* Jeff Ross <jr...@openvistas.net> [2010-03-02 17:48]: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >* Jeff Ross <jr...@openvistas.net> [2010-03-02 16:59]: > >>I bought a replacement supermicro motherboard off fleabay that has > >>dual Opteron 250 @2.4GHz. The cpus have passive heatsinks, it is in > >>a supermicro 2U chassis with 4 front fans. > > > >do you have the air shroud? this plastic thing that forms a "tunnel" > >over the heatsinks? it is required. > > > > No, the motherboard didn't come with that. If I can find one will > that mean I don't need the active heatsinks?
that's how supermicro delivers the 2U systems, so i'd say yes, you won't need them. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
