did it improve battery life, or slightly increase performance?

@@pablieto-veganson helped temp lower

Fantastic! I am loving it, totally worth it. I will be posting a benchmark comparison video soon. There are definite gains.

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.

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Thank you very much !

Thanks so much!

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.

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.

Uhg, definitely yes. Looks like I failed to add that here. Shame on me.

@@baldsealion Add it in the description.

@@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.

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.

@@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.

@@Meninem_ Supposedly this pad is non conductive, even when it turns to liquid.

They’re in the video that followed

No 😊