19 Nov
1999
19 Nov
'99
2:28 p.m.
Since we are
talking fluid cooling, anybody putting a heatsink on both
sides of the chip?
I would not worry too much about the water side,
pressure and flow can work
wonders there, but would keep the copper plate just thick enough to avoid
hot spots and cover as much of the chip surface as electrically possible.
Well, sounds gut at first sight - just three problems:
First you have only a _very_ small free area on the 'other' side - there
are some nasty pins, and somehor it is no-good to touch them.
Ans second, this is hard to do in any standard board - and even
with custom extenders you still have to connect them and the
wire length becomes a problem - adding 10% corespeed and loosing
20% bus speed isn't exactly a gain.