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Long story short, i was trouble shooting a issue and changed everything under the sun to figure out the issue in windows and bios, now that its resolved, im hearing a loud screeching noise from my I7 cpu and not sure how to fix it, i cleaned it with compressed air, pushed down on the fan to ensure it wasnt vibration between fan and cpu, i tried formatting and reinstalling windows 7 and it didnt change it. PLEASE HELP


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7so8uS_n8Jg
 
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thats actually the first thing i thought, but i checked the cables a few times, there arent any cables hitting the fan, also the noise doesnt happen all the time, only when doing some kind of work like the video is with Borderlands 2 running.
 
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I thought it might be a coil but i dont think my mobo has any, im running an Asus sabertooth x58
 
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my issue was troubleshooting was with my video card a radeon 6870, so to hold me over i went to staples and got another radeon but it has no GPU fan its just a 80 dollar thing i can return when i get another real video card. Also i stopped the fan from running with my finger and the sound still came out so its not a friction with the fan of any kind
 
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I actually tested the heat coming off my cpu and gpu both are under 60c so it cant be an overheat issue sadly.
 
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WAIT DID YOU SAY YOU'RE USING AN X58 BOARD?
BINGO you're using an extreme edition Core i7 or similar, you CAN'T use a stock cooler for that because the stock cooler is garbage and is meant for regular Core i7's, throw that piece of junk out & replace it!
 
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really? ive been using it for almost 2years now with out any issues, but even if that was the case im in a lowerlevel my room is always around 40 degrees, ive never had a heating issue especially in the winter with any of my tech lol
 
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Hm interesting. I mean if this just started happening it HAS to be that cooler, stock coolers are garbage, it could be slowly dying..
I would go & buy a Hyper 212 EVO & put it on, see how that works in place of it.
 
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i actually was looking for a good suggestion on that, i dont think thats the issue but i was looking for a good cooling solution since now im seeing how hot the i7 runs even in my fridged room, i worry for summer sometimes. im gonna try changing the psu and see what it does then. ill keep everyone posted, thanks for all the ideas guys
 
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Payturr must have missed that you stopped the fan and the noise persisted, ruling out the cooler as its source. If you do want a better cooler for overclocking, get a $21 Xigmatek Gaia. It cools as well as the CM (per Frostytech reviews) and is quieter.
Back to the noise, your board does have coils on it, as part of the VRM circuits. They look like small blocks, one per power phase. That whine is bad enough that you might be able to feel it with your finger. Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot you can do about it, unless you want to RMA the motherboard.
Edit: Hmmm, I just listened to that noise again. Have you ruled out a hard drive as its source?

 
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I'm really curious as to what the hell is making these noises. If it isn't the cooler or the graphics cards or the board, what can it be? It can't be the hard drive, it got louder as the camera got closed to the cooler. It has to be the board.
 
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Ive ruled out everthing at this point the harddrives are so far from where the noise is coming from it was never an option lol, but it is coming right around those blocks you were talking about by the cpu, im gonna have to find a way to feel around there. i just ruled out the PSU as the culprit also. idk if id rma this mobo or just replace it sigh
 
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i can tell you the whole story from start to finish, basically i was playing borderlands 2, and the sound cut out for the whole system (its happened before once or twice) so i rebooted and tried again, same thing, i plugged in a usb sound card, and changed primary devices and the sound started working again but the video for movies and games was going at like 3fps, so finally i said it had to be the sound card, i uninstal the sound card and reboot, instal it again and the system crashes, so im like thats weird, i reboot try to open borderlands 2 again, gets through the adds and right before the load game options appears, and it crashes, finally i notice that through my headphones the music i was playing and the sound from the game is still playing so the system was still running fine, finally i tried trading out the graphics card with an older cheaper one and sure enough it worked (didnt crash) but the noise is still very there. but whenever i tried to play the game on my original graphics card, this sound would come on then the graphics card would crash, 2seconds later, so now im thinking the graphics card might actually be good still.
 
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yea it might be, any good i7 920 3.2ghz mobos out there for cheap?
 
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lol whoa no way im paying 500 for parts that are almost 2yrs old lol, i was thinking of just a mobo that can handle what i got, i7 950 4 sticks of dimm 3 ram, i dont need anything fancy i was never over clocking to begin with i just had bad experiences with mobo's and wanted something reliable..... go figure...
 
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bestbuy might have a gigabyte mobo that i can try at around 150, if i can get the other pieces of my pc to run on it ill be golden, if not then ill have to upgrade the whole damn thing, but thanks all for the help its most appreciated.
 
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