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Re: Klondike - 16 chip ASIC Open Source Board - Preliminary
by
mike2kt
on 16/05/2013, 15:52:18 UTC

Found some very cheap potential heatsinks, would they dissapate enough heat though?

http://dx.com/p/aluminum-cooler-heat-sink-chipset-for-ram-memory-w-type-8-piece-set-35816
130x180x60mm

Those are smaller than you indicate by 10x. 13mm not 130mm. They may be good as one per chip but they wouldn't work for the whole board (obviously). There's a lot of these RAM/VGA chip coolers out there. They may work per chip but once you add them up you end up spending more than one big heat sink. (I'm looking for a nice blue cool looking one for the K1 however, about 1"x1.25").


Can someone verify this company? http://www.pcb-assembly.com.tw/contact.html
I'm seeing very good prices for pcb printing in mid sized orders, for 100 printed boards like $9.3

"Effy Deal Global" - with a name like that I hope they're not real. But who knows.
The price doesn't surprise me at all. I'm expecting to pay $2.70 each in qty 100.


On the heatsink question, I do have one concern on the center of the K64 or wherever two or more K64s share an edge (e.g. "K256"). That's centralizing a lot of heat in comparison. Just wanted to bring the topic up so that whatever heatsink selected/recommended they allow for a clear airflow path when they are placed side-by-side.