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Board Hardware
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
by
NotFuzzyWarm
on 27/10/2021, 02:05:41 UTC
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Problem of running turbo while syncing is not CPU bottleneck, its thermals. The CPU could overheat and shutdown if its running at 100% while syncing, and the hashboard is in turbo mode.

That's a serious problem with the device then. You are saying we can't run desktop computer in the device at 100% while Turbo mode is on in the miner part. What if YouTube is on for a few minutes and CPU spikes to 100%, or any other more CPU intensive task is running, not just bitcoin node but anything else, it means sudden shutdown?
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[/quote]Um, these are miners -- not a desktop computer! The computer part is designed to be just an embedded controller and as a BTC node which normally are rather light CPU usage operations but more to the point they are also to a good extent time-sensitive. It is not intended for streaming video, gaming, etc... The miner & node work as intended and are not flawed in respect to what they are designed to do..