by mranderso » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:38 pm
ubii, thanks for the link, that will definitely be useful.
Sundance, sorry I wasn't more emphatic about the obvious need for heat
sinks and fans. I was hoping to address that each board was a unique
snowflake. That someone might experience miraculous behavior, but not to
generalize and think that everyone's board might perform exactly the
same. And thanks for figuratively batting my hand away from the box's
lid. Friend from college was a Mechanical Engineer that used to model
cooling systems and design PC enclosures. Have heard much in the past
of the importance of keeping the box closed and allowed to function as
designed
Andreas, sorry for the scare. Sadly, I've not been adventurous enough to
hook all eight up at once into a working cluster without understanding
my cooling needs. Have only had one board powered on at a time. That,
and the fact the components arrived just before the distracting last
weekend of Carnival. Also, still waiting on additional components that
Amazon, in it's ignorance of boots on the ground reality, claimed would
be delivered on Mardi Gras day.
Andrew, thanks. Appreciate the experience based specific part
recommendation, otherwise I'll spend all day on Amazon in frozen in
indecision. Wish I had hair left that needed drying.
Mark
hobbyist