On Mar 27, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Jinx wrote:

>>> Nothing done yet because the side's been off for weeks ;-)
>>
>> Absolutely the WORST thing you can do if you're concerned
>> about heat
>>

This may be true of carefully designed cases with carefully
designed airflow.  I don't think the average tower PC even comes
close.  MOST systems don't come close, and just let the chips cool
to ambient, and use a case fan to keep "ambient" from climbing
continuously.  Now, if you've got a dozen heat-sinked chips on
a card you want to fit in 2U of rack space, THEN you start seeing
systems that you can't take the cover off without alarms going off.

BillW
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