PC is inaudible, ambient is NOT
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PC is inaudible, ambient is NOT
I suppose there are a lot of us who have built themselves a nice silent or close to inaudible PC and who start to hear a lot of other noise sources after that. What other equipment is there around us and has anyone thought about the sound levels when choosing what to buy?
My problem:
After getting rid of noise from my PC, other parts in my living room started to annoy. I don't think i'm only one with this problem. My home theater is equipped with SONY KDL40W4500 and it has annoying low electrical hum. I can't hear it while watching TV, the sound disappears under the movie sounds, but i do hear it if I use it as my computer screen from 3m distance! (Ambient here is quite quiet). A DIY Silent SONY would actually be nice to own. Any suggestions how to make it better?
My problem:
After getting rid of noise from my PC, other parts in my living room started to annoy. I don't think i'm only one with this problem. My home theater is equipped with SONY KDL40W4500 and it has annoying low electrical hum. I can't hear it while watching TV, the sound disappears under the movie sounds, but i do hear it if I use it as my computer screen from 3m distance! (Ambient here is quite quiet). A DIY Silent SONY would actually be nice to own. Any suggestions how to make it better?
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Do family members count?
I voted 5-6.
Once I got my pc quiet as it is now, I began to notice the constant low hum of our air conditioning system's fan (Aussie summers are hot, so you happily put up with the noise ), if gaming on a quiet evening, I can hear some electrical sounds coming from my amplifier. We have a fan in our kitchen, and one can hear that... and a few other things.
Still, most of these other sounds fade away into white noise, unless I turn my Big Boy 200mm fans up to high (aka cyclone).
I voted 5-6.
Once I got my pc quiet as it is now, I began to notice the constant low hum of our air conditioning system's fan (Aussie summers are hot, so you happily put up with the noise ), if gaming on a quiet evening, I can hear some electrical sounds coming from my amplifier. We have a fan in our kitchen, and one can hear that... and a few other things.
Still, most of these other sounds fade away into white noise, unless I turn my Big Boy 200mm fans up to high (aka cyclone).
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Copy your DVD's into disk images (DeepBurner) and run them with virtual DVD drive (DaemonTools). Noise source counter -1andymcca wrote:Does the internal DVD drive count? I just about cry when I put a disk in.
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Am I missunderstanding this, or does your room double as a toilet?!?spartan117 wrote:im using an external wc solution and it's about 30 cm from my head
edit: ok, after posting this, it crept up on me that "wc" could double as water-cooling. hehehe
5 flatmates and a whole of london = more. The only time I faintly hear the pc is late at night.
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Welcome to American English! You will never see a sign here with WC (water closet) and an arrow here. We also don't live in "flats"; they're called apartments.Cistron wrote:Am I missunderstanding this, or does your room double as a toilet?!?
edit: ok, after posting this, it crept up on me that "wc" could double as water-cooling. hehehe
5 flatmates and a whole of london = more. The only time I faintly hear the pc is late at night.
Lots of different meanings in his phrase: "head" is also a naval term for bathroom. So he has an external bathroom solution 30cm from his bathroom. Besides, women wear flats on their feet.b_rubenstein wrote:Welcome to American English! You will never see a sign here with WC (water closet) and an arrow here. We also don't live in "flats"; they're called apartments.Cistron wrote:Am I missunderstanding this, or does your room double as a toilet?!?
edit: ok, after posting this, it crept up on me that "wc" could double as water-cooling. hehehe
5 flatmates and a whole of london = more. The only time I faintly hear the pc is late at night.
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Just the heating - that I can hear anyway. Don't notice anything with my headphones on really.
Only noises I still pick up from my PC are disk-seek and coil whine (only get coil whine when very close to the back). Need new drives as they are nearly 3 years old and I think they've gotten noiser over that time.
Only noises I still pick up from my PC are disk-seek and coil whine (only get coil whine when very close to the back). Need new drives as they are nearly 3 years old and I think they've gotten noiser over that time.
Engineer much? :)MtnHermit wrote:My refrigerator is by far the biggest noise maker, ~25% duty cycle. After that the wood stove, even thought it's mostly 1/4" steel plate, in the morning when I fire it, creaks a lot.
The Blackhawks and Chinooks overwhelm everything, but less than 1% DC, and only middle of the day.
Edit: How big is your solar array? 500-800W? By off the grid do you mean on battery with inverters for AC? Do you run DC appliances off DC-DC supplies? Neato.
That obvious?andymcca wrote:Engineer much?MtnHermit wrote:My refrigerator is by far the biggest noise maker, ~25% duty cycle. After that the wood stove, even thought it's mostly 1/4" steel plate, in the morning when I fire it, creaks a lot.
The Blackhawks and Chinooks overwhelm everything, but less than 1% DC, and only middle of the day.
Here's my reply to a similar question.Edit: How big is your solar array? 500-800W? By off the grid do you mean on battery with inverters for AC? Do you run DC appliances off DC-DC supplies? Neato.
Oh, 500W x 6hours = 3KWHMtnHermit wrote:Not sure I understand, but . . .mark19891989 wrote:I wanted to know general setup costs, and how much you are able to run of off it. in real world rather then Kwh
Roughly $20K installed, verses $135K for a wire, I'm roughly 4-miles from the nearest utility wires @ $35K/mi. The solar > battery > inverter system runs everything in my house: well, furnace, refrigerator, microwave, TV, DVR, this PC, wireless internet, furnace, washer, dryer, dishwasher, lights . . . everything, but limited to 3KWH/day assuming it's sunny. I do have a 6KW propane generator, which has 200 hrs in 11+ years.
EVERYTHING is 120V/60C AC, no DC. If I need DC I'll use a AC/DC converter such as a battery charger for a car. DC is only available at the battery box whereas AC outlets are everywhere, to code.do you have your pc running from 12v dc or is that also powered by the inverter?
In 11+ years I've had one failure, last year, 2 of my 12 - 6V batteries died. I shuffled them around such that I'm now running only 8 batteries. They're very heavy ~150# and very expensive ~$300 each and you can't replace two, I'd have to replace all twelve.
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I voted 1-2, since the refrigerator is the only thing 24/7 that's noisier than my pc, even if I close the door to the kitchen, it's still noisier. I really should upgrade it, but on students loan budget, I guess a silent and big enough refrigerator is hard to come by, especially since what's deemed "silent" by the manufacturers seldom are quiet enough for me when it comes to anything.
If I was to count other things that are noisier than my PC, but not running 24/7, there would be the TV which buzzes unless I mute it and the xbox 360 that sounds like a jet engine.
I live in a really quiet house/neighborhood, so I don't have to deal with road noise etc.
If I was to count other things that are noisier than my PC, but not running 24/7, there would be the TV which buzzes unless I mute it and the xbox 360 that sounds like a jet engine.
I live in a really quiet house/neighborhood, so I don't have to deal with road noise etc.