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Overclocking AsicMiner Blade v2

l'appétit vient en mangeant - the appetite grows while eating

You want to push up the hashing power just little more to get more shares? Well, yes, who wouldn't?


After 'Googling' around little, I found this blog about overclocking AsicMiner Blade v2:
http://8rowsof4.blogspot.se/2014/02/overclocking-asicminer-blade-v2-green.html

I contacted the author and we had nice email thread, discussing and explaining the things around the procedures.
In just 10 days (from USA to Sweden, Europe) I got 4 kits I ordered.
Nicely packaged and with some candy too!

The soldering procedure requires steady hand and good soldering iron. I got one with 1 mm tip, which was perfect for this. But otherwise it is not hard to do, if you have some experience.
So if you have any plans to get some extra from your Blades, just do it!
Remember also that they will generate more heat, so chipside cooling is much recommended.

This blog entry wont go in to deep about how to do it, for that I suggest you read his excellent blog with detailed instructions.

Just showing few details from the work:

I used some 8,8 x 8,8 mm IC heat sinks for chip side cooling.

(Note: use silicone heatsink plaster as less as possible. Just enough it fastens, for best cooling.)

Solder iron tip.

2 of the 8 resistors that needs to be changed. R113 & R101

15 AMP fuse in place.

Oscillator jumper and new oscillator in place.

And finally the results after running bit over 13h. The efficiency might go up with better cooling. 13ghs is quite acceptable so far!