Update from my
previous postIt took me a couple of days to finish all of the Bonus Miner's Cubes, but they now all have the Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive ASTA-7G upgrade. Not having used it before, I did not realize that you had to clamp them down for an hour, so that added a little extra challenge. The pieces I cut off of the E heatsink worked perfectly for the task!
In case anyone else does this the same way, here is some tips.
- I used a piece of cardboard as a shim on the row of 4, because as some have noticed, the board is bowed due to KnC's "glorious" design. That filled the gap on the center two, then I flattened the ends of the cardboard to fill the slight gap on half of the two end Enzos.
- The processor's heatsink gets in the way slightly, so position the two side pieces back to the edge of the Enzos (facing you), usually up against the processor's heatsink pipes. That way the clamp holds it down evenly across the width, since your clamp might not be able to go under all the way.
- Do not over tighten your clamps! I fortunately managed not to kill any of the 48 VRMs that I did. Tighten the row of 4 until you see the case metal bow up close to the fan header's pins. It bends very easily, but it is not permanent. The side ones are much firmer, since the case has the two screw risers on both sides. If you get the clamp on snug to start with, then it should only take about 1 turn to get it tight.
- Moving at a decent speed, you can apply the adhesive to all 8 in one go before it gets too thick. Basically: Apply, push heatsink on firmly, apply, push heatsink on, etc, etc. Adjust them when you get done and by then, they should be getting firm enough to clamp without them slipping around on you.
- Use a little lid or dish, with isopropyl alcohol in it, to put the little spreader in when you get done with all 8 VRMs. It makes cleaning it off super easy for the next Cube. You can semi see mine in the corner of the picture.
- Dole Pineapple cans make decent pedestals.
The Arctic Silver Adhesive made a nice difference, the best of which was on the stock Speedy fan, which is a 8 to 16C drop over the 3M thermal tape!
Here is the results:
Stock Voltage and Frequency settings:
Stock Voltage with Frequency Overclock:
Max Undervolting and Frequency Overclock:
If you did the math, you might have noticed I said 48 VRMs, aka 6 Cubes. I had bought one spare set of Enzos, which I decided to use on that one anomalously hot Cube/VRM from one of my regular Neptune miners. The one hot VRM was actually shutting down yesterday (+113C), since it has gotten warmer outside and the temps were rising indoors. So here is a nice comparison of a regular Neptune upgraded to Enzos with Arctic Silver:
That is a 8 to 11C drop!
Frankly, this is how they should have been made to begin with.
My last thing to do is to swap that Speedy fan with a BitFenix, for direct comparison.
I am not even going to waste the energy arguing with notthematrix anymore, he makes excuses for criminals, what more is there to say? Some mafia could come out with a miner and he would defend them when the miner burned people's houses down, because they didn't buy mafia style "fire insurance".
It is like trying to explain freedom to someone who has lived in extreme oppression their entire lives, it would take a professional a long time. Like one refugee I read about, he actually wanted to go back to his oppressive country, because freedom was "too difficult". Too many people these days have the same problem with companies, making excuses for their unacceptable behavior, because "surely, the company knows best, the problem must be YOU!". I mean come on, when most people can't even acknowledge that iphones, etc, are made by slaves, who so often jump to their deaths that they need "suicide nets" around the buildings, then what hope is there for notthematrix ever understanding KnC's criminality?