Quote from: bo2573 on January 22, 2013, 06:12:03 PM

Quote from: BitSyncom on January 22, 2013, 06:00:02 PM

Time for funny story on cooling, BFL said something like we'd run into similiar problems like them knowing our design is completely different, e.g. rolled vs pipeline, we chuckled; since we are ahead, I'll say the same, I think BFL is going to run into some problems we ran into as well.

Anyways, cooling was the exact opposite, our units cool so well, we removed two fans. ZING.

Josh,

What do you think of the mammoth case Avalon just released pics of? Do you think the PCB takes up the entire footprint? Did they do this to spread the ASIC chips apart because of heat? Just curious.

I bet it's both... they use a lot of chips for each miner because of the 110nm process, which probably results in a largish PCB, and 400w is a lot of heat to dissipate out of a closed box.