thermal, ssd, and weight modification

[nipaph]

have you seen the pics here?  http://www.nipaph.com/hacking/cube-i7-book-hack/

[Rohan Elwadhi]

I have, but you do not mention are/where the screws need to open the keyboard, as well as the metal frame. You mention that is difficult, but not the procedure in how to get it done.

Thanks.

[Johan Israelsson]

Just ordered a 0,5mm thermal pad. Just going for an easy mod, thermal pad on top of original heatsink. starting with 0,5mm. Ifs not thick enough I just put Another on top makin it 1mm.

[nipaph]

No screws, to open the keyboard, just inside to remove the circuit board to allow the metal plate to be removed.

To open the keyboard you need to use a plastic tool to avoid scratches. You can start near the usb port pressing in the junction, and going all around. I’ve used these tools.

[Koray K]

Nipaph, as far as I can see you only glued a thermal pad on the heatsink rather than adding a copper plate or something like that between the cpu and the heatsink. Did you measure how much difference in the maximum temperatures your mod achieves? I don’t want to bother wth the copper heatsink, but I can add a thermal pad when I open the tablet up for upgrading the SSD.

[nipaph]

I measured about 10 °C less with the mod doing some benkmark tests.

I did this easy mod because i read somewhere that with the ‘hard mod’ there weren’t much difference.

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[Koray K]

Thanks, 10 °C is good enough for me 🙂

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