Has anyone bought a JSAUX backplate recently? Was curious if they fixed the issue with the slight gap on the top near the charger port. If not, any idea how thick the thermal pad is? The new colour options looks really tempting but the slight gap would bother me a little too much, so planning to either swap it with a thinner pad or just completely remove it.
No gaps anywhere around mine, it fits just as well as the original one once all the screws are in. I love it always use to love transparent shells and gutted companies no longer do them as an option.
The metal on the backplate does get very warm at around 50c but if doesn’t bother me whatsoever, handy in the winter if my hands get cold though
. It definitely helps smooth out the fan ramping up and down in extremely demanding games as the plate takes a while to heat up, in some games I could hit 85c for a moment before the fan would really ramp to the 6000rpm+ range and cool things back down before it then ramps up again.
The temps with just a backplate swap the temps usually maxed out at 78c to 80c but it’s doing it with a lower fan rpm so I now have a much quieter deck. Opened it up again and changed out the paste as I thought I may as well, used some PK3 paste which seems to be fine and shouldn’t dry out under lots of heat hopefully.
The only issue which a few have had is with the back buttons, seems on one side the manufacturing tolerance is extremely tight so once the plate is snapped into place and screwed in the buttons on one side are permanently pressed in so they won’t work, extremely simple fix is on the plastic buttons they give you, you just need gently sand the long stand off that touches the switch on the deck, only needs about the thickness of a piece of paper or two removing so that when it’s back together the stand off is resting on the actual switch on the board sand not constantly pressing it. Annoying issue that hopefully they fix but once done the buttons work flawlessly, and I’m using the raised ones which feel so much nicer than the stock ones.