|
Computer Audio Asylum Music servers and other computer based digital audio technologies. |
|
|
|
Computer Audio Asylum Music servers and other computer based digital audio technologies. |
|
In Reply to: RE: Why would a ZERO rpm fan cause interference ? posted by fmak on August 20, 2014 at 02:29:14:
"Regardless of what is desired in theory, a small box like the Mini with a 15W cpu needs a running fan for safety."
It's not a matter of safety, because if it were, there would be danger in the case the fan fails. There is (or should be) thermal management firmware and/or hardware to control power consumption. This can be done by underclocking, undervolting, shutting down redundant cores, etc...
I suggest looking at the power consumption of the device while it is idling. You will find that it may be very little. This can be easily done if one has access to the power source, e.g. using a device such as Kill-A-Watt to monitor power usage. (This won't work with battery powered devices such as tablets.) CMOS logic uses very little power when no signals are changing, such as when the system is idle. Even while playing music if there is no DSP involved CPU utilization will be a few percent and even when CPU utilization is higher much of the processor hardware will be idle (e.g. floating point vector processing, graphics processing). Obviously this depends on software.
My new Asus Transformer notebook/tablet runs windows 8.1 and has no fan. It runs at room temperature while reading PDFs or surfing the web. The only time it is warm is while charging the battery or playing video.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- RE: Why would a ZERO rpm fan cause interference ? - Tony Lauck 06:22:39 08/20/14 (18)
- You will find that it may be very little - fmak 07:41:05 08/20/14 (17)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Tony Lauck 15:46:50 08/20/14 (16)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - fmak 00:04:37 08/21/14 (11)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Tony Lauck 09:12:38 08/21/14 (10)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - fmak 10:07:20 08/21/14 (9)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Tony Lauck 12:32:18 08/21/14 (8)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - fmak 12:40:07 08/21/14 (7)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Tony Lauck 14:13:49 08/21/14 (6)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - fmak 06:02:40 08/22/14 (3)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - rick_m 07:43:54 08/22/14 (2)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - fmak 08:23:40 08/22/14 (1)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - rick_m 10:35:52 08/22/14 (0)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - AbeCollins 22:23:00 08/21/14 (1)
- +1 - Goober58 20:01:39 08/22/14 (0)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Sprezza Tura 15:59:13 08/20/14 (3)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Tony Lauck 03:20:50 08/21/14 (1)
- RE: You will find that it may be very little - Sprezza Tura 08:05:38 08/21/14 (0)
- The Mytek gives exactly $1595 worth of sound - fmak 01:51:56 08/21/14 (0)
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
