I looked into a larger box with another member here and it was not much different. It seems the major factor is the weight.
The original packaging keeps these things steady through shipping, you'd be giving up a lot of stability and looking at possible damages to the units by combining them.
100% correct. The cubed weight is less than the actual weight on mostly everything we deal with in BTC hardware, don't sacrifice the original box even if it did save a couple bucks, they are built right. I made that mistake with thedreamer (sorry buddy), won't do that again.
Also, Allinvain, even in the right environment with cheap power, running these over 1550 GH/s kept them hotter than I was comfortable with for longevity. Running these at 1500-1550 GH/s draws around 1,000W DC, and the gains from going higher weren't worth it IMO.
Most of mine are running at stock, but I think it would be wise to underclock them slightly for the sake of efficiency. I think these are ok with running hot though, but I could be wrong. The exhaust temps are always high and I believe they were designed like that cause hotter slow moving air is easier to exhaust.
So far all of mine have a starting voltage of 0.69 and a max of 0.75. With that setting nearly none of them run at over 1600. Most run at 1550 to 1570.
I gotta get a 220v power meter or hook one up to a switched PDU and see what each one consumes currently at the wall.
What voltage do you run yours to get 1000 watts DC consumption? I think there is an efficiency chart SP-Tech published somewhere though.
I kept all chips below 100C, and fans @ 100%. I noticed a few percent decrease in power consumption @ given hashrate by dropping the temps by ~20C with fan at 100 instead of on auto setting. I do not trust the auto setting, keeps the chips too hot IMO.
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