Power supply clicking under high load. Do i have to worry?

[stevenlikeaboss766]

I have a EVGA 700B PSU, it is only a few month old (around 5) and it is making a clicking noise under high load. It is not a mechanical clicking it sound like and electric noise. I keep it very clean, and it has very little dust in it. As of writing this i have never had my system crash. Is this something to be concerned about? Also I don't know if i did not notice it before or if it just recently happened. For most of the time iv'e owned it, it lived on the floor.

 

[qasim1991]

That is not the best PSU from EVGA its a tier 3 PSU according to http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3579057/power-supply-clicking-high-load.html

What are rest of your system specs.

 

[RememberThe5th]

What are your system specs?Well for clicking it could be Coil whine or some bug got to live in your PSU.You never Know what could happen with PSU or what could go wrong.

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

That is not the best PSU from EVGA its a tier 3 PSU according to http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3579057/power-supply-clicking-high-load.html

What are rest of your system specs.

I have a GTX 1060 6GB
MSI Tomahawk B350
Ryzen 5 1600
8GB of 3000mhz corsair ram
nzxt s340 case
A random generic 1TB hard drive

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

What are your system specs?Well for clicking it could be Coil whine or some bug got to live in your PSU.You never Know what could happen with PSU or what could go wrong.

I have a GTX 1060 6GB
MSI Tomahawk B350
Ryzen 5 1600
8GB of 3000mhz corsair ram
nzxt s340 case
A random generic 1TB hard drive

 

[RememberThe5th]

Can you tell specific "clicking noise" or record it?

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

Can you tell specific "clicking noise" or record it?

I just opened battlefield 1 and this happened instantly before the game even made any real strain on my system. Here is the pic

https://imgur.com/a/Nraj6
Now im scared

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

Can you tell specific "clicking noise" or record it?

Also the sound is similar to what a scraping hard drive makes. I know its not the hard drive because the power supply has an open back and i can hear it clearly from the back of the unit. I don't like putting my head next to power supplys, i had one that blew up a few months ago 😛

 

[RememberThe5th]

Buy another PSU. Thats im gonna recommend. Buy according to the tier list http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3579057/power-supply-clicking-high-load-worry.html Dont go lower than tier 3 but ill recommend you CX series of http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-cx650m-psu,4770-11.html

For DX error , have you installed all DX latest?

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

Buy another PSU. Thats im gonna recommend. Buy according to the tier list http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3579057/power-supply-clicking-high-load-worry.html Dont go lower than tier 3 but ill recommend you CX series of http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-cx650m-psu,4770-11.html

For DX error , have you installed all DX latest?

How soon should i replace the psu. How do i check my dx version and if its old how do i install the new version

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

Buy another PSU. Thats im gonna recommend. Buy according to the tier list http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3579057/power-supply-clicking-high-load-worry.html Dont go lower than tier 3 but ill recommend you CX series of http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-cx650m-psu,4770-11.html

For DX error , have you installed all DX latest?

I just got off the phone with EVGA they said it is not normal to hear the sound im having, but it should be fine as long as my pc is not blue screening everything is fine.

 

[stevenlikeaboss766]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from stevenlikeaboss766 : "I keep getting DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED"

I don't know what this is or what driver is causing this. I would relay like to play games on my new pc i built. Also i did install the latest drivers with Geforce experience Could anybody help me https://imgur.com/a/Nraj6

 

[rgd1101]

replace the psu