Making the Lenovo ThinkPad T480 even Better

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In this video I show you how to upgrade the ThinkPad T480 to make it even better than it is. I forgot to mention that due to the PTM7950, the battery life lasted a little longer due to being cooler and fan not coming on often.
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@Rayyan-hi2ge 6 ай бұрын

The last great thinkpad getting the right treatment

@seanlong9049 2 ай бұрын

Another good upgrade is to use the dual-heatpipe heatsink from the T480 version that has a secondary GPU. You will need to put a little foam onto the heatsink plate that usually covers the secondary GPU so it doesn't short out the unused contacts on the motherboard, but the cpu plate fits like the single-heatpipe version and then you'll have almost double the cooling capacity. I did this upgrade and it worked very well, keeping the cpu much cooler with much less fan speed since the higher capacity heatsink is only cooling the cpu and not both the cpu and gpu.

@TechThusiast 2 ай бұрын

Yea saw a video on that

@billcarson9565 Ай бұрын

What's the FRU part number for that?

@CatBacon-qc5ot 6 ай бұрын

I recommend upgrading to dual heat-pipe for even lower temps

@one_step_sideways 6 ай бұрын

Agreed, dual heat-pipe cooler with PTM7950 brings the temps down by around 25C, leaving room for raising the PL2 limit to 35W and PL1 to 30W, all while staying below 84C to prevent silicon degradation. And also undervolting is important for getting more performance per watt - but it can only be done on BIOS version 1.26 or lower, so you should download that and enable BIOS downgrades in the BIOS settings

@TechThusiast 6 ай бұрын

That's a good suggestion, maybe in the future

@TechThusiast 6 ай бұрын

Wow that's impressive

@CatBacon-qc5ot 6 ай бұрын

@@one_step_sideways my ninja

@saf751_ 6 ай бұрын

@one_step_sideways can the bios downgrade able to do any damage to the ssd??

@MiX4RiA 4 ай бұрын

First off, good video but the thermal pads seems unnecessary i belive just replace the thermal paste by a good quality one will do the trick!

@MinecraftCheating 5 ай бұрын

i might buy one to replace my t440p

@ahmadyusuf7011 Ай бұрын

I got 4200 pts Cinebench R23 on my thinkpad T480 with PTM 7950

@lno_onel4404 4 ай бұрын

why are you using a thermal pad as the interphase between the die and the cooler? Wouldn't something like MX-4 or NT-H2s be better?

@TechThusiast 4 ай бұрын

Ptm7950 is supposed to be very good and last a very long time

@lno_onel4404 4 ай бұрын

@@TechThusiast Ok got it, how are the thermals now?

@hendroharyanto 2 ай бұрын

Why do you open the Thinkpad T480 from the front? The clips in the area between the hinges have to be loosened first, then the clips on the side. Once that is done, the bottom cover should come right off. The clips on the front should not be pried up, they simply unlock when the bottom cover is removed. When closing the chassis, the clips on the front need to be re-engaged one after the other before tightening the screws - otherwise, the chassis may not close correctly.

@TechThusiast 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@meinardv3412 5 ай бұрын

Awesome. Pretty straightforward tutorial. OT, How did you upgrade to windows 11 on the t480?

@TechThusiast 5 ай бұрын

From a bootable usb

@afrillyandwi7771 Ай бұрын

Hi. Can i change my battery from 61+ thick battery to 61 slim? The first time I bought mine its on 61+ thick battery.

@TechThusiast Ай бұрын

External battery?

@starrequiem6053 Ай бұрын

No one is talking about the cpu and gpu of the laptop. Are they upgradeable? Because I've just brought one.

@TechThusiast Ай бұрын

Don't think they can be upgraded

@jkosher5091 18 күн бұрын

Is this good for rendering and gaming?

@TechThusiast 17 күн бұрын

Maybe some old game and basis editing

@YouCefgames Ай бұрын

Can you overclock CPU in this laptop?

@JacobD. Ай бұрын

no, only K and HK intel mobile cpus are able to be overclocked

@YouCefgames Ай бұрын

@@JacobD. Thank you

@YouCefgames Ай бұрын

@@JacobD. I'm sorry for bothering you again but I'm considering buying One myself to learn graphic design would it be good choice for me to run adobe apps " I don't have a great budget"

@JacobD. Ай бұрын

@@YouCefgames unless you're comfortable with manually upgrading this laptop yourself, it'd be best to look for something else, as this laptop doesn't have great color accuracy by default, but if that's something not super important, this is a great laptop

@YouCefgames Ай бұрын

@@JacobD. Thank you sir have a great day 😊

@jackobroman Ай бұрын

Alguien me confirma si lo que le puso al procesador es mejor que la vieja y confiable pasta térmica?

@windows404 Ай бұрын

I would also like to know why they chose a thermal pad over thermal paste here

@TechThusiast Ай бұрын

It's supposed to have better heat transfer

@aungs8430 4 ай бұрын

Good video! But FYI, you shouldn't apply PTM7950 on the PCH.

@NabilDaDon Ай бұрын

hello just wondering, Why?

@aungs8430 Ай бұрын

@@NabilDaDon The PCH itself does not overheat, the heat from the heatsink could damage it.

@Gadtkaz 7 күн бұрын

@@aungs8430 Any real claims to back this up? Oem's like dell claimed this with pre-skylake laptops and specifically stopped their coldplate's coverage at the CPU (the remaining heatpipe literally just floats above a naked PCH). Lenovo doesn't do this but you can clearly see on any t480 disassembly that the stock paste is deliberately applied to the PCH with coldplate real estate meant to contact the chip. Even if you didn't apply paste it will still make contact with the PCH due to how the cooler's mounted. Dell's 2018 XPS has awful EGPU throttling because they left the PCH naked. As for the CPU soaking the cooler and "leaking" a lot of excess heat onto the PCH that simply isn't true, PCH temps on my T480 never exceed 57c, below whats needed to cause throttling and dramatically lower than the max 100c needed to cause damage. The only freebie I'll give up is my testing is flawed as I don't have an EGPU enclosure handy to fully max out the thunderbolt bandwidth.

@2DAnimax Ай бұрын

which one you recommend 1. T480, i5-8250U, 8GB ,256GB SSD, FHD IPS - 260USD / 16GB for 282USD 2.T480 i7-8550U, 16GB , 512GB Nvme,FHD 1080P - 328USD 3.T580 i5-8350U,8GB,256GB SSD,FHD IPS (1920 x 1080) - 298USD 4.T580 i7-8550U,8GB,256GB Nvme,FHD IPS (1920 x 1080) Touch - 328USD

@TechThusiast Ай бұрын

Don't have a T580 but this may help www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/157vz9o/t480_vs_t580/

@2DAnimax Ай бұрын

@@TechThusiast thanks. quote from reddit thread you mentioned. "And if you're fine with 14" I'd recommend T480s instead of T480. No TN screens, no i3s, better build quality, more compact, and you will have only one battery to care about. It is 57Wh whereas T480 has 24+24Wh if extenal is not an extended battery. And external batteries on T480/T580 a huge pain in the butt all the time. " as he pointed out having two batteries is big problem? can not use T480/T580 with only one battery? unfortunate if i can not find spare battery can i run these machines without any battery(just plug in to AC)?

@soulflame799 Ай бұрын

@@2DAnimax I have 2 batteries in my T480 and i think it's a BIG luxuary: you can hot swap the removable battery without having to turn off your computer + longer battery life. My T480 has been running flawlessly for 5 years already Reddit is a bad source of information.