Not sure if this is the right community for this. If not, I’ll nuke it. Just looking for somewhere that isn’t world or ml now that autism.place is gone.

  • jarfil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You might be hearing the coil/capacitor whine when the CPU/GPU has a surge of activity and suddenly pulls more power.

    Back in the day, on some computers, you could hear when someone was dragging a window across the screen. The larger the area being repainted, the louder the noise.

    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I’ve noticed this happening when i get really really high FPS in a game. Like running something from 1998 on a modern system and hitting over 1000 FPS.

      Now I have my framerate capped externally so I’m not wasting power rendering thousands of frames for no reason.