On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:37:55 +1100 "James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.... I'm concerned about your email on two fronts. > > Firstly - you've got an e450 *in your room* .. why? > Is that a bedroom? > > Despite the fact that there was a "deskside workstation" > version, it's *not* a machine that is designed to go > anywhere except a data centre or perhaps an airconditioned > office environment. That's one of those places where the > noise from fans running at sufficient speed won't kill > your ears. > > Secondly, running your cpus over a wide range of > temperatures is not advised. You'll end up cooking > the cpus - and sooner rather than later. There is > a *reason* why there are temperature sensors and > fans built into this equipment - if you deliberately > bypass this system you'll end up with a hot brick > and may even cause damage to other components. > > Is that what you really want to do? Yeah, the system is in my bedroom. I can't place it anywhere else, because I live in a shared house and any noise/clutter it creates needs to be confined to my bedroom. I don't run it 24/7, only when I am using it for work. I've got x86 machine, but I like using Solaris on SPARC, besides with 4 CPUs it's very responsive and does everything I need it to do. Anyway, I know there are fans and thermal sensors for a reason, I just thought that having CPUs run 10C hotter would not cause major problems. I think I'll go back to using Ultra 10. It's more sluggish than E450, but in the summer E450 will be too noisy. PS. I don't see any point in buying new hardware when old SPARC machine are sufficient for what I do. Sun E450 is quite a nice machine, apart from the noisy fans. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
