[Discuss] noise

[Deryk Barker]

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.