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The mining community has noticed that several Iceriver ASICs have a less-than-desirable thermal past job from the factory. And thus they might need a look over. I will share the info you need and how to check if your ASIC is in need of some love.
In short, it appears that the factory has a bit of a problem with the thermal past, either in their application of it or the type they are using. The result is the same for us users. An ASIC that is not performing as well as it should, or could. One of the ways that you can notice this is if it outright thermal throttles, aka turns off. Another is if its hashing is very uneven or performing under what you can expect.
There are diagnostic tools you also can use to check how your miner is performing. And to make it easier for you to find them I am linking them directly at the bottom. Here are the descriptions and instructions for them:
In short, you can check three things with the software. The Temperature, if you have a temperature above 90 degrees you can run into issues. And I would most likely consider redoing the thermal past if I have several of them being over 80. The second is the voltage (see above) and the last is the clock. This can show you if you are having problems as well (see above).
Red Panda Mining put out a video where he goes through the step-by-step process of disassembling, removing, and adding new thermal paste and then assembling the ASIC again. If it is something you feel a bit uneasy doing yourself. It is always good to have a video as a reference. And there are presumably several different others as well who show you this if you search for them.
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