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Topic: Cairnsmore1 - Quad XC6SLX150 Board - page 125. (Read 286370 times)

rjk
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1ngldh
May 02, 2012, 01:17:54 PM
#88
ummm... Nice board but I think 1 hole in the center might be a problem for me. I had plans to water cool this baby. Oh well, I guess I have to suck it up lol. Thanks for the img btw.

The holes on the corners of each FPGA are setup to take standard northbridge heatsinks. Which means any northbridge standard waterblock should work just fine using through-hole mount available on this board.
Yeah but you can't mount 4 heatsinks or blocks with only 1 hole in the middle.
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May 02, 2012, 01:06:49 PM
#87
ummm... Nice board but I think 1 hole in the center might be a problem for me. I had plans to water cool this baby. Oh well, I guess I have to suck it up lol. Thanks for the img btw.

The holes on the corners of each FPGA are setup to take standard northbridge heatsinks. Which means any northbridge standard waterblock should work just fine using through-hole mount available on this board.
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May 02, 2012, 12:47:52 PM
#86
Guys

CAD image is now here http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/cairnsmore/cairnsmore1.html. I will be adding some more detail to this page later today.

Yohan

I just got rid of all my viagra.  Just going to carry a printout of this in my wallet.
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May 02, 2012, 12:42:44 PM
#85
I wonder if there is a big enough air or water block to cover all 4 at once, if they were clustered together closer. Probably wouldn't work too well.

Oh yea, you gave me a great idea. You can always ask for a company to make you a custom block. I think I might just do that.
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1ngldh
May 02, 2012, 12:40:08 PM
#84
I wonder if there is a big enough air or water block to cover all 4 at once, if they were clustered together closer. Probably wouldn't work too well.
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May 02, 2012, 12:30:49 PM
#83
ummm... Nice board but I think 1 hole in the center might be a problem for me. I had plans to water cool this baby. Oh well, I guess I have to suck it up lol. Thanks for the img btw.
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May 02, 2012, 12:23:08 PM
#82
A little more product detail just gone on there.

There is one set of holes per FPGA for a heatsink already. It just doesn't render as well as the plated holes. We are looking to see if we can fit some slightly wider ones on the other corners for our preferred heatsink option.
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May 02, 2012, 12:14:46 PM
#81
those look to near at the fpga
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May 02, 2012, 12:03:07 PM
#80
there appear to be mount holes on 2 corners of each FPGA for chipset size (or similar) heatsink mount. They just don't appear to go all the way through the board on the cad image, could be artifact or minor bug in the design. (ie: hole not associated with all layers in the design for some reason)
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May 02, 2012, 12:01:23 PM
#79
no standard cooler mount holes?
rjk
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1ngldh
May 02, 2012, 11:49:46 AM
#78
That's looking good! A much higher res photo would be nice though.

The image fills up my whole screen at 1240x1024. Big enough Smiley
Plenty big enough, but there seems to be some kind of rendering artifacts. We can see the general layout though, and it looks good.
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May 02, 2012, 11:45:35 AM
#77
That's looking good! A much higher res photo would be nice though.

The image fills up my whole screen at 1240x1024. Big enough Smiley
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What's a GPU?
May 02, 2012, 11:42:13 AM
#76
That's looking good! A much higher res photo would be nice though.
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May 02, 2012, 11:28:44 AM
#75
Guys

CAD image is now here http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/cairnsmore/cairnsmore1.html. I will be adding some more detail to this page later today.

Yohan
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Ad astra.
May 02, 2012, 11:07:59 AM
#74
Would be nice to see a Mini-Rig competitor from you.

Steady! The initial board proof-of-concept designs aren't even finished yet. Forget about a mini rig alternative for now...

Hope springs eternal. Wink
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May 02, 2012, 08:20:35 AM
#73
CAD image should be up this afternoon. We are a few hours behind on our target schedule but nothing serious or a show stopper. We are just doing final tidy up and checking through the design. We are aiming to order a fast prototype PCB today so that is taking priority at the moment. If it goes to plan we will start assembling this prototype on Friday or Tuesday depending on what time we complete the design today.

As soon as we are happy on the design it will be there and I will post again.
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May 02, 2012, 05:11:00 AM
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May 02, 2012, 04:33:21 AM
#71
Would be nice to see a Mini-Rig competitor from you.

Steady! The initial board proof-of-concept designs aren't even finished yet. Forget about a mini rig alternative for now...
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FPGA Mining LLC
May 02, 2012, 04:30:53 AM
#70
I'm wondering what the plans on host interface / mining software compatitility/support are...
Once the hardware has been sorted out we can probably make an agreement on MPBM support if desired.
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May 02, 2012, 04:26:58 AM
#69
Would be nice to see a Mini-Rig competitor from you.
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