MSI Krait Gaming 3X Buzzing Noise

Hellsrage · January 4, 2017

So I recently built this computer and yesterday I was playing The Solus Project and realized there was something making a very low buzzing sound from my case. After I went into the video settings in the game I discovered something very strange, if I moved the Resolution Scale slider the buzzing would stop for a second and then return. At the time I thought it may be one of the fans in the system or maybe on my EVGA 1070SC or at the worst perhaps my PSU since I used the one from my last rig.

Well today I noticed the noise just after booting, I'm honestly not sure how long the low buzzing has been going but I only really noticed yesterday. So I ended up doing some testing and just straight up swapping the PSU for the new one I bought for my old rig.

None of the fans were the cause, the GPU was good, sound card good, hard drive good, and it doesn't seem to be anything on the case vibrating as the buzzing stops and starts according to what the PC is doing when on. So the only 3 options left are the MOBO, RAM or the new PSU I just swapped in.

I'll probably end up testing what I can after I post this but has anyone ever had their MOBO make a buzzing noise like this?

bgibbz · January 4, 2017

Probably coil whine, this is normal and there isn't much you can do about it.

Cyndre1033 · January 4, 2017

27 minutes ago, Hellsrage said:

So I recently built this computer and yesterday I was playing The Solus Project and realized there was something making a very low buzzing sound from my case. After I went into the video settings in the game I discovered something very strange, if I moved the Resolution Scale slider the buzzing would stop for a second and then return. At the time I thought it may be one of the fans in the system or maybe on my EVGA 1070SC or at the worst perhaps my PSU since I used the one from my last rig.

Well today I noticed the noise just after booting, I'm honestly not sure how long the low buzzing has been going but I only really noticed yesterday. So I ended up doing some testing and just straight up swapping the PSU for the new one I bought for my old rig.

None of the fans were the cause, the GPU was good, sound card good, hard drive good, and it doesn't seem to be anything on the case vibrating as the buzzing stops and starts according to what the PC is doing when on. So the only 3 options left are the MOBO, RAM or the new PSU I just swapped in.

I'll probably end up testing what I can after I post this but has anyone ever had their MOBO make a buzzing noise like this?

Maybe the mobo is vibrating against the standoffs in your case because of CPU cooler vibrations. That was just my first thought, might be worth a look.

Ryoku · January 5, 2017

29 minutes ago, Hellsrage said:

So I recently built this computer and yesterday I was playing The Solus Project and realized there was something making a very low buzzing sound from my case. After I went into the video settings in the game I discovered something very strange, if I moved the Resolution Scale slider the buzzing would stop for a second and then return. At the time I thought it may be one of the fans in the system or maybe on my EVGA 1070SC or at the worst perhaps my PSU since I used the one from my last rig.

Well today I noticed the noise just after booting, I'm honestly not sure how long the low buzzing has been going but I only really noticed yesterday. So I ended up doing some testing and just straight up swapping the PSU for the new one I bought for my old rig.

None of the fans were the cause, the GPU was good, sound card good, hard drive good, and it doesn't seem to be anything on the case vibrating as the buzzing stops and starts according to what the PC is doing when on. So the only 3 options left are the MOBO, RAM or the new PSU I just swapped in.

I'll probably end up testing what I can after I post this but has anyone ever had their MOBO make a buzzing noise like this?

24 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Probably coil whine, this is normal and there isn't much you can do about it.

As the above stated^ It's probably coil whine, this is the power delivery components vibrating under load, this can be made worse by extremely high fps for instance your gaming at 144fps and then you go into a loading screen or a menu and then your suddenly at 400 fps.

Hellsrage · January 5, 2017

Well I ended up unplugging the PSU installed opening the case and plugging in my older PSU and while my older PSU does have coil whine, it's pretty faint and sounds different than the sound you hear in the case. So yeah it's probably the MOBO that's causing the sound, also the PSU also stopped and started when I moved the slider in the game so it's is probably related to the power components.

3 hours ago, bgibbz said:

Probably coil whine, this is normal and there isn't much you can do about it.

That's a damn shame, I was hoping to have a quite PC this time around, I just built this PC a month ago, perhaps I'll have it replaced then. Once you notice the sound it's really hard to stop hearing it, especially with my DT880s as they are open headphones.