Hey everyone, Just wanted to report back on my 10 miners from gaw,
2/10 did not work out of the box,

1 had clamped the fan wires and shorted everything out when I plugged it in. - Fixed this by repairing the fan wires
1 hashed, but nothing got accepted - fixed this by reflowing the solder with a heat gun... hashing like a champ now.

I modded 4 with the 49.9K resistor, and was running them averaged 1225mhz stable / average 507 khash and found the heat and power consumption excessive - 29ish watts when pods were hot.
I now have modded all to with a 47K resistor and total mhz average after tuning is 1190mhz / 501

47K vs 49.9K Comparison:

                       Hashrate Ave.        Watts            MHz (ave after chip tuning)        hash /Watt
47K                     501.65                20-22          1190                                              22.8
49.9K                   507.6                 28-29          1225                                              17.5


My definitive Thoughts
-Use a 47K resistor - the extra heat / power management is not worth the minimal hashrate increase.
-use sandor111's cpuminer
-No HW errors does not mean your miner is running optimally, some gridseeds will run slowly at clocks that are unstable, but not throw HW errors.
-use autotune for debugging and testing max frequencies of chips, but lock them in manually in your config script.