Recent content by Cmac777

So I did what you said and put my finger on the fan to stop it momentarily and the sound did not go away, so it's either the GPU or PSU. I've heard that coil whine isn't necessarily bad and that it's completely normal and it's only a matter of if you're willing to tolerate the noise or fix it...

The PSU is a Corsair CX Series CX750 (750w) Non-Modular, but its only slightly less than three years old, so it would be weird if it were failing this early, and the sounds were only starting to appear after I put the new cooler in, so I assumed it was a cooler issue.

Now that you say it, I do have my CPU fan connected to an AIO header even though I'm not using AIO Pump. Maybe I'm supposed to have the fan connected to a different header if I'm only relying on air to cool my CPU?

This started after I just installed a Noctua NH-U12S Air Cooler on top of my Intel i7-8700K Coffee Lake 6-Core CPU and so far the core temps seems to be normal, being around average 30C while idle and then about 50-60C while playing a decent looking game. However, when I start up a game, like...