Noticeably loud coil buzz whenever I do anything

[Chikensoops]

Kinda loud coil buzz when I do anything on my pc, like scrolling down, moving the mouse, etc. Not sure if it comes from the PSU, Motherboard or GPU, but it does exist. Power rarely fluctuates in my area, so its probably not that. I have had coil buzz ever since I built the pc, but only now has it been this loud.

 

Video attached below, turn up the volume a bit.

 

 

[esCaPade1]

Hi. Sounds like it would be the graphics card - I don't think there is anything you can do about it short of replacing the card.

It could be a different component, however - see if you can stick your head in the PC and hear where it is coming from. My next guess would be the RAM, then the MBoard. Again, nothing much to be done other than replacing something. You could test one stick of RAM at a time.

 

Do you have anything hooked up to the speaker output on your MBoard's sound card? The noise could be caused by RAM, but be coming from the sound card due to interference. Turn the speaker off to test, and if that is the answer, get an external USB sound card to use instead.

 

Good luck!

 

 

[Chikensoops]

On 12/4/2024 at 12:49 AM, esCaPade1 said:

Hi. Sounds like it would be the graphics card - I don't think there is anything you can do about it short of replacing the card.

It could be a different component, however - see if you can stick your head in the PC and hear where it is coming from. My next guess would be the RAM, then the MBoard. Again, nothing much to be done other than replacing something. You could test one stick of RAM at a time.

 

Do you have anything hooked up to the speaker output on your MBoard's sound card? The noise could be caused by RAM, but be coming from the sound card due to interference. Turn the speaker off to test, and if that is the answer, get an external USB sound card to use instead.

 

Good luck!

 

 

It's definitely coming from the inside, not speakers. Seems to be coming from this area of the PC, not sure exactly if it's from the motherboard or GPU.

My motherboard is a Colorful CVN B660i Frozn and the GPU is an XFX RX6700XT SWFT. 

[esCaPade1]

Yeah it's probably the graphics card. It's a fairly well known thing with them.

Run something like Prime95 - it uses no GPU, so unless you scroll the screen, you should hear no noise as it computes. If you do hear the noise, it's more likely to be the RAM.

[Chikensoops]

2 hours ago, esCaPade1 said:

Yeah it's probably the graphics card. It's a fairly well known thing with them.

Run something like Prime95 - it uses no GPU, so unless you scroll the screen, you should hear no noise as it computes. If you do hear the noise, it's more likely to be the RAM.

Tried CPU-Z's stress test, no noise. Loaded up Warframe on high settings and yep it's definitely the GPU. The buzz gets louder everytime I look far off to the distance, or when lots of particles are on screen. 

Thanks for the help!

Also could there be another reason the GPU is buzzing? Like a bad cable maybe or something. I wanna try to minimize the sound but I dont really want to or need to replace the GPU for this small of an issue.

[esCaPade1]

1 hour ago, Chikensoops said:

Also could there be another reason the GPU is buzzing? Like a bad cable maybe or something. I wanna try to minimize the sound but I dont really want to or need to replace the GPU for this small of an issue.

No, it'll be components on the card - short of a GPU replacement or sound-proofing the inside of your PC (not recommended - airflow is needed), there's nothing that can be done.

Unless you "do a Linus" and have the PC in different room than the monitor and keyboard, that is.

[Chikensoops]

17 hours ago, esCaPade1 said:

No, it'll be components on the card - short of a GPU replacement or sound-proofing the inside of your PC (not recommended - airflow is needed), there's nothing that can be done.

Unless you "do a Linus" and have the PC in different room than the monitor and keyboard, that is.

Oh alright then, thanks!

 

[esCaPade1]

No worries!