overclocking 950 xl

[iambearyc]

I was going to write a much more detailed step by step guide but i am too lazy and do not want to encourage you to disassemble your 950xl if you aren't already comfortable doing so

this is not a guide, but a source of information and hopefully the beginning of a discussion on improving 950xl WOA performance from a hardware perspective

out of the box the 950XL overheats and doesn't perform at it's full potential, but every drop of performance, especially cpu, is going to benefit WOA

there are multiple design flaws that cause thermal throttling in the final release product:

the "water cooling" doesn't actually contain any liquid despite initial intentions
there is board forming a barrier between the "water cooling" and the main chip
the thermal paste between the board and the "water cooling" is really bad, which adds to the above barrier
to solve the above issues the chassis above the chip functions a heat spreader but there is no thermal paste between the main chip and the chassis

heres what i did about it:

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any ideas how to improve on this?


note that i specifically used kryonaut because it is the best option for this, and even it is not capable of fully dissipating all the heat
anybody not using kryonaut will see less improvement than my own examples

[hardwiredw10]

Could we see the final result?

I mean share photos with the kryonaut how different will it look.

And you should elaborate slightly on that.
Maybe even a video in the future.

[iambearyc]

ah sorry, i do not have the proper tools so i cannot disassemble and reassemble my phone multiple times, photos i also did not take

looks same as any paste, it will be fine as long as enough is used, only issues are when using too little

not sure what else i could add to this , mostly want to make the point that performance boost is possible and reproduceable
i will answer any questions though c:

also, got even better top results since the above, maybe needed time to settle in:

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[viper-poo]

Thanks for your guidance! Its near your score

[viper-poo]

Thanks for guidance!

[jbiserkov]

What was the original score?

[iambearyc]

What was the original score?

it varied a lot, scores dropped faster whilst charging as there is more heat accumulation

anywhere from 94k following cold boot with no charger
to as low as 79k when phone is warm and charging

the thermal improvements have boosted the max score but the bigger difference is the much less throttling

this better explains the difference in results:

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note that i specifically used kryonaut because it is the best option for this, and even it is not capable of fully dissipating all the heat
anybody not using kryonaut will see less improvement than my own examples