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That is a weird placement of the cooling fins... some have a fan direct over them, some are in their own hotair pocket.
Nah, looks fine to me. You dont need airflow over every part of the heatsink, the idea of a heatsink is that its good at transferring heat. 6 of those 120mm ? fans should be enough to get rid of 800W.
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Well, Im not sure if the two outer heatsinks get a lot of airflow or if they are connected to the "inside" heatsinks on the same bank.
Still, more worried about this being real. If it is, I wouldnt mind modding it.
That is the best picture of a "fake" ASIC that I've ever seen.
my take on the two outer heatsinks?
I would imagine those boards are similar to the Avalon ones, and they would have a bunch of qfn chips with the backside of the board doing the business end of the cooling. it would appear that they simply added a heatsink to the tops of the chips as well (every little bit helps I guess) and it even looks to me like the board on the right side is flipped around compared to the other three, presumably so that the hot heatsink would be in the direct airflow.
meaning the heatsinks stuck against the sides of the box are pretty much overkill and not needing much airflow at all...
really, this design makes a lot of sense to me. The only thing I don't see is a controller board, but maybe you don't need one? does the Avalon have a controller board simply to make it "stand-alone"?
Anyways, I must repeat, that is the best picture of a "fake" ASIC that I've ever seen!
The case airflow design is simply ridiculous.
Yes, ridiculously good!
