[LAU] a NEW question about pitch and speed

Igor Brkic igor at hyperglitch.com
Mon May 31 19:24:21 UTC 2010


On 31.05.2010 20:30, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> Your reply IS helpful.  Now I know that someone else had the
> issue.  While away from email for a bit, I wondered if maybe
> the temperature of my system was high enough to cause a clock
> rate to lower.  I can imagine that a badly designed system might
> even allow a lower CPU speed to alter the audio clock rate too.
> Your comment about the sound speed/pitch changing under high
> load would be consistent with this theory, in that high load can
> increase the system's internal temperature.
>

I don't know if temperature can cause a clock rate to lower, but that 
explanation would certainly make sense. My old machine was (at that 
time) five years old laptop which sometimes had problems with heating (I 
was cleaning it from dust pretty often, but fan was almost always on).

Cheers!
Igor


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