* Bill Kearney wrote, On 3/24/2007 10:42 AM:
Sealed??? How does that work? The only way it can run fanless is
with good ventilation.

Sure you can, several of the newer home theatre types of PCs use extended
heat sinks to dissipate the heat from their CPU, video and I/O chipsets. So
while that particular case and motherboard might not lend itself to such a
setup, it's certainly "possible" to do it. But that doesn't change the fact
that unless you're planning on a helm installation it's often cheaper to
just buy two used laptops instead.

Yes, I should have been more specific that what I meant by "it" was
the Via board in a mini chassis. There are certainly a number of ways
to remove heat, but I don't think they fall within the design
parameters of this system.

I have followed a company that builds embedded supercomputers for use
in military and other applications. While in the beginning the
engineering challenges were digital hardware, and then software
design, the problem evolved into a mechanical problem, namely, how do
you remove heat from the system.