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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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on 27/03/2017, 22:04:15 UTC
Quote from: lanegg on March 27, 2017, 09:56:56 PM
Quote from: ppetrovic68 on March 27, 2017, 09:07:17 PM
How did you measure temp on the ASIC chip when they're under the heat sink? (or at least I believe that they're under the heat sink Smiley )

The ASIC's are actually on the PCB side (I think). At least that was one of the takeaways I got from this post. As for the temp I just pointed a laser temp probe at (what I think are) the ASIC chips.

Interestingly, the silicon around the chips are considerably warmer than the chips themselves...  Undecided
Still better than some other ASIC designers' designs in terms of engineering. To my knowledge the chips are below the heatsinks, I removed the heatsink and looked at the chips and saw they were right under it. Reapplied some arctic silver afterwards, not sure of temps now but it might be a tad better than what Sidehack put on.