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Hey,

 

I bought the Creative A250 speakers yesterday and actually wanted to set the subwoofer on my floor but because of my high desk the cables wouldn't reach it. I didn't want to set it on my desk so I decided to put it on my PC which is under my desk. Now to my question: Could anything happen to my PC? I don't listen to music at an extremely high volume but at a medium volume quite a bit of vibration is passed on to the case...

 

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simx 

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The only thing I could think of is subwoofers have a large magnet inside of them. Large magnets near hard drives never ends well. But I cant imagine its a particularly powerful/large sub so it should be ok :)

But then again big vibrations are not all that great for hard drives either.

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HDD might not work long as it could, because of vibration, but i am not sure if it even shortens the life of it, but other parts will be totally ok. :)

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The only thing I could think of is subwoofers have a large magnet inside of them. Large magnets near hard drives never ends well. But I cant imagine its a particularly powerful/large sub so it should be ok :)

But then again big vibrations are not all that great for hard drives either.

Thats true but it has also been seen that magnetic field in ur case can help in cooling... :)

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I would worry about. A the hard drives, B the case rattling, C cables, and cards, screws etc working loose over time.

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Having a CRT monitor near a sub can make the monitor all messed up.

Large vibrations could potentially create errors on your hdd and ruin your data.

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best thing is to get a short extension

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I could, of course, also set it on my desk but that isn't what you wanna do, is it?

 

It still works but not as well. I for one never really noticed the difference xD

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