Loud permanent coil whine

[Olaf Muskel]

I have really loud coil whine with my build. It sounds the same all the time regardless of the workload. It is NOT coming from the GPU. The GPU also has coil whine with high loads but I don't really care about that too much. (sounds different to the other whine) The sound comes from the VRAM area of the motherboard. I think it's not PSU related. The coil whine is instantly audible when I boot my PC (the moment I press the on button) Every time I boot the PC it has a slightly different pitch but stays the same for the rest of the session. Sometimes it feels like the pitch depends on how long I wait to power on the PC after I powered on the extension cord.

 

I already tried the following:

 

Disable C-States

Disable AMD cool and quiet

Disable CPU Boost

Disable XMP

Undervolt the CPU

Run the CPU with a fixed core frequency

 

Nothing changed, not even the pitch of the buzz.

 

I have really no idea what it could be and if there is a change for this. Should I consider get another motherboard or could this be RAM related or even through the NVMe?

 

 

Components:

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x

GPU: AMD rx 6700xt (reference)

RAM: T-Force 3600 32gb

PSU: Corsair SF 750

Link Up gen 4 riser cable

[BetteBalterZen]

Generally you can't do anything about coilwhine. But if it was the graphics card, you could limit FPS (unlimited FPS / high FPS can cause coilwhine). Also, if you have a custom waterblock on a graphics card, that can "sort of" increase the coilwhine. 

[Captinjigglesworth]

6 hours ago, Olaf Muskel said:

I have really loud coil whine with my build. It sounds the same all the time regardless of the workload. It is NOT coming from the GPU. The GPU also has coil whine with high loads but I don't really care about that too much. (sounds different to the other whine) The sound comes from the VRAM area of the motherboard. I think it's not PSU related. The coil whine is instantly audible when I boot my PC (the moment I press the on button) Every time I boot the PC it has a slightly different pitch but stays the same for the rest of the session. Sometimes it feels like the pitch depends on how long I wait to power on the PC after I powered on the extension cord.

 

I already tried the following:

 

Disable C-States

Disable AMD cool and quiet

Disable CPU Boost

Disable XMP

Undervolt the CPU

Run the CPU with a fixed core frequency

 

Nothing changed, not even the pitch of the buzz.

 

I have really no idea what it could be and if there is a change for this. Should I consider get another motherboard or could this be RAM related or even through the NVMe?

 

 

Components:

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x

GPU: AMD rx 6700xt (reference)

RAM: T-Force 3600 32gb

PSU: Corsair SF 750

Link Up gen 4 riser cable

 

6 hours ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Generally you can't do anything about coilwhine. But if it was the graphics card, you could limit FPS (unlimited FPS / high FPS can cause coilwhine). Also, if you have a custom waterblock on a graphics card, that can "sort of" increase the coilwhine. 

Hello, I personally own a reference 6800xt and I can also confirm that the coil whine is *normal*. mine does the same thing and it is annoying but there really isn't a way to get rid of it. one thing that quieted mine down was a UPS with a pure sine wave generator to fix the shitty power coming into my house. it made it quiet but it didn't get rid of it completely.

[trevb0t]

1 hour ago, Olaf Muskel said:

PSU: Corsair SF 750

Some models of Corsair modular PSUs (I believe specifically the CXM series) are known to have a coil whine. 

The SF series is one of their decent Gold units, if memory serves. So not likely, but I wouldn't rule it out completely.

 

What CPU cooler are you running?

[Olaf Muskel]

2 hours ago, Captinjigglesworth said:

 

Hello, I personally own a reference 6800xt and I can also confirm that the coil whine is *normal*. mine does the same thing and it is annoying but there really isn't a way to get rid of it. one thing that quieted mine down was a UPS with a pure sine wave generator to fix the shitty power coming into my house. it made it quiet but it didn't get rid of it completely.

Yeah as I said, the GPU coil whine is fine. In games I have the sound higher so it's not noticeable with headphones. 

[Olaf Muskel]

2 hours ago, trevb0t said:

Some models of Corsair modular PSUs (I believe specifically the CXM series) are known to have a coil whine. 

The SF series is one of their decent Gold units, if memory serves. So not likely, but I wouldn't rule it out completely.

 

What CPU cooler are you running?

I run the Alpenfön Blackridge v2. But I run it with a single 120mm Noctua nf a12x15 fan. This is the only Fan spinning in idle. GPU fans are off in idle and PSU as well.

Sometimes after decent cpu/gpu loads (f1 for example) the coil whine is completely gone. But it usually comes again after the next restart.

[Olaf Muskel]

4 hours ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Generally you can't do anything about coilwhine. But if it was the graphics card, you could limit FPS (unlimited FPS / high FPS can cause coilwhine). Also, if you have a custom waterblock on a graphics card, that can "sort of" increase the coilwhine. 

Damn that sucks. It sucks even harder that I am using an open air case. the coilwhine is SO LOUD. Maybe in an normal closed up case It wouldn't be noticeable.