the auto fan setting or if you had to turn on cooler boost

[@sigi_9153]

I did it aswell, better cooling overhaul specially fan noisy reduction

[@UpgradeJunkie]

That was my main reason for doing this mod. I hate loud fans and now I can keep them between 40-50 percent and not throttle much or at all.

[@oterord]

Hey Rick can you help me? I already repaste with liquid metal and undervolt the proccesor with -0.150V (with XTU), but I couldnt decrease the temps of the processor when Im gaming, always hit the 90°C and always have thermal throttling… So I dont know what to do... Please give me a tip!!

[@oterord]

Even when Im not gaming...

[@iDATUS]

I am still amazed that manufactures put a lot of time in the design of these laptops but still don't thermal past correctly or as you shown us the liquid metal. its like having a fast car and using low grade fuel.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

I agree, but I also think the difficulty of doing liquid metal on a massive scale is not worth the cost and the quality control issues would be enormous.

[@iDATUS]

Agree on the metal option but just using a top grade normal paste done properly eg. pea size drop would be brilliant.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

I agree they used a metric ton on the CPU of this system I believe and most likely just not good quality.

[@SnailPacedDev]

Does the liquid metal slowly meld with the heat sink in this laptop? What is an approximate amount of time before the liquid metal would have to be replaced?

[@UpgradeJunkie]

I believe the liquid metal has a long lifespan it does not "dry" out seeing as there is nothing that will really evaporate at those temperatures. I have heard it can slightly etch the top of the die removing the shine on the top of the dies. Honestly thought people have not been using the liquid metal for a long enough time to see extended long term issues. Just never use it with aluminium it will max it corrode and flake almost instantly.

[@keatonramey2274]

Feels like defusing a bomb lol

[@UpgradeJunkie]

Feels more like going “all in” in a high stakes poker game to me.

[@oscarshen6855]

Thanks to Msi's stupid inverted motherboard. It looks like Msi really don't want anyone to mass around with the inside, but they at least put the extra M.2 slot on the out side.

[@DavidTzic]

For real's lol

[@niko1even]

Oscar Shen The only thing that is upgradeable on the underside is the RAM, most people just buy the laptop with the amount of ram that they’ll use. I’ve done a repasting on the GS75 (the GS66’s bigger brother) and it really isn’t that bad. It is nowhere near as bad as the Alienware M17 R2, that one was bad.

[@denniscasius6574]

@@oscarshen6855 2 years later so I don't know if you'll see this, but where is the M.2 slot? i want to upgrade my SSD but this is the first laptop I've ever opened up so I don't know what's what.

[@veltruski]

To all of you who did this liquid metal mod... Gallium reacts with copper as well, it doesn't destroy it's molecular bonds like it does to aluminium, but it does get soaked up by copper. Remember this! At one point your temp curve will start to go up, dramatically so. That's when you need to apply more liquid metal. You'll see that the copper sink is gray now and that it cannot be cleaned, that's the soaked up gallium. Don't worry about it, just add more and repeat if necessary. Just because things like these happen to all thin and powerful laptops, I'm buying a Helios 500. To me it's ugly as sin, but what can I do? It works, and it's probably the only one on the market now that actually works. I'll probably do the same mod as well, just to keep it even cooler and quieter. It can be ugly, at least it'll be quiet! :) BTW I bought an ASUS GL504GM i7 8750 / 1060 6Gb, and returned it 4 days later because it was useless. It throttled the CPU core down to 800MHz, and GPU got power throttled as well. Too bad, it looked OK.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

Thank you for your comment. I am sure it will help others immensely.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

Undervolting has worked great for me as well.

[@FrankOnline007]

@@UpgradeJunkie how much of an undervolt did you get?

[@D4nNy777]

How do you like the Helios 500?? Is it good?

[@joshballard3991]

How long would you get from the liquid metal before its all soaked up by the copper? Wondering if this tradeoff is worth it or if I should go with kryonaut instead. Also have a msi ms65.

