Quote from: kgb2mining on September 16, 2014, 10:25:53 PM

Quote from: bspurloc on September 16, 2014, 10:05:52 PM

It looks like the S3 upgrade kits dont come with the enclosure...

which I must assume is going to make them run hotter than an S3...

Does anyone have some slick ideas for an enclosure to get around these? CHEAP not something someone made.

Besides taping cardboard around them, which I may end up doing.

Or I may just fabricate some sheet metal.

No, they are supposed to bolt up right to the same frame structure as the S1, reusing it. Honestly it shouldn't be any worse without the enclosure around it if you have proper airflow.

As for an enclosure, I'm working with another member on a rackmountable chassis to hold a few S3's (you can find the initial thread I think under group buys a month or two back). Hopefully the first prototype will be delivered in about a week, and the idea is to fit 12 S3's worth of blades and server PSU's in about 10U of rack space. If you PM me I'll get some pics of it to you when done (I won't want to search through pages of this thread in a couple weeks to find you... Wink

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I was just looking thru my server room and extras and I think I actually have 2 rack mounted enclosures that were made for putting XT mother boards in them that may just work haha...
I presently have 3 S1's stacked and tied on top of each other and some others sitting on the floor at the bottom of some racks. They are all sitting at 41-42C so I guess I shouldnt even need to care about keeping things cool if I have s1's running that cool and overclocked. I have S3's sitting out in the office area and they are at 42-43 and super quiet where and S1 out here would be at 46-47 fans blazing. So it just seemed to me those enclosures were really helping keep the s3's cooler.