What is this weird noise?

[saladcrack]

So I built my new PC yesterday (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dcXgtJ) and it was working fine, didn't hear anything wrong with it, played the BF1 beta for like 4 hours. Perfect.  But I turned it on this morning and this odd sound starts up kind of like a whining but a pretty low pitch kinda like a whiny hum, I don't know how to explain it and I don't know how to record it and I don't even know if it would be audible on a recording because of the fans in my case.  I think it is my power supply because I've never heard an HDD make that sound, my graphics card has been fine since I got it back in July and my CPU cooler is just a fan on a heatsink no big deal.  If anybody can help out that would be fantastic, I am worried that something is wrong with my PSU but also it is just really annoying when I am not gaming and have my headphones off.  I am also thinking it might be temperature because when I turned my PC on today it said 19 C before it got heated up so could "cold" affect it?  Also my fans are fluctuating weirdly between speeds but that is something I could probably fix in the BIOS settings. Thanks! Sorry it was so long.

[dantayy]

Probably coil whine

[saladcrack]

Just now, Ernest_L said:

Probably coil whine

What would that be from? GPU or PSU or both?  Is there a way to fix it?

[Justin_]

Coil Whine? 

 

[dantayy]

1 minute ago, Gamessys said:

What would that be from? GPU or PSU or both?  Is there a way to fix it?

Most commonly the whine is from the GPU, try listening closer

[saladcrack]

3 minutes ago, Ernest_L said:

Most commonly the whine is from the GPU, try listening closer

I can't really tell where it is coming from even if I stick my ear in the case.  I just watched an old Tech Tips video where Linus talks about and demonstrates coil whine and mine doesn't sound anything like that, mine is a much lower pitch and is kind of in a pulsing rhythm.

 

 

[Paragon_X]

My EVGA GTX 1070 has some coilwhine aswell nothing to worry about

[Lamberto29]

Unplug your fans other than your cpu one turn it up and then isolate the whine, once Isolated plug fans back in

[ThinkWithPortals]

45 minutes ago, Gamessys said:

So I built my new PC yesterday (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dcXgtJ) and it was working fine, didn't hear anything wrong with it, played the BF1 beta for like 4 hours. Perfect.  But I turned it on this morning and this odd sound starts up kind of like a whining but a pretty low pitch kinda like a whiny hum, I don't know how to explain it and I don't know how to record it and I don't even know if it would be audible on a recording because of the fans in my case.  I think it is my power supply because I've never heard an HDD make that sound, my graphics card has been fine since I got it back in July and my CPU cooler is just a fan on a heatsink no big deal.  If anybody can help out that would be fantastic, I am worried that something is wrong with my PSU but also it is just really annoying when I am not gaming and have my headphones off.  I am also thinking it might be temperature because when I turned my PC on today it said 19 C before it got heated up so could "cold" affect it?  Also my fans are fluctuating weirdly between speeds but that is something I could probably fix in the BIOS settings. Thanks! Sorry it was so long.

Could well be coil whine. Annoying, but harmless, and basically unavoidable as it can occur in pretty much anything electronic. As such, manufacturers generally don't accept coil whine as a reason to return a component.

Coil whine is most commonly the GPU, but it can also come from the power supply or the motherboard.

[xgn]

See if it dissappear if you turn down fan speed. I have 3 fans i need to run on 800 rpm instead 900. If they run full speed i get exactly what you describe.

Toke a while to figure out whats wrong. I was thinking something else was vibrating inside the case.

[saladcrack]

8 minutes ago, xgn said:

See if it dissappear if you turn down fan speed. I have 3 fans i need to run on 800 rpm instead 900. If they run full speed i get exactly what you describe.

Toke a while to figure out whats wrong. I was thinking something else was vibrating inside the case.

My fans are set to the lowest speed when temps are low so they idle at like 600 - 700 rpm.  And it is actually gone now after playing like 30 min of the BF1 beta so I think it is just because something gets cold idrk.

[saladcrack]

35 minutes ago, Paragon_X said:

My EVGA GTX 1070 has some coilwhine aswell nothing to worry about

 

30 minutes ago, Lamberto29 said:

Unplug your fans other than your cpu one turn it up and then isolate the whine, once Isolated plug fans back in

 

19 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Could well be coil whine. Annoying, but harmless, and basically unavoidable as it can occur in pretty much anything electronic. As such, manufacturers generally don't accept coil whine as a reason to return a component.

Coil whine is most commonly the GPU, but it can also come from the power supply or the motherboard.

It actually goes away when I play games but now it is back again when I am idling.

[Lamberto29]

10 hours ago, Gamessys said:

 

 

It actually goes away when I play games but now it is back again when I am idling.

If it goes away when your playing games it's 100% coilwhine on the card, a little annoying but nothing to worry about, use evga ocx or Msi Afterburner to confirm it's the card's fan/fans by manually altering the fan speed until it goes

[danrey84]

Yea with coil whine if you have lots and lots of fps going through the gpu it can become really bad and I mean BAD so if yours goes away while gaming I wouldn't worry there are some theories that the longer you use the GPU it can go away but I cant personally say that's 100%. Personally if you have coil whine and it goes you are lucky cause some GPU's coil whine is horrid.

[saladcrack]

On 8/31/2016 at 11:01 AM, Ernest_L said:

 

 

On 8/31/2016 at 11:03 AM, Justin_ said:

 

 

23 hours ago, Paragon_X said:

 

 

23 hours ago, Lamberto29 said:

 

 

23 hours ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

 

 

23 hours ago, xgn said:

 

 

11 hours ago, danrey84 said:

 

Thanks everyone for your help! I eventually upped the fan speed from 1200 to 1400 rpm using CAM and it's gone!  

[Vlku272]

When I got my 980 it was literally screaming, over a few days it went down to no noise what so ever.

[Aggy]

Glad to hear you solved this problem. I just wanted to add that I had a problem like this, and it turned out to be my case (phantom 410).  The metal side window was rattling around because of the vibration of the HDD. I thought it was a fan problem as well, but I put some padding on the hard drive and screwed the panel in really tightly, and that stopped the sound.