Patent ID: 8755197

Claim:
A high-density computer system for streaming media content to a plurality of users, the computer system comprising: a chassis having a width and height substantially conforming to a range of a 2 to 6 rack-unit chassis, the chassis comprising: a base plate; front and back panels structured substantially perpendicular to the base plate; and side panels structured substantially perpendicular to the base plate and to the front and back panels; a plurality of motherboards arranged within the chassis, each of the plurality of motherboards comprising a circuit board having a plurality of components mounted on a top surface of the circuit board, the plurality of components including a heat sink oriented to receive air flow in a direction parallel to the top surface of the circuit boards, a processor positioned to conduct heat to the heat sink, memory, and an Ethernet port, the memory configured to store program instructions for video streaming over the Ethernet port and the processor configured to execute the program instructions, each of the plurality of motherboards furthermore having a form factor substantially conforming to one of: a mini-ITX form factor, a micro-ATX form factor, a nano-ITX form factor, and a pico-ITX form factor, the plurality of motherboards arranged within the chassis such that the top surfaces of each of the plurality of motherboards are substantially parallel to the side panels and substantially perpendicular to the base plate of the chassis, the plurality of motherboards further substantially aligned in at least two columns, each of the at least two columns comprising at least five motherboards.