Have you made any of these mistakes with your gaming laptop? 🤔 Check out my top 9 gaming laptops hacks in 2 minutes next! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebOjZbhkzZ3Ddok.html LOTS of comments saying "just get a pc lol it's faster" as the video has been suggested out to a much larger audience than usual. A few things: Firstly, an RTX 3060 desktop is only like 8% faster than a laptop for similar money: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZejdq-h0LXPmI0.html Secondly, not everyone just sits at home, some people need portability, and even if the device is only used at home not everyone has space to maintain a dedicated area for a full on PC setup, or the money to have both a PC and cheaper laptop. Thirdly, why are you clicking on a video with laptops in the thumbnail if this is what you think?

1.not cleaning 2.laptop placement 3.gaming on battery 4.not opening with care 5.not updating 6.not using dual channel memory 7.gaming with optimus (integrated gpu) 8.buying new too often 9.performance tuning 10. uhhhh

Me : So this is why I can't run AAA games on my laptop! My 4 year old laptop with iGPU : No, it's not.

Number 10 is a fantastic tip. I also found that rigorously shaking the laptop helps as well when the download appears to stall. Just like a salt shaker when it gets clogged. Works a treat.

Tip 10 was definitely the most useful, thank you so much!

Mistake #11: Not utilizing the rgb rainbow puke lighting to increase fps.

Mistake 11: Not buying a gaming laptop with RGB Keyboards

Thank you SO MUCH for that overclock tip. I made some small tweaks and now almost all lag when playing VR games off of my laptop is practically gone! Still not perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better.

I experienced this a lot on my laptops before and the laptop I have now. Sometimes updating your gpu drivers can affect performance. I've had issues like sudden fps drops down to 10-20fps from time to time. I didn't seem to experience any of this before updating the graphics drivers

I cant stress how important it is to clean your laptop. Take your time to learn how to slowly open to back of it to get the dust out. Then slowly again take your time to learn how to remove/replace fans and clean them. And again slowly learn how to change your thermal paste. It's not as hard as you think you just need the right tools to unscrew a few screws here and there.

"..Putting a long screw in a small hole" Love your humor, Jarrod 😂

I found your tips very useful. Thank you! Especially no.10, how did I not think of that!?

Thanks for the bonus tip Jarrod! Made my day :D

The 10th Tip is the BEST i have to say! xD

Warning : Don't drink water while watching 10th tip !

Love your reviews man, keep it up with this fantastic job

11. Check the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU every 2 years or so. I'd probably do this first before I tried undervolting to resolve heat issues.

This was my first time i got a gaming laptop, and I took so much care of it that when i took it to the repair person to give it a check up, he was shocked. It was super clean, didn't heat at all, and even having the latest updates installed.

5:50 killed me😂😂😂😂😂

The troubleshoot of the 10th mistake changed my life! Thank you so much for these binge-worthy advices.

These are quite useful thank you!

*TIMESTAMPS* . 00:08 MISTAKE #1 - NOT CLEANING 00:33 MISTAKE #2 - LAPTOP PLACEMENT 00:56 MISTAKE #3 - GAMING ON BATTERY 01:31 MISTAKE #4 - NOT OPENIN WITH CARE 02:00 MISTAKE #5 - NOT UPDATING 03:01 MISTAKE #6 - NOT USING DUAL CHANNEL MEMORY 03:41 MISTAKE #7 - GAMING WITH OPTIMUS 04:40 MSITAKE #8 - BUYING NEW TOO OFTEN 05:43 EXTRA MISTAKE #8.5 06:09 MISTAKE #9 - PERFORMANCE TUNING 06:46 - MISTAKE #10 - BONUS

OMG #10 was life changing, how did i not think of it sooner! Thanks Jarrod🙏🏻

Thank you very much, I haven't owned a gaming pc/laptop for years and just got one recently, so this video together with other videos keeps me up to date. I appricate the help and effort you put into making this video and you definitly earned yourself a new subscriber, keep it cool ^^

thanks for the help dude!

