THE CRUNCH
YouTuber TrashBench, known for extreme PC cooling mods, has strapped a cut-up 360mm all-in-one liquid cooler to a Metabox P950EP laptop, a Clevo-based machine with an Nvidia GTX 1060 and an Intel Core i7-8750H. The result looks absurd and works: during benchmarks and stress tests, both the CPU and GPU ran about 60C cooler than stock, staying well below 40C under full load. Anyone admiring the results should note the mod is largely permanent: Loctite two-part epoxy holds the radiator mount in place, and epoxy also secures heatsinks over the RAM and VRMs, so there is no easy return to stock cooling.
The build involved replacing the stock heatpipe and blower cooler with waterblocks held by 3D-printed mounts, screwed into the laptop's existing mounting holes. The original AIO pump proved too weak to push coolant through a second block, so a larger standalone pump went in, with the radiator mounted behind the screen and clear tubing secured by screw clamps. A leak test passed, albeit with a few nervous bubbles.
Power needed some surgery too. The laptop supplies 19V while the pump and fans run on 12V, so a DC-DC step-down converter was soldered to the original blower fan's contacts. Because the pump powers on with the laptop rather than under load, a toggle switch on the bottom shell lets the modder control it manually.
With all that temperature headroom, TrashBench overclocked the machine and saw an average gain of 14% across games and benchmarks. In Forza Horizon 5, frame rates climbed from 75 FPS to 83 FPS after overclocking.