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Is this coil whine?

GhostWKD

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Hi all,

Picked up my R9 390 Sapphire card in the Black Friday fun :)

Since then, whenever I plug in my speakers to the headphone socket on the MB (or on top of my tower) I get a really horrible high pitched whine from the speakers.

Done a lot of googling and think this might be coil whine from the new card - is this normal and something I have to accept with the more powerful graphics cards or have I got one with an issue?

Thanks,
Alex

Edit: Also since fitting the new gfx card I can hear the fans going from the other room! Is that another by product? Got a CM Silencio 550 case which has always been pretty good for killing noise until now
 
TwsT said:
no that's Electronic signal interference your soundcard is picking up from the gpu,
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Ah thanks - is there much I can do about it? Guessing not other than getting an seperate soundcard a few slots away from the card or usb speakers?

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated :)
 
GhostWKD said:
Ah thanks - is there much I can do about it? Guessing not other than getting an seperate soundcard a few slots away from the card or usb speakers?

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated :)
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Onboard sound is known to get interference from other devices in the system. Best solution is to get a new/used Creative Soundblaster Z/X-fi or something similar. Much better sound especially for games since you can setup virtual 7.1 surround through headphones.
 
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Coil whine is a sound that actually comes from the card itself, not over the speakers or headset. You can't miss it.
 
fs123 said:
Onboard sound is known to get interference from other devices in the system. Best solution is to get a new/used Creative Soundblaster Z/X-fi or something similar. Much better sound especially for games since you can setup virtual 7.1 surround through headphones.
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If you buy a decent motherboard, they come with EMI shields on the onboard sound chip.

My last two motherboards (Asus P6T Deluxe, Maximus Hero VIII) both had perfectly clean onboard audio, though they were both shielded I believe.
 
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