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Weird buzzing noise

Tonydb

Tonydb

Tonydb

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Hi chaps and chapesses.

My spec below , plus ive just added a EK p360 kit. Since kit has been added ive noticed in games if i turn the graphic settings up above 70 ish fps i getting a strange buzzing noise through the speakers which gets loader as i turn the settings up more. Ive noticed it on PUBG, Dota 2 and Rocket league , so atm ive got a 1080ti and have it on minimal settings just to eliminate the noise. Ive only put the water cooling gear in , all other hardware is the same....any ideas ??

Its driving me mad ...!!
 
coil whine. the most annoying of problems and most companies will fob you off with it because they say "need a better PSU". even though the system wont use more than 600w they recommend you get a 2kw psu because thats likely what they use for testing and it doesnt make that noise for them.

ive found though its not down to any particular quality of part its just down to luck. could get 1kw psu and it have coil whine, could use 450w psu and no coil whine.
 
Worth re seating everything, cables and cards, is it definitely coming from speakers? As in if you turn them off does the buzzing stop immediately?
 
yep just tried that . Rocket league turned fps up to max and the buzzing started , turned my speakers off and it went away , its defo from the speakers
 
Tonydb said:
Coil whine through the speakers ?
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oh wow. teach me to read before i type and such an essay at that...

seems strange that it has started once most noise from fans would have been eleminated (when most coil whine is noticed) and that its in games that would make your gpu possibly top 200fps.

EDIT - there was a thread on here a while ago that spoke about something along the lines of "interference" between the gpu block and the sound, sort of like magnetic something or other. more than 2 years ago this was though.
 
Tonydb said:
Hi chaps and chapesses.

My spec below , plus ive just added a EK p360 kit. Since kit has been added ive noticed in games if i turn the graphic settings up above 70 ish fps i getting a strange buzzing noise through the speakers which gets loader as i turn the settings up more. Ive noticed it on PUBG, Dota 2 and Rocket league , so atm ive got a 1080ti and have it on minimal settings just to eliminate the noise. Ive only put the water cooling gear in , all other hardware is the same....any ideas ??

Its driving me mad ...!!
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Had the same,

Coil whine interference into the soundcard

Solutions:
Limit the FPS
Move to a usb sound solution. (Not guaranteed)

Wait few days to see if coil whine reduces
 
Seriously . Limit the fps....whats the point in high end cards then ??? . Im getting the noise at 60fps . If this is what it is its a joke. Its been fine untill i put the watercooling in
 
Tonydb said:
Seriously . Limit the fps....whats the point in high end cards then ??? . Im getting the noise at 60fps . If this is what it is its a joke. Its been fine untill i put the watercooling in
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Yes,
Coil Whine is a Thing that happens on almost all cards to some degree. you can help reduce it.
some manufacturers are worse than others.

As you said it was fine before you water-cooled the card then, in that case by putting the waterblock on. the waterblock is either allowing more interference or Not dampening the coils as much as the huge heat-sink. effectively you could have made the buzzing worse for yourself

your options are
Return to Air & see if the issue remains
Dampen the coils in some way to reduce the whine (might not fix the interference). nail polish used to do a good job....
limit your fps (but 60fps still happens)
move the card further away from the soundcard hoping this helps.
use outside sound solution such as a AMP/DAC
Put it back to AIR & try to return the card due to bad coil whine, but this wont work with many manfacturers & it fine with Air
 
@Tonydb

so you watercooled the cpu & then the buzzing started happening through the speakers?

Interesting, does your pump Speed fluctuate? it possible that When your CPU is working harder the pump on the CPU is working harder & causing the buzz.

would make much more sense as Coil buzz normall is 100+ FPS

as a test get a CPU benchmark test & run the speakers little louder see if the buzz is still their

thus eliminating the GPU
 
D1craig said:
coil whine. the most annoying of problems and most companies will fob you off with it because they say "need a better PSU". even though the system wont use more than 600w they recommend you get a 2kw psu because thats likely what they use for testing and it doesnt make that noise for them.

ive found though its not down to any particular quality of part its just down to luck. could get 1kw psu and it have coil whine, could use 450w psu and no coil whine.
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To be fair you do get coil whine on the graphics card AND coil whine on the PSU due a load of patiulcar card.

I've been lucky and not noticed it for years but back in the day I had a Gianward 8800ultra that whined a heck of a lot , but on closer inspection it was the Corsair 620w CPU, when I put in a less demanding card like a radeon 5850 no coil whine.

My cheapo 1400p Korean IPS had coil whine but the PCB on that was cheap as hell
 
Just tried prime95 and then realised it only happens when im gaming. But to answer ur question . No nothing when stress testing
 
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