Just a thought about technical feasibility of the whole operation: if such loud fan cooling is needed, this means there's a lot of heat generated. So, heat will be ur no 1 enemy.
U could go liquid cooling over the CPU, but what about the rest of the board? And what about the missing fans? Will the system turn on/run/boot? And, btw, just stick with original PSU, it's been DESIGNED for that board. One last remark: this machine features neither USB nor optical drive (although the creator of opensxce claims he could boot by directly attaching a sata DVD, I never succeeded in getting openbsd/solaris CD boot this way on my T1000), so it's either a netinstall box or you gotta rework the HD on some other sparc64 hw before (at least some bootloader plus bsd.rd on it). And before this also update OBP to latest possible version.... Now you know all that is waiting for you... Good luck Il 16/lug/2015 23:43, "Karel Gardas" <gard...@gmail.com> ha scritto: Hello, recent thread on the mailing list provoked me to send a question I'm tinkering with for quite some time now. Do any of you guys have any experience with T1000 board? I'm specifically interesting in its power connector. Is that really ATX 24 pin power? If so, perhaps this board may be used as a basis for silent workstation? Well, if GPU cards are no-go for whatever reasons (unsupported by firmware?) for this, than at least for silent server setup suitable to be run in ordinary office environment without a need for proper noise insulated server room... I do have really nice T2000 next to my desk, but when run, this thing annoys me a lot. 62 dBA. I'm using ears protector like for chainsaw, but still few hours of debugging on this and my head is going in circles... Thanks! Karel