[@USCsteveO]

Excellent video and explanation. I had to do this twice. (TLDR) The thin layer isn't enough in the GS65. Leave the thinnest pool possible as the heatsink doesn't press the two die that you're trying to take heat from. After a week of high temps, I did this process a second time and improved my temps as is stated in the video. Explanation: I found that you appear to use the provided q-tip off screen to get a thin film of LM on it before applying to the die. That thin film wasn't enough for me. Running Handbrake to convert a single mkv to mp4 immediately sent the temps to 90C and throttled. This happened 100% of the time where the PC was using the proc 60% at 4ghz. After applying / leaving more of an ever so slightly pooled amount on both die, my temps topped at 85C but averaged 77C @ 3.2Ghz instead of running at 2.6Ghz at 88C. The rationale is that the heatsink doesn't press onto the die like you'd have with a desktop cooler (which you should de-lid the processor and apply LM between the chip and die cover then apply regular thermal paste between the proc and heatsink). Thus, you should definitely protect the aluminum parts of the chip with silicon or regular clear nail polish to ensure anything seeping and spreading over the course of time doesn't cause a short in the motherboard.

[@MrRituj]

Hey, it's been 11 12 months since you applied LM, have you noticed any increase in temperatures or any other abnormality yet? I have a gs65 and am contemplating between Kryonaut and Conductonaut.

[@Gamers4511]

DC The Eyepoke Champ update on the msi?

[@soapa4279]

@DC The Eyepoke Champ Yeah LM is great but wow i'd be super paranoid to move the laptop around. I use my GS65 and carry with me around a lot. Up and down the stairs, in a backpack, etc.

[@LMBC6Brian]

@@soapa4279 You can always just repaste and not do LM. That will still net you some good lowering of temps.

[@wowpsgaming]

@@LMBC6Brian repasting doesn't do shit for with kryonaut

[@dansmith6990]

@@wowpsgaming I've seen you comment this a couple times now and it leads me to believe you don't know what you're talking about.

[@bobwassell]

Thank you very much for posting. I was just adding and SSD, but this video, and your commentary was very helpful. If you're very near Philly pickup come your case of beer!!!

[@darko1485]

This video is 2 years old. So I wanted to ask: Did you encounter any problems in this time with the liquid metal / laptop?

[@tapsofosiris3110]

liquid metal oxidizes and damages aluminum over time. Guess what the ihs is made of.

[@MrGuitarSmoker]

@@tapsofosiris3110 I saw there are some special metal paste made for laptops that does not damage as much as other ones

[@mgsacid]

The MSI cooling is copper and does not damage unlike aluminum so its fine

[@xescdelarosa3328]

@@tapsofosiris3110 not from aluminium lol

[@stevemizic1219]

This really helped me when I added another M.2. Fantastic video. Thanks man!

[@xtoxicxskorpion5848]

I still wanna see how you put it back together. Can you please do it ? I’m woories about the fan connectors to put it nice back without the liquid metal will move to much.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

The trick is to put the screws back in the fan assembly before you attach the fan connectors it was actually really simple.

[@xtoxicxskorpion5848]

UpgradeJunkie Aa okay. I only have on issue to but this laptop or Aero 15x is the gtx 1170 is coming idk do buy it now or wait

[@UpgradeJunkie]

I debated between the gs65 the aero 15x and the zephyrs for a while it it all came done to the possible ability of gsync which this has(not yet but the hardware is there) and price. I didn’t go with the zephyrus due to the size I wanted something small.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

The 1170 in mobile will not be hitting until possibly December or later if you can wait awesome but if not this laptop is awesome.

[@jibbem]

I had the similar problems as you regarding thermals, as my msi gs65 was thermal throttling over 30% when running AIDA64, or playing games like Warzone for an hour my CPU was easily peaking to over 90 degrees C even with cooler boost on + external fan (GPU sometimes to 85C). Hell, even just putting the laptop in turbo mode caused CPU thermals sometimes to spike up to over 70 degrees in idle, while averaging around 60 degrees. I bought and iFixit toolkit and using your video I could easily disassemble the whole thing. My laptop is 2 years old and the paste was significantly dried out and crusty. So i went to work, did a few minor things extra, such as applying 2 layers of modified conformal coating around the die (wanted to be sure of heat resistance as it has max service temp up to 200C) and finishing off with some kapton insulating tape as second defense layer. I also disassembled the gpu and cpu fans and cleaned the inside as the vent holes were clogged with dust and the cpu fan was making noise. Finally I repasted the more whiteish paste that was just left in the video with kryonaut paste, as it was pretty dried up aswell. Also did a 1tb SSD upgrade. I have to say, the results are awesome. Idle temps are now around 40C. Running AIDA64 on full GPU and CPU load with no thermal throttling and does not cause my temps to rise above 80 degrees, or 70 even when i turn on cooler boost. Overall laptop is much more quiet now. Although it did cause me some headaches, such as a minor slipup with the LM on one small gpu capacitor and having a heatsink screw that I had to drill out using a cutter, I'd say it was worth the trouble. I am very happy! This was also my first time disassembling a laptop. Might update you in 6 months when I will reexamine the LM.

