One research project I’m embarking on is one that I actually thought of accidentally. It will be looking at different thermal conductivity in thermal paste used on ASIC chips to measure performance in hashrate.

It may sound weird, I know. But while reapplying thermal paste to several hash boards, I inadvertently used two types of thermal paste with different thermal conductivity, and saw a minor difference in temperature readings when testing them.

I’ll be using different thermal pastes (based on W/mK) on a control (S19j Pro 100 TH/s) with an adequate sample size (likely 3 known fully hashing machines) and I will look at power draw, chip temperature, and hashrate over the average of 12 hours in a controlled climate.

There is, of course, a point of diminishing returns, and I hope to find that to see the peak optimization in a machine based on a tiny factor such as thermal paste. It may be minute, but it very well could be large enough to consider.

Much to be done!