> > Just like the others: dissipation through the aluminum case How does the CPU connect to the aluminum case? Is there some thermal interface involved? Maybe an interface between CPU heatsink and aluminum case?
Mine get toasty but they haven't cooked yet. You could cut a fan in the > case if you needed to. That bothers me quite a bit, but what can you do? I would appreciate it if the manufacturer had the wisdom to leave some margin in the design of the device, thermal performance-wise. You could cut a fan in the case if you needed to. For a person like me, with a history of choosing computer hardware on the basis of its potential to run without extra active cooling, and redesigning computers to minimize the demand for active cooling - that's a blasphemy. (a single low-speed PSU fan with huge CPU heatsink should be enough for cooling a desktop; completely fanless is a bit too much by my judgement - fried one PC that way) The fact that this could be necessary, or advisable, annoys me greatly, to put it mildly. There's simply not enough possibilities out there to choose a proper silent fan in such tight space constraints. Also, the possibility of degradation of fan's sound profile (all fans become noisier when they age), performance or outright failure, the difficulty of cutting the case properly and all the possible complications that could come with it - are the issues I would gladly sidestep entirely. I wonder why they wouldn't just build the board with some appropriate Atom CPU? Shouldn't that be more power-efficient? And maybe even more performant, to boot? E3815 <http://ark.intel.com/products/78474>, probably? Though it's not clear whether its 6W TDP would be noticeably better in practice than AMD's 6.4W <http://www.amd.com/Documents/49282_G-Series_platform_brief.pdf>, but isn't it kinda the manufacturer's job to ensure that the product won't croak with the stock cooling?!
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