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10.4: Eliminate excess fan noise under 10.4.3 on G5s
Authored by: bailey_ca on Nov 07, '05 07:24:02PM

AFAIK, this is not just limited to the PCI bus; my old (very old) 386 used to do this as well, using just ISA cards.

You're right, it's generally much worse on PCs, likely due to the plethora of components they use. For example, the built-in sound card on my relatively modern PC produces a horrible amount of electronic "chatter", even from hard drive access. Installing a SB Live reduced the noise substantially. Better circuitry or RF shielding?

(The novelty of hearing the squeaks and blips of hard drive activity quickly wears off when you're listening to music and Windows is busy swapping in and out of the pagefile.)

At any rate, I always found the best fix was to use the amp in your speakers instead of the sound card. Cutting the sound out volume in half and the turning up the speakers did a great job.



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