Abit angled heatsink doesn't cut corners
 

Computex 2006 No more dead spots

ABIT HAD A Viiv demo running at Computex that at first seemed innocuous, but upon closer inspection had two neat things on it, a heatsink and a flash HD.


The heatsink is so unobtrusive that I did not notice it the first three times I looked at the box. It small, has no shiny or blinky things, and just works. The fan is angled at 45 degrees, the point of this is that the center of a normal fan is a dead spot, it gets no airflow, and is coincidently centered just above the actual CPU die. The angle forces air over all parts of the heatspreader to theoretically cool better than a normal fan. Abit is calling this OTES Stream.

The other bit is the PQI industrial flash HD running the VIIV demo instead of a mechanical HD. Other than the minor miracle of ABIT fitting Windows XP in a 2GB space, it shows that the time of flash as the main storage medium is rapidly approaching. You can see the stub of it on the bottom right.


The INQuirer