On 9/16/11 5:35 PM, "Andrew Piskorski" wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:52:04AM -0700, mathog wrote:
>
>>
>>http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=670&SKU=6000
>>00180
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>> That would be easy enough to handle by redirecting the hot air
>> a few millimeters to the side
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:35:40PM -0400, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
> That makes me wonder why they didn't put all 4 sockets in a row. Then
> you could have just put one giant heat sink across all 4; I don't see
> any capacitors or such sticking up in the way.
It's harder than it looks to get shor
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:52:04AM -0700, mathog wrote:
> http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=670&SKU=60180
>
> That would be easy enough to handle by redirecting the hot air
> a few millimeters to the side with a small plastic "wall".
That makes me wonder why they d
On 09/16/2011 12:39 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> The same thing applies in microwave and RF design. There's all kinds of
> tools out there to do the analysis, but a lot of good design is just
> experience and knowing how to put the parts together. So there are these
> little companies that specia
On 9/16/11 10:52 AM, "mathog" wrote:
>Now that I have seen the problem for two sockets, it made me wonder
>what
>the manufacturers did for 4 socket motherboard designs. Easy enough to
>find out.
>A Google Image search for:
>
>"quad socket" motherboard
>
>shows: some took air flow into acc
Now that I have seen the problem for two sockets, it made me wonder
what
the manufacturers did for 4 socket motherboard designs. Easy enough to
find out.
A Google Image search for:
"quad socket" motherboard
shows: some took air flow into account, and some didn't.
There are quad socket mo
On 9/16/11 8:35 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" wrote:
>Predicting airflow, especially in the turbulent regime, is not trivial,
>and not always intuitive. Just ask John Hearns about that. He works for
>McLaren's F1 team, and I bet they spend A LOT of computational power
>studying the aerodynamics of thei
Predicting airflow, especially in the turbulent regime, is not trivial,
and not always intuitive. Just ask John Hearns about that. He works for
McLaren's F1 team, and I bet they spend A LOT of computational power
studying the aerodynamics of their cars (I'm sure the exact amount is a
closely guarde
mathog wrote:
> A not so short story about air flow...
>
> Yesterday I did some experimenting with different baffles and ducts,
> each built temporarily
> out of the cardboard backs from yellow notepads and held together with
> masking tape. (Not worried
> about a fire, since it only ran for 10
