how good is the thermal pad mod on a MacBook Neo?

How much physical pain are you willing to endure if it means your laptop will run a little better? Today we're testing out the thermal pad modification on our MacBook Neo because it turns out Apple leaves about a millimeter worth of space between the bottom of your laptop and the CPU. But this is a lot of metal that we could use to help dissipate more heat. So by taking a thermal pad and cutting it so it fits directly on top of our MacBook CPU, now all the heat generated from it will go directly into the bottom of our case here. For comparison, this is pre-modification, where we can measure the CPU frequency over the course of a Cyberpunk

benchmark, which as you can see, thermal throttled under 2 gigahertz and our resulting FPS was 36. So now with our thermal pad modification installed, we can run that exact same test to see that our P-cluster CPU frequency is well over 3 gigahertz and our resulting FPS is now 42 up from 36 pre-modification. That is an absurd improvement just by adding a tiny bit of thermal pad inside of our MacBook Neo. Now I will say the bottom of the case is expectedly quite a bit hotter.

We're basically using all this metal now as a heat sink to pull heat away from the CPU. So while it might hurt a bit more to keep on your lap now due to the extra heat, did So while it might hurt a bit more to keep on your lap now due to the extra heat, did the increased performance in my opinion is worth it.