My Acer x34A has started making a whining noise?

RipGroove · 18 Feb 2018 at 17:43

~~Only happens when gaming I think, it stops again when I'm back on the desktop, any ideas?~~

EDIT: It's not the monitor, it's either the GPU or the PSU.

Robzere31 · 18 Feb 2018 at 19:30

Is it overclocked?

RipGroove · 18 Feb 2018 at 20:05

Robzere31 said:
Is it overclocked?

Yeah it's been set to 100Hz since I've had it and it's been absolutely fine

Robzere31 · 18 Feb 2018 at 23:26

Does it still whine when at 60hz?
Have you changed gpu recently

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 04:51

Robzere31 said:
Does it still whine when at 60hz?
Have you changed gpu recently

I'll try 60Hz and let you know. And no hardware changes at all recently.

JediFragger · 19 Feb 2018 at 05:52

RipGroove said:
I'll try 60Hz and let you know. And no hardware changes at all recently.

Try 60 and work your way up, might still do upto 95 without whine.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 07:48

JediFragger said:
Try 60 and work your way up, might still do upto 95 without whine.

Will do, I'll give that a go shortly

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:02

No That didn't work, it makes the same weird whine/buzz right down at 60Hz. I also noticed some quite bad screen tearing yesterday while playing PUBG, G-Sync is ON and my in game FPS was hovering around 100, is my monitor dying?

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:16

OMG I'm an idiot, it's my GPU that's making the noise. Even so that's probably just as bad as it's an EVGA 1080ti Hybrid! Luckily it's still in warranty so I'll drop the retailer an email.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:34

Wrong again, I think it's actually the PSU that's making the noise! Again this is still under warranty so I'll contact the retailer. I went for the Corsair RM series rather than CX as they were supposed to be a bit better quality.

JediFragger · 19 Feb 2018 at 10:56

Get a sheet of A4 and roll it up into a cone shape and use that to try and isolate the component (large part on your ear, use the smaller part around the case to isolate). Bit like a reverse ear-trumpet. Should help.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:10

JediFragger said:
Get a sheet of A4 and roll it up into a cone shape and use that to try and isolate the component (large part on your ear, use the smaller part around the case to isolate). Bit like a reverse ear-trumpet. Should help.

Haha will do.

DomBruv · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:13

Mine only clocks to 95, doesn't get to 100.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:37

DomBruv said:
Mine only clocks to 95, doesn't get to 100.

That's a shame, mines always been happy at 100Hz, zero dead pixels too so I must have got lucky!

Glanza · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:40

Is your PC on the desk next to your monitor? If it isn't that's got to be some loud coilwhine for you to hear it.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:52

Glanza said:
Is your PC on the desk next to your monitor? If it isn't that's got to be some loud coilwhine for you to hear it.

Yeah it's up on the desk right next to the monitor.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:57

This is an old photo, and its not even the same tower but you can just see where the tower sits in relation to the monitor:

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:00

Actually here's a better photo, again an old one with my old tower but you get the idea!

Glanza · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:23

Can see why you thought it may be the monitor causing the noise with them being that close.

RipGroove · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:24

Haha yeah exactly!