for tip 2, I would say: put your laptop on a vertical stand. It reduces temps on cpu/gpu for 5+ degrees

5:50 Definitely still a family friendly channel :)

thankyou for the very useful information sir!

woooow thank you so much i tried out that bonus tip and it work like a charm ! been using it since last year and it never lets me down 🙂

I can confirm tip #10 works on desktop PCs as well, tho it usually is a bit trickier to pull off and requires more user interaction, but it's overall worth it

6:57 Newton just got out of his grave😆

Great videos mate! Im looking to switch to a laptop for gaming and 3D modelling and rendering, still working through your videos to find the best laptop in 2022 🙂

Thanks for the info

The 10th tip is insane! I managed to complete my steam library in minutes!

I knew I wasn't doing sth right. #10 is definitely what I wanna do. So life-changing for me. Thanks Jarod.

Thank you for this video and helping out the people who have gaming laptops

Thumbnail is really useful, red paint for your walls makes the pc feel angry and that only makes it hotter, but using green makes it feel a little more chilled out and will help with cooling

0:07 #1 - Not Cleaning 0:32 #2 - Laptop Placement 0:55 #3 - Gaming on Battery 1:30 #4 - Not Opening With Care 2:00 #5 - Not Updating 3:00 #6 - Not Using Dual Channel Memory 3:41 #7 - Gaming With Optimus 4:39 #8 - Buying New Too Often 5:48 #8.5 Hunky Screw OBLITERATES Tiny Hole! (ZAMN!) 😱 6:08 #9 - Performance Tuning 6:45 #10 - Bonus Mistake

This video really helps. Thank you

What a nice video! That helped me to finaly blovk this chanel. Thanks man.

One thing i would of suggested to have for a gaming laptop no matter the environment is using a cooling pad as that would help out a little more on the temps for the system as well as elevating it upwards if the person is using a dedicated keyboard and mouse.

Never thought about changing my background from red to green, gave me 5x extra performance - you're the goat.

Very helpful!

That last tip was so helpful! Thanks Jarrod my download speed is so much faster now on my laptop.

Tip #10 is amazing, such wow. Reversing the polarity of the power going into the laptop and then crossing the energy streams will give you an even faster overclock that you cannot possibly imagine! XD

dr.jarrod with his angelic laptop advise

Thanks for the video, Now I know what to do next!

number 10 helped me out alot thank you!

Jarrod's laughing face after both "important" advices is the best thing

1. Not cleaning 0:08 2. Laptop placement 0:34 3. Gaming on battery 0:56 4. Not opening with care 1:31 5. Not updating 2:01 6. Not using dual channel memory 3:01 7. Gaming with optimus (MUX switch offed if you have) 3:42 8. Buying new too often 4:39 8.5. BONUS 5:43 9. Performance tuning 6:09 10. PC Hack to boost loading 6:48

Thank you useful video!

Excellent life saving advice

I'll be honest, I've never cleaned my laptops' fans even once in 20 years

Great tips, especially #10 :D Guys be careful with BIOS upgrades though. For example, Lenovo recently released an update which, if updated without resetting the BIOS first, will not let GPUs output picture on screen. So just stay on current BIOS unless absolutely necessary.

thank you for the bonus thing very usefull

This video was useful, thanks. Also, kudos for the Insomnium shirt, I see you are a man of culture aswell

Jarrod, I love the channel and content. I just got my first ever gaming laptop and I got the Legion 5 pro with Ryzen 7 5800, RTX3070 because of your channel and I absolutely love it! Thank you for all your hard work and giving us your knowledge on what you learn about each device. I wanted the intel version of the Legion but I bought mine new from Walmart for $1300 so I couldn’t pass it up. Thanks Again Sir🙏🏻✌🏻

Fantastic video! You mentioned all the points and elaborated them in a great manner.

Thanks a lot sir Jarrod:>

Great video and awesome tips!

I love straightforward and simple your tips and solutions are in the video without saying anything useless !!

