Annoying whine from system

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Anyone know what could be causing this annoying whine/Morse code sound coming from my system?

i tried to capture it the best i could, you can just slightly hear it over the fans in the audio but in real person its much more distinctive and annoying.

I tried to upload it to YouTube but no converters were working to upload m4a to whatever YouTube supports so I've had to upload the file directly to a file host, Hope that is okay.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/67iz0st0v44nsy1/Whine.m4a/file
 
What are you doing during that recording?

If noise appears during gaming it's likely graphics card.
During its active years SilentPCreview found different coil whines from most graphics cards anddescribed them with terms like bagpipe symphone etc when noise varied according to GPU laod/frame rate.

Similarly varying CPU load can cause CPU VRM to whine.
 
Had to turn it up a bit, but I would be inclined to say that's coil whine.

Can you run a game, turn off v sync and go into a game menu or run a game etc? No v sync in a menu should have very high frames and should be able to get the whine then.
 
Hey,thanks for the replies chaps!

The whine is when its doing absolutely nothing, just sitting there on desktop, So does make me wonder if its the Motherboard VRM.

i do get coil whine from my GPU,but that's ONLY when under stress during gaming, when idle its completely silent so it has to be from somewhere else this "idle time" whine.
 
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