[@NootNoot.]

This may be a shot in the dark but, how'd it go? I've been reading some material where people had issues on the liquid metal "drying up" and having to re apply after a few months. I don't mind re applying although hoping that process would at least be yearly.

[@jibbem]

@@NootNoot. Hi! Yeah after a year I began noticing my temperatures went slightly up (5-10deg). As I was a little bit conservative in applying the LM, it was indeed a bit dried up after a year. I repasted again with the LM and now my laptop is again working as described (after almost 2 years now). I think because the first time you apply it, the LM will diffuse into the copper of the heatsink. If I am correct the LM + copper will slowly form a new type of metal layer on top (which isn't harmful). So once you repaste again, you don't have to do it as frequently anymore as the top layer will be saturated. Still very happy with the results.

[@NootNoot.]

@@jibbem Woah, thanks for the reply. Didn't think I'd get a response let alone one with this quick. Thanks again and take care!

[@trilingualkid]

what was the brand of the clear nail polish?

[@c0d3h4x0r]

Excellent video! I just bought this laptop, and I too notice it slamming up against ~90C and thermal throttling on at least 2 of the 6 cores right out of the gate. I recently performed a repaste of my old Lenovo IdeaPad U530 Touch, and it made a HUGE difference, so I intend to do the same with the GS65. I just wish laptop manufacturers would start doing this kind of thing correctly from the factory so we wouldn't have to take apart brand new products and fix shoddy workmanship.

[@NguyenHoang-cu2bu]

Excuse me! What is the nail polish that you used? Can I have that link too?

[@lee11991964]

Excellent video, watching you tear down this GS65 has given me the confidence to repaste my two week old GE75, having said that all I'll have to do is dismantle the heat pipes as the motherboard "thankfully" isn't turned around...if it was it would be way beyond my skills. Great to watch someone who is experienced take apart a 2k laptop though.

[@dronetheworld4k67]

my gs75 stealth 10875h reaches 100c when stress testing it, apparently undervolt is locked, and i cant do much !...

[@aaronnakano7754]

Great video! I recently convinced my friend to purchase a 31.5in, 1440p, 144hz monitor which made this already hot laptop run -hot-. I didn't use liquid metal since I'm not quite that good or comfortable yet, but using this for applying some NTH1 paste yielded a 10C-20C temperature delta on the very cursory thermal testing I did. The framerates went up by like 10-12fps in a lot of intensive loads, and the laptop lifespan was (probably) increased as well. Previously was running 88C-96C on all cores, now running in the 69(nice)-78C range.

[@dapz]

Does the lid need to be on to test it to see if it's working? I think I messed something up, it's not booting.

[@Silv3r.8901]

Pull it apart, and put it back together. Chances are one of the cables just isn't in right.

[@dapz]

@@Silv3r.8901 nah I figured it out, I just wasn't used to the fact it takes 20 seconds to boot.

[@rockelino]

You're a genius and a life saver! Thanks.

[@royalgreen7375]

How is the liquid metal performing now? Has it eroded into the heat sink? Has performance dropped? Claims of a 20 degree decrease in temps seem too good to be true.

[@SenorChez]

Badass vid, life saver, thank you mucho got my m.2 2tb upgrade. Simple smooth.

[@01imh]

yep i just bought a 970 evo plus 2tb today, will install. maybe even apply good thermal paste.

[@LMBC6Brian]

Doing this saved my desktop 7700k as well. Went from not being able to OC to 4.9 and hitting 95c, to being able to get 5.0 stable and keep the temp at 70c at 100% load. What a world of difference. It was way easier though then in this situation having to remove the entire mobo. I have a GS75 now and Im going to have to do this eventually. Nice video man.

[@skepticalmechanic]

Mother board is flipped for better cooling... Not really a big deal... How often are you going to install ram and a new SSD? maybe twice???

