Hence, these numbers do not necessarily indicate the suitable environmental temperature. The heat spreader is not intended to be a guaranteed standalone cooling system, but should be used only as a supplemental means of transferring heat to another dissipation system (i.e. heat sinks, fans, heat pipes etc). It is the customer’s responsibility to design and apply an application-dependent cooling system, capable of ensuring that the heat spreader / heat sink temperature remain within the indicated range of the module. It is an absolute requirement that customers, after thorough evaluation of the processor’s workload in the actual system application, the system enclosure and consequent air flow/Thermal analysis, accurately study and develop a suitable cooling solution for the assembled system. |