 Have a new giveaway going on right now. I am giving away three copies of Metroid Dread for the month of October All you have to do to enter is be subscribed to the channel. That's it We will draw the winners at the end of the month So I wish all you guys luck on that Hey everyone, this is the Nintendo switch OLED obviously see it's working here links running around everything's all good So when I have been making videos about this over the last week I kept thinking to myself. What can I do that? No one else is done. Well, I've done things like I've taken apart the dock Obviously some people really appreciated that video. I've done some other crazy things like I did a so-called tear down Where I didn't really take it all apart. I did take the dock apart. It took the switch apart But I didn't really do a full disassembly or a full reassembly It was more of a hey I accidentally broke one of the ribbon cables on one of the rails on the switch OLED So I was kind of afraid at the time to go deeper than that knowing I still had other videos to make But I still have one more video to make after this and I understand all of the quote-unquote Switch OLED reviews have came out from all the major media elements today I I totally get that but have they really spent the same amount of time I have with this I Question that Xer and I knew they didn't get it until this week now That I'll be in considered There was one type of video I wanted to do that I knew had a very high likelihood of causing what I would say is permanent damage It was not the screen burn-in test because honestly there's not enough time to do that It takes thousands of hours to create permanent burn-in on OLED so instead I Decided to do something insane People wanted to know who makes the screen people wanted to know details about the screen Let's just say I broke my Nintendo switch OLED To show you this don't believe me Because I died here Here's breath of the wild seems to be working fine. I don't know if you can see the indicator light is on and Let's see what happens when I take the switch off the dock. I think this is some sort of trick screens not working Bring that volume up and run around and watch what happens when I put it back in the dock I broke my Nintendo switch now. Let's go into why I did it as you can see here, I am going through a really really long montage of Breaking apart the Nintendo switch OLED. I literally took the switch OLED and put it to pieces I I literally tore everything out of the switch OLED and there was the speakers the main board One of the subboards whether it was the heat sink the fan and yes, I even removed the screen now The big thing here is Obviously to do this without any other guides existing on the internet specifically for this device It could be a little difficult and a little bit risky now I have removed everything inside of an original switch the launch version and a version 2 and a switch light before the difference in That though is because one it's using a different panel and two It's using a plastic front. So it's actually not that difficult to remove a screen From its housing on there because it's really just removing that plastic front and on the rest of the screen becomes really available On this device and switch OLED for those that aren't aware it uses a glass Front which is better in some ways. It's way more scratch resistant, but obviously a lot more fragile There's no flexibility with it So if you try to create any sort of minimal flex Chances are it's going to crack and when you're working on screen removal where you need to get a tool behind The actual glass to actually break the seal on the glue There's a high likelihood. You're probably going to crack the glass. It doesn't matter You can overheat it, of course, and that could happen. You could under heat it and that could happen I in an ideal world you would heat it up perfectly Where the glue would just undo itself and then the screen would just fall off The problem is I don't know what that heat junction point is on this glue And I don't really have a proper heat gun anyways I used a hairdryer which the hairdryer was perfectly good enough to get the glue to soften But not soft enough for the screen would actually fall out and the since the screen itself is actually recessed Into this switch. There really is no way to break that seal Without actually trying to pry into a corner or into a side and reality is the moment I realized I was going to have to pry into break the glue seal I kind of knew at that exact moment that I was about to break this product Now I have taken screens of several products before but anytime they're recessed in You just know this is probably going to be the end result And typically you don't remove an entire screen like this unless you are actually going to replace it Even on let's say an iPhone where the glass screen front is fine But the underlaying screen had some sort of damage happened to it or some coloration or something going on You would just end up replacing not only the glass on the front But also the panel behind it all in one assembly You wouldn't even bother to just only replace the screen underneath because glass is so cheap Obviously for a device like this, we don't have perfectly cut Available tempered glass stuff for us at this moment for this particular use case But that's not the here nor there the bottom line is after it cracked it obviously ruined The OLED panel underneath when I did initially turn it back on it flickered But here's the thing why did I do this? That's that's what people really want to know Nate. Why did you do this? Well, here's some things to be discovered first off We know who makes the panel the panel is made by Samsung We now have the model number for it, which I'll be on screen right now And uh, what we learned from this model number is a couple things one The ppi of the screen is 210 Which is 11 less than the old OLED screen What this means is the quality of the actual pickle pixels on the screen are technically better on the original switch and switch Like versus this system, so it's using lower quality pixels But why don't people talk about that? Why are people not saying the pixels look blurry? The screen looks blurry. That's what people are worried about. It's going to be blurry. Well, here's the thing They exchanged pixel quality to have better efficiency with the actual lighting of the system So better luminosity So what they did is said hey look we could keep the ppi the same as the original switch However, it would also eat into more battery time And we either have to compensate for that by you know sacrificing on the luminosity Or we