[@NishantPinto]

Amazing results, question, do you have to keep repeating this process like ever 4-6 months?

[@chrisvrazel7739]

Game changing video! Well done sir.

[@louiecayabyab8934]

you are so brave sir

[@BobOfAllTrades]

Good work 👍 I’d love to hear more about this laptop from you after you sink some time with it.

[@BobOfAllTrades]

The Smiling Sloth I’m sorry I’m not notified of every post 👍 ask it again.

[@BobOfAllTrades]

The Smiling Sloth yeah you just asked that I haven’t got a chance to respond because I need to send you a link to a thread talking about that laptop and it’s temperatures to better help you out :-) give me a little bit I’m not home yet.

[@geniumme2502]

@T H E S M I L I N G S L O T H you have been waiting a loonnggg time now :D

[@geniumme2502]

@T H E S M I L I N G S L O T H ow heck yea thats a tank ^^ i assume you will never have to move that thing ^^?

[@jasonh2150]

Bob Of All Trades I repasted my GS65 and it dropped temps down to 80C with kryonaut!

[@korober]

Hello! How does your notebook feel now? GPU & CPU temperatures are still same as after this operation?

[@bradbeyers9028]

I'm really happy I went with the GF 65. I got I7 9750 and Rtx 2060. & The motherboard isn't flipped... I would never attempt to take the motherboard out of a labtop. Lol props to u all that do..

[@rubysays3294]

Can you do a video on the keyboard removal process?

[@mgsacid]

Can you do a Updated video of your Temps using the Liquid Metal Mod, and Undervolt settings? Mine has the same specs as yours, MSI GS65 however im using the Kryonaut and undervolt of -175 still hitting at 80 to 90c dpending on load

[@dronetheworld4k67]

3:30 I think I might have damaged mine, what can I do now ?!

[@jorgerinconbigas]

Hello. I recently bought this laptop and I am greatly considering repasting it. My first issue was the fact that i was scared of doing this myself or going to a PC store to pay them to do the job. I already got over it, im going DIY. Now my second and most important issue is the Liquid Metal. How much of a benefit is it compared to a regular thermal paste like Kryonaut? Other question is: how long des the liquid metal last? Is it really hard to remove? Really hope u can answer, thanks!

[@CALiiGedd0n]

I got the HP Omen with a 1060 and an 8750h and will soon be doing some cooling upgrades myself. Just bought some Fujipoly Ultra Extreme thermal pads and Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal. I cannot wait to see the improvements this upgrade will show. I am also adding some heatsinks to my RAM and will see if a 3mm heatsink will fit on my M.2 SSD.

[@sushimshah2896]

I've seen others suggesting some other type of coating to insulate the metal bits in the PCB, is it safe to use a nail polish instead, I mean I hope it isn't electrically conductive??

[@Sparky_007]

Are the heat blocks pure copper on the cooler? Last thing I want is liquid metal to eat through it. How about a link the the nail polish? Any follow ups on your device since you made this video?

[@sabishiihito]

I once owned a GS73VR and it was the same deal as this, flipped motherboard. Such a pain to upgrade.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

That really is the only huge drawback I have with this, that and the not having gysnc

[@bradhaines3142]

that's why I got the aero 15x instead. id rather not pay for upgrades late on so i got the 15x so its easier to do it myself

[@NotScy]

CAn you give us a one year update ?

[@Lolmontaz]

I just did this on my gs65 but my results arent as good as yours, I used thermal grizzly conductanaut, in aida64 i got 75-77 in cpu stress, but thats with the fans set to max before i start, in auto it still throttles and if i do cpu and gpu stress the cpu (90-93) throttles while the gpu stays around 75, that being said it is around 35 degrees where i live, do my results seem normal to you? what was the ambient temperature like when you tested it?

[@Viewer13128]

does the heatsink on the gs65 seem uniform/evenly pressured to you when you repasted? PS: how are those plastic hinges holding up? i read 1 person say they broke after 3 months.

[@00psPoops]

I know this is three months ago, but I'm having the same issue. My max CPU temp is 71C but it throttles before it gets higher than that. Did you find a fix?

[@kasper8509]

​@xastunts Great advice! I will also move to Thailand soon and I am also from Sweden (what a coincidence)! Did you do the liquid metal repasting to this laptop?

