Built a small machine using an Asrock N100DC-ITX motherboard, it has an Intel N100 built in and I also have 1x NVMe and 2x HDDs.
The board has a DC Jack so no external PSU.
First time I booted it, the NVMe had Opensuse on it so I played around a little, no problem. When I boot into BIOS also no problem.
When I boot into Unraid, there is a strange sound coming from the back of the board, sounds like an interference sound. I cannot tell if it’s coming from the ethernet port or from the power DC Jack. I think it’s from the power.
For power I tried using both an Intel NUC 65w power adapter and an Asus laptop 90w power adapter, the one Asrock recommends on their website.
The system has been running for 1-2days, with 4 containers and Home Assistant VM, it idles at around 16w. Without Home Assistant, it drops to 11w.
Any idea what that sound is?
Edit 1: If I go into BIOS and turn off Intel Turbo Boost Technology then it is silent but also kills my performance?
Edit 2 So because I did not want to leave Turbo Boost on, I did some more digging and also realized my CPU was always boosting in Unraid. using “watch grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo” it was almost always between 2900Mhz and 3300Mhz.
I installed Tip and Tweaks plugin and set Normal CPU Scaling Governor to power saver. The sound is gone and now it seems the CPU goes all the way down to 600 MHz and up to 3400MHz depending if it needs it. I don’t know if the power saver will affect performance in any way but so far so good and I don’t have hear that wheeeeee anymore.
I thought about it but wasn’t sure. Maybe it’s coil whine coming from the DC plug. Bought the board end of October so I cannot return it anymore. Any tips on how to improve it?
Still it’s strange that it’s only doing it in Unraid. In Opensuse I tried to push the system but there was no sound, it just worked. That’s what throws me off.
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Sounds like coil whine.
I thought about it but wasn’t sure. Maybe it’s coil whine coming from the DC plug. Bought the board end of October so I cannot return it anymore. Any tips on how to improve it? Still it’s strange that it’s only doing it in Unraid. In Opensuse I tried to push the system but there was no sound, it just worked. That’s what throws me off.
Don’t know man. I have a 10gb nic that makes different noises depending on if it’s passed through to opnsense or Debian.
Thanks, didn’t know that. That’s what surprised me, if it was power related, I would have thought it’s doing it everytime.
Electronics are black magic as far as I’m concerned, I just like slapping them together and trying to make them play nice.
Sounds like coil whining to me too, albeit a pretty loud one. It’s typically GPUs and / or PSUs that are the culprit when they’re under load.