How fast should HZ be?

Posted Aug 29, 2005 20:22 UTC (Mon) by rlrevell (guest, #23596)
In reply to: How fast should HZ be? by mikec
Parent article: How fast should HZ be?

This is called a "singing capacitor". It happens because the greed of OEMs drives them to use increasingly cheap components. Windows uses a base timer frequency of 100HZ and that's all the OEMs test with so the problem isn't apparent under that OS.