Coil Noise

Forum discussion tagged with Coil Noise.
  1. S

    Question Is there any chance that coil whine could be harmful ?

    So, I built my PC like 3 years ago and for all this time I had coil whine which I was managing to more or less reduce in games via tweaking graphics settings, but I hit a wall with newly-released Spacemarine 2 and I'm getting noticeable noise which does not go away no matter what I do, except...
  2. B

    Question GPU coil whine coming from my PSU or not?

    Hi. I recently bought a Corsair RM850X Shift from Amazon and installed it. I began noticing the coil whine. The coil whine is present at all times, even on games and on idle. View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EKc6FRZ8a2M View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7nzkxhh8NWw View...
  3. P1lgimag3

    Question Coiling sound while gaming only

    I notice this sound happened like 3-4 days ago. Funny thing is, the coiling noise stops when i alt - tab to desktop. but it appears again when i tabbing back to my game. Is this something i need to be concern of? Built this PC like 9 months ago. No problem ever since.
  4. Classy666

    Question AIO making weird noise (video)

    I just got my new pre-built today and i noticed a weird vibrating noise coming out of my pc, after a long investigation i found the source of the noise coming out of the aoi fans, idk if it's making this noise bcs it's touching the radiator, i re adjusted the aio and made sure the tighten the...
  5. WhirlBarbarian

    Question Computer making extremely loud sound.

    My computer has been perfect. The last component I added was my x52 kraken AIO. And that was back in December. Nothing was wrong. And then I decided to download MK1 because I've been really wanting to play it. It starting making an ear piercing sound. I thought it was coil whine but everyone I...
  6. uplink-svk

    Question C-states causing "bird twittering" on either coils or capacitors - what kind of silicone to apply to mitigate the twittering sound?

    Hey there mates! My heavily modified cheap-ass SilverStone HELA 1200R Platinum is dead silent due to my mod, but when I have C-States enabled in BiOS, all hell breaks lose with bird noises in my PSU. I tried different configurations with C-States, but all of the possible and impossible...
  7. T

    [SOLVED] Coil whine after installing new RAM [and CPU]

    So I had just my AMD Ryzen 5 3500X OEM replaced with a brand new Ryzen 7 5800X; on a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra rev. 1.2 F30 with Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 19042.746 x64. End everything seemed to be A-OK for 3 days But then I also have replaced G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 DIMM 3600 Mhz CL16 16 GB...
  8. M

    Question PSU coil whine?

    Good day everyone! I need your help. My PSU is making weird noise only under heavy loads - when gpu wattage is up to 300w. It is like that from the day I bought it. I recorded it: Video (google disk) Is that coil whine? Or should I swap it asap? Everything works good, voltage is normal and...
  9. Gouz974

    Question CPU fan and sys fans stopping ?

    Hello, I usualy let run my computer while im at work to do automated tasks in some old school games. Yersteday when back home I noticed that all the sys fans except for one had stopped. The cpu fan also stopped and the temp went up to 80+ c° I kinda paniked and turned it off imediatly. When I...
  10. ChaoticHawk

    Question PSU Whine Coil/Fan Bearing Noise

    So recently I've noticed that some noise been coming off my PSU (Thermaltake Smart Series 80Plus White) with 13 Months of usage.The noise sounds like a coil whine but could also be the Fan bearing although the noise goes off when the computer goes into high load (Ex: Playing a game) and only...
  11. A

    Question Got a consistent high pitch noise occurring on/off, don't know which part is causing the coil whine.

    So this has been occurring for a few days by now, and it would happen on/off for about 20 minutes interval. The noise is consistent and doesn't pitch up/down corresponding to what's on display which is something I've read in regards to coil whine from the GPU. So which part is it then? Got a...
  12. A

    Question I may have damaged my nvidia 1080ti strange whining noise but might not be coil whine

    Hey everyone, I think i did something really bad and it damaged my gpu. I struggled to remove it from the slot and it took awhile before I could actually push the lever on the pci slot. Now I got quite rough with it to the point my whole motherboard was bending(slightly). I then cleaned it with...
  13. O

    [SOLVED] Coil Whine From Transformer? (Corsair CX750M)

    Hi everyone! I'm having very annoying coil whine sounds. First I investigated by opening my psu up and listened while canceling other noises with a tube and I'm pretty sure it's coming from the large transformer. P.S: much before this, I hot-glued every coil because of this, didnt work thats...
  14. E

    [SOLVED] PSU Coil Whine fix?

    Hi guys, So I have an old PC that’s about 9 years old that I’ve kept running for a while by upgrading certain parts. It runs as great as you’d expect from a MSI X58 Pro-E mobo with a i7 950 and GeForce GTX 560 😂😂(don’t judge me, I’m currently slowly getting parts for a new rig). The problem...
  15. A

    [SOLVED] How can I identify coil whine?

    I have bought a new gigabyte RTX 2070 Super and it has a very low sound not like what I hear from the internet and people have it in a really loud noise and it happens when I start a game and it is a continuous sound it does not change over time MAYBE the sound gets higher a little but not...
  16. A

    [SOLVED] Msi Gtx 1050ti coil whine

    My graphics card outputs a fairly audible coil whine noise on idle from around a meter away. What would be the cause of this? poor quality components on the card? or just age? My psu is the super flower leadex III 550 watt gold. I'm certain that I had the same amount amount of coil whine with...
  17. E

    Question Help Silencing Harsh Noise From New Build

    Hello All, I recently assembled a new computer with the goal of building a silent system. The system is built around an Intel i9-9900K in a Gigabyte Z390 Designare mobo. The system is very speedy and meets all of my performance expectations. Unfortunately, there is a sound that emanates from...
  18. C

    Question AMD Sapphire RX 580 nitro+ 8gb suddenly coil whine

    Hello. I have bought this gpu 3 months ago and playing games with no problems . But from now suddenly my gpu start coil whine sound not too loud but annoying i tried turn down settings lower bit nothing , fps limot to 60 v sync on , chill , freesync but nothing work only when playing it make...