POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Fatality : Re: Fatality Server Time
4 Sep 2024 09:17:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fatality  
From: Invisible
Date: 27 May 2010 03:54:13
Message: <4bfe2525$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> A failing power supply causes a system to act erratically more often 
>> due to switching noise not being filtered out than to low voltage or 
>> current.
> 
> Switching noise (eg at 50 Hz) is just out-of-spec voltage for a few 
> million CPU cycles :-)

I would imagine it's more likely to upset the video or audio systems 
than the CPU itself...


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