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agreed, and I think you might be right. I found this. Its old but might have some helpful information. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=307055.0. So are you saying in the advanced page , the temps to the far right are the vrm temps? If thats true, and I think it might be, where are the temps of the 4 cores found, or do they average it on the status page? I think the next update might need clear labels on these numbers , as KNCminer gave us temps, but for what!!? Everything is not labeled in the miner, and its needs to be to clear up all of this confusion.
Vegas
Vegas
Out of curiousity how much did your temps change by when u slid the HSF around?
I have 2 theories,
1. when sliding HSF around this could potentially change airflow caused by your hand etc... and therefore the DCDC's were being cooled more or not depending on that airflow aversion.
2. If slid the HSF caused temperatures to skyrocket for a short period the dies may have went into a limp mode to avoid being blown up.
Just to add my 2 satoshis here. From what I've seen tinkering with these things is that the dies pull more power when they get hot. I had a couple of cubes damaged with the screw fixing at the back coming loose. Dies 1 and 2 would come on then the amps and watts of the DC/DC / VRM's would shoot up to 50 then the dies would go down/offline when watching the advanced page.
I took the heatsink off replaced the thermal paste then secured it back in place and the dies came back on as normal but no longer shot up in power or temperature. managed to get all but 1 die back and working, now its running stable with decent temps.
