DeVerm;358787 Wrote: > I would estimate the exact opposite happening, if anything happens at > all. Noise from CPU is often when it does high speed data transfers, > not calculations. As you have more data transfer when streaming wav, I > would think this would cause more noise than flac. > > Another question is the CPU & clock design. If the clock is constant > (unlike mobile CPU's that can lower the clock on low-load conditions) > the noise from the clock is constant. Some simple CPU's spend their > idle time looping in an "idle-loop" which doesn't change a lot from > useful calculations although one might argue that it will only use some > registers and not external memory. Other CPU's have very efficient > wait-on-interrupt designs. > > cheers, > Nick. So is this noise that we would be able to hear or just a ghost in the machine?
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