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Hi guys
I just built an almost entirely new system about a month ago, the only part not being new was the PSU. I've had a HX750 for about the past 6-7 years and never had any problems but since building this system which is running a 2700X and EVGA 1080, I've noticed a buzzing noise when I play certain games and its literally ONLY when I'm in-game, as soon as I alt tab out it stops immediately.
I thought it was the GPU fan at first so I stopped each fan and it persisted, stopped the PSU fan and it still continued.. It wasn't until I stuck my ear right up to the back of the PSU that made me certain its coming from inside the PSU, like it sounds electrical.
This oddly only happens in some games and at different severities for example in WoW its really bad in the character selection screen, yet in-game whilst it is still buzzing loudly it appears to buzz a little less. On the new Blops4 it buzzes at almost max settings but its faint and nowhere near as loud as WoW. Also noticed it in DOOM but ever so slightly compared to WoW. Basically it is doing it in WoW the worst by far but can still be heard when I'm in-game and not wearing headphones for other games when they are at high/max settings.
I can get it to stop when turning graphical settings down, especially resoluition scaling in WoW. So would this obviously be some sort of load problem? Obviously I'll be looking into getting a new PSU but should I be okay for the mean time or should I be seeing some smoke coming from my PC any day now?
Luckily I don't play WoW that much/if at all anymore but I'm kind of glad it was able to identify this problem.
Thanks
I just built an almost entirely new system about a month ago, the only part not being new was the PSU. I've had a HX750 for about the past 6-7 years and never had any problems but since building this system which is running a 2700X and EVGA 1080, I've noticed a buzzing noise when I play certain games and its literally ONLY when I'm in-game, as soon as I alt tab out it stops immediately.
I thought it was the GPU fan at first so I stopped each fan and it persisted, stopped the PSU fan and it still continued.. It wasn't until I stuck my ear right up to the back of the PSU that made me certain its coming from inside the PSU, like it sounds electrical.
This oddly only happens in some games and at different severities for example in WoW its really bad in the character selection screen, yet in-game whilst it is still buzzing loudly it appears to buzz a little less. On the new Blops4 it buzzes at almost max settings but its faint and nowhere near as loud as WoW. Also noticed it in DOOM but ever so slightly compared to WoW. Basically it is doing it in WoW the worst by far but can still be heard when I'm in-game and not wearing headphones for other games when they are at high/max settings.
I can get it to stop when turning graphical settings down, especially resoluition scaling in WoW. So would this obviously be some sort of load problem? Obviously I'll be looking into getting a new PSU but should I be okay for the mean time or should I be seeing some smoke coming from my PC any day now?
Luckily I don't play WoW that much/if at all anymore but I'm kind of glad it was able to identify this problem.
Thanks