Quote from: GekkoMiner9 on July 26, 2025, 09:45:54 PM

So, just to be sure I understand both of you... You're telling me that at least some air movement is necessary for the device to reliably provide a steady hashrate, no matter what that is. Is that correct? Again, I have no problem letting it hashing at 10 GH/s, if that can mitigate the air trouble. Is it possible to retain a steady hashrate of something like 10 GH/s, with just the stock heatsink it comes with?

Quote from: Nexus9090 on July 26, 2025, 08:14:09 PM

If you're going to run it without a fan, you'll need to upgrade the heatsink and thermal compound. The stock heatsink isn't good enough for just passive cooling

Upgrade it into what, if not a fan?

By upgrade the heatsink, I mean you'll need a much bigger heatsink with lots more area. 2 or 3 times the size of the stock one. Unfortunately that option requires a little engineering as there's no easy way to do it.

Its far easier to add a fan, as @NotFuzzyWarm said even if its a simple USB powered fan.

You can see the one's that are made to fit here:-
https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/gekkoscience-compac-f-fan-upgrade-combo-up-to-270gh-s

But you could easily add something else like:-
https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Rotation-Personal-Compatible-Outputs/dp/B0CX1R8G6N/

Finally, You can't clock the device too slowly, they won't work reliably when clocked below 300Mhz