Can’t say I had any of those issues. No coil whine or bending. Gpu gets blowly during games but headphones block that out and I rather expect that from any laptop
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I get coil while from the GPU while gaming since I repasted it. I’ve not heard anything about cpu coil whine.
I’ll see if I can find a video of mine, but it sounds a lot like buzzing and eventually the fans ramp up and cover most of it. There are also clicking type sounds while charging, so I think maybe it could be from where the laptop converts usb PD voltage back down to 12V?
The Problem with scorching when liquidmetal leaves dry spots isn’t uncommon. It isn’t harming the die per se, but its a harm when it procedes. For anyone not able or whilling to do the LM Replacement by yourself i would advice to use universal X86 Utility and reduce the max temp to 95C. I know its reducing the performance further but it helps keeping your devices from further scorching the die.
Edit:
The LM to PTM Guide is online.
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I have some coil whine, it’s been like that since the beginning. Nothing that headphones can’t handle. I did recently remove the dGPU to give the fans a clean, they had a lot of caked on dust and other stuff. It’s possible yours needs to be cleaned too.
Well, with the guide published, I am looking forward to them selling/giving the parts.
Interestingly, there does not appear to be any sandwich arrangement etc.
Well the PTM Sandwich was never in Discussion and far far off what Framework would publish for everyone to do.
Thats on all by yourself on behalf off this Thread 
I do wonder if your coil whine and this https://community.frame.work/t/noise-and-high-temperature-when-charging-with-140w/66068 are related
wonderful. they do describe the procedure as ‘difficult’ but appear to have failed to completely document the difficult part.
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I have done it more than ten times and i am “handy”, for me its more than easy, but i do reflow, soldering and aircraft avionics. But for many this is already out of their capabilities.
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i was REALLY hoping they had some clever easy to follow way to address the adherence issues for people who aren’t already electronics engineers. instead, they’re all “yeah, just pry it, but not too hard, good luck”
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The double sandwich is medium complicated. If you just want to clean off the liquid metal and put ptm or paste in leaving the original shim I’d say that was easy for most people
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I thought 7958 is the paste and 7950 the sheet?
Thats correct, i think they messed this Part up in the Instructions as even Nirav talked about 7958 in the QA. But it doesnt matter. The 7958 is used in the production run and the 7950 what we will get.
7950 is available as both pad and paste, so I assume the same is true of 7958 as well, although I can’t find any details about either version of the 7958 on the Honeywell site
So are these instructions in lieu of the fix kit that is supposed to be released “early” this year?
these are the instructions for using the kit that’s yet to be sent out.
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Just got an email confirmation from Framework for my PTM kit.
Same here. Just got an “order confirmation” for the thermal kit for my FW 16.
Any idea what the performance difference would be between following the newly published guide and doing the PTM-Shim-PTM sandwich method?
Same. Just received the confirmation.