My GPD Win 4 6800U Handheld with a 4TB Crucial P3 Plus M.2, Cooling Improvements plus Accessories 

Great choice...

i have the win 4 6800u i willl get the 7840u version soon

Yea I've gotta order what's required for the screen fix and get back inside it. But although I don't really notice anything. I am using the 59hz hack however. I'm more interested so I can get the proper 40Hz vs the 45Hz it comes with. Phawx did a great video so I may just follow that :)

Nah, they're not the only make of large single-sided m.2 drives. At the very least, all the Samsung 990 Pros are single-sided, including the 4TB model. Chucked one in my GPD Win 4 2023, works fine.

Stop spreading misinformation. I’m using a Silicon Power 4tb SSD in mine and it works phenomenally.

@@TheBossVinegar "LIKE THE", means one of the EXTREME FEW. Learn English better.

@@tdata545 Even so, you’re still wrong😂🤣😂. Any 2280 SSD can go into the GPD Win 4, double sided or not. The Crucial ones are the last one I’d pick over the Silicon Power ones or even Samsung 990 Evo, plus the other 100+ options you can pick from. Don’t tell someone to learn better English because don’t know how to articulate yourself properly. You’re literally just spreading misinformation. No one’s paying attention to “like the” when you have an essay of text that means nothing since it’s built off of a false base. There aren’t an “extreme few” that’ll work, that are quite a few, and I mean a lot so stop.

@@TheBossVinegar Which VERSION? Since As of 2022 and 2023 that wasn't the case. Then that would mean it could take an 8TB stick without issue.

I'm buying a 7840u, can you tell me if this heat is better?

@@felipelima1343 The heat is fine with a few modification. Dont run on 25Watt on portable mode if not needed. maybe a heatsinc on the ssd and get a silicon case and you are good.

The silicone I use a case is only getting as warm as my hands make it warm. So its warm to the touch (not cold obviously) But the termals itself are very good for a device this powerful and this small

Awesome! Hope you enjoy it :D

​@@SimpleModzWhere download image of windows for gpd Win 4?

Yea I love it. I think most of these devices you can't really expect perfection, but for what it is, I think the build quality is great. I'm one that doesn't mind getting inside these units. I find improving them is part of the fun and a metagame within itself. But that's just me. Like I said in the video, I love handhelds and if there's a specific unit I like, I'll then find my own ways to improve it if I must. Plus, the community is awesome behind all of these devices so you'll always find someone willing to help :)

Thanks a lot!

When you see me run the game at ultra, notice before that I change to game streaming before launching it for that part of the video, just to show how good the performance can be over home WiFi. In the beginning when I play it, that's native at 30fps, 28w combination of low to medium settings. But I don't like running it at 28W as it's dead in an hour. So I game stream from my main PC with a 3090, all maxed out maxed out and runs for 5 hours plus. I just posted another video specifically about my game streaming set up. If people are keen, I can make a tutorial too :)

I also have the 16GB version. I wiped the original OS however and installed Win 11 Ghost Spectre, which is like Tiny11 but better in my opinion. Has built in tool to clear RAM and usually for running The Last of Us Part 1 natively at 28W, I have to close pretty much all background apps, clear the RAM and only assign 3.5GB VRAM in the BIOS, with 4GB VRAM in the BIOS I find that I can't launch it at all. Unfortunately the game is still quite poorly optimised for APUs.

@@SimpleModz hey that’s awesome thanks for the response. I thought you were streaming it but I just wasn’t 100% sure. I don’t have a great gaming pc so I’m wondering how the input delay is?? I remote play my series X on my win 4, but there’s just the smallest input delay and it’s barely too much for competitive or multiplayer games

@@SimpleModz yep I agree. I feel the game should be performing so much better than it does, but it’s just not optimized that well. I did a fresh OS install of just windows 11, not GPD’s version but I’ve never heard of ghost spectre. Kinda makes me wish I looked into it but eh it’s probably fine

Awesome. I reckon get the 7840U version and get 32GB of RAM. I'd get 32GB now if I'd buy again. It may sound overkill for a handheld but some games do need it, especially since it's shared as VRAM with the APU. I reckon if you'll keep it for a long time too then definitely 32GB. Hope this helps

It's not how it was designed unfortunately. Would be an extremely difficult task... I imagine new shell and all that...

Yea... I ordered the Geek 1S with the 7840U. But still love this one too... different form factors. Some people prefer smaller devices :)

Yea... they can only get better from here :)

Get onexplayer 2 pro lol

Yea mate, based in Sydney. But I was born in Romania :)

Yea, definitely planning to in the future. As soon as GPD provide the kits as they said they would. And I may change the bumpers to the frosted version too. They should offer that also for those that didn't get the frosted bumpers :)

Thanks a lot! Nah, adding a thermal pad to the M.2 won't do anything as the M.2 doesn't actually come into contact with any heatsink. The thermal pads themselves don't dissipate heat, but rather help spread the heat to the heatsink. Same as what thermal paste does for CPU/GPU cores for examples upon contact. I'm no expert so my explanation may not be 100% accurate, but hope this helps create a better understanding :)

Awesome! Glad it helped :)

Hey I'm using this guide here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gvKwgH7g5VA.html from @mystechry Found it either on Reddit or on Discord in the GPD chats. I subbed to his channel as there's many great tips and the overlay is a nice full solution for these devices. Best I've seen so far. I actually just updated the video description for the GPD Win 4 guide that's floating on Github, it's a great resource with many tips for the unit :)

Thanks mate! :D

What you did?

I was told to watch out for homosexuals. It was good advice

Awesome! Thanks a lot :D

I'm waiting on the GPD Win Mini, also with 7840U and OcuLink. That's gonne be a pretty awesome unit judging by the rumours. Gonna keep the Win 4 with the 6800U as I think it's plenty powerful for what it is. Unless they offer a drop in solution to upgrade the motherboard like Ayaneo is doing for the Ayaneo 2 with the announcement of the updated 7840U model in the 2S. Could then make a motherboard upgrade video on the Win 4 if they do that. I have however ordered a Geek 1S with the 7840U and 32GB DDR5 - the new Nebula Purple colour. Early bird pricing on their Indiegogo at the moment. Keen to get my hands on that unit too. I haven't played with any Ayaneo device before and the pricing seemed great to me. I think the GPD Win Mini will be priced similarly, or the updated Win 4 - wait and see, shouldn't be too far from a new announcement. I think they said June for the Win Mini campaign start.

@@SimpleModz Oculink is why I will be skipping the 7840 model. I find having the USB A port to be so useful.

⁠​⁠@@19CD91 I kind of agree I find having a USB A kind of a necessity for being able to use USB drives or able to copy files from a external drive or from pictures/videos from my phone. Though I believe there are USB C to USB A and HDMI dongles that can be used on the USB C slot to give the new oculink version a USB A and HMDI slots. I did some research and found some stuff like that that may solve this issue. No reason it shouldn’t work I hope. Last time I checked there was one for just 20$ or so of amazon. One of the devices I saw had 3 USB A female/in, 1 HDMI/female/in, a USB C female/in, a micro SD card and SD card slot and a single USB C make/out to plug into the USB C slot on device/ GPD WIN 4. Just plug one of these into one of the Oculink version’s USB C slot and USB A and HDMI problem solved 😊

@@aaronsharry2351 I just don't want to resort to carrying a bunch of adapters. USB A is still the most used PC port. And the real issue with oculink is that it was never designed to be a mobile port. I would be extremely worried to have any exposed ports on a mobile device that are not designed to be hot swapped.