Quote from: 100knot2dae on Today at 08:47:04 AM

Quote from: gergar on Today at 12:18:26 AM

Hello all, i want to share my experience and some advise on cooling as i found out points to improve:
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3 inverted the fan to pull the air, why, the current setu makes hot air stays inside the case (measured with a temp camera)
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Hello, what was the temperature difference you have measured with your temp camera when the (stock?) fan was blowing out? Would be interesting to know.

Hello,

to make easier some definitions first, 550Mhz as i tested with my gekko compactf settings temps in celcius

FP= Top Heatsink (front plate)
PCB
BP = bottom Heatsink (back plate)
EX = exhaust (stock = front / modified = back)

Stock
FP = 43 / with all bolts (50)
PCB = 54 / with all bokts (47)
BP = 27 / with all bolts (30)
EX = 48 / with all bolts (50)

Modified
FP = 53
PCB = 35
BP = 45 (temp at front = 21, two degrees lower then ambient 23)
EX = 44

what it means?, the heat was mostly staying at the PCB as the heatsinks were not fully operational, once i adjusted bolts temp lowered some how but still the lower heatsink was mot doing clean contact with the pcb (air in between. But the air as it was not strong enough to move out stayed there in the front near the cables. with the changes the backplate is draining more heat from the pcb, pcb is colder and top maintained temps so contact issue was the initial problem. Then all front part is about ambient temperature, as air gets higher speed it is 2 to 3 degrees lower just cos pressure changes, and the air going out of the fan and case is hot.

I am running it at 650 now and here the temps i just captured as i was intrigued on how much temp gets from 100Mhz more:
FP= 66 (some are hotter 69-72)
Pcb = 36-37 relative cold
BP= 50 (seems it still gets heat out)
EX = 49 - 52

I assume with current stock fan might get too hot to go higher on freq, not sure the asic temperatures down there but they should be extremely hot. 650 had maintained 24 hrs at 2.6T stable (21 degree temp intake, maybe cooler temps can allow it to go higher on freq. - mine anything higher than 650 starts to bounce back to 650-646 and i get lower hashrates.