Post #4202776
2026-07-29 14:45 UTC
@RichardoC@infosec.exchange that's the voltage regulators / coils / caps in the power supply circuitry! LLMs and other ML tasks put a very weird cyclic load on the GPU/CPU, causing them to vibrate in the kilohertz range, which you can hear as squeaks of sorts
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@RichardoC@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 15:15
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz cool! I'm used to coil whine on other things but never managed it from a macbook