WARNING: No thermal pads at all on the EzBook 3 plus

[Francesco]

As the title says, the temps of my brand new 3 plus were bad, really bad, it went from 40 to 100 C in a blink of an eye during any benchmark, or to 90 during simple internet browsing.

After opening it for the modding (i already had in mind to do so) i discovered that there were no thermal pads at all, the core-M was simply leaning against the copper heatsink, keep this in mind if you plan to buy one.

After the mod+undervolting temps during a stress benchmark are around 70-72 and the system enters power limit throttling way before going into thermal throttling.

[Chupa]

I always wondered why use thermal pads between the processor and copper heatsink. Would it not make a lot more sense instead of replacing the pads with, also copper, shimmies to just make sure the copper heatsink directly touches the processor and then use heat transfering paste instead?

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[Francesco]

it sure makes sense, the probem was that nothing was used, no paste or pad.

If i had some paste i would have probably used that, i guess that it`s cheaper and easier for the manufacturer to use a thermal pad

[EZB3PlusOwner]

Mine has a thin thermal pad on the CPU, but still went to 100 C in the mprime benchmark before I’ve put a thermal pad between the heatsink and the bottom cover.

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