[SOLVED] Buzzing/Ticking noise coming from pc (Its not the fans)

[aikellar95]

Please take a moment and listen to this video and listen very closely to the sound. You might have to raise your volume.



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Notice the ticking noise. When it is more prominent, that is me physically alt tabbing to a video game, back and forth. I make this difference in this video to show you that the noise directly correlates to playing gpu and cpu intensive applications. Also notice that the fan speed is the same throughout. In fact, I have stopped each fan, including the cpu and gpu fans, but still the noise remains when playing games. Where is this noise coming from? At the end of the video you see I place the phone in the upper right corner of the pc case. This is where the noise is originating from. There is ram and the cpu near this area. On the other side of the mobo is my routed cabling. More importantly I would like to ask should I be worried about this noise? This computer was built about 2 months ago all new components. I would also like to note the ticking noise isnt always constant when playing a game. For instance, when in a loading screen, the noise lessens. It seems to correlate to how much processing power is required for the cpu and gpu, in real time.

My specs are as follows:

Cpu: I5 - 8600k

Mobo: ASUS PRIME Z370-A

Gpu: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080

Ram: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB

Case: Fractal Design Meshify C

SSD: SAMSUNG 860 EVO

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G3

 

[Vic 40]

Don't think you have to worry,just electrical use. Maybe relais clicking,one thing came to mind is since in that area is maybe the ram leds you hear. Can you turn those of with a software tool you run?

You could monitor voltages in the pc the next way,keep an eye on things,

Download the next program=hwinfo,

http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html

You can open hwinfo32,after that open the sensor window by marking sensors=V,after that click run

if very close to boundries set by ATX specs could you maybe test another psu,see if that would make a difference.