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hello good people I'm Dimitri and I love my MacBook Pro I've had it for about two years I love the form factor the speakers the screen is awesome and the thinness and the weight is not an issue for me but the performance has been suffering lately so let's investigate so in the office I use my PC to render videos and the MacBook is just being used as a little Netflix machine it you know in my living room but at CES as I was starting to getting back into editing with this machine everyone's still sleeping I'm rendering my first CS video on the throttle MacBook that has to be upside down for best air flow so I think we're on to a good start it felt really slow it was throttle like crazy even with the fans wrapping up to 100% so it was super loud so I really wanted my Jigga herds back because in the beginning when I bought the MacBook how super happy with performance but now where did my Jigga Hertz go and in its current state I would have to wait way too long for any 4k renders which is why we had to revert to 1080p for our CES coverage so I'm really sorry about that so I have a little bit of thermal paste left this is the Arctic silver 5 it's a really nice thermal paste I've been using this particular tube for like a year and a half I have no idea how there's still something in there left but we're gonna put the new thermal paste on and I've never actually opened the macbook before so I don't know what the procedure would be like but as long as we follow instructions and nothing breaks we'll be fine so let's begin right after this wondering how to fix a boring fan check out halos RGB they are super slim fan frames that light up your blades of any shade come on 120 and 140 member sizes to fit any fan and that control through your motherboard or your fan text case available in beautiful aluminum or simple plastic it's time to halos your build outline what matters now before we begin I want to say that you know watching a YouTube video on this thing would give me like eighty degrees Celsius and a really loud fan operation I have no idea of why that's happening and while rendering videos of course they were just completely reach like 99 Celsius at certain sections is just unacceptable performance and I'm hoping that my application of new thermal paste and the low cleanup process will fix things all I want is slightly better performance and reach Ebers level because he's using the gigabyte notebook which is super powerful and exporting times on that machine are just incredible like they almost match what I'm using on my desktop and so I'm really hoping that with a little bit of extra performance we can inch a bit closer to what Ebor is experiencing on his gigabyte all right so let's begin the teardown all right so everything went smoothly and man you've gotta appreciate that whole black PCB guts design it's you never see it until you open it but you do appreciate once you do and you definitely have to appreciate the cooler design it's thinner than my watch band on my watch that's just crazy delivering so much performance in such a compact form factor which is ironic because I'm having issues with performance so let's see and that thermal paste reapplication did anything and I'm happy to report that it did suck at Heber would you gigabyte no book to GT X 1080 whatever now first I want to point out something strange happening with Adobe Premiere when I'm exporting my 1080p timeline into either a 1080p output or a 4k output a thoughts upscaling your footage so in the 1080p render the CPU frequency drops to 1.9 gigahertz on average while the GPU frequency is around 8 80 megahertz while at 4k render we are using about 2.3 gigahertz on the CPU and 1.1 gigahertz on the GPU and it seems like it's down clocking when we are exporting into 1080p both the GPU and the CPU which I find strange because the temperatures in that scenario are 85 degrees Celsius which gives us plenty of headroom like 5 degrees Celsius until we hit that 90 degree sort of ceiling for premiere or for the MacBook in general so I'm not exactly sure what's happening and if you do let's have a conversation below and after the thermal paste swap we're actually seeing a hundred 50 megahertz bump in the CPU frequency and about the hundred megahertz on the GPU with slightly increased temperatures but that's fine because as long as the machine can do the cooling itself it can boost to its maximum frequency and gain extra power and thus reduce our render times so that's 80% reduction and 1080p renders uh-huh and then for you so what does that mean for my render times I still plan to use this machine for shows actually I might steal Ebers gigabyte and so for 1080p we're seeing 8 percent faster render times after the swap and in 4k a 7% faster render times which is fantastic for this quick little little fixer-upper yeah and in simple minutes instead of waiting 40 minutes for a 4k export I now get to wait only 37 also during YouTube playback I'm no longer hovering around 80 degrees Celsius we drop to about 76 so that's great and I'm thinking I don't know what's happening there but at load the fan speed may seem to have dropped slightly because I'm also seeing about the point 5 decibel reading lower after the swap at load while it's exporting right so I don't know what else to say but it works swapping your thermal paste on the MacBook it's fairly straightforward as long as you follow instructions and you have the correct tools and really good thermal paste too and just seeing what I was able to achieve in this you know performance wise pretty happy that it all turned out well so guys thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe and check out that gigabyte notebook that I've been talking about because man eBrush sure sells at wall it seems like a fantastical or performer i'll child leave it right over there I'm Dimitri thanks much for watching we'll see you in the next video