Use of second vent?

Framework Laptop 13
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Hello all!

As most of you Framework owners have probably noticed there is a second vent to the right of the first vent! As well as a intake at the bottom!
Currently this has absolutely NO use as the first fan intakes and exhausts purely from the left intake and exhaust!
This points towards the possibility of a dual fan configuration heatsink + fan in the future for a mainboard (Meaning possibly higher power parts, and to appease the dGPU fans here maybe a low power dGPU)!
Interestingly though- the place where a second fan would go is currently blocked by the RAM modules and I don’t see how this would be possbile to change in the future- anyone have any ideas how Framework could squeeze a second fan onto the board? Interested in what you all think possibilities are!

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The [ease of] repairability is definitely introducing a constraint here because you want access to the following without removing the mainboard:

  1. RAM access
  2. SSD access
  3. Display, wifi, webcam, speaker, battery, fan connectors.
  4. RTC battery access
  5. Heatsink & fan access.

With all that footprint, I don’t think you can get a second fan in there. …Not unless the footprint changes.

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If the footprint changes it wouldn’t make sense that there was a second vent in the 13" chassis! Also I doubt the mainboard will be switched over footprint changes, maybe though!
Maybe it’s just for symmetry

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Maybe 10 years from now, SODIMM will be smaller, SSD will be smaller…

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A future motherboard revision could possibly have the CPU on the other side, no?

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Wouldn’t say it’s useless. The negative pressure the fan creates automatically makes it an intake.

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Oh true! It might be pulling air over the mainboard! I always wondered why the top of the fan was uncovered while the keyboard was on top of it!

Good thinking!

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