[Beowulf] materials for air shroud?

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

On 9/16/11 5:35 PM, "Andrew Piskorski" <atp at piskorski.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:52:04AM -0700, mathog wrote:
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>>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 with a small plastic "wall".
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>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 probably a routing of traces thing, not a components in the way thing.

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