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galaxyrooter
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I have an I5 3570 Hp 8300 sff and I have started to hear something like a coil whine around the cpu area, it sounds like a Super Mario theme song but with a background scratch

 Since it is happening on lower usage/idle I started an Intel Burntest and immeadiately when cpu goes 100% that sound dissapears.

The cpu has HPs stock cooling, a passive tower with a tunnel for a case fan.

IS there a way to fix this, is it gonna get worse, is my CPU dying or what?

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Your CPU's fine. If anything, maybe the CPU fan is hitting something, or rubbing something.

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2 minutes ago, lewdicrous said:

As far as I know, CPUs don't have any moving parts in them. The coil whine is coming from something else, a fan for example.

It's not so much about having moving parts, but about having coils (hence "coil whine" :P).

 

OP, if the sound comes from the CPU area, it may very well be the power delivery circuitry next to it.

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44 minutes ago, lewdicrous said:

As far as I know, CPUs don't have any moving parts in them. The coil whine is coming from something else, a fan for example.

Im aware but my CPU definetely has ticking sounds and i have excluded the fan because its no near the cpu or the sound source

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1 minute ago, galaxyrooter said:

Im aware but my CPU definetely has ticking sounds and i have excluded the fan because its no near the cpu or the sound source

Clicking sounds could be the sound of the metal from your heatsink heating/cooling. If you are hearing a whine then this could also be from your boards power delivery system which in most cases will also be located near the cpu.

 

CPU's shouldn't be making any noises. Depending on the slow you have the GPU in... maybe you are hearing the whining from it?

 

Your normal sources of whine are  PSU, GPU, and motherboard power delivery. The whine on a GPU also comes from power delivery... so in general the whine comes from the vibrations of capacitors, transformer, inductor, etc. When these items have power running through them, they vibrate, when they hit their resonant frequency this gets much louder than usual etc.

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Here is the video where if you listen closely first 7 seconds its like a bike chain squeaking

8 hours ago, lewdicrous said:

As far as I know, CPUs don't have any moving parts in them. The coil whine is coming from something else, a fan for example.

 

8 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

It's not so much about having moving parts, but about having coils (hence "coil whine" :P).

 

OP, if the sound comes from the CPU area, it may very well be the power delivery circuitry next to it.

 

video-1521238890.mp4

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It could be the chokes in the CPU VRMs. What PSU are you running, as they can send out dirty power (ac ripple).

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Too bad You are SFF. A better PSU should be the first part of your puild.

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