Recent content by idle_user

Look buddy, I'm only trying to help. You mentioned 90c spikes, so I assumed this was CPU. But now you're saying its your storage?? That can't be right as that temp would be dangerous for the device; it would start to thermal throttled itself. Sudden temperature spikes are NOT NORMAL. It means...

If you're getting sudden 90c spikes, it sounds like you have a heat dissipation issue. Have you repasted and checked for good contact?

You do know just because a drive has a high theoretical speed, it doesn't mean it's constantly running at that speed and generating heat right? r/w only happen when needed. And the PCIe lane will already be limited to the speed of the connected device. Plus, the math probably wouldn't...

This is why you look at the "sold by" info on Amazon. Usually if it's not Prime, it's not sold or shipped by Amazon.

Lol you should be fine but that is definitely way too much thermal paste. You only need a thin layer. I get the technique of the blob in the middle and having the pressure spread it out, but it would be more effective if you just spread a thin layer across the die. As for the shim, please take...

Which part of the test did it fail on? Is it on a specific test? I ran into an issue where one of my units would fail/reboot immediately once a specific test started. Even limiting the memory test to start on that test number it would happen. What ended up resolving the issue for me was...

Oh wow. Good find. Anyone else able to confirm that the switch is for autoboot after power losses?

Have you ran a stress test? If it shuts off during a stress test and every other test comes out fine, you might have an issue with the supplies power adapter. I learned that the ones supplied may have issues. I posted a few months ago about my experience. To sum it up, memtest was failing (hard...

Yep, that's probably the issue. I have some small fans I can put under the cases. Not sure if I should put it as exhaust or intake.

2nd update: Repasted and added a shim on another n305 box I had Results below: I also tried the NVMe heatsink fix (the one for 970 EVO PLUS or similar in a video posted previously), but I am not seeing any difference with the heatsinks I'm using. It's either because the heatsink I'm using...

I use prometheus and grafana to track my node stats which includes temperature. You can just install and use sensors on linux to keep it simple $ apt install lm-sensors $ sensors

I doubt its defective hardware and just compatibility with the BIOS. You can live boot a small linux OS through USB and run a quick stress tests. You'll see the clocks run normally I bet.

Liquid metal is not worth it. Just use regular thermal paste. To ensure proper contact between the CPU die and the provided copper block, you can either apply a copper shim (like what I did) or file down the standoffs a bit.

Update. I ran stress tests and it didn't even break past 50C. I thought it was a fluke, so I ran the same test on the other two nodes I have. For reference: I have 3 of those boxes (i3-n305) - all running the same model NVMEs and RAM 2 CWWK, 1 TopTon I replaced the thermal paste and added a...

So I opened up the mini pc that was giving me the most heat issues to reapply the thermal paste and check for gaps. Its pretty difficult to see, but I do believe there was a slight gap; but maybe not and the paste is trying to do its job. The thermal paste job done wasn't as bad as others I've...