Annoying buzz noise whenever I play games (coil whine).

Kryalis

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Feb 17, 2016
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Recently I have just replaced my AMD Radeon HD 6670 with a better graphics card (AMD R9 380), now I will say this has increased my game performance a lot better then before, but one irritating thing that has happened is that it makes this annoying buzz/screeching noise. I looked up what this kind of thing is and it is called a "Coil Whine".
Now I've been told if you enable vsync within the settings menu it'll make the noise go away, I did that and it made less of a noise but not all of it went away and it was still annoying and distracting, not only that, not all the games I play have the option of enabling vsync which is a real kick in the balls.
I looked up where the coil whine may be coming from within your computer, the motherboard, the power supply, the graphics card. So I decided to try and figure out where it is coming from by playing a game where I get the coil whine, then take off my earphones so I can have a listen out. So I did this and I hear quite a loud noise coming from inside my PC (sound of a fan), that would normally make noise as a program is activated and it was indeed quite loud. I tried determining where the noise is coming from but I can't tell, but from my efforts of hearing, I think it is coming from the top area of my computer.
If anyone knows a way of fixing this, please inform me.
 


Well it sounds like it's your graphics card seeing as that is the one thing you changed when you got it. Seems some other people with R9 380's are also suffering coil whine if you google it.
Contact the manufacturers support people to see if your card is faulty or if they have any work around. Please link the make and model of card you have so we can google the exact one.