thermal paste isn't quite as... liquid as liquid metal though.
to some degree, i suspect the sheet is meant to catch the heat from ram or distribute the heat of the die across that metal casing?
I understand this. I assume you skimmed my comment and missed the part where I said “frequent movement”. That’s the danger zone for this stuff. It’s not recommended for laptops for this reason
You can totally use liquid metal, its posted on other thread on this forum...
... But I wish I had thermal glue so I could actually glue copper to every god damn big chip inside the board, like the one for charging and the hdmi out and whatever, but stores here dont sell them anymore for years (its a permanent bond)...
Theres no point in putting paste between the back plate it hardly dissipates heat it's better to have the heat staying in the pipe and getting blown out the finsYou can totally use liquid metal, its posted on other thread on this forum...
Its not aluminum whatever they are using...
He removed the copper sheet out and used Liquid metal directly to the cooler, he noticed that the fan barely spins after the mod, so less power consumption on demanding games from the lower temps (in the winter u might not notice much difference, but I bet in the summer it will make a huge difference)...
He also re-opened the console like a week later and posted the results, the heatsink was completely fine, if it was aluminum it would only last a few minutes until it turned to metal pieces\dust.
However I still wouldnt recommend liquid metal on a portable console because it goes with you everywhere shaking from running\walking\driving whatever..., if you use buy the protective coat and use it all over around the SOC die so if something spills it won't eat\short components...
EDIT: I'm going to use Artic MX-4 on mine direct contact without the copper sheet and I will also add thermal pads on the ram chips and use a lot of thermal paste all over the copper pipe to the aluminum backplate
PS: FOUND THE LINK FOR YOU: https://gbatemp.net/threads/exchanging-thermal-paste.506597/page-5#post-8058013
No the copper plate is terrible after removing it the fan doesn't even kick in until under load it's stupid to have two layers of paste and a layer of copper between the heatsink it makes no sense
, but I definitely find it kinda awkward to have a hot device in my hands, my Nvidia Shield tablet is already bloody hot if I open a game in it.Totally agree, I don't even know what kind of engineer designed it... One thing is Intel on a CPU, but this is a very different level of stupidity, I never saw even a intel based laptop with dual thermal compound mixed with a small sheet for either SOC\CPU\GPU...
I thought the reason could have been is that the heat sink wasn't making perfect contact with the die so they had to pad it out. But ive taken it out of about 4 switches with no issueThe backplate helps slightly, the more metal the better, but its main objective is so it doesn't give you hot spots on the console, so it never gets much hot spots when touching it...
Without it I bet the part near the SOC and the Exit copper fins will be damn hot to the touch, some people might enjoy it in the winter though
It might also help just a little against bending consoles that the screen even glues out, the more heat in a small spot, I bet the more the chances of bending the plastic and melting the glue sticker of the screen though the main problem seems to be to the front of the console and not much from the back...
Removing it or not it probably won't do much of a difference, but even if I could drop 1Cº with the backplate I would be happy and spread the heat evenly so it doesnt get hot spots when touching it.
Totally agree, I don't even know what kind of engineer designed it... One thing is Intel on a CPU, but this is a very different level of stupidity, I never saw even a intel based laptop with dual thermal compound mixed with a small sheet for either SOC\CPU\GPU...
between the die an heatsink is two layers of paste and a coppr sheet take the copper off, clean the paste then put some decent paste in your fan will hardly run
Absolute B's right here .. bought a fucking launch switch and it blue screened after a year.... If that really... Was told BY NINTENDO you get like 6 months warranty it some crap.... 2 years is absolutely false.
I live in Italy EU, 2 year warranty is established by law, so if Nintendo refuses to cover my warranty i just call consumer protection and fine the shit out of them.
ahh ur lucky :/ my wifes switch just shit itself when she only played it for a month. (she left it on the dock for months without touching it)
I wouldn't recommend liquid metal ive used it on several laptops and the heatsinks soak it up after a while and it ruins the mating surface, switch has a copper shim between the processor and heatsink with 2 layers of thermal paste you can remove this and get better coolingHello!
Sorry for getting topic out of his grave
I plan to Thermal Mod my OLED with Instinct-NX installed.
How can I cool the ram?
The modchip is glued (double-sided paper) right of the part of the metal cage where the ram is.
And I want to thermal mod because I want to overclock, and i've read that for some games, overclocking ram is better than SoC, and I don't want to fry them
