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Coil Whine / Squealing noise. Help?

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February 25, 2014 11:24:29 PM

Approximately two months ago I built a new desktop gaming pc, however I have noticed that occasionally, a high pitched, squealing noise being made. I'm not sure whether this is being caused by my hard drive or by coil whine in gpu? Any ideas or solutions would be much appreciated.
Specs:
i5 4670k
Gigabyte z87x D3H
Gigabyte Windforce R9 280x
Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
Samsung 120gb SSD
Aerocool Templarius 750W Imperator Modular PSU
8gb G.Skill RAM

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February 25, 2014 11:30:05 PM

Is there any chance you could get a recording of it for us?

Or else look up coil whine, failing hard drive, and failing graphics card fan and tell us if it sounds like any of those.
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February 25, 2014 11:33:41 PM

You are going to need to add more information.

When does this noise occur. Is it at the beginning or end of gaming? does it happen while benchmarking the GPU.

In all reality it really helps if you can reproduce this noise. If you can then we can help.
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February 25, 2014 11:36:43 PM

It is most noticeable when closing the unigine heaven or valley benchmarks, which occurs each time. Also occurs with some older games such as GTAIV (while playing).
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February 25, 2014 11:50:00 PM

Sounds like the bearing is failing as the CPU Temp increases with load it spins faster causing your wine...

Easy to find put case on a easy accessible place and remove the side cover
Wait for horrible sound to start

Like a stethoscope any long hard object will transfer sound/vibration easily IE Ruler. Knitting Needle, etc and gentle press against each possible source of the sound and other end to your ear.

Yeah i know it very technical
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February 25, 2014 11:55:00 PM

DarkSable said:
Is there any chance you could get a recording of it for us?

Or else look up coil whine, failing hard drive, and failing graphics card fan and tell us if it sounds like any of those.


This is a recording of the sound that occurs immediately after closing unigine benchmark during exit screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1nU3Zv7oWo&feature=yout...
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February 25, 2014 11:57:11 PM

JamsFors said:
It is most noticeable when closing the unigine heaven or valley benchmarks, which occurs each time. Also occurs with some older games such as GTAIV (while playing).


so when unigine is loading and old games are going if you have a fps going you will probably see that you are going at really high FPS. this is just an overloading of the voltage regulators. It is more than that but if you look at some of the new Asus GPU's will see there redesign and how it is better than the old design.

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February 26, 2014 12:00:49 AM

Acclaimed DIGI+ VRM has been applied via a 10-phase power design that uses digital voltage regulators to minimize power noise by 30%, enhance power efficiency by 15%, widen voltage modulation tolerance, and improve overall stability and longevity by 2.5 times over reference.

https://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX780DC23GD5/

this is what gets rid of coil whine
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February 26, 2014 12:04:10 AM

fkr said:
JamsFors said:
It is most noticeable when closing the unigine heaven or valley benchmarks, which occurs each time. Also occurs with some older games such as GTAIV (while playing).


so when unigine is loading and old games are going if you have a fps going you will probably see that you are going at really high FPS. this is just an overloading of the voltage regulators. It is more than that but if you look at some of the new Asus GPU's will see there redesign and how it is better than the old design.



I just checked the fps while on the closing splash screen of unigine and FRAPS had the fps measured at over 3000, so is there a way to limit the maximum fps to see if this removes the squealing?

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February 26, 2014 12:06:12 AM

fkr said:
Acclaimed DIGI+ VRM has been applied via a 10-phase power design that uses digital voltage regulators to minimize power noise by 30%, enhance power efficiency by 15%, widen voltage modulation tolerance, and improve overall stability and longevity by 2.5 times over reference.

https://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX780DC23GD5/

this is what gets rid of coil whine



Didnt mean to click pick solution but im kinda new to using these forums so im not sure how to undo that, but anyway I was going to go for the directcu ii design but the place i brought everything at didnt have any in stock :( 
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February 27, 2014 1:43:42 PM

this is really nothing to worry about. It will not harm your card and allot of cards make this noise when fps go up to those numbers. You can always use msi afterburner or another supported software to set a hard 90fps limit and that should help.
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February 27, 2014 1:59:12 PM

JamsFors said:
Didnt mean to click pick solution but im kinda new to using these forums so im not sure how to undo that, but anyway I was going to go for the directcu ii design but the place i brought everything at didnt have any in stock :( 


Undid it for you so you can pick again, but I would say that fkr nailed it with the need for a FPS cap.

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February 27, 2014 7:47:18 PM

Thank-you all very much for your contributions, much appreciated
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