Hello,
I build a PC last year on 20-7-2015. About 2 months after building it, it started making a weird noise when it was running for a couple of hours.
Now these are the things I know:
1. The noise isn't coming from inside the computer itself, I can only hear it through my headphones or speakers. (it's not caused by my sound system, I used different ones past half year)
2. It happens when my pc has to work hard. For instance when starting up a game.
3. Doesn't go away unless I restart the computer. It will then appear after running for a while again.
4. Doesn't matter if I leave alone the pc for a week or use it everyday, the noise will come after a while.
5. Didn't hear it once for the first 2 months, when I heard it for the first time I wasn't doing anything different.
6. It's not coil whine.
7. It's gotten worse and worse by time, at first I never heard it for at least the first 3 hours of gaming. Nowadays when I restart the computer and startup a game it sometimes immediately occurs.
8. The noise itself is annoying but what's worse is that my pc starts lagging when it happens. Like skipping a couple of frames in a game, or clicking on a tab and having to wait 5 second before it shows. (not the tab loading, screen freezes, when it stops freezing the page is viewed)
9. It's a hard noise to describe. I think it sounds like something is grinding.
10. The harder it is for the pc to run the program the faster the noise appears. (Black Ops 3 made it appear immediately a couple of times. When browsing the web there are mostly no problems, except for when a lot tabs with streams/video's are playing.
This is my pc build:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K Boxed
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX 2.0
HDD: Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003, 1TB
Case: Corsair Carbide 300R
Fan: Noctua NH-U12S
RAM: Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
Parts bought on https://www.megekko.nl/ except from the PSU, which was bought on https://www.afuture.nl/ .
I bought Windows 8.1 and immediately upgraded to Windows 10 when I build the pc.
My guess is that it's caused by the GPU, I heard EVGA GPU's had problems more often.
Thanks for reading and I hope someone can help me, you can leave a comment for further information if needed.
Greetings, Mike
I build a PC last year on 20-7-2015. About 2 months after building it, it started making a weird noise when it was running for a couple of hours.
Now these are the things I know:
1. The noise isn't coming from inside the computer itself, I can only hear it through my headphones or speakers. (it's not caused by my sound system, I used different ones past half year)
2. It happens when my pc has to work hard. For instance when starting up a game.
3. Doesn't go away unless I restart the computer. It will then appear after running for a while again.
4. Doesn't matter if I leave alone the pc for a week or use it everyday, the noise will come after a while.
5. Didn't hear it once for the first 2 months, when I heard it for the first time I wasn't doing anything different.
6. It's not coil whine.
7. It's gotten worse and worse by time, at first I never heard it for at least the first 3 hours of gaming. Nowadays when I restart the computer and startup a game it sometimes immediately occurs.
8. The noise itself is annoying but what's worse is that my pc starts lagging when it happens. Like skipping a couple of frames in a game, or clicking on a tab and having to wait 5 second before it shows. (not the tab loading, screen freezes, when it stops freezing the page is viewed)
9. It's a hard noise to describe. I think it sounds like something is grinding.
10. The harder it is for the pc to run the program the faster the noise appears. (Black Ops 3 made it appear immediately a couple of times. When browsing the web there are mostly no problems, except for when a lot tabs with streams/video's are playing.
This is my pc build:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K Boxed
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX 2.0
HDD: Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003, 1TB
Case: Corsair Carbide 300R
Fan: Noctua NH-U12S
RAM: Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
Parts bought on https://www.megekko.nl/ except from the PSU, which was bought on https://www.afuture.nl/ .
I bought Windows 8.1 and immediately upgraded to Windows 10 when I build the pc.
My guess is that it's caused by the GPU, I heard EVGA GPU's had problems more often.
Thanks for reading and I hope someone can help me, you can leave a comment for further information if needed.
Greetings, Mike