Low-frequency sound when running Einstein WUs
8 Sep 2011 12:16:18 UTC
Topic 195951
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Hi,
I have finally isolated the cause of a low-frequency rumble (which has been driving me nuts for some time!) coming from my speakers as being the Einstein WUs. My motherboard is an Asus P8P67 and I am using the on-board sound system. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit with SP1, and the processor is an Intel i5-2500K. I have recently changed to this motherboard, and IU think (but am not sure) that this issue started around that time. Have I inadvertently set some project switch somewhere (which I now can't find)? Or is this an unavoidable interaction between Einstein and hardware? No other project WUs produce this sound. Has anyone else come across this?
Low-frequency sound when running Einstein WUs
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Are you running the Einstein@home screensaver?
Are those sounds bound to GPU or CPU tasks?
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
I think what you hear is the
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I think what you hear is the audio warning that your CPU is running too hot. Check with a program such as Tthrottle or the AI Suite II supplied with that motherboard, how hot your CPU actually is when it's running BOINC.
Did you install this system yourself (build from separate loose parts), or did it come pre-built by someone else? If you built it yourself, did you put enough (not too much, not too little) (arctic silver) cooling paste between the CPU and the heatsink? Did you remove the stickers?
Thanks for your
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Thanks for your replies.
Gundolf, I am not running the screen saver. I can't really answer your other question: I have set BOINC to use the GPU when possible, but I don't know if any of the work units are actually using it.
Jord, I built this machine myself. You are probably right about the temperature: it's running at about 88°C when restricted to 3 cores. I am sure I've used the right amount of thermal paste - been doing this for some years now (35 in IT) - and no stickers in sight! I have just been able to devote some time to researching a better CPU cooler than the stock one that Intel provides. Hopefully, in a few days time I'll be running cooler