The fans on these sticks may not be good.
One now shudders making noise and vibrating the stick.
I pull the two fans and now use external fans all is well in fact better then when I ran with the little fans also not as loud.
I can not find it but someone else said their fan became unbalanced and vibrated.
This happens even though the fan screws are tight and correctly installed,
Can be the long cable cause of this issue? It's 2 meters long. I tried it with shorter one (1 m) and that works well.
Anyhow, OP you did a great job, thanks for these awesome miniminers.
Yes, anything past a few feet probably wont work. The USB chip on this actually uses the older USB 1.1 standard, which has limits on wire length.