Hacking Sx Core and Sx Lite , test Units Received

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Yeah the installation look risky, personally I wouldn’t want to unseat heatsink, also to place ribbon on top of cpu chip, that may cause the ribbon to disintegrate by exposing to the heat generated. I think the best would be just remove the metal shield and back cover only, and simply clip in the connections.
the OG switch peaked at 60c with fan unplugged/covered when someone tried to overheat it.

the mariko switches run cooler due to smaller NM soc and not including you can drop the temperature more with a thermal replace and having the copper tape removed to make the heatpipe actually touch the die directly

even so the flex cable should be easily in heat specifications for electronics
 

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Suddenly my jig doesn't seem so bad...
I don't care if it's once a week or once every few months, having to open your Switch for any kind of 'update' would really suck balls.
you can patch games to run on lower FW's though , and it is hardly ever that Nintendo actually adds anything useful
so i don't think we will have to open it that often , plus that is assuming Nintendo can even do anything to patch this exploit and if they will
 

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I'm all new to this amazing scene but been following it for a while as bough Switch couple of months ago with intention of hacking it and it's Mariko one so I'm impatiently waiting for this solution to be out. I've ordered it from free-switch website to be delivered to UK. Latest news I was told that once it's 2-4 weeks delivery time once it's shipped and is supposed to be mid may. Hope info helps all of you waiting ;).

Now enough about me.
What I wanted to add to this conversation is that it was mentioned that one points of testing is to come out with manual and diagram how to soldier it to the Switch so I think we should all stop asking about them and let testers do their job and wait for TX to come up with simple and clear manual.

I have basic soldering skills and will try to do it myself and if I succeed and it's simple enough I'm more than happy to do it for others based in UK but let's wait and see.

Be patient everyone, its almost here :grog:
 

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Good break down in this video. Pretty much explained all parts and their function. As someone mentioned already, looks like only 2 soldering points for both Core and Lite.

I'm not sure I come to the same conclusion as that breakdown video on SP1 and SP2. The exposed pads around the holes for 2 resistors look to me like you're going to need to bridge that directly to the resistors on the SoC, not the giant pads below that he's indicating. Those look like possibly grounding pads against the heatpipe assembly to me. There's also several pads that will be bridged to tiny components on the other piece, it looks like 7 points there too.
 

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I'm not sure I come to the same conclusion as that breakdown video on SP1 and SP2. The exposed pads around the holes for 2 resistors look to me like you're going to need to bridge that directly to the resistors on the SoC, not the giant pads below that he's indicating. Those look like possibly grounding pads against the heatpipe assembly to me. There's also several pads that will be bridged to tiny components on the other piece, it looks like 7 points there too.
Why don't you just feed me to the lions.. Stomp on my head while I'm drowning. "Team Player".
 

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Why don't you just feed me to the lions.. Stomp on my head while I'm drowning. "Team Player".
it was a good breakdown but on the switch lite he definitely missed 2 very obvious solder points @ 13:12 in the video if you look to the far left on the main board of the mod chip you can see 2 quick solder points that you need to solder to each end of a surface mounted resistor or capacitor that is located right above the micro SD slot
so we are looking at at least 4 solder points for the lite version
that other ribbon connector is what really has me nervous there are lots of metal pads on it like 7 or 8 n that piece alone
so we could be look at like 11 or 12 points for the lite
 

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the OG switch peaked at 60c with fan unplugged/covered when someone tried to overheat it.

the mariko switches run cooler due to smaller NM soc and not including you can drop the temperature more with a thermal replace and having the copper tape removed to make the heatpipe actually touch the die directly

even so the flex cable should be easily in heat specifications for electronics
I’m pretty sure the temperature is captured using internal temperature sensor or FLIR, we all got to joke around how game consoles getting bend, SD card getting bend, I know switch get a little warm when it’s loaded, tbh it’s one of the Nintendo product that I think running at very high temperature, the core temperature might be 60c, but I had no idea the long term impact on high heat, also it’s the cpu that’s generally the warmest spot and nobody wish to attach anything near to that. Yeah I owned a switch, and it warm up just like any personal laptop I owned. And I wonder why people want to attach a cooling fan on the back of the switch, that make very little sense. Mariko units are great, I'd like to get one ASAP, hopefully could expect a 5c improvement.
 

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