What is the name of this miner? Never seen this before.
After cleaning off the old crap with turpentine/white spirits I'd get some non-conductive (should be white not silver) thermal compound from a computer parts store and put a blob of it on each of those copper heat pads and let it spread out when you screw the heatsink back on.
I never bother with anti static wrist bands just touch a copper radiator pipe to discharge yourself.
Thanks for that!
Look closer - i think you will work out who made/sent this shit.
Unfortunately i dont have copper pipes here, PVC only in sunny asia.
I have begged the manufacturer to provide adequate paste (and capacitors) so that i might redo every one of the 30 blades i expect to be as bad if not worse than this, but while i wait for the dead blade to be returned - i thought id get as informed as i can.
i have 2 tiny tubes of generic no-name chinese 'heatsink compounds' which i was thinking of practicing with - but it seems easy enough unless you're;
a - not trying
or b - trying to fuck it up intentionally
i have 5 x 20ml of Arctic MX-4 on its way(5000miles) which will no doubt turn up before the RMA'd blade(1000miles)
i'll stick up a pic or two when im done.
id be interested to see the state of other manufacturers heatsink/thermal hatchet jobs - but no need to power down to satisfy me, im pretty confident as to what would be uncovered.
@dogie - are you saying that chips with no thermal paste at all are nothing to worry about or to spread it all over everything?
