New PC - Whirring Noise during Gameplay?

[Aleksbgbg]

Whenever  I open a game up, a weird noise comes out of the PC as if a mosquito put a microphone to his wings and played it through a subwoofer ... sort of. The noise goes away when I Alt+Tab but comes back when I resume, and sometimes disappears for the session later on in the game.

 

What the heck is this?

 

Thanks for the help

[GalacticRuler]

Do you have any wireless devices nearby? If not, test you CPU cooler, GPU, and/or HDD.

[Dabasepc]

When the GPU's are stressed in any gaming application, a very audible 'buzzing/clicking noise' is heard. It is a very rapid buzzing noise, liken to electrical clicking. This noise differs in loudness by how much the GPU's are being stressed, so for high intensive games such as Witcher 3, the 'buzzing' noise is very loud (easily heard over all system fans and very rapid. However even in games such as Minecraft, the buzzing noise is still present just less audible (but you can still hear it over all cooling). The noise is coming from the GPU section of the motherboard.

 

Tip: Cap the FPS to your monitor refresh rate.

[760]

coil whine it sounds like, almost un-avoidable

[reapersivan]

coil whine it sounds like, almost un-avoidable

I also hear that while gaming, on my PSU doe

[Gazereths]

Yeah sounds like coil whine, GPU probably. Mine does it when I start witcher 3 but goes away when I'm actually in game. It only happens when the start menu is displaying. Have you tried capping your frame rate to see if that helps?

[Aleksbgbg]

Completely forgot about Coil Whine. Frame rate is on VSync, and doesn't go full 60 as I'm playing my games on ultra, but GPU is at 100% all the time. Right.