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Bitcoin => Hardware => Topic started by: adib on October 25, 2013, 05:05:45 PM



Title: The story of a successfuly repaired Blade
Post by: adib on October 25, 2013, 05:05:45 PM
So, i was searching ebay for mining hardware and came across an AM Blade that refused to run, having one powerlane completly broken.
Decided to bid, won for 133 Euros, thats 170$, 5 days later it arrives, unsoldered the bad power buck converter, stuck two LM2596S buck converters(the ones under the small fan) and it fired up.
Decided to improve cooling(repladed the thermal pad with thermal paste).
Everybody says that the way to cool those things is through the board, but i tend to disagree. Stiking those heatsinks on top of the chips reduced the HW from 2% to 0.8 ish.


www.dropbox.com/s/2anb1eub0eu69vr/IMG_20131025_194023_582.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdjlg9hyk8z07cf/IMG_20131025_193820_180.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/glu9k94gc9x6yi3/IMG_20131025_193755_015.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/glu9k94gc9x6yi3/IMG_20131025_193755_015.jpg

I am planning o overclock it to 16ghz with a 16mhz oscilator.


Title: Re: The story of a successfuly repaired Blade
Post by: JessicaSe on October 26, 2013, 11:16:07 AM
Nice work, and really cheap for the price.


Title: Re: The story of a successfuly repaired Blade
Post by: viriat0 on October 26, 2013, 04:37:58 PM
Great work, thanks for share.