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		dataflow 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics... > You can hear some modern GPU/CPUs (well really their power electronics) when they get heavily loaded! I'd hope you hear their fans too...

tomsmeding 80 days ago [–]

Sure, but that has a resolution of seconds at best. The coil whine in the power electronics is milliseconds-accurate.

wpm 80 days ago | [–]

Yeah I get a nice reminder to limit frame rates when I hear the atrocious coil whine from my 4090 as it renders 1500fps of a static loading screen.

First world problems.

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