Question GPU coil whine after cleaning PC

Abdualrhman

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After I cleaned my PC from dust with a blower, I also removed the dust from the GPU fans. I used the blower on them as well. After that, when I start any game, the GPU starts to make a coil whine noise. It isn't from the fans because even when they're off,I still hear the coil whine, I also checked every fan in case and the sound isn't from them.
My question is: Is coil whine dangerous to PC parts? Can it cause damage to the PC or shorten the product's lifetime?
Also is there any way to stop this coil whine? It only started after I cleaned the PC.
 
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Coil whine comes from pretty much any power delivery component on your PC. They can originate from the VRM area on your motherboard or even the discrete GPU or the PSU as well.

You're sure it's coming from the GPU and not elsewhere? You might want to roll up a sheet of A4 paper, then hold one end to your ear while the other end is used to probe for the source of the sound.

On a side note, did you disconnect everything and take them out of the system before you blew air courtesy of the blower? Make and model of your motherboard, GPU and PSU? How old is the PSU in your build? BIOS version for your motherboard?
 
Coil whine is a vibration caused as the current passing through the coils in the inductors alternates. The change causes magnetic fields to vary and the wires vibrate against the inductor’s core. It happens in all power supply circuits and its frequency varies from board to board. If it’s above a nominal 20kHz you don’t hear it.

In cleaning your board the probability is that you have disturbed the components just enough to cause the coil to present a noise at a lower frequency.
My 3070 has coil whine. The first time I heard it I fixated on it, after a short while I stopped hearing it.
 
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Coil whine comes from pretty much any power delivery component on your PC. They can originate from the VRM area on your motherboard or even the discrete GPU or the PSU as well.

You're sure it's coming from the GPU and not elsewhere? You might want to roll up a sheet of A4 paper, then hold one end to your ear while the other end is used to probe for the source of the sound.

On a side note, did you disconnect everything and take them out of the system before you blew air courtesy of the blower? Make and model of your motherboard, GPU and PSU? How old is the PSU in your build? BIOS version for your motherboard?

this is the sound
and when I used the blower I removed the GPU only while other parts were on the motherboard
PSU is 4 years old and bios is latest version on msi website 2024
MOBO is h410m-a pro
and yes it's from GPU and it appers only when I open any game, just 5 seconds from open the game it starts.