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Simon771
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I'm wondering if coil whine could come from CPU, motherboard or RAM.

There is some noise coming from my PC that remind me of GPU whining. But just for testing I pulled my GPU out of the system and used iGPU on my CPU. Turned off all fans in PC, and there aren't any other moving parts in my PC.

 

So whining sound must be coming from either CPU, motherboard or RAM. Now I'm pretty sure that RAM isn't a problem here because as far as I know, there aren't any parts on it to cause any kind of noise.

Anyone ever had problem with motherboard or CPU whine maybe?

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CPU nor RAM has got coils. Mobo has coils. Question answered?

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95% of the time coil whine is from either the PSU or the GPU, the CPU and Memory as mentioned above never makes whine and quite frankly I personally never seen a motherboard do it either.

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10 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

CPU nor RAM has got coils. Mobo has coils. Question answered?

I guess motherboard is the problem in my case ... will see if I can RMA it somehow.

8 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

95% of the time coil whine is from either the PSU or the GPU, the CPU and Memory as mentioned above never makes whine and quite frankly I personally never seen a motherboard do it either.

I know my GPU is making coil whine. Tested it with 2 differend PSUs and always had coil whine. My PSU doesn't whine ... not exactly anyway. When I stress test my GPU I will hear coil whine from both GPU and PSU.

But in previous build when GPU wasn't used, there was no sound coming from my PC. So it seems like I'm that unlucky guy to have motherboard with coil whine xD 

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One interesting things that I noticed ... coil whine gets worse when I put a lot of stress on my network.

So it has to do something with my network card on motherboard. Or the chip that runs it.

 

What a weird reason for coil whine lol

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It could be dirty power from the PSU causing coil whine in the mobo and GPU. What PSU do you have?

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31 minutes ago, asand1 said:

It could be dirty power from the PSU causing coil whine in the mobo and GPU. What PSU do you have?

I'm using RM650X from Corsair ... and when I was trying to get rid of my GPU coil whine I did purchase another PSU just for testing ... differend brand and everything.

Coil whine is always present on my GPU as soon as I put some load on it.

 

But my previous R9 390 and R9 270X didn't have any coil whine at all. Same for GTS 450 from years back.

 

Before with my Ryzen build I didn't have any coil whine from motherboard, and I'm still using same PSU.

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