[wellylug] I think my motherboards gone.... :-(

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Antliff [mailto:simon.antliff at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 1:30 p.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] I think my motherboards gone.... :-(
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:45:41 +1300 (NZDT), David Antliff
> <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Brent Wood wrote:
> > > Also note that you can sometimes hear memory when under 
> load, a slight whine
> > > there.
> > 
> > Finally, someone who agrees with me! When I told the guys 
> at work that I
> > can definitely HEAR my PC when it's working hard 
> (especially rendering 3D
> > graphics in realtime) they thought I was mad and have never 
> looked at me
> > in quite the same way again...
> > 
> > It's quite loud actually - I can hear it over music with 
> headphones on. A
> > high pitched squeal presumably correlated with increased 
> power draw. It's
> > most highly correlated with video card activity. It's not a fan.
> 
> Just for the record, mine does this too, but not as 
> noticabley as David's.
> We have the same cards, except mine is 64mb and his is 128mb (which
> might strengthen the "memory under load" idea).
> 
> To the original poster:
> I recently put together a new PC, and I dont think the power supply
> was quite grunty enough. Anyway, a sort of quietish high pitch
> screeching would come from around the CPU area when the CPU was under
> heavy load. But now that I think of it, it was probably more due to
> memory than cpu cycles.
> Nevertheless, you seem to have found that it was faulty memory.

CPU is surrounded by capacitors - and they can make noise
> 
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