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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
So it sounds like the thermal throttling isnt slowing them down too much. If you do not have the odroids in a case, a taller heatsink with more surface area to draw the heat out will help as well. I removed the thermal pad around where the big processor was with a razor blade, and put thermal compound on the chip to help aid in thermal transfer from chip to heatsink.
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More data for the N2 was provided this morning.
----------------------------------------The N2 generates 86points/h/core which translates to 12,350 points/day. For comparison my XU4 and XU4Q have an average of 55points/h/core -> 10,600 points/day. To both of them I've added a 5cm fan bought from ebay and I removed the original fan on XU4 because of the noise. @joneill003 reported here that by installing copper heatsinks and noctua fans he got an average of 11,778 points/day. For me the N2 will bring a 16% increase in number of daily points at half the energy consumption (approx 11W for XU4 with a fan vs 5.5W for N2).  |
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Not bad. If I am in the market for more in the future, I may have to try out the N2.
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