Hey folks. First post here and new to Supermicro hardware and fairly new to enterprise hardware in general.
I currently have a SC826TQ-R800LPB SuperChassis which I got from eBay.
I am looking to make it a bit quieter. The 3 cooling fans are pretty quiet when the system is near idle (90% of the time) but the 800 watt power supplies are just too loud for an idling server, plus I believe these are not very efficient as compared to the Platinum series available.
Can I directly replace these power supplies with another model without further modification? For example, the PWS-920P-SQ sounds like something I'm interested in if it's a direct swap.
Additionally, I'd like to keep it above 600 watt power supplies at minimum. I am running dual X5680s, max number of RDIMMs, 10Gbit, and 12 HDDs.
I currently have a SC826TQ-R800LPB SuperChassis which I got from eBay.
I am looking to make it a bit quieter. The 3 cooling fans are pretty quiet when the system is near idle (90% of the time) but the 800 watt power supplies are just too loud for an idling server, plus I believe these are not very efficient as compared to the Platinum series available.
Can I directly replace these power supplies with another model without further modification? For example, the PWS-920P-SQ sounds like something I'm interested in if it's a direct swap.
Additionally, I'd like to keep it above 600 watt power supplies at minimum. I am running dual X5680s, max number of RDIMMs, 10Gbit, and 12 HDDs.