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I jokingly refer to my GPU's coil whine as a HDD emulator as it sounds like a spinning disk to me.
by mycall 2y ago
I jokingly refer to my GPU's coil whine as a HDD emulator as it sounds like a spinning disk to me.
- RGamma 2y agoDepending on workload my mainboard's VRMs (I think) sound like birds chirping.
- magicalhippo 2y agoThe voltage regulators are really just buck converters[1], one per phase, and so contain both capacitors and inductors in a highly dynamic setting. Thus they're very prone to the effects mentioned. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_converter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_converter