[@wesrutherford3424]

Is there any companies that make improved heatsinks or anything like that or is thermal paste all we can do? I see below a guy is talking about gallium contamination will this lead to breakdown of cpu component or thermal decay or does it only affect cosmetics?

[@akhn7188]

Well done .. keep the good work

[@monjue4459]

Hey, great videos. I know your channel is small (at the moment) but i do hope it grows over time. You explain things very clearly and deserve the viewers and subs.

[@JML1987]

What kind of results did you get? I got a little worried watching that... when you were applying the nail polish on the CPU it looked like a little tiny bit spread onto the CPU edge (at 13:06) which you spread out with the Liquid Metal! Maybe I'm mistaken.

[@dylantarzian3689]

I did this and the temps are great, but my keyboard lights will not turn on. Where on the motherboard would the key lighting correspond to?

[@DimitrisDadoulis]

what did you use for the vrms seems like gp65 doesnt use thermal pads, i have heard about k50-pro , i looked for thermal pads but i dont know what dimensions to use, any clue anyone?

[@joseseverino4078]

So this liquid metal and maybe a -0.150 underbolt might be the best tag team to combat the thermal throttle?

[@chubzlich5013]

Is this video still true for the MSI GS65 Stealth? GTX 1660TI version.

[@edwardsanders4047]

How can I replace the keyboard? The metal appears to be plastic rivetted in. My keyboard has broken due to the common error with the rivet under the keyboard ribbon.

[@revoktorment440]

I have that same laptop. the one of the fans sometimes goes at full speed even when the computer is at idle. I have no idea how to fix it. It seems software related. deleted dragon center (I think... this this is so hard to get rid of). But no change..

[@cuttingedgecool7235]

Great teardown video.

[@donquic]

I stripped my cooler screw it’s rounded off completely tried using rubber band napkin but doesn’t work, I was just 1 screw away from repasting, fml, any tips?

[@ltraltier6009]

Bro i just wanna know how to open the back so I can clean it.

[@getrekt3983]

do you have to take the mb out to take the heatsync off? thats not normal... i got the gf 65 thin and you can get the heatsync out without much trouble

[@mem.info0]

They should put a liquid metal at stock in laptops like these

[@nikolailu]

brilliant, thank you so much, i think il do this, just can't decide whether to get the rtx 2080 mq or rtx 2070 mq version of gs65, money is not an issue, i'm worried about 2080 mq performance problems, what do you think?

[@cemsengul16]

Can anyone give me a purchase link for foam material to use as a barrier that you have personally used and know is safe for a laptop?

[@uditrawat2404]

Maybe Undervolts would have been enough to control temps.

[@bluesyn1]

nope not enough for thin laptop like this i have aero 15x undervolted and still throttling. i am thinking to apply liquid meta aswell

[@RickkNava]

I think you're right. In his twitter account, he tweeted that he undervolted it also. I don't think liquid metal works as good as he states on this laptop. twitter.com/UpgradeJunkie/status/996373200283070464

[@maxed_outpace]

undervolting is a very good way out. i HAVW THW SAME LAPTOP AND AFTER undervolting temperatures decrease down to 75 -85.

[@thiagoduarte9836]

Hello!! friend can you give me some information, I have the same notebook but there was a problem with the mosfet near the cpu that charred, I need the mosfet data, would you pass me his data looking on your board? it's the mosfet near the R24 coil on the right side of the cpu, I would be very grateful!!

[@tvctorj]

I have a GP65 and thinking of this. After a year, still same temps? Notice and increase? How’s the liquid metal doing against the heat pipes? Reason why I ask is because that stuff eats away at certain alloys, wondering if these pipes are resistance to that.

[@Wings10Chicken]

Can u make a video how u put the things together after putting the liquid metal ? I’m too scared

[@thugis07]

i have the gs66 can i put liquid metal on it it said its made with copper and aluminum. but the actually contact parts are copper tho

[@bounceoutbari7894]

Mine didn't go down in temps and still hits 90C but hits higher clock speeds than normal. did I not put enough liquid metal? i was scared to put too much

[@nestorflores-6941]

Do you have to remove the nail polish after the application of the liquid metal? (after the nail polish dries), I have seen that some use Liquid Electrical Tape ... what advantages can it have?

