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Re: BFL Requests Input
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hardcore-fs
on 01/11/2012, 11:59:46 UTC
Potentially a recipe for a manufacturing disaster.

Since there are 8 chips ALL relying on a SINGLE heatsink, a tiny variation in manufacturing could leave the chips at slightly different hights, resulting in chips that may not make contact with the bed of the heatsink, or worse!!, chips that are slightly higher and have the BGA connections compressed and fractured because they get compressed to be at the same hight as the surrounding devices.

Cairnsmore1 uses a similar design, cooling 4 chips (484-BGA I think) with a single heatsink/fan.  Does it have these kind of problems?

I thought the Cairnsmore1 used 4 heatsinks, 1 fan?

The Cairnsmore1 can do 60GH/s ?
Wow I'm glad I did not buy an ASIC..  next you will be telling me that  a .13um design is  better than a 90nm process.........