well its been about an hour on my new s7.. temps are 56, 59, and 57. its running at stock 700..
i was going to underclock it and try to use the one 1300W psu, but i decided to run it full speed and use a 750W psu to power one of the boards instead.
it makes a wind tunnel noise, kind of hollow sounding... its nice that i fixed the howling fan, sucks i might have to get a new fan when i start up my s5 again.
i wonder if i stick some foam padding on the outside if it will quiet down the hollow sounding.
or maybe a foam padded box with fan holes. maybe just cut holes in the box it came in. if i cut the box in a H pattern i can fold in the tabs and use those as air ducts..
i saw the one post where the guy put it in a air duct.. but i dunno about that. those ducts are expensive.
The ducts are sometimes expensive but not always. You can try using a pwm fan from noctua and using that, but the cfm from those is a bit on the low side and s7s tend to not like those fans. They run real hot with those but if you hate heat, dont use em.Ducts are cheap and work well. Bitmain didn't work on cooling very well.. considering s7s are nearly the same size as s5s and s3s. They still have a good miner, but they might want to think about cooling for their future miners.
S7s under and overclock very well, so if you wanted to do that to make it quieter, it works.
the s7 fan is 4500 RPM, the s5 fan is 4100 RPM and i have 2 AFB1212SHE fans that are 3800 RPM and i also have a TFC1212DE fan that spins at 5800 RPM.. altho that thing is loud enough to hear outside through the walls. and a few s3 fans not sure what the max speed those are.. they never got above 2000 RPM in the s3.
tomorrow i am going to play around and see if i can find a good combo.
with the enclosed case, and the high static 4400 rpm fans i think its causing a lot of pressure, causing the air to make the noise.
it kind of looks like they didnt do any kind of research at all trying to see what would work best.. if you can get the air to flow better it might even cool them off better.
might even run to frys to get a cheap 4.99 120mm fan to break the insides out and use as a spacer to see if that helps.
i did already notice that fan 3 slows down at a steeper curve then fan 1, so maybe if i can split the fans with a Y cable and run them at the same speed instead of one slower then other it might help