Original archived Re: [Bounty] GekkoScience Compac F miner stops hashing
Scraped on 27/07/2025, 09:22:09 UTC
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?
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-sBut 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