low bothering noise..

[eakl8]

Hi there,
I recently got a desktop pc for 2d and 3d graphic mainly.
(GA z87-d3hp, i7 4700k, 2x 16gb kingston hyperx, gigabyte geforce gtx770...)
It all works great, except a ridiculously annoying noise.
Best part is that this noise is not continous, worst part is that is there only when I'm on the softwares I need the most there.
Whenever I am on 3ds Max the noise starts, if I move out to anything else like an explorer window (without closing 3dsmax) the noise stops.
Or also.. whenever I'm on Solidworks and I am rotating something the noise is there until I am done with the rotation.

I've been trying to locate where it should be coming from, seems to be from somewhere close to the power supply or the lower part of the mb.

Any idea or someone who had a similar experience??

 

[eakl8]

it could be your front panel audio.
turn off system and unplug the front usb and audio headers. try again
before doing that, connect speaker or headphone to front audio. turn up the volume, can you hear any noise?

I will try this too. Even though so far this has been a "mute" machine.. no speakers or earphones attached.. mute until the noise of course.
I'm starting more and more to think is the gpu's fault.. seems the same that happened in this case here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgGWom4Qmc
same card and manufacturer, he got the 4gb model I've the 2gb.

EDIT: I'm trying to run 3dmark right now.. and the noise is insane. My cat is about to attack it...

- In the benchmark the noise is not stable and flat anymore. The higher the fps the higher the noise now. And mostly it is just there when is a graphic test, on the cpu tests is all clean and silent.

 

[lp231]

Could either be your power supply or video card.

 

[leeb2013]

it could be your front panel audio.
turn off system and unplug the front usb and audio headers. try again
before doing that, connect speaker or headphone to front audio. turn up the volume, can you hear any noise?

I will try this too. Even though so far this has been a "mute" machine.. no speakers or earphones attached.. mute until the noise of course.
I'm starting more and more to think is the gpu's fault.. seems the same that happened in this case here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgGWom4Qmc
same card and manufacturer, he got the 4gb model I've the 2gb.

EDIT: I'm trying to run 3dmark right now.. and the noise is insane. My cat is about to attack it...

- In the benchmark the noise is not stable and flat anymore. The higher the fps the higher the noise now. And mostly it is just there when is a graphic test, on the cpu tests is all clean and silent.

could still be either the GPU or CPU. CPU test will only take 90W or so, GPU will pull 200W which will strain both itself and the PSU. Although I'm suspecting the GPU as I've experienced that myself. Taking the GPU out probably won't help you find the issue as nothing else in your system will load up the PSU the same.
Cardboard tube to your ear is my recommendation.

does it sound like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgGWom4Qmc

 

[eakl8]

it could be your front panel audio.
turn off system and unplug the front usb and audio headers. try again
before doing that, connect speaker or headphone to front audio. turn up the volume, can you hear any noise?

I will try this too. Even though so far this has been a "mute" machine.. no speakers or earphones attached.. mute until the noise of course.
I'm starting more and more to think is the gpu's fault.. seems the same that happened in this case here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgGWom4Qmc
same card and manufacturer, he got the 4gb model I've the 2gb.

EDIT: I'm trying to run 3dmark right now.. and the noise is insane. My cat is about to attack it...

- In the benchmark the noise is not stable and flat anymore. The higher the fps the higher the noise now. And mostly it is just there when is a graphic test, on the cpu tests is all clean and silent.

could still be either the GPU or CPU. CPU test will only take 90W or so, GPU will pull 200W which will strain both itself and the PSU. Although I'm suspecting the GPU as I've experienced that myself. Taking the GPU out probably won't help you find the issue as nothing else in your system will load up the PSU the same.
Cardboard tube to your ear is my recommendation.

does it sound like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgGWom4Qmc

Yes it does sound like that, actually even worse than that one I suppose.
Here's what it sounds like when I run 3dmark:
http://youtu.be/NYVe-oQSRg8
(noise starts at 0:25, in total syncro with what is going on on the screen..)
I will try giving another shot with the cardboard tube between gpu and cpu..

 

[leeb2013]

I will try giving another shot with the cardboard tube between gpu and cpu..

yep, that's pretty shocking coil whine. 80% sure it's GPU.

ps, cardboard tube between your ear and PSU then GPU to find the source.

 

[eakl8]

Ended up being the Psu which wouldn't work with it. Got upgraded to a Corsair rm850 and is all quite silent now!
Thanks everyone for the tips!