14 days later
a month later

Others have stated how coil whine on this forum and how it contributes to symptoms or just general frustration while using devices.

I was using a desktop with a 7950X and 4060 ti gpu with very loud high pitched noise coming from the gpu area. Tried tinkering with bios and power management settings made no difference. I then opened a program called airfoil maker from the X-Plane 12 flight simulator program and that seems to eliminate the noise! Interestingly in task manager, I don't see any significant rise in gpu or cpu use which is great for power consumption as well.

Nevermind, the noise comes back.

    ninjaturtle

    In the brief time I was using it, it did not make me sleepy. YMMV. Unfortunately, I don't have the device I was using previously to measure spectrum but Benq does not advertise anytime special like quantum dots, etc.

      Benq (especially the ones with eyecare/safe with the blue shifter of some nanometers) makes me sleepy and dumb during the day. Very bad. While some with blue peak around 445nm bother me very much, that is why I am interested in the spectrum. I am wondering if i can find any panel in the middle, maybe something like Apple monitors.

      • JJTL

      • Post #335

      qb74 Coil whine can be a crapshoot. From what I've experienced it can be a sum of per component unit variance, quality of AC input power, quality of output of PSU (maybe add to part of per component unit variance), function of total power consumption of components, etc. If you exchange components, you can get lucky and encounter no/little noise. Some people have had resolution by feeding their equipment from double conversion UPS's which provide a stable source of AC output power as well.

        qb74

        Thank you for that link. Placing the computer as far away as possible and having obstructions between you and the source of the sound since it seems to be very high frequency directional sound might help as well and common sense.

        qb74 People in these forums heavily underestimate the physiological & psychological aspects of eyestrain, especially when biology crosses into the electromagnetic world.

            Some e-ink screens claiming 60 Hz refresh rate. We shall see.

            https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor

            https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/portable-monitors/e-ink-screen-performance-hits-60-hz-with-10-3-inch-portable-touchscreen-monitor-from-dasung

            https://www.techspot.com/news/106433-dasung-new-paperlike-103-portable-e-ink-monitor.html

            From the modos website (emphasis mine):

            The display is always refreshed to 1-bit mode first, then drives to 2-bit / 4-level greyscale after a preset time (for example, around 200ms). The process is non-flashing. This allows smooth typing while maintaining greyscale antialiasing for texts on the screen.

            We are also planning to implement a 16-level greyscale mode with similar logic, but the 16-level will be flashing. Flashing/ flickering causes distraction and won’t work well for typing, but it could be useful for reading.

            For the error-diffusion issue, we are evaluating using simpler dithering methods such as patterned dithering that would generate an image with arguably worse quality but could be more pleasant / causes less distraction when in typical desktop use.

            a month later
            dev