On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Do you REALLY think you can just throw your ATX board into 1U and thats it?
Yup.
>
> Physically you can do it of course, but that means you'll have to sacrifice
> all your AGP & PCI slots (minus 1 which can be used with a converter to put
I don't need 'em.
> the card horizontal), and you'll have some serious heating problems -
Aha, here you have a good point.
> specially with boards that got a heat sink on their chipset (I'm not
> mentioning the fact that you cannot put a P4 based board on 1U since the fan
> itself is bigger then a 2U chassis)..
A copper heatsink with a fan that blows from the side through a duct will
work, depending on the geometry of the motherboard.
But then for my application I don't need a P4. All I need is a P3 550 that
dissipates 17.5 Watts. Even an aluminum heatsink can do that.
Thanks for your help.
- yba
>
> Hetz
>
> On Friday 21 June 2002 16:07, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Does anyone know of a local manufacturer of 1u/2u rackmount cases suitable
> > for ATX motherboards?
> > Regards,
> >
> > - yba
>
>
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