How stupid is this idea?

[Nalgasp3ludas]

I dreamed last night about this, turning my laptop into a desktop.

How doable is this? Ive seen a video were the guy grabs an old laptop and transforms it into a desktop but it was a cheap one. It would obviously need a custom made tower, fans, and a little ingenuity, but I think its possible. Maybe even a custom watercooling thingy might be possible aswell??. What do you guys think? In the video I saw, the guy ditches the keyboard, trackpad, screen, he uses the ports to conect all that stuff.

[TheEpicDuck]

Why? Seems like a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.

[SignatureSigner]

Not the most insane thing but by the time you do it it might be a better idea to just build a PC considering a laptop is going to have constraints a pc isn't going to have

 

Pc upsides

+dedicated GPU (If you want it)

+Overclocking (With certain CPus)

+Easyier

 

 

How powerful IS this laptop???

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can just use it as a desktop in the current case, connect a external monitor, keyboard + mouse and your good.

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, Nalgasp3ludas said:

I dreamed last night about this, turning my laptop into a desktop.

How doable is this? Ive seen a video were the guy grabs an old laptop and transforms it into a desktop but it was a cheap one. It would obviously need a custom made tower, fans, and a little ingenuity, but I think its possible. Maybe even a custom watercooling thingy might be possible aswell??. What do you guys think? In the video I saw, the guy ditches the keyboard, trackpad, screen, he uses the ports to conect all that stuff.

You may find this video relevant 

 

[Nalgasp3ludas]

5 hours ago, TheEpicDuck said:

Why? Seems like a lot of work for not a lot of benefit.

Because I would like to improve thermals

5 hours ago, SignatureSigner said:

Not the most insane thing but by the time you do it it might be a better idea to just build a PC considering a laptop is going to have constraints a pc isn't going to have

 

Pc upsides

+dedicated GPU (If you want it)

+Overclocking (With certain CPus)

+Easyier

 

 

How powerful IS this laptop???

I think its still mid to high end, gtx 1080, i7 7820hk, I oc to 4.2ghz when I play heavy games like rdr2 and warzone. I repasted it like 3 months ago and temps maxed at 88c and fans arent that loud but I would really like to try it out

5 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can just use it as a desktop in the current case, connect a external monitor, keyboard + mouse and your good.

Its a big laptop, 17 inches, I use an external mouse. 

[my name is guru iam tech]

you keep a cooling pad down the laptop and connect a external gpu and monitor and upgrade the laptop ram ,storage,and overlock cpu and you have succesfully turned a laptop into a desktop