Strange sound?

AdladUK

AdladUK

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Hi,

So I built the system above and it's awesome... Very fast, very quiet. In fact when running Windows idle it's silent.

However whenever I start up a game (for example BF4) this weird noise starts right away. The best way I can describe it is like a cricket/snake sound like you hear on a hot summer night. It's consistent and won't stop.

I did something silly and manually slowed down (stuck my hand in) both the graphics and cpu cooling and it's 100% neither of them. The sound is just as loud when no fan is spinning. Since I have no other fans in the case I'm guessing it's either the PSU or the SSD?

Has anyone here experienced something similar?
 
The PSU is: Seasonic Platinum 760 760W
The CPU cooling is: Noctua NH-U12S
The graphics card is: MSI GeForce GTX 780 Ti Gaming Twin Frozr IV OC 3GB DDR5 384-bit
 
It can be coil whine from the gpu,its either gpu/psu or motherboard,some combinations produce the noise more/less from brand to brand

You can try disabling Intel speedstep in the BIOS and see if noise stops,but CPU won't enter power saving
 
wazza300 said:
It can be coil whine from the gpu,its either gpu/psu or motherboard,some combinations produce the noise more/less from brand to brand

You can try disabling Intel speedstep in the BIOS and see if noise stops,but CPU won't enter power saving
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I'll try that now thanks, BRB :)
 
I disabled the suggested BIOS setting and it still makes the exact same noise.

God this is frustrating! My fans are so quiet and I have this stupid annoying buzzing when I start up any game and play :(

Totally sucks :(
 
It's pretty Much the norm to hear it in game menus/extremely high fps,but shouldn't be heard in games

Might be worth enabling vsync in games and see if that cures it
 
Iirc a while ago people used to stress GPUs using things like furmark to help clear coilwhine, not sure if it could be to do the same for squealing capacitors?
 
Okay so I enabled VSYNC and the sound goes from what I'd consider loud to a much more reasonable medium.

However it's still really annoying considering I built this machine purposefully to be very quiet (which it is apart from this silly noise it is)
 
Sorry for the multiple posts.

I ran FurMark quite extensively and the noise was little to none, certainly nothing close to when I play BF4.

I also ran Prime95 (maybe thinking it was something on the motherboard not graphics) and there was absolutely no sound whatsoever. So I'm 99% sure it's the graphics card
 
I wouldn't run furmark tbh,just run heaven benchmark on a loop,its far far less stressfull

it might dissipate over time idk some cards do/don't

its down to cap or coil whine linked to extremely high fps,can also be emi leakage from psu/mb
 
wazza300 said:
I wouldn't run furmark tbh,just run heaven benchmark on a loop,its far far less stressfull

it might dissipate over time idk some cards do/don't

its down to cap or coil whine linked to extremely high fps,can also be emi leakage from psu/mb
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The Heaven benchmark really set it off!

FPS was around 100ish the whole time, so it for sure seems like this is the culprit.

What a bugger :(
 
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