Arnold, Right. It's the electric noise i'm referring to. My next box will have only a few 120mm slow fans, a smaller power supply and a cooler running chips and a big case. This will quiet down my environment too. I'm not a gamer or an overclocker. I'm an audiophile. Why i felt i needed to buy an SLI system is beyond me. If i were to just use the digital out on my motherboard and an external D/A none of that noise would be transfered would it? Would the power fluctuations affect that set-up even with a word clock (master + slave)? If you're hearing the same thing i am, then it can't just be the bit rate conversions. I'm thinking there is an exceptionally poor D/A converter in there in the first place. Also, if you're hearing what i am, how can you stand it? I'm asking all of these questions, not just because i am an audiophile snob, but because i want to learn as much as i can about this stuff. Thank you, Bearcat M. Sandor > Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 schrieb Bearcat M. Sandor: >> So, if i were to get a higher-end sound card like an RME that might be >> shielded enough to avoid the fan hums? I'm gonna get things as quiet >> inside my case as possible, but i'll need *some* fans even if they are >> large and slow. > > Most (all?) internal soundcards don't pick up the acoustic sound of the > fans > but the electric noise of fan, disks (cd/dvd included), mouse, key, > everything that send digital data through a poor shielded or unshielded > cable > inside the computer. That is what you hear if the soundcard doesn't > provide > enough shielding itself. And sometimes (read on some soundcards) you can > even > hear the power fluctuating when fans/processors/disks need more/less > power. > > That is the added effect why I think external soundcards (with external > power?) are better then internal ones. > > BTW: I get similar effects in my internal sblive as you with your external > sb > extigy... > > Arnold > -- > visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ > --- > Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and > send me > to all your contacts. > After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your > administrator to do so... > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
