[Ethan Spitz]

Reposting what I posted in the Teclast forum.

I figure I should let everyone know that they want to steal your money. See below. Currently working to get PayPal to refund me.

Just some more details, this was the pre-order or the Teclast X98 Pro that I pre-ordered on Sept 9 and was supposed to ship out 3-5 days after Sept 15.

On Oct 5, I got fed up on waiting and cancelled the order. Oct 6, they confirm that my order has been canceled. Oct 6, I tell them how I’d like my refund. Oct 13, they decided that it has now already shipped and they can’t refund me, a full week after they already promised the refund.

[Ethan Spitz]

Thanks

Chris G wrote:

Ethan Spitz wrote:

Hey Chris! Could you do a write up on the thermal mod you did? Your video is a bit hard to follow since you don’t quite mention the thickness of all the parts you used or explain how you attached the copper shim to the CPU. Was it a 20x20x1mm copper shim under the shield? Did you use thermal adhesive (ceramic or silver?) to attach it or just thermal paste? Also, Thermal paste on top of the shim too before putting the shield back on? Did the 1mm thermal pad on top of the shield make contact with the back of the case? Perhaps upgrade that pad to a 30x30x1mm since we have plenty of surface area to attach to? Thanks, Ethan

I used 1 20mm x 20mm 1mm thick copper shim with thermal paste. And then thermal adhesive on top of it to secure it in place to the shielding which I left. I replaced the Ram thermal pads with my own higher quality one and use a 1mm thermal pad on top of the shielding to give it contact with the tablets rear metal housing. I think now if I do the mod I would use a larger thermal pad maybe 60x 60 or larger on the shielding to give more contact with the rear of the tablet housing. There is definitely room for improvement and I only used what I had with me at the time. It still gives me a 24% boost in FPS. <span class=”embed-youtube” style=”text-align: center; display: block;”><iframe class=”youtube-player” src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/_5Bj2I3g_s0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent&#8221; width=”810″ height=”486″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”></iframe></span>

Thanks Chris!

Mine should ship out from gearbest tomorrow or so. I’ll report back if there’s any issues with thermals (before I open it up of course)

Ethan

[Ethan Spitz]

Also, looking into trying this instead of copper :O

http://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/p/panasonic/pyrolytic-graphite-sheets

edit: doesn’t come thicker than .1mm 😛

Edit 2: Actually might be perfect. http://semiaccurate.com/2013/08/15/panasonic-make-a-10-micron-thick-carbon-phone-heatsink/

Could attach directly to cpu and the use thermal adhesive to attach directly to the back of the case, the Case would then be one big heat sink that is “next to perfectly” attached to the CPU

[Ethan Spitz]

Hey Chris!

Could you do a write up on the thermal mod you did? Your video is a bit hard to follow since you don’t quite mention the thickness of all the parts you used or explain how you attached the copper shim to the CPU.

Was it a 20x20x1mm copper shim under the shield? Did you use thermal adhesive (ceramic or silver?) to attach it or just thermal paste? Also, Thermal paste on top of the shim too before putting the shield back on? Did the 1mm thermal pad on top of the shield make contact with the back of the case? Perhaps upgrade that pad to a 30x30x1mm since we have plenty of surface area to attach to?

Thanks,

Ethan

[Ethan Spitz]

Do you know if we buy the tablet now if we can update to the dual OS bios, or does it require different hardware as well?

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