[mythtv-users] Humming Noise coming from LCD tv

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Eric,

Friday, April 4, 2014, 4:21:58 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>> I have always found that the loudest fan in my PCs was the one on the
>> video card.  So now I only buy silent video cards for my MyhtTV boxes.
>> I think there is at least one silent Nvidia 630 card available at
>> present which should do everything necessary for MythTV.  The downside
>> of silent video cards is that almost all of them take up two
>> motherboard slots due to the big heatsinks.  Of course, quite a few of
>> the higher powered video cards with fans also take two slots now too.
>> If a silent video card only takes one slot, it is probably not good
>> enough for what MythTV needs for VDPAU with the best deinterlace of
>> 1080i.
>>
>> I also buy quality power supplies - they have fan speed control and
>> usually have things like heat pipes to help the cooling rather than
>> relying on the fans to do all the work.  And the top spec power
>> supplies are more efficient, so they lose less power in the power
>> supply and hence generate less heat, which means they can run their
>> fans slower.  There are even some fanless power supplies for lower
>> power multimedia boxes, but you need to be careful with them as some
>> cases rely on the power supply fan for part of their airflow
>> requirements.

> The PC I use as a frontend in my bedroom has quiet parts that allow me
> to leave it on an still sleep in the room.

> Fanless power supply:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182169

> Fanless video:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500298

> Fanless CPU heatsink:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887001

> Plus a solid state disk, and one quiet case fan to move some air.

> It's not cheap, but it is possible to get a quiet PC and still not
> skimp too much on performance.

> Eric
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I have a compaq dc7700p. It has a cap on the processor leading to a
bigger fan on the chassis. Also a fanless video card, which gets a bit
hot. So since the processor has more than enough power I don't use
vdpau. I have to come within a meter to hear it, which is mainly the
drive.

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