[@BinhTran-dt4bi]

What about the vrm. Did you repaste it too. I wonder if 1gb of thermal paste enough for all cpu gpu and vrm too

[@clutch44444]

Great job to MSI for making it take longer to work on

[@TheJetsetter]

Man what a fiddly build! :O

[@oskytrosky]

Sorry to bother, it's been a year since this video, it would be nice if you check if the LM made any damage to the copper heatsink, it depends the on the heatsink copper alloy of every manufacturer/model. yours can be a very important feedback to us all. thanks!!!

[@lifehackertips]

why is your hand so blurry while wiping down the laptop at 0:20? I thought there was something wrong with my refresh rate but no, it's the video itself.

[@UpgradeJunkie]

No it is the video. I had set up my lights pointing up through my ceiling fan which was running. This caused a really bad flicker in the video that made it unwatchable. I used a trick in Premiere to remove the flicker but the side effect is the ghosting. Trust me it is the lesser of two evils. It was a rookie mistake on my part won't happen again. Also I didn't film the entire thing again because it was a hard laptop to open the first time and didn't feel like trying again and messing up the liquid metal application.

[@QuanGissle]

Hello, I just bought this laptop and thinking about doing a repaste but I’m wondering what you do about the thermal paste by the ram shown in the video. Can I put thermal pads instead of thermal paste in those 3 vram or whatever it is?

[@Ghettochild.2600]

I only got about 3c cooler doing this. Using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. Cinebench R20 highest core went from 91c to 89c. Lowest core went from 86c to 83c. I went sparingly on the liquid metal on both the cpu/gpu and the copper heatsink. Made sure it wasn't pooling in any spots. I've done this before on my 8700k and results were great. So I'm not sure why this didn't work so well. CB score went from 2366 to 2582. Any ideas? Perhaps I should of used more liquid metal?

[@Dassick89]

how or what did you use to reconnect the MOSFETs or TRHM to the heatsink? I'm not sure if it was thermal pads or a paste in the video, I'm about to pull this apart but I don't want to have to order something and wait a week for it to arrive. Can you give me any information on this?

[@kenjiltcy]

Is there a computer/ electronics based alternative to nail polish?

[@clementbonnepart900]

Acrylic coating

[@sarahdrakengard9438]

Thank God I bought the GS75. I don't have to flip motherboard to install SSDs. I know that is stressful to do as I had to flip it to upgrade the ram and liquid silver the cpu and gpu. The things we do for love...

[@Saiklohit]

I noticed some components with thermal paste below the GPU that come into contact with the coolers. Did you reapply paste (normal) to those or just leave them as is?

[@Renesyseanu]

Fantastic video! I was thinking the same thing and thought that maybe already someone did this already. But I am thinking of using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and my question is: Will it go cooler with that paste? Is the original paste that bad?

[@pimane]

@UpgradeJunkie Hi, near to the RAM modules there is some thermal paste also. Why didn't you replace that one or can we scrap that out an put MX-4, for example?

[@contorta960]

That's a different substance entirely, do not replace that with thermal paste.

[@LIFEOFSTUFFEDANIMALS]

@@contorta960 so leave it alone?

[@contorta960]

@@LIFEOFSTUFFEDANIMALS no you can redo it by all means just get the right substance. It's not thermal paste, I forget what it is but it's a different compound and that's quite important.

[@contorta960]

How is it 11 months later? Still alive? How about the heat sink, definitely copper all the way, (not coated for it to eat through?) I'm considering doing this but the laptop was 2k in the UK🤢🤢 If I kill it I will die a little on the inside 😋

[@leonardoboneschi5688]

what is the varnish that u put on the side of the cpu and gpu?

[@Rick-dq2rw]

Hi, will the liquid metal corrode the heat sink? The heat has to be copper right?

[@OKBUDDY21]

what screws did you use to take the back part off

[@mehmetoz1932]

What is your clear nail polish brand I dont wanna use a conductive one.

[@ScanlineCity]

I did this successfully with the same laptop but I still hit 90+ at times under heavy load. Do you get the same? I can't imagine I did something wrong as all fans are still running and the liquid metal spread I did seems to cover well. My idle temps at the lowest are still around 48. Does this seem right after a liquid metal application?

