[mythtv-users] Humming Noise coming from LCD tv

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Mon Apr 7 13:11:27 UTC 2014


On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 4 Apr 2014, at 15:59, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>>
>> I went with a Corsair water cooler for the machine in my living room,
>> which also serves as the backend.  I've been very disappointed in the
>> noise level of that.  I've seen one other system that uses it, and it
>> seemed a lot quieter, so maybe I just have a bad unit.
>
> I have one of those in my MythTV & other media server backend, the supplied
> Corsair radiator fan was very noisy but I had a lot of bequiet fans with the serrated
> blades (breaks up the noise supposedly) so I used a 120mm one of those instead
> and it's extremely quiet and i7 cpu runs <60 degrees even when encoding multiple
> h264 streams.

In my case, even when I switch the fan off entirely, the water pump
itself is noticeably
loud with a bit of a rattle to it.

Eric


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