Quote from: induktor on December 25, 2013, 08:04:40 PM

Quote from: junky998 on December 24, 2013, 12:14:04 PM

Hi,

I had 3 red furies pencil modded to 3 Ghash each
I'm cooling them with an artic breeze usb fan and it seems all right as compared to touching the heat sink when without cooling.
However the ASIC chip is too hot to touch.

Not sure whether this is burn or shortened the life span of the miners.
Please advise, thanks.

very good question!
I will like very much to hear the official position of beastlymac about this, how safe it is, lifespan of a modded BF,etc.

i have one of the "green" furies with the full length silver heatsink. pencil modded to 2.8Ghash total, 2.55-2.60 realized(after ~6-7% error). with gasp no fan but in a cold windowsill so :/ anyway been running like that for over 6 weeks like that and still kicking.

but beast is right it most probably will shorten their lifespan.