now see this photo. this is a huge mistake that bitmain did. if that jack was ½ inch taller 2 silverstone fans would make this gear really easy to mod.
I have complain about this more then one thread and others have mention this. So someone dropped the ball here.
Especially since this miner has 600 watts of heat to dump not 400.
The sad part is they decided to use 1 fast fan. This was in my not so humble opinion a fuck up on their part.
I thought I would tame the sound of this miner with no real effort and I would like it better then the sp20e. I will need to work hard to make the miner quiet. Just think slap on 2 silverstone fans in 2 minutes and boom a quite or at least a pretty quiet miner with little or no effort. Right now I unplugged the crazy loud stock fan and I am using the silverstone as pull. very nice no issues. but I downclocked to freq 225
I have a new mod in mind for the noise but that will be on tues.
So far this review feels like a bit more of how to fix a broken miner with cooling you would do differently, and how to mod it.
I'm confused about the review thread a bit, nothing personal.. just constructive criticism.. Hopefully there is more to come in terms of testing the default clocks and cooling configuration..
I'm not 100% sure the single fan design is "dropping the ball".. There was a discussion on cooling designs I read someplace here, and a fluid dynamics engineer chimed in and said that a pull only configuration will always be more efficient than a push pull configuration. He said Fluid Dynamics Don't Lie?
Also.. you mention the Db of the unit, which is a nice thing to give.. but for the laymen.. it would be nice to get an opinion on the volume of the noise by comparison to other miners.. I don't have a Db meter handy, and if I did, I would probably be forced to try to replicate the Db you are giving to get a subjective understanding of how loud the miner is.
Anyway.. so far it seems that you think in your humble opinion that this miner is a dud, the cooling system is dysfunctional, and it doesnt run at stock clocked configuration so you are going to run it at a lot less to get a feeling of how it works?
Did I miss anything? I'm just playing devils advocate here trying to flush out a fully rounded review of the miner as it comes... plug and play.. and how it performs as intended. I wouldnt mod something until I had some solid data to work off of to really know if I am making improvements. Eh, to each his own.. I know you aren't a dummy. :-)
I ordered an S5 also.. kinda bummed after reading your thread but still excited to get it... We shall see..
Looking forward to your final conclusion after your full review.. I would be nice to hear more about the miner in its stock configuration though, and how it performs... unless you are convinced its broken by design.
Rich
Down clocks for better wattage and to keep the power bill down as well as to try and keep the unit nice and quite for the home. If what he's saying is true and its loud, then it wouldn't be a good choice for home miners. And don't forget its a review, why run it at stock when your supposed to run it threw its paces.
Some people buy a miner based on what it would be doing in 3 months, you can run a miner for a few months stock but whats the power / efficiency like when you need to down clock.
I sure wouldn't want an SP10 under my bed, or in my room (Got a C1 to do that, nice little heater)