[Discuss] noise

[Paul Nienaber]

I'd rather have the box next to me, and have a really snappy GUI and all 
that (I know VNC is pretty close locally...).

Your comment about the monitor reminded me of a huge pet peeve, though:  
Things that make noise that don't need to.

In this category live such nuisance items as:

-Televisions (do YOU like listening to a 15,360Hz WHINE all day?)
-Monitors (which cost a lot more than TVs, and don't really have an 
excuse for buzzing or whining or whatever)
-My DSL modem.  It's a D-Link DSL-300I (the good one that they won't 
sell you in a cheapo kit, but that their techs carry around).  It 
hisses.  And it's not even the damn DSL driver circuit, where noise 
might be expected due to signal intensity, it's in the ETHERNET 
TRANSCEIVER!!


Right now I'm running a pair of Opterons, with 6 hard drives (one 15,000 
RPM + 5 7200 RPM) and about 10 fans in the box, and the hissing sound 
from my DSL modem is actually just as annoying (although not as loud) as 
the cumulative noise of everything in the PC.  And I can hear the TV 
downstairs (below the loft area my PC is in) over all of *my* noise up here.

~p

Deryk Barker wrote:
> R. McFarlane wrote:
>
>> At 05:35 PM 5/6/2006, Daniel M. German, had this to say :
>>
>>> My Powermac G5 annoys me. I wish I could silence it :(
>>
>> .......
>
>
>>        Another factor of noise is direction. My mid tower use to be 
>> under a table with the PS fan blowing to the back. I barely ever 
>> heard a sound out of it. Now though, this new desk is shaped 
>> differently and I have to have the mid tower facing sideways which 
>> has the PS fan blowing towards a wall less than 4 feet away. This 
>> direction causes the sound to "appear" louder given that where I sit 
>> has my ear pointed at that wall.
>>
> My desktop machine is in another room and I use a vnc connection from 
> my aging dell laptop which runs knoppix from the cd, hence not even 
> disc noise.
>
> If it's really quite in the room I can hear the faint high-pitched 
> whine of the screen itself, that's all.
>
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