mmmm, paste. 
mmmm vanilla paste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VobnOUyx2eE
Topic: Check your thermal paste on BFL FPGA's (Read 1072 times)
mmmm, paste.
Did you use Arctic Silver or some kind of special compound, or just regular white paste?
Arctic Silver is awesome, but I started using Arctic MX-2 instead because it is non-conductive and non-capacitive, yet is almost as a good at heat transfer. I'm big on PC water cooling so I have a big ass tube of it.
Did you use Arctic Silver or some kind of special compound, or just regular white paste?
Chupacabra!!!
Its real?
Its real?
You know these are the FPGA's and not the ASIC's right?
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/Face-palm
Latest news, BFL scamming their customers out of thermal paste!
Chupacabra!!!
Its real?
Its real?
You know these are the FPGA's and not the ASIC's right?
Chupacabra!!!
Its real?
Its real?
Nothing new.
That looks like it is caked in it compared to how mine was.
Nothing new.
Not the first time I have heard of this. In fact I will be taking a look at one of mine this weekend that I just replaced the lower fan because it was making noise and barely turning. Thought it would have fixed the throttling issue.. i bet it had very little paste. Time to make a frys trip
Yeah, I know the first few replies... blah blah scam ASICS... blah blah whatever.
Anyway, for anyone that has a BFL FPGA, I always thought I just got one that wasn't a great performer. It has always done the stock speed, but ran really hot.
The fan on mine started making terrible noises so BFL sent me a new one. While I was taking it apart to replace the fan, I figured I may as well put new thermal paste on since I have a giant tube of it. Well, to my surprise there was NONE on there. It looked like the heatsink was just put directly on top of the FPGA's. I put some paste on, mounted the heatsink, and it now runs at the second fastest firmware they provide, and it does it about 20C cooler.
Anyway, for anyone that has a BFL FPGA, I always thought I just got one that wasn't a great performer. It has always done the stock speed, but ran really hot.
The fan on mine started making terrible noises so BFL sent me a new one. While I was taking it apart to replace the fan, I figured I may as well put new thermal paste on since I have a giant tube of it. Well, to my surprise there was NONE on there. It looked like the heatsink was just put directly on top of the FPGA's. I put some paste on, mounted the heatsink, and it now runs at the second fastest firmware they provide, and it does it about 20C cooler.
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