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Noisy RAM? Or noisy power supply?

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Mar 15, 20262106 views

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I was developing a seekable implementation of AES and when I ran it; a high pitched noise started coming from inside my computer. I know it was NOT the hard drive because there was hardly any hard disk activity at all, and I had recently replaced my hard drive. This seems to happen when I memcpy a …

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Some motherboards allow variable loading on their supplied power to devices, which use high frequency voltage regulators. These are similar to the VRMs on your graphics card. Under load, the duty cycle and frequency of the voltage regulators ramp up…

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Noisy RAM? Or noisy power supply?

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