Remember to apply a good thermal paste after you've cleaned the original one
The 4x cabling: seeing the paths on the board it look like both inputs are powering up exactly the same (i.e. this is not an additional board/unit, just a duplicate input) so I guess the "use 2 cables per hashing board" requirement is mostly due to possible cable/solder overheating due to high amperage.
Has anyone already tried sticking radiators to the R47 elements? does this do the same magic as it did in the S1's? (lower HW which seems to be the issue here)