 So the thing about modern laptops is that there isn't a whole lot that's designed to be upgraded about them except for one thing that most people probably wouldn't think of Some laptops out there can actually have their displays upgraded So we and by we I mean Alex Ordered a replacement screen for our Acer Predator Whatever this thing is. What is this the Helios 300? So we can go from 1080p 60Hz to 1080p 120Hz Also bigger color gamut. Really? Yeah Well, why don't we do just that? iFixit's Manta Toolkit comes with a 112 bits including standard ones like Philips and Flathead But also specialty ones check it out today at the link in the video description So much like many of Alex's videos these days He doesn't appear to have done a whole ton of planning In fact, he hasn't even opened the package for the replacement screen, but you validated that this works Forums have said it should work. Forums have said it should work. Okay. Yeah, hopefully I figure if this one doesn't work, we also have a Dell G3 that also should work. So with this. Yeah There's a couple of key things that you need to look out for one is the actual Physical size of the display that you're buying but there's more to it than just oh, I've got a 15.6 inch laptop I buy a 15.6 inch panel and dippity boppity because there's also the mounting points of which there are many standards and also there are a Shocking number of display interfaces for laptops. So hopefully we're gonna have some luck today. Why don't we should we should we unbox this first? That's the one thing I fix it kids don't have. I think this will work. Haha It said on the eBay listing that it should also work for this and some Dell laptop. So we'll see I guess I mean especially given that back when we reviewed the Helios 300 as I recall We said pretty much the only issue with it was that the screen wasn't that great. Yeah pretty much So you guys got to remember when you buy an LCD display assembly like this It includes the front glass the actual LCD in the middle and also the backlight So we should be able to address the fact that it's 60 Hertz and the fact that the backlight isn't particularly bright And then this says don't touch. Oh Like was I really not supposed to touch it? I figured you might as well liquid metal it while we're in there. So Let's just replace the display and call that the project, but it could be just a bit quieter It's not even a loud laptop. Have you like googled anything about this? Do we need to pop these rubber doohickeys off? Or like what's our deal here? I don't know There we go, I'm good I'm clear why are things assembled with clips hold on hold on Well, that was easier than I expected this might be the shortest Linus and Alex do a weird thing adventure yet There's no way it's just that easy Cool okay So those mount points look pretty similar that interface looks Pretty darn similar. See check that out there still plenty of time for us to break this We get some more tape to put on there Yes, based on that it just slipped out The other cool thing about this is that there's lots of reasons why you might want to replace the display in your laptop Other than you know being on the lookout for a performance upgrade like oh crap. That's not the right spot Oh shoot like for example It's a pretty common issue to end up with an outline of your keyboard scratched into your glass So for 55 bucks you can get the thing as good as new that's freaking awesome. Okay, hold on We may have spoken too soon Is it a touch wider? No, it's the same. Okay, what's going on here? Maybe I just didn't pay close attention to how this came out Oh, I think it just shifted a little yeah, these just shifted. Okay, so that's fine If yeah, if you want to hold that so you just want to make sure before you screw it in these little pieces Right here. They make sure those are popped all the way through so you can see the the frame like the brace thing here It's not quite aligned. See now it's popped through So we should end up with a nice flush mount now, whoa, so we don't even have to put the bezel on What no way that easy Dang All right. So first thing we'll test is the brightness buttons then I guess right wait, are they working? It doesn't look like it's doing anything But let's go ahead and change it to 120 Hertz see if it works So this is a handy dandy little utility by toast EX called custom resolution utility And as far as we've been able to find it's the only one that allows you to actually set custom resolutions and refresh rates When you have Intel integrated graphics and an Nvidia dedicated graphics card running in like hybrid GPU mode It's really frustrating the Intel utility has an interface for it You can key it in and then from my experience anyway, it just spits out errors for the most part Yeah, it just says like bandwidth not available Which is ridiculous because you could even set something lower in some cases and it'll be like Oh maximum bandwidth exceeded Oh For crying out loud why always didn't even warn us either. I just hit restart one Eternity later quick quick get over here it rebooted once already, but it's good. It's just what that is It's definitely 120 Hertz smoothness. Look at that. Isn't that beautiful? It's beautiful so we can go ahead and pull this off That is a much Much nicer display than what was on here before We should probably like fire up a game or something in right? Oh for crying out loud. Oh I managed to Walk into a trap already that okay Gaming in 2018 ladies and gentlemen, so there you have it There's not really much else to say everything that's good about high refresh rate 120 Hertz gaming is now officially good about this laptop and all you have to lose is 55 Canadian rubles about a half an hour of your time assuming that you're totally incompetent and Well brightness adjustment, which is sort of the biggest problem, but something that if your use case is predominantly gaming I think you still might want to consider speaking of things to consider our sponsor Rose wills prism s500 case offers RGB lighting with a sleek and unique design at an affordable price It's got dual LED RGB ring fans that emit more light to your internal components. 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