need to sacrifice on the ppi and I would say they actually made the right choice I would rather them lower The quality of the pixels but maintain the same battery life Um than anything else and I can confirm this has the exact same battery life as the version 2 Nintendo switch So if you're used to version 2 battery life of three to nine hours or whatever That's exactly what you're going to get out of this platform and what they chose with the screen here is why So will you notice the pixel quality difference? No, I've been playing with this thing for a week I didn't notice the pixel quality difference at all pixels will be slightly bigger because the screen is slightly bigger That's something you might notice in very specific use cases Maybe along some hairlines and stuff like that in some really bad anti-aliasing games Like xeno the chronicles 2 or something but for the most part you're not really going to notice it The colors are popping so much the screen quality and the true blacks and true whites are so much better That you end up just being mostly impressed when looking at the screen versus the original switch So that is a big thing we learned also some people want to know hey Nate, how does that chip set look? You know what this is something you don't have to break your switch to get to just tell us what the model number is Well, here's the model number on that tegra x1. That's inside the switch. It turns out the model number is very similar to Prior model numbers both on the switch light and on the version 2 switch suggesting that this is basically the exact same Chip there's been no differences made. I can confirm the memory modules the ram modules are exactly the same They did not swap out the type of ram Or put higher speed ram or anything like that in here The only thing they did do is i'll give us 64 gigs of flash memory versus 32 But then they took that 64 gigs and put it on the exact same board as the game card reader and the micro sd card which In theory should make communication between all three of those slightly faster in my actual test case I did not find that load times were really any better If it was on the internal memory load times were the same as the 32 gigs if it was on a micro sd card It was maybe a half second. It was very hard to measure. You had to count frames There's maybe a half second faster off the sd card compared to the same sd card in an old switch And then the game cards to me just felt like the same speed anyways I don't know if the cards themselves are the limiting factor there, but um, they felt like the speeds with physical cards didn't change So what are my conclusions everybody? Well, um, this is a very interesting system to take apart now Nobody should take apart their switch old led unless they actually have a specific reason to do it Such as repairing it as an example if you drop and break your screen and you buy a third party screen to replace it Obviously, hey the methods I used will work just fine Um, because it doesn't really matter if you crack it at that point because most old led panels come With the glass and the technology behind it all in one package. So Um, you wouldn't really care if you crack it. So honestly, I would not take this thing apart If I were any of you guys things are much more tightly compact in here Because they have two little slots in there for the actual kickstand hinges to go into so they had to redesign the entire board And things are just a lot more tightly compact. There's not uh, the the ribbon cable stuff isn't too bad I personally get a little frustrated Putting ribbon cables back in But it's whatever I did get them all in the fan on this still works So this is still technically a working switch old led but only in dock mode Which for many people defeats the purpose of switch old led. Uh, so Like I don't know. I honestly, um Was it worth taking it apart for you guys? Yeah, it was worth it for me. Um, even though I knew going in You know, there was a high chance it would break even though I've taken apart tons of phones and all that This is obviously a different beast I'm just gonna say this I'm cool that I broke my switch old led. I have a brand new one coming on Friday. So like I accepted going in I was probably gonna break it. I didn't do it on purpose And I understand some people or some of you guys out there Might have had the right tools and the right heat gun and the right everything to do this perfectly right Um, and hey, you know for some people it might be torture that I broke a brand new device That isn't hasn't even released yet But the bottom line is this device was always, um paid for, uh Specifically so I could end up creating a video like this Honestly when there was the decision was made to pay way more than this device is worth to make videos for you guys I always kind of knew the end of life for this device was going to be the moment I decided to actually take it all apart Um, I stopped myself last week during a video Uh, because I decided hey, I have other videos to make and in case I break it I want to make sure those other videos are done. Well now I've hit the end of the line I got one more video left to make and I don't need to actually use the device anymore to Like make that video so um Thank you guys, uh for being on the journey with switch ola This is kind of the end of what you would say are the unique videos coming from my channel on Switch OLED at this point. I do have one more unique video where we're going to be testing out some accessories Uh, but that won't be coming till probably next week So we'll take a look at that but otherwise, um, I hope you've enjoyed this journey with switch ola with me Having early access. Uh, it was a lot of fun. This is obviously Everything I did with this thing is stuff that nintendo would definitely not approve of Which is why I can tell you this system didn't come from nintendo in the first place This is my system. My money. I'm the one that wasted it. You guys don't worry about it. Um, I did the best I could and I hopefully uh, at least the videos were somewhat educational If not educational on giving you information, we didn't previously have at least educational in so much that You learn what not to do to your own OLED when taking it apart if you take it apart To be fair taking apart the dock is really easy that part is that part's really straightforward. That's like To you know, it's the simplest sort of device. I'm kind of glad that it is so easy Anyway, folks, I'm the thinner over just from nintendo prime. Thank you so much for tuning and I'll catch you in the next video Should we see? Uh, uh, I think we might have a dev one