Comment Re:I'll take 10! (Score 1) 213
I had one 'delightful' system where the lousy onboard sound chip was apparently using the CPU clock as a timebase, despite the system being new enough that dynamic clock speed adjustment had been routine for several years. Until the vendor eventually issued a BIOS update that allowed us to turn off clock speed adjustment, we had to rig a low-priority Prime95 process to keep the CPU from idling into a lower speed state if we wanted the playback speed and pitch to be correct. And I though that using the CPU as a timebase died out about the same time as the 'turbo' button...