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
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