> >> AMD Geode NXs are low > >> power and have been upgraded by AMD to include some Athelon features. > >> The 1 GHz is only 6 Watts so you might need a small fan but no large > >> heat sink. > > > > Heat sinks are reliable, quiet, and don't use power. > > Yes, but ... (TM) > > Heat sinks for most CPUs are also *large* and IIUC we need to fit this > on a PCI board. I said no _large_ heat sink not no heat sink at all. > Yes, it would be best to do without a fan, but many graphics cards do > have small ones.
Ah, it sounded (to me) that you were suggesting a fan *instead* of a heat sink. The real problem of course is that the PCI card form factor was not designed with cooling in mind. The bus connector and I/O connectors should be on opposite sides, not adjacent sides. Then you use one big, slow, quiet, energy efficient, monitored, standard-size-easy-to-replace-when-it-dies system fan to cool all of them. Kinda hard to fix that now though. Is the Geode due for a die shrink? Can the Geode be underclocked and still be fast enough? I'm guessing that it is way faster than you need for desktop, and way slower than you need for video unless the GPU does 99.99% of the work. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
