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Title: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Tamerz on April 20, 2013, 01:29:31 AM Yeah, I know the first few replies... blah blah scam ASICS... blah blah whatever.
Anyway, for anyone that has a BFL FPGA, I always thought I just got one that wasn't a great performer. It has always done the stock speed, but ran really hot. The fan on mine started making terrible noises so BFL sent me a new one. While I was taking it apart to replace the fan, I figured I may as well put new thermal paste on since I have a giant tube of it. Well, to my surprise there was NONE on there. It looked like the heatsink was just put directly on top of the FPGA's. I put some paste on, mounted the heatsink, and it now runs at the second fastest firmware they provide, and it does it about 20C cooler. Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: wknight on April 20, 2013, 02:04:14 AM Not the first time I have heard of this. In fact I will be taking a look at one of mine this weekend that I just replaced the lower fan because it was making noise and barely turning. Thought it would have fixed the throttling issue.. i bet it had very little paste. Time to make a frys trip
Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: abracadabra on April 20, 2013, 03:00:29 AM Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Tamerz on April 20, 2013, 03:03:39 AM Nothing new. That looks like it is caked in it compared to how mine was. Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Yeap on April 20, 2013, 03:08:18 AM Chupacabra!!!
Its real? Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Tamerz on April 20, 2013, 03:09:19 AM Chupacabra!!! Its real? You know these are the FPGA's and not the ASIC's right? Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: rograz on April 20, 2013, 03:09:40 AM Latest news, BFL scamming their customers out of thermal paste!
Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Yeap on April 20, 2013, 03:17:04 AM Chupacabra!!! Its real? You know these are the FPGA's and not the ASIC's right? >> << /Face-palm Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Bogart on April 20, 2013, 03:20:05 AM Did you use Arctic Silver or some kind of special compound, or just regular white paste?
Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: Tamerz on April 20, 2013, 03:22:48 AM Did you use Arctic Silver or some kind of special compound, or just regular white paste? Arctic Silver is awesome, but I started using Arctic MX-2 instead because it is non-conductive and non-capacitive, yet is almost as a good at heat transfer. I'm big on PC water cooling so I have a big ass tube of it. Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: k9quaint on April 20, 2013, 03:23:24 AM mmmm, paste. :P
Title: Re: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's Post by: rograz on April 20, 2013, 03:26:00 AM mmmm, paste. :P mmmm vanilla paste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VobnOUyx2eE |
