On the thermal image above you can see how things look on one of the PCBs of the new Gridseed G-Blade Scrypt ASIC in terms of temperature, the GC3355 chips of the device run pretty cool at about 40-50 degrees Celsius. These are the thermal images of the voltmodded Gridseed G-Blade ASIC that we have posted about. Do note that the thermal images are of the modified device with the additional cooling heat sinks attached to it, so the temperature of the voltage regulators is lower and the overall PCB temperature as well. You can use these if you plan on doing a voltage modification to your miners in order to see what are the possibly weaker spots – the components that get hot, in order to improve their cooling and to make sure that you will not overheat and burn your ASIC miner. We do recommend extreme caution when voltmodding the G-Blades as they are already pushed pretty close to their maximum by Gridseed and you do not have a lot of headroom for further gaining some extra performance. The power part of the Blade Miners is clearly not designed to handle much increase in the voltage, even though the GC3355 chips are just asking for more as we’ve seen with the smaller 5-chip ASIC devices from Gridseed.

Take a look at how hot the PCB gets (around 50 degrees Celsius) near the power connector and that is with about 85W of power consumption per PCB, a clear sign that the connector used is not the perfect choice for powering the G-Blades and while with the stock setup it might be Ok, you should be careful when you voltmod. Do note that we already have a large motherboard chipset heat sink attached to that side of the PCB and it does lower the overall temperature as well. It is placed on the back side of the PCB where the voltage regulators are and it helps to reduce their temperature, because the airflow from the cooling fan does pass through it as well and helps to keep it quite cool.

Looking at the side of the PCB where the voltage regulators are placed, thanks to the heat sink we have placed directly on the three VRMs their temperature is quite Ok, but there are other components that might have some issues with heat. These are the choke on the left of the voltage regulators on the photo and the 16V capacitor below the regulators as they both get to about 70 degrees Celsius in terms of temperature. And while they still do seem to work fine in the long run this may cause some issues, so you might consider replacing the capacitor with a more serious one.

Again we are going to advise you to be very careful should you consider doing a voltage modification to the new Gridseed G-Blade miners as it can be dangerous and you can easily damage your expensive miner. The modification here is not as easy as just replacing one resistor as you need to do cooling improvements as well and you are not able to push things too much to be on the safe side, so the hashrate increase is also not that big as compared to what you are getting without the modification. So you might really want to reconsider if it is worth doing the modification at all, we are probably not going to be modding another G-Blade for a while until we see how the voltage mod will handle on the longer run in its current state.

• First Dual Scrypt and SHA-256 ASICs Getting Released
• First Impressions from the iPollo V1 Mini Ethash/ETChash ASIC Miner
• Checking Out the BITMINE RIG-V6 (rev04) Mining Frame
• Bitmain Antminer S9 Hydro 18 THS Water Cooled Bitcoin ASIC Miner
• KNC Titan 2.0 Miner is a Convincingly Looking SCAM
• SFARDS Now Offering SF3301 Sample Chips and Development Boards
• Innosilicon A8+ CryptoMaster is Yet Another CryptoNight ASIC Miner
• New 43 THS Innosilicon Terminator3-43T Bitcoin ASIC Miner
• Bitmain Antminer E3 Firmware Update to Extend the Miner’s Life
• Review of the ZeusMiner Hurricane X6 Scrypt ASIC Miner
• New 31 THS Canaan Avalon A10 Bitcoin ASIC Miner is Coming
• Bitmain AntMiner R4 is Supposed to Bring Mining Back Home
• AntRouter R3-LTC, a WiFi Router and Clock That Mines Too
• First Impressions and Performance Results from A2BOX Scrypt ASICs
• Bitcoin ASIC Miners Still Hard to Get for Small Miners
• Alpha Technology Shows Their First Produced Viper ASIC Chips
• Innosilicon A5+ DashMaster is a New 65 GHS X11 ASIC Miner
• Are Bitmain’s Antminer E3 Ethash ASIC Miners Becoming Obsolete
• PinIdea 17GHS X11 ASIC Miner DR-100
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 vs GTX Titan X Mining Performance
• Bitmain Announced Their First 7nm ASIC Chip, Soon in Miners
• Mining Nervos (CKB) is Quickly Moving Away From GPUs to FPGA Miners
• A Third X11 ASIC Miner Appears, the Baikal Mini Miner
• Ethereum (ETH) Mining With ASUS EKWB GeForce RTX 3090 Water-Cooled GPU
• We Can Now Confirm That the iBeLink DM384M X11 ASIC Miner is Real