On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > > Stuart Henderson [s...@spacehopper.org] wrote: > > On 2014-06-20, Roger Wiklund <roger.wikl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On a side note I'm a bit worried about the CPU temperate, almost 70 > > > degrees C during normal load. > > > > Yes. Someone, make a better chassis for these, please...! A low rpm fan > > would be quite acceptable to me and I think would make a huge difference. > > You know thermal headroom is tight when the vendor goes as far as telling > > you to use a black chassis. > > Pascal Dornier says that consistent pressure between the CPU and heat > spreader is critical. > > He also says the colored cases have better emissivity: > http://pcengines.ch/apucool.htm > > Some emissivity tests: > http://snap.fnal.gov/crshield/crs-mech/emissivity-eoi.html > > More cooling surface area here (but not colored): > http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12745 >
would a bit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease help ? <, air being approximately 8000 times less efficient at conducting heat than, for example, aluminum (a common heatsink material) > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
