Hello,
I've had a major issue with coil whine recently on my 6 month old system and I just don't know what to do anymore.
Ironically, when I build it ( and for the first couple of months ) there was no coil whine whatsoever. Now it sounds horrendous.
For references sake, here is my entire build.
The sound starts at around 80-90 FPS, give or take. If I use vsync or limit it to 60 FPS it disappears or is so quiet that I cannot hear it. The sound changes in accordance to where I look. Benchmarks such as Furmark and Heaven produce the same noise, however stuff like Prime95 that stresses the CPU does not cause any whine whatsoever. I do not overclock anything. If I browse, everything's quiet. It only happens when I play games, as soon as I exit the game, the sound is gone. No whine on idle.
I have changed my PSU already and it was tested with different ones. Did not change anything ( they were all gold-rated and between 750-1000 watt. )
I have changed my GPU to my old one, still produces coil whine ( though a bit quieter than it was before. ) However, I'm 99 % sure this card never had coil whine.
It could be that this card always had coil whine as it used to be under my desk, but I find it unlikely that I would've never noticed it in all those years since I'm sensitive to sound.
The PC shop that checked my PC over said that the sound was gone if there was no GPU at all in the system, but I don't understand why a card I know has no whine has it now?
Could it be the motherboard that is causing it? It's a ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero ... Is there any way to test it? And could it suddenly appear after ~6 months?
It would be a major pain in the ass if it was the motherboard ... Sadly I don't have a replacement I could test this with either as my old motherboard is incompatible.
I could save up for a month or two and buy a new motherboard, but I'm a bit afraid that I'll get the same issue again. I don't have a lot of money at my disposal.