Solid tutorial. Completely disregarded it and just watched your video on your thermal results, but this is a lifesaver for anyone who doesn't know how to take apart electronics. Commenting so more people see this.
@MioMate187 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the god tutorial. It was my first change of thermal paste since my training as an it specialist 15 years ago. Because I didn't listen exactly I hardcore cleaned the silver chips on the frame around because they were full of thermal paste, and I was wondering as I saw they don't get covered by the thermal pad 😮. But everything works extremely fine, I additionaly replaced the back shell with the vent version of jsaux. The deck now is 99% silent no matter what I play. For example 3h Armored core 6, docked highest preset s with some tunings locked 40fps. The Gpu is at its limit 98% most of the time, temps are 77° and fan is absolutely ❤
@califpv6 ай бұрын
Been using 91% iso on all my PC builds for 15+ years. Skip the headache of having to purchase it online, because no stores carry 99%. Great video 👍🏼
@Rickatsu Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH, you made this so much easier to do. I followed every step as you went and pretty much finished at the same time. Much better temps!!!
@pablieto-veganson8 ай бұрын
did it improve battery life, or slightly increase performance?
@Rickatsu8 ай бұрын
@@pablieto-veganson helped temp lower
@victortrujillo25918 ай бұрын
Best video on how to install thermal pad !! Thanks for such a detailed and well documented video !!
@SolarianN29 ай бұрын
Careful when plugging the battery back in. Mine decided to power on when I did and I didn't notice. Went to put the metal plate back in and sparked the board. Ended up killing my LED and sound indicator for booting. Lucked out as it still fully functions normally besides that.
@joejjeman7 ай бұрын
also did this upgrade... what a difference in noise! also undervolted
@MatthewBarbourSMJ Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid, followed this vid and my deck is definitively cooler.
@baldsealion Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I am loving it, totally worth it. I will be posting a benchmark comparison video soon. There are definite gains.
@pablieto-veganson8 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for making this tutorial man! ✅🙏🏻 Btw, how thick is the ptm material? It seems to be a big deal how thick the pad is.
@FelMaBo Жыл бұрын
and the results? numbers? temperatures after and before ?
@baldsealion Жыл бұрын
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@Nyamiou Жыл бұрын
Very well made guide.
@baldsealion Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much !
@GREATVOVA11 ай бұрын
Applied arctic mx-6 and get some decent results. -1 degree C and -300 rpm under heavy load of Metro Exodus. Still worth it since mine SD is overclocked.
@danonino20034 ай бұрын
Thank you for measuring
@Squallrain88 Жыл бұрын
Best manual ! 👍
@baldsealion Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@risingrevolt541 Жыл бұрын
I just repasted with the PTM 7950 on my deck and I'm noticing that the temps are noticeably higher than before, in fact the fan ramps up to 7000 RPM more than with the stock paste. Should I reapply it immediately or I should I wait for a few heat cycles to pass?
@benjiro8793 Жыл бұрын
There is a lot of fake PTM7950 out there. And real PTM7950 really starts to work under load/higher temps (when it turns liquid) and pressure. If you get high temps and keep getting high rpm, you probably got fake or have bad pressure.
@jdott82329 ай бұрын
Is there a benefit to doubling up the pads. Like cutting it to the right size but place one on top of another?
@danconwell48428 ай бұрын
no, the paste or pad's purpose is to provide maximum surface contact area and maximum thermal conductivity, the thicker the material - the slower heat will move through it.. however if you go too thin, you may reduce contact (its really sat on a couple of high points with lower pressure or air gaps elsewhere). Its a tricky balance between being as thin as possible, as conductive as possible - but all while maintaining maximum surface contact.
@ziom00ziom Жыл бұрын
Hey, what about switch off the battery from bios before disassembly?
@baldsealion Жыл бұрын
Uhg, definitely yes. Looks like I failed to add that here. Shame on me.
@The_SUN1234 Жыл бұрын
@@baldsealion Add it in the description.
@baldsealion Жыл бұрын
@@The_SUN1234 Thanks for the suggestion! It's been both added as a video to the description and a separate info card at 1:25 in the video itself. Hopefully this helps.
@ForeverHollowedАй бұрын
Followed your instructions now my steam deck won't turn on. I guess I will just crawl in a hole and die
@MiloTheBakery Жыл бұрын
This paste completely fried my SD card and gave me an black screen of death which i can't fix. I opened the deck again and checked the thermal paste of this plate again and it was completely dry and everything was on the side. Used normal thermal paste but the black screen of death was still there. After like having the deck on for min, everything would go black. Had to buy a complete new deck... would never try it again lol.
@Meninem_ Жыл бұрын
My deck either died due to it coming faulty (RMA replacement for launch model) or the PTM7950 might've killed one of the tiny golden capacitors. The stuff works great on my desktop but on the steam deck, I'm worried that when it turns into a liquid, its destroying the APU capacitors due to heat. Also, when you opened the deck up, the PTM being a dry solid is normal, I saw the same thing in my unit. I think this mod is fine but too much PTM is being applied which causes it to overflow onto the rest of the APU. I should probably check my desktop cpu but the temps are almost away sub 40c on a Ryzen 9 5900x so I'm not gonna worry to much rn. RMA was a pain in the ass since support refused to believe that the deck after being shortly used. It could be a combination of things, my RMA unit came faulty with a muffled boot chime and super strong haptics to were anyone in the room could hear the motors struggle but the PTM might've also helped it die. Edit: Unfortunate that there isn't more information about this online. Logically though, too much thermal paste could yeild the same hypothetical result if it heat transfers to the capacitors. I don't think anyone would wanna test that theory though and if it has happened to someone, they wouldnt speak up or they don't have a good platform to raise concern. My factory thermal paste was annoying to clean up since a majority of it spilled onto the green part of the APU rather than covering it.
@MiloTheBakery Жыл бұрын
@@Meninem_ thanks for your informative response. As I want to be clear about the PTM being dry, I meant that the paste was litterally not on the APU anymore. It could’ve been because i pressed somewhat lightly harder on the heatsink or something, but everything was on the side and there was like nothing left on the APU.. With that being said i also placed the PTM on my CPU and GPU of my gaming laptop and have no problems with that. A 3070ti working completely fine, but i litterally think it killed my SD because of everything being on the side instead of on the APU, and that the APU and SD card just got too hot the first 2 min I turned on the SD. With that resulting in giving me black screens forever.. Honestly sold it as broken and bought a new one 64GB, installed a 1TB SSD and thats all i’m going to change on the steam deck as of the internal stuff. And again i’m never using a PTM again. I see more and more comments of people having issues like, it only caused their steam deck to get only hotter after installing the PTM.
@SergioNayar9 ай бұрын
@@Meninem_ Supposedly this pad is non conductive, even when it turns to liquid.
@IMIute Жыл бұрын
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@squiddymute2 ай бұрын
i gues this guide killed my deck, i get black screen and fan only, you should probably put your deck in batter storage mode before disconnecting the battery
@roullig11 ай бұрын
13:29 What's the size of the pad you bought? Is it 40x80? I'm trying to find out if 40x40 would be enough to cover a GPU die.