Patent ID: 7382616

Claim:
A system for cooling a heat-generating electronic device, the system mountable to a first side of a circuit board and the system comprising: a first set of fins and a second set of fins; a fan disposed between the first set and second set of fins and operable to force air through the first set and second set of fins; a first heat pipe to conduct heat from the heat-generating electronic device to the first set of fins, wherein the first set of fins is disposed on a rear portion of the circuit board so that a first airflow through the first set of fins exits to an exterior of a computing device containing the heat-generating electronic device and second set of fins is disposed on a front portion of the circuit board so that a second airflow through the second set of fins exits into an interior or the computing device; and a second heat pipe to conduct heat from the heat-generating electronic device to the first set of fins, wherein the heat pipes are disposed through the first set of fins, the first heat pipe is disposed at a first location of the first set of fins, the second heat pipe is disposed at a second location of the first set of fins, and the second location is opposite to the first location, and wherein the second location is catercorner to the first location.