Intermittant Vibration of Motherboard

[Rudy Toody]

If I cause a temporary vibration to a motherboard, is this going to be harmful to the cpu and other components?

 

[dkozloski]

It depends on the amplitude of the vibration. Judging by the abuse that the average electronic toy will absorb and keep on ticking, unless you're planning on attaching a jackhammer, I don't think you have much to worry about.

 

[Rudy Toody]

It will be equivalent to your typical massager/vibrator, maximum 2200 Hz/sec.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Not highly technical

 

[Rubycon]

Moved from Highly Technical to General Hardware - Anandtech Moderator Rubycon - Highly Technical

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
It will be equivalent to your typical massager/vibrator, maximum 2200 Hz/sec.

What's important is the amplitude of these vibrations. The connections are the weakest points, i.e. peripheral cards. I've killed systems before from exposure to high sound levels in the 30-100Hz range at around 135 decibels. The same frequencies at 120 dB were never a problem.

 

[MarcVenice]

So if it isn't highly technical it's general hardware ? Haha, sorry that was just funny

Why are you going to make said motherboard vibrate anyways ? All I can think of is connections coming lose. If the mobo vibrates, everything else will more or less resonate with it.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
So if it isn't highly technical it's general hardware ? Haha, sorry that was just funny

Why are you going to make said motherboard vibrate anyways ? All I can think of is connections coming lose. If the mobo vibrates, everything else will more or less resonate with it.

I will have a thread on Distributed Computing when I have completed the tests sometime this weekend. I'll post a link here when it happens.

Stay Tuned!

 

[Rudy Toody]

Here is the link to my preliminary results.

 

[MarcVenice]

Awesome