> http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/2001_July_30/76840726/p1/article.jhtml
> 
>>for a 'pc in a 5.25" drive bay' solution.
>>
>>When the nano-itx epia boards come out in the summer (Ghz intel in a 
>>12cm package, everything
>>on one board and draws about 25W) I expect  to see more of these. Or 
>>I'll be building my own - I quite
>>fancy a cluster in a tower case, and the average 400W PSU should run 
>>half a dozen along with RAID
>>quite happily :)
> 
> 
> I think have done this for PowerPC already (Terra Soft's BriQ), but I
> would have thought the massive amount of heat dissipated by modern
> intel chips would make this impractical: how do they get rid of the
> heat (or will they use slower/older chips to get it to work)? The BriQ
> uses CPUs that are much slower than the cutting edge....the cpu+heat
> sink alone will not fit in a 5.25" drive bay for a GHz cpu.

Don't use Intel :)

I was talking about 'cluster in a box' with the mini/nano-itx boards
that only draw 20-30W; not much more than a drive, and many are 
passively cooled.


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