[@skinnytheband]

I’ve seen some videos about just using better thermal paste like thermal grizzlys kryonaut instead of liquid metal. I would much rather just put better thermal paste then risk the entire system with liquid metal. Do you know if the better thermal paste would get the same cooling results as with liquid metal. Thermal paste is just so much safer and I do not want to take any risks with a $2000 laptop

[@SoulBane]

Great video. How did you figure out where and how much LM to put on the heatsink itself? I've looked at other videos, and it all seems like people just eyeball it, but maybe I'm missing something-- I was planning on just making a guide for myself by putting down tape to outline the impressions in the paste before buffering it off, or just putting LM on the die and then putting the heatsink back on for a little bit in order to see where the LM is actually making contact. Are these good ideas? What did you do?

[@neosrt10]

How long did this Liquid Metal hold up Im thinking that nail polish doesnt last long under so much heat its starts to dry and crack maybe high temp silicone or glue would be better.

[@OKBUDDY21]

If that happens or are worried maybe try put electrical tape as like a second layer of protection

[@idk-jr1gi]

omg i did this and upon putting it back together it wont turn on please help fast

[@MrCristopher99]

At first this helped me also, but now i have it on and it does contact but im still having 90C with custom fan curve...what went wrong? Its cleaned, it has conductonaut on. Should i repaste it with something else?

[@richardtoth7240]

I guess this liquid metal has gallium in it. But be careful with gallium, because if it gets in contact with anything aluminium, it will cause damage to that component. What are the heatpipes of this laptop made out of? I hope it has no Aluminium in it. I have almost the same laptop (GS75) but I'm too afraid to try this mod. How is it working out longterm?

[@BarragePker6]

So i put everything back togethr and my tab, q, w e key don't light up but all else do in every color. Any suggestions? Which cable is for rgb on keyboard?

[@kq2488]

I have experience building basic desktop gaming rigs, but I have never modded a laptop. I own the MSI GS65 and the temperatures are disappointing, so I'd like to try this mod. Any tips or advice?

[@roostersideburns3440]

any opinions on the carbon thermal pads?

[@hangman13]

1:20 Screen is not IPS. It's AHVA. MSI calls it "IPS-level"

[@UpgradeJunkie]

hangman13 thank you for that I actual was not aware

[@SpiderMonkey339]

That explains the 7ms response time lmao.

[@nddomaul334]

but it has a good screen

[@mohammedsalah-uz2ki]

which one is better the lequid metal or the normal thermal paste

[@t1v210]

How often does LM need replace? What about replacing the stock paste with a normal but very good paste? Anyone?

[@RahardiPratomo]

I read somewhere that there is a slot for a SATA HDD. But I didn't see it anywhere here, only 2 x M2 NVMe Slot. Maybe you can comment on it?

[@UpgradeJunkie]

No it does not have a space for a SATA HDD it has the ability to use a SATA basesd M.2

[@99SHS]

only one slot that support SATA which the one that the origin ssd came on, so it need to change to the other slot! well i learned it the hard way! or i'm mistaken with something

[@FrankOnline007]

do you need to change the paste on the VRAM? or can you leave that dried up factory stuff on there. As well as the thermal pads?

[@UpgradeJunkie]

On mine that paste was still liquid and hadn’t hardened so I simple went back together with it. I think you should look up the size of thermal pads and replace.

[@joemikaelson5249]

I loved this video . How does one know if the nail polish is conductive or not ,Is there an alternative to using nail polish like maybe using non conductive tape?

[@UpgradeJunkie]

most nailpolishes non conductive i would just check and make sure water isn't one of the bases used in making them

[@UpgradeJunkie]

tape would work i just don't like the idea of leaving that tape on there for an extended amount of time but that has no scientific bases just personal preference

[@joemikaelson5249]

Thanks for the reply would the liquid metal have any corrosive effect on the copper/aluminium on the heattsinks

[@UpgradeJunkie]

Aluminium will definitely have corrosive effect in a short amount of time. The thermal grizzly even has a special pamphlet inside the bag saying do not use with aluminium. It will corrode it quickly and have the aluminium fall apart.

[@joemikaelson5249]

thanks for the info

[@shadebinder9969]

Im imagining that beeping sound you always hear in surgery videos while youre doing this. Beep.Beep.Beep. Lifts up motherboard. BEEEEEEEEP.

[@blablagal94]

What nail polish did you use for this?

[@a103192]

this made feel some type way haha! I recently bought one I want to do this!!!! gs65 is beautiful!!! it will b in my will haha