Patent ID: 8964395
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information handling system comprising: a chassis; a motherboard disposed in the chassis, the motherboard having plural processing component connectors operable to accept processing components and heat sink connectors operable to accept heat sinks associated with the processing components; plural processing components populating less than all of the processing component connectors, the processing components operable to process information; a fan disposed in the chassis and aligned to provide cooling airflow past the processing components; and a shroud positioned over one of the processing component connectors unpopulated by a processing component, the shroud having an exterior outer housing and an interior within the outer housing, the interior forming a channel, the channel having an inlet aligned to accept the cooling airflow into the interior and an outlet aligned to direct the cooling airflow that passes over the unpopulated processing component connector in a predetermined manner.