Watercooling your laptop: Eluktronics Mech -16 GP & Mech GP-17 GP2 Review 

Excellent video! You obviously spent quite a bit of time with numerous tests and informative charts. I'm not totally sold on the price point yet though. I like the keyboards and the noise sounds fine to me. Thanks!!!

Great review! I've used an Eluktronics Prometheus 17 3080 laptop for the last 2 years as a desktop replacement. I do game graphics for a living and this laptop has been very reliable and proven to be powerful enough to do real graphics work. The LPP is a must.

Definitely will go for 17 inch as a desktop replacement.

Excellent video buddy,appreciate the time you spent on the video!!!!

A comprehensive video. Thanks for the hard work. A couple of observations. Fan noise is very high without the LPP, among the highest, yet thermal throttling is still experienced. That's not the case with many of the competition. The LPP is obviously a must have accessory with this unit. Secondly, an all-plastic chassis at this price point seems a bit ridiculous. Again, the competition is offering better for the same price. It's good to see Tong Fang continue to iterate on this design. However, I believe there is still room for improvement.

Expert talking about things they love is my favorite form of ASMR

Thank you for the excellent review 👍

what an underrated channel

Thank you for this!

Thanks for all the work! Is this unit similar to the Clevo reviewed in terms of being stutter free or did it behave more like the other 40 series units reviewed?

Tongfang chassis? I never pay any attention to their brand but wow they make some good looking machines.

I personally own the Mech 15 G3 (2022) this one is only air cooled and have it under bolted the CPU between 20-25Watts, and the Graphics card (3080 undervolted at 115w I usually get 80 Celsius with the fans turned 100%) Im super curious to see what the performance would be by undervolting this model. Depending on that and the amount of noise that I would get i would consider buying this model. I thank you for the review

hi there, awesome video! do you think this laptop can benefit from a cooling pad (like the iets gt500), even when using liquid cooling? do you think temps can be improved? thanks!

I would have loved to get my hands on one of these and try to make a better WC heatsink to improve the cooling and really unleash the power of Prema. Loop-on-heatpipe just isn't very effective, (I tried it in one of my early mods, watercooling can do SO MUCH MORE than this 10%/10C!) But in the end I just couldn't justify the $5500+ AUD the Mech 16 or 17 would cost me... maybe later this year or the next. Better WC cooling will also allow a far better noise profile. My own WC mod reduces noise from 60dba at reduced power limits (to avoid thermal throttling) to well below 40dBa even when drawing 400+W from this 17" Clevo with 9900K+2x1080M. It's just really sad they went to all this trouble designing everything so well and then half baked the actual contact between the WC loop and the heatsink. It could have been incredible and really blown away all the competition. Also another way to test the effectiveness of temperature reduction is to aim an IR temp gun at the keyboard and compare at full load the with/without LPP temps.

Thanks!

Great video, thanks for sharing! Can you test cpu temps with undervolting? I read that eluktronics have a nice bios system for that staff

In the product details for these laptops it says that the RAM can be overclocked to 6400. How is this done - is it a simple toggle in the BIOS?

Great video as always very informative. I will say I'm not sure if I would like the inputs and ports on the back of the chassis. Feel like I'd have to move the laptop around just to plug in the power cord since seeing the input would be hard . Guess if I used that setup for a while I'd get used to it The chassis is nice on both of the laptops though visually I'd love to have either LoL but man $3k... Just to much for me. Wish I was rich

I have the XMG NEO 17 (E23) from Germany. With XMG's OASIS water cooling. It's the same thing.

Not much here for actual use and what the laptop feels like to use. At 10:35 you use the LPP/water cooling for "Beast" mode on the Mech16, when I think the point is to use beast mode without LPP?

Like I said to TOM from XMG when this year's version just came out, I'm really disappointed by the heatpipe design this year. Last year's design was nearly perfect. All they had to do is add a magnetic connector to it. But for some reason, ths year the LPP heatpipes barely touch the CPU, which results in high temps even with LPP connected while CPU power limits aren't impressive at all. How is alienware able to achieve much higher CPU power limits in combined loads with just air cooling than this laptop when it has the luxury of water cooling? Cooling a GPU is nice, but what's the point if it will mostly be bottlenecked by the slow CPU? In GPU-only(or gaming at 4k) workloads this is great, in combined loads like gaming at 1440p with high fps this is really disappointing. Thanks for the video!

500nits screen by any chance please?

I love Mech 17, it's a beast! If you're thinking about it, do it!

I want one so bad but my g16 7630 with cooling pad does fine, 60s gpu temps and 70’s cpu

This company has so many models and very little differences between them

Please what is the best anti virus for these beast especially for mech 17

Still the old Clevo chassis. I dunno I've got one but my friend got the lenovo I feel like it has better build quality even those cheap asus low powermodels.

No.1

Cpu temps are high cause liquid goes only on gpu...cpu is not cooled as gpu...thats a flaw

What happened to Steve?

anyone have a % off coupon? I'm going to buy one

Liquid cooling should be about reducing the unbearable noise and heat. To my surprize, not a single word about the noise in "conclusion".