I like the new editing style Jarrod, keep it up!

thank you for the suggestion

the last one helped a lot, thanks jarrod!

Hey Jarood, Loooong time lurker!. I recently got an Legion 5 with the same spec as your. Hoping to keep it for 3to4 years. This video was perfect.

I've had my gaming laptop for a bit over 4 years now and it is slowly starting to show it's age, but it does still run modern games really well.

Nice video! I wanted to ask about that wallpaper from your laptop

The last one helped me a lot, woukd have never think of that. Thanks. 😂😅

"Yeah not falling for the bonus 10th tip"- my brain screaming while I'm eagerly waiting for the 10th tip

I can't agree more with mistake #8! My MSI GE73 Raider is now at least 3 years old, but I'm still playing the latest game decently. GTX1070 & i7 8750h with undervolt for both, repaste over the year, work like a charm. If u give your laptop some love and care, u can keep it for some years.

I wouldn't entirely recommend updating the BIOS on a laptop. The reason is that laptop OEM's tend to discard support for the laptop in question after the first 6 months, so, even if there are major BIOS updates for a given chipset/platform on a desktop that could uplift performance, eliminate bugs and make the hw running better overall, you can frequently forget getting that for the laptop. Additionally, even if the laptop OEM releases BIOS updates for the laptop you bought, updating the laptop BIOS is precarious at best. There are no safety features in place to protect against a bad BIOS flash for example. Take Acer for example. I have had good success with their laptops in general in terms of performance and cost... however, their BIOS support is lackluster to say the least. I currently use a PH517-61 with desktop grade Ryzen 2700 (replacable) and Vega 56 (which was soldered to the motherboard). The cooling in the machine is amazing (with ridiculously quiet fans as well), and the motherboard is a B450 one which has the ability to support Zen 2 and Zen 3 CPUs... but Acer stopped support for this unit 6 months after releasing it... meaning they also never released new crucial BIOS updates with relevant AGESA versions that would have fixed performance problems, solved bugs and patched various security issues that AMD published to date... and of course, this also prevented users of this machine like myself from upgrading the Ryzen 2700 to say Zen 3 (5900x or 5950x - the cooling in this unit can EASILY handle 105W TDP cpu... so installing these, and even running them in ECO modes would have been amazing and added to the overal lifespan of the laptop and of course, it would have improved efficiency too). Plus, on the second occasion I tried updating the BIOS... it killed the laptop... basically the bios update failed and it turned my laptop into a massive/expensive paper weight. This was eventually solved by replacing the machine, but it was a major oversight on behalf of Acer for not installing proper protections in place to allow the user to recover from a bad bios flash. There are of course methods that would allow a person to re-install a BIOS update themselves, but it requires a proper BIOS chip reader for a laptop, and knowledge to push it through. Its doable, and can be done relatively fast (so I don't understand why it takes Acer IT service over a month to do it themselves). Plus, some laptop units have ENCRYPTED BIOS-es... meaning that even if you try TOUCHING the thing (aka making say a backup of it with a bios chip reader for laptops), you could end up breaking it. This is unacceptable as far as laptop standards are concerned.

Damn I was waiting patiently for tip 10! Never knew this!

Side-note: buy an actual kit for taking your laptop apart. Get one with different screw sizes, a magnetic pad (for dropping screws on) and a wrist strap. Or buy all of these separately. Regardless, actually get proper tools to open up and upgrade your laptop before trying it.

You mentioned we need to clean the laptop. But to do that wouldn't I need to remove the heat pipes ? I hear that you should NOT clean the laptop fans with compressed air. So all this is quite scary to me. I find it hard to even open the back cover and don't want to mess anything up

Great tips, thankfully knew most of them, except #10 wow why didn't I ever think of that?!

Great video! Thanks! I will also give the last trick (Mistake #10 bonus) a try

Tried tip 10, instantly loaded the bar when I dropped the laptop off the nearest skyscraper! Saved about 10 seconds of loading, really worth it. Thanks Jarrod!

