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Does anyone have any wisdom or advice on best practices for designing a single heatsink that is meant to hold multiple modules? I would like to be able to make the outputs roughly parallel. My thinking currently runs along two lines:
A) Integrate a active mechanism (set screws?) for fine adjustment of the modules within the heatsink.
B) Allow some wiggle room, and then patiently align each module using 2-part arctic silver that will harden and fix each module once aligned.
Neither approach is perfect. Option A is sounding better at present. Does anyone have any wisdom? I don't want to get too complicated, and this is still for a portable build, so I cant get terribly fancy. This still has to generally conform to normal heatsink dimensions (other than of course that it's going to be a large heatsink for a big host).
A) Integrate a active mechanism (set screws?) for fine adjustment of the modules within the heatsink.
B) Allow some wiggle room, and then patiently align each module using 2-part arctic silver that will harden and fix each module once aligned.
Neither approach is perfect. Option A is sounding better at present. Does anyone have any wisdom? I don't want to get too complicated, and this is still for a portable build, so I cant get terribly fancy. This still has to generally conform to normal heatsink dimensions (other than of course that it's going to be a large heatsink for a big host).
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