Which is more irresponsible: breaking open your Jalapeno and (probably?) messing up the warranty, or letting it run hot as hell, the way it was born?
I have a handful of upgraded Jalapenos running ~7GH/s. I cracked one open because the heatsink had come loose during shipping (I guess) and the fan was hitting it, and I never reattached the side panels after I (mostly) fixed it. The A/C blows on it and all the metal, including the heatsink, is pleasingly cool to the touch. But I probably effed up the warranty, right?
I have 4 other Jalapenos, also enjoying the fresh breeze of the A/C, but they've never been opened. They look stylish enough, but they get so darn warm. Almost hot to the touch, right in front of the A/C. And now that I've seen the insides, how the heck does the cooling make any sense at all? An intake vent low on one side, an exhaust vent high on the opposite side, but in between is just a fan blowing... down on the heatsink? Even though the exhaust is above it, and the intake is below the fan? With a metal plate directly above the fan's intake? I just can't make sense of it.
Don't I have a responsibility, in the name of helping stuff work, to free these little monkeys from their crazy, stifling cages? Can anyone explain to me how they're cooling/ventilation is supposed to work?
Supposedly,just removing/replacing the heatsink & compound/TIM pads does not void the warranty..........
But,playing with the firmware & bricking your unit does.........
Now,play with your fans,flip em or replace then with higher CFM ones.Removing the covers worked for me,for now.Temps dropped by 5C
Getting down to 64C if my room is 24C.
Thats another factor,your room temp unfortunately
These are better than the FPGA's though.......
