US Patent 7564685 Motherboards with integrated cooling

A computer apparatus includes a first motherboard having a top surface and a bottom surface and a second motherboard having a top surface and a bottom surface. The motherboards each have mounted thereto components that generate high thermal loads and components that generate low thermal loads. A heat sink is in conductive thermal contact with the top surfaces of the first and second motherboards. Computer components generating high thermal loads are mounted to the top surfaces of the first and second motherboards, and computer components generating low thermal loads are mounted to the bottom surface of one or more of the first and second motherboards.