[DicedPixel]

A small update.

I received the tablet, I've updated the bios to 2.7. That went well.

I opened it and did the thermal mod with a shim and proper thermal pads. That went well. Shitty procedure, but it worked.

Changed the SSD to a 240 GB one. That went well.

Installed a clean windows 10. That went well.

Installed drivers and tweaked windows for a while to optimize it and remove the microshit spyware. That was boring as always.

I get 33 degrees in idle. 67 on full load. I will use this tablet for internet browsing, skype, watching movies and some touch supported games.

What am I to do with the 128 GB SSD ? Will that sell on Ebay ?

Now my two cents, after building PC for two decades, from a usability point of view vs what it costed :

After a day of use, the battery lasted around 7 hours of just playing with it ( windows tweaking) , no games. Screen was at 40%

I would say it is almost ok, but I would never buy it again. I am a bit sorry about the money now. This is not a product to last a few years. I give it max 2.

The standard charger only outputs 2A. The battery gets charged only 89%. Motherfucker. I wonder if it's Cube or Banggood that chose that charger.

Will look into buying a proper Type C charger with PD , around 60W. Maybe that will charge the battery to 100%. ( wasn't the 2.7 BIOS supposed to fix that, or was just to display the correct battery values , work hours and capacity ?)

Anyway, it was fun, but never again :) I am looking now for a screen protector, the keyboard for it will arrive in a couple of days.

Cristian

 

 

 

 

[DicedPixel]

Yes, I will apply the thermal mod. I have all I need from when I was doing watercooling mods on video cards. ( 20×20 shims, thermal adhesive, proper thermal pads, cleaner and paste. )  Now I am glad I kept them.

[DicedPixel]

Thank you for the help. Will report about how it went when the tablet reaches me.

Cristian

[DicedPixel]

BoORD_L, what is the correct procedure to update the bios on the Cube i9 ?

I have the original bios backup, the 2.6 and the 2.7 version one you posted.

But I have read that if you click in the update window, during the update, you will brick it, and no file will be updated.  With or without the keyboard.

Also that the screen will go dark during the update and you just have to press Y at least 3 times ?

 

So, any advice when I run the bios flash exe so I would not brick the tablet ?

Thank you for your help,

Cristian

[DicedPixel]

I found this.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Transcend-MT400-M-2-NGFF-SSD-256GB-SATA-III-Laptop-Desktop-Solid-State-Drives/2043180768.html

I hope is not fake.

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