[K12OSN] odd question..

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:21, Doug Simpson wrote:
> You could just take sheets of aluminum and make rack mounts for each 
> board, drilling and tapping the sheet for the standoffs for the 
> motherboards.
> 
> However, remember you will have to have power supplies for each board.
> 
> And you will have to leave sufficient room between boards for cards to 
> stand up unless you use fully integrated motherboars (video, LAN, etc. . 
> .)
> 
> Then there's the thing of cooling air.  the boards would have to be far 
> enough apart for the cpu fans to get sufficient air.
> 
> But then again if you use the integrated boards, some of those fit into 
> the slimline cases so that shouldn;t be a problem.
> 
> This is a good idea, but it will take a considerable amount of design and 
> fab work to make it happen.  But if you already have the motherboards and 
> power supplies and etc, it could be done reasonable inexpensively.

Doug briefly addresses cooling. I'm thinking, unless you mount the Mb's
sideways, you will want to not use a cage that is enclosed and cools by
sucking air up through it, but rather in the front and out the back or
some such type.

Sounds like a fun idea to mess with.

JSR/