Quote from: spiceminer15 on September 12, 2014, 11:03:15 PM

Quote from: navigator on September 12, 2014, 10:54:01 PM

Quote from: xstr8guy on September 12, 2014, 10:46:19 PM

This constant angst over a few GHs is so pointless. Just let these things run and quit wasting your time and energy trying to squeeze out (literally) a couple of extra pennies. Downtime from messing with settings and firmware and reapplying thermal paste is doing more harm than good to your earnings.

I agree... I used to have extra exhaust fans on my s1's til I realized how pointless that was and just wasting more power. I don't know why people waste so many hours re-applying thermal paste,etc.. for a few ghs and also the wasted mining from downtime.

I do think there is nothing wrong with oc'ing, upgrading firmware, and updating cgminer. Those things are really easy and don't require too much tinkering. Also with the updated cgminer, the webui is much more responsive due to reduced load.

when I added secondary fans to my s1 I think the temps actually went up... the fans in the back couldn't spin fast enough

I don't get why they don't have both fans run the same speed as dictated by the exhaust temperature. To have the intake fan run slower because it's cooler means, I'm guessing here, less efficient air flow. If the slower fan is getting help from the draw of the faster fan it's just a bigger load on the faster fan.