On 9/9/05, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:26:51PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > > On 9/8/05, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have heat sinks on the board, you need space around them > > > for > > > convection. If you have fans on the heat sinks, you need even more > > > clearance for the air to enter the fans. In either case, you're not going > > > to have the component side facing another board, unless you want to use a > > > blower and skinny ductwork to deliver the airflow parallel to the plane of > > > the board. > > > > The problem we have to deal with is that while some systems have good > > airflow around the PCI slots, others seem to have practically none, > > and we need to be able to deal with both cases. > > > > Also, we'd like to sell it without a fan but allow one to be installed > > for overclocking. > > > Ah, so. In the latter situation, you'd have to plug the OGD into > the end PCI slot, and not put a board in the AGP slot next door. Of course, > overclocking might not be that much of an issue for the OGD, since it's not > intended for maximum performance in the first place. And an OGC1A goes in > an AGP slot, which does have clearance for a fan intake.
The problem is that this card WILL get installed in system with NO airflow, and no matter how "non preformance oriented" it is, it WILL overheat. There's a certain popular PC manufacturer we often buy from who has absolutely NO airflow in the PCI area. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