Optimization and tuning is key with gaming laptops. There really is so many little things you can do to improve performance like disabling steam overlay(CPU went from 95-88 degrees), making sure all the different power settings in windows are set to performance, grab a laptop cooler for better airflow, and last but not least overclock you’re GPU because now adays GPU temps are much much lower in gaming laptops. I no joke went from 55-65 FPS in Horizon Zero Dawn with a consistent 96 degrees on my CPU to 85-100 FPS and a max CPU temp now of like 88 degrees. Lower temps means you’re boost clocks can be maintained better from what I’ve noticed

Thanks bro, My downloads were stuck @ 99% Turned laptop on the side and it finished.. You are a life saver!

Mistake number 10 helped, thank you mate.

0:14 Don't scare me bro! Halloween is long over!

#10 - Expecting desktop level GPU performance despite having the same model naming. #11 - Never budget enough to buy a good headphone to avoid the annoying loud fan noise from a gaming laptop.

I recently bought my Alienware m15 r4 from a friend and I'm thoroughly impressed at how well it runs newer games, I just discovered this channel and will definitely be checking out more videos as I'm new to owning a pc.

1:40 this is a really good tip, gaming laptops tend to break their hinges if you're too rough with the lid, just open it slowly and you won't have any issues.

This channel deserves all the credit in the world.Great work Jarrod Keep it up

Thanks so much for this video, Jarrod. Thankfully, I've avoided all of those mistakes because, coming from Latin America, I've learned to take extra care of my equipment due to the high pricing.

I use an IETS GT 500 cooling pad with a 5000 RPM cooling fan with an air filter and a Levoit Hepa air filter in my office. I get nearly no dust buildup and my temps never go above 65C on my 17.3 inch Legion. That takes care of cleaning and thermal performance. The MUX switch gives me great performance as well.

regarding updates (although not common) some updates do mess things up whether it be windows or gpu drivers etc, hence why i keep them disabled, i update after making sure they are stable and good updates without any side affects. (p.s for people with slow internet it would really such if you're playing a competitive game and updates happen ruin your ping and result in you raging)

Tweaking for performance is definitely worth it. Oddly in my case I tuned mine down on the Medion Deputy P10 as the Intel Core series will automatically overclock then the CPU is at 100% & this caused thernals to constantly run at 100 celcius; simply by reducing the max CPU to 99% in power management prevented the overclocking and kept thermals to 75-80 celcius which will greatly increase lifespan & made no noticeable difference to game performance.

I have an HP Pavillion 15 dk. It's the i5 gtx1650 version. Since I wasn't very impressed with the stock performance, I decided to clock up my cpu from a puny 2.4 ghz to 3.8 ghz. The system actually does a pretty good job of keeping it's thermals under the throttling temperature without any newer thermal paste. Of course, I felt like my gpu was a bit slow too, so I clocked it up by about 100mhz. This video was helpful, A lot of these things will be kept in mind while keeping my currently 2-3 year old laptop in check!

I actually flipped you off on the the bonus tip, lmao! Helpful vid, 5 stars!

Watch out for new graphic drivers update as I downloaded the latest version and had massive problems. I actually had to go back and install older versions and it is working perfectly now.

I'm watching this on a Legion 5 I bought last April after listening to your advice. It's a significant upgrade compared to the laptop I've been using since 2014.

Wow, loaded cyberpunk for around 1min with this upload trick! Thank you for sharing.

Downloading tip helped me a lot!!! 😆

#10 actually works because more airflow means more performance.

I do actually keep my laptop plugged in regularly when I use it and have an extension cord I carry around with the plug when I need to be on the go. I’m also surprised I don’t make nearly as many of these mistakes given I’m new to having a gaming laptop - only been a few months now.

THANK YOU

Thank you

Sometimes have Optimus enabled can be more convenient than having it disabled via a mux especially if you're someone who does stuff in the background while playing games. Having to restart a laptop to get better battery life after you're done gaming can be a deal breaker, obviously if you're an fps player then you want to be getting the highest fps possible but for any other genre, you'd be fine with Optimus.