Question Such thing as dirty power?

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This is absolutely a dumb question but I'm running on minimal sleep and frustration. And consolidating two questions into one post so I don't take up space on the interwebs.

Q1)
Is there a such thing as dirty power? At my old house the GPU had NO whine that I noticed. New place and I noticed coilwhine... it's not obnoxious but it's bugging me why it's suddenly present. PC was properly transported, GPU out, in the passenger seat safely wearing it's seatbelt.

The old house was kept colder but when it comes to temps in the PC I've monitored, they are within margin of error between the two.

Q2) REMOVED. I'M AN IDIOT. Wish I could sleep.
Was looking at the CPU score, not GPU in 3DMark...
Anyone that was curious, I was asking why stock vBIOS yielded 600 points more than the Suprim-X. It didn't, it dropped it 2000 points.

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CPU: i7-13700K
Cooler: Corsair H150 Elite Caprellix 360mm
RAM: DDR4 G-Skill 4000Mhz (4x16GB, Gear1)
MB: MSI Edge z690 DDR4 WiFi
GPU: MSI Gaming Trio 4090
PSU: MSI MPG A1000G ATX 3.0 PCIE5
 
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Absolutely. I first went through this with my audio amplifiers. To this day I know if I move somewhere with underground power lines my amps sound like crap. If on telephone wires the sound is magical. But as to your coil wine maybe.
..lol
Laugh or Cry.

You had me hyped and hope with the first few sentences. Your final sentence gave me the equivalent of 'cold swimming pool D'.

I know of course nobody can say for certain. Aside from getting a professional grade Power Management thingy (my brain is starting to go fuzzy) and gambling a few $k, which I won't, I assume nothing can be done to test?

Besides maybe taking my PC for another drive back to my old house?
 
You can have electric company test lines for correct voltages and sags. Well that depends where you live as well in the world. Could be an easy fix you could be on a breaker that feeds your fridge or other line noise polluter electronics. Florescent light are a good one to avoid at least on the same breaker.