Re: does motherboard contain radiation?

On Wed, 1/14/2026 10:30 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 13/1/2026 10:18 pm, Paul wrote:
>>
>> ago, is "improve the case design to stop emissions" which is expensive.
>> If you can stop emissions at the PCB level, it reduces the need for
>> "RF tight" packaging on the outside. That is why a "glass" computer
>> case works.
> What if the motherboard suddenly leaks radiation? Can a causal user detect or sense it?
> 
> By one's 8th sense? :)
> 

Don't think of it as radiation, the core of the motherboard
would be a source of electrical interference.

If the motherboard was damaged to the point of interfering
with external things, the computer would crash. That's because
a loss of signal integrity means the computing stops. And with it,
a lot of random interference.

This is also the reason you cannot prototype high speed CPUs
with a protoboard (plugin wires board) and a bunch of long
loose wires. The signals arrive distorted and the CPU won't
work. The thing you are describing would have the same result,
the CPU could not stay running if the PCB is damaged.

   Paul