Thermal Mod – 1mm or 0.8mm copper shim?

[Drachenherz]

Hi guys

I just ordered a mix plus from gearbest. I intend to do the thermal mod. I read somewhere around this forum that the 1mm copper shim would be a bit too thick. Is that true?

 

So what would work better: a 20x20x1 mmm shim or a 20x20x.08 mm shim?

 

thanks for any input.

 

reeeeeally looking forward to this tablet – I’m going to use this with an ipega 9023 controller and my huge backlog of steam games hehe.

[fris]

I used 1mm cooper shim, and fits perfect. Then putted 6 cooper shim all over between back cover of the tablet and the piece that covers the processor. 20ª less of temperature.

[Drachenherz]

@fris

Thanks for your reply! So I’ll order 1mm 20x20mm shim for the cpu/gpu and re-use the thermal pad for between the Aluminium Thing (that covers the cpu/gpu) and the back cover of the tablet, like in the techtablets-mod.

[Cloppy]

Let us know how it goes

[Drachenherz]

Cloppy, will definetely do. But it’ll take time, the copper shims I want to order from Banggood will are out of stock atm and will be restocked on around the 28th of february.
BTW, how similar are the internals of the cube i7 book and the mix plus? I just read up on the thermal mod on the i7 book. There is talk that a 1mm thick shim and a 0,5mm thick thermal pad would be ideal.
Ah, my cube mix hasn’t even shipped yet and I’m already nervous about this mod haha. 🙂

[Veidas]

Aliexpress has copper shims in stock, any kind. Internals are 99% same. Also techtablets.com made a video of thermal mod for mix plus, no need to do it accorrding to i7 book tutorial.

[Drachenherz]

I just re-watched the thermal mod Video for the cube mix plus, and I noticed Chris saying that he used a hammer to “treat” the Aluminium heatsink in the area where there is an indent where the cpu/gpu is… So… wouldn’t it be easier to not hammer the Thing but instead use a slightly thinner copper shim, i.e. the 0.8 mm one?

 

[Drachenherz]

Allright, I ordered a 15x15x1mm copper shim, it should arrive in 2 to 3 weeks… I’ll post on these boards when I finish the mod.

[Dhr. Jeep]

Any news? I know it’s an old topic but I would like to require all the experience from others 🙂

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