Does anyone know of where I can get some information on water-cooling an S9 miner. I heard that the heat-sinks are glued in-place, but there should be some kind of solvent or something to remove them. Why would they make them unrepairable. I also would like to know if anyone has dimensions on one of the insides of these things. It being my only miner I would prefer to get everything ready before I disconnect but I figure if I converted it to water cooled and ran a few small(1/4") pumps parallel connecting into a larger 3/4" to 1" tubing and than to an automotive radiator outside and run a large efficient fan which I would convert the original fan pins on the s9 to a variable speed control.
Long story short, Keep my S9 cool with outside radiator system or possibly attic exhaust. That would actually raise my power efficiency in the home overall by ventilating the attic and cooling it. ((((I'm in Florida Its Hot))))
I need to find
1. What Size water blocks for S9 and how many chips requiring heat sinks
2. How to remove S9 and other S-series heat-sinks without damaging (solvent maybe???)
3. What is the screw pattern or maybe just bond it with glue/thermal grease mix the way they did it
4. As long as the connections for the stock fans are converted to control higher wattage variably the S9 should not require and software modification at all as S9 will still detect connected fans.
5. Locate a high velocity lower watt/amp fan. Auto Fans may not be the most power efficient as vehicles normally have an abundance of spare generated power. A lower watt fan would raise efficiency and most likely be plenty of air movement to dissipate the amount of heat needed to cool one miner. Most likely 2 could be used as there would be a much slower movement of water over a much larger area. Even an occasional gust of wind would probably be enough to dissipate heat out of a radiator that is most likely 1 1/2' by 2 1/2' or 3.75 square feet. That's about the equivalent of 24 120mm radiators.
6. If I bought more and had them water cooled I could stack each chip on-top of the next and fit multiple miners in one slightly wider but shorter sleek outer casing.
7. If you want one or want one done up than let me know. I posses all of the tools skills and craftsmanship to make these. most people don't. I am looking for answers to these questions but once these are answered its as good as done. There will be a Justified edition S9 Miner
I used to mine in South Carolina in ~100 degree temps with an S7 and as long as the fan was set to automatic, the miner had moving air ventilation, and it was ear piercingly loud, the miner would run a little hot but not too much. If you really want to do this oil would be the way to go- much more simple.Long story short, Keep my S9 cool with outside radiator system or possibly attic exhaust. That would actually raise my power efficiency in the home overall by ventilating the attic and cooling it. ((((I'm in Florida Its Hot))))
I need to find
1. What Size water blocks for S9 and how many chips requiring heat sinks
2. How to remove S9 and other S-series heat-sinks without damaging (solvent maybe???)
3. What is the screw pattern or maybe just bond it with glue/thermal grease mix the way they did it
4. As long as the connections for the stock fans are converted to control higher wattage variably the S9 should not require and software modification at all as S9 will still detect connected fans.
5. Locate a high velocity lower watt/amp fan. Auto Fans may not be the most power efficient as vehicles normally have an abundance of spare generated power. A lower watt fan would raise efficiency and most likely be plenty of air movement to dissipate the amount of heat needed to cool one miner. Most likely 2 could be used as there would be a much slower movement of water over a much larger area. Even an occasional gust of wind would probably be enough to dissipate heat out of a radiator that is most likely 1 1/2' by 2 1/2' or 3.75 square feet. That's about the equivalent of 24 120mm radiators.
6. If I bought more and had them water cooled I could stack each chip on-top of the next and fit multiple miners in one slightly wider but shorter sleek outer casing.
7. If you want one or want one done up than let me know. I posses all of the tools skills and craftsmanship to make these. most people don't. I am looking for answers to these questions but once these are answered its as good as done. There will be a Justified edition S9 Miner
If you're talking about fans you can plop onto the system, the Antminer fans are pretty decent for what they've got, considering they're Delta industrial models most of the time or something like that. It'll be a little hard to top that, and prices could be well over $30 for just one. You'll also get pretty bad sound from high rpm 120mm fans.
