hah! yeahp, I know how ya feel! There is literally no hardware Im interested in anymore at this point. Its all a fucking ripoff right now. The reward/risk ratio just aint favorable enough anymore.
It will be if the price ever returns astronomically high. But thats going to take a lifetime at this point LOL!
The titan was the last piece of hardware I bought. Glad I did cuz I learned a lot coding to improve it, so its been one hell of a fun project, no other miner has given me such opportunity. But, beyond Titan, theres really nothing left LOL!
Oh ... how I miss the GPU days! =(
When mining was actually fair and fun and decentralized.
On a side note I posted this a bit further back. The below video shows a guy tearing apart a Titan cube. It is all in Swedish but I get the gist of it.
Except for the fact of learning my cubes are 'filthy' after watching this video by peaking inside and probably I SHOULD ASAP use the Air Compressor
and blow out 11 1/2 months of dust in them (in basement ..cooling in summer as a big shuttle fan and windows open....my pics here if you want to see setup
lostgonzo.imgur.com)
Would it make any sense for me to put new paste on the cubes as seen in the video after I dust them out (probably would do the heatsink mod too as they are cute or
maybe I really should replace the paste...the Titans have been running 24/7 for 11 1/2 months. Maybe this stuff dries out or something?
Or would that likely NOT make any difference on my 2 cubes with 1 dead die each? Thermal paste just helps heat...the dies I have set to OFF would likely not
benefit from this at all anyway......
Newbie other issue....if I could or being a newbie 'likely too" use too much thermal paste or muck it up in many different
newbie ways ...on your advice ... I may just limit myself to dusting them out...
Then again it don't look TOO hard even from my limited perspective ...newbie that I am on such electronic mods
here is the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-RBI4am-wYOne last point ....as I watch the above video ..I can see where taking off the 2 ends on the heat sink to get access to the ends for individual heat sinks, but why did he
not just also prune the front of the large standard plate heatsink also and put copper individual heatsinks on all of them?
Seems to me he still had enough of the large standard heatsink plate to connect the fan/cooler back down with the
thermal paste on the Titan Cube and just put individual heatsinks on all the components. (whole thing still looks newbie scary to me)
Vegas if you are on .....you can jump on this too on what you think of the process on the above video..you probably have better ideas anyway
Anyway appreciate the advice. I SHOULD probably refrain myself for 20 days till warranty wears out. Original Titan will be 1 year on Nov 6rh 2015.
The 2nd used Titan I got is also a Nov 2014 unit. Then after that point in time I can drag the HACKSAW wave it at the
Titans and make evil laugh sounds at them...heh......it will be very very therapeutic indeed! Again should you think I should bother with the mods he does.
Again thanks for any advice.
That was a good video, Ive been wondering how the inside of the titan was put together =P ... I dont have one physically, mines hosted(yes all the coding Ive done has been remote) LOL!
He put WAY TOO MUCH paste back on the ASIC, it will be oozing out the sides if it seats properly. I prefer to have a much thinner layer when I apply paste. Hell, I dont even spread it out, I just put a tiny bead in the middle, enough pressure should spread it out evenly as needed. Thats how arctic silver has always recommended application of their products.
I guess getting ambient temperatures of measuring points of the DCDC's are pointless now, it was something I askd vegasguy to check on while it was mining, but I didnt realize they had a "heatsink" on top of them for cooling =P
Yeah, I would like to see the temperature deltas between the banks he applied the copper heatsink on vs the ones he just left w/ the alum "heatsink" ... if the temps are anywhere near close then individually sinking the DCDC's is pointless. But, I know vegas has done a ton of work on tweaking the cooling on these things so Im interested to see what hes got goin on =P
Heck if that metal plate gets really freaking hot to the touch, that means the pads are doing a great job of transferring the heat to that plate from the DCDC's ... which means if u put heatsinks on the plate, even that would help cool those DCDC's better.
Hes still making the video lol!