hearing the system work

[McCloud]

Recently I've noticed, with my headphones on, I can hear the system working..

 

always when I perform some heavier action (opening software, importing images in Lightroom etc) I hear a short scratching sound.

 

no idea how this is possible.. is it the SSD, RAM, CPU or GPU ?

 

Any engineers here that can clarify this ?

[r3loAded]

1 minute ago, McCloud said:

Recently I've noticed, with my headphones on, I can hear the system working..

 

always when I perform some heavier action (opening software, importing images in Lightroom etc) I hear a short scratching sound.

 

no idea how this is possible.. is it the SSD, RAM, CPU or GPU ?

 

Any engineers here that can clarify this ?

From the above mentioned only the GPU might be a reason.

Other reasons:

- PSU

- HDD if you have one

[R3ep3r]

From where is the sound coming? Try listening a bit and check from where it comes. There are various sounds that may come from the PSU, GPU(fans sometimes), CPU(also fan) or even the hard disk(if you've got one).

[Guest Generallee]

If it is static noise try to update or roll back your audio drivers and hope that the planets align

[NinJake]

When I hear scratching all I think of is hard drives and DJs.

[Sack]

This might just be that the audio components on your motherboard is picking up electrical interference from the rest of the components, it depends on your board as a lot of the recent more gaming/expensive ones have a shielded part of the board dedicated to audio parts. This is also why shielded dedicated audio cards used to be a thing in the past.

[Crunchy Dragon]

20 minutes ago, NinJake said:

When I hear scratching all I think of is hard drives and DJs.

Guitars can scratch too (=

 

Like @Sack said, it could be the audio components getting electrical interference.

[LogicalDrm]

There are few kinds of noises coming from PC:

• Fan motors
• HDD spinning
• Coil whine
• Static/interference
• Vibrations and air turbulence