Hey,
That might help but I think you would still see some pretty high temps…
I did a thermal mod of my own that was much more involved and was a much bigger PITA than Chris’s version.
What did I get for my efforts? A 2 C degree drop on the max temp for a core, bringing it to 66 c lol. However, the other cores maxed out at 61 C, 58 C , and 58 C!
I think Chris’s method is probably best because it’s pretty easy and gets great results.
Just know that with however you’re going to go about it that there is limited space to play with. If you remove the aluminum shield you could possibly get between 2.1 mm to a little over 3 mm if your shims are light, so they don’t weigh down on the screen.
I have a 20 x 20 x 1 mm copper shim on the core and a 76 x 50 x 1.2 mm copper plate attached to the back case with thermal adhesive. There’s also arctic silver 5 between the CPU and 1 mm shim and between the 1 mm shim and the 1.2 mm copper plate.
The back of my tablet gets really hot bench marking in both Prime95 and 3DMark11 but the temps are awesome and the tablet can run long term stable benchmarks.
I also recently found and ordered one of these:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/UF3A3-500/259-1519-ND/2417175
It’s a 10 x 10 x 3 mm fan and it puts out a good amount of air. The site claims it’s 29 db but the fan is actually really quiet. I don’t believe it’s above 15 db.
Also, if you’re brave, i tested it and it runs off the battery terminals of the tablet. So you could solder it to the positive and negative battery leads and you have an actively cooled tablet. This also means you would need to make some small drill holes in the back of the tablet casing 😉 …
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