Annoying Buzzing Sound When Maxed out on Games

OmiexStrike

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Oh my god, I just want to enjoy my games but this dam pc always causes some stupid problems, it's making me rip my hair out.

Pc specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZjygs

Basically, this buzzing sound came out of nowhere a few days ago, first when I was playing Archeage beta on maxed graphics. I was getting roughly 40-60 fps and all the sudden this buzzing sound came up, and it was buzzing in intervals, like it went bzz...bzz.bzzz.....bzz etc. sometimes got faster sometimes quieter, slower, etc. Now it started when I played bf3 and it never did this before when I played on bf3 on ultra a few days back. On bf3 ultra I get 40-60 fps on 64 maps, while 60 solid fps in small maps. (Vsync is always on in my games).

I turned down the graphics to low and the buzzing sound was gone, and it's also gone if I alt + tab to desktop.

The thing is, sometimes it happens and most of the time it doesn't, but when it does it is annoying as hell. Like, when I shut off my computer and come back on tomorrow, sometimes it won't buzz., it's completely random.

Another thing that started couple weeks back is that sometimes my computer would freeze and just BSOD and I would have to restart, but that is really rare and it only happens during a time my computer does a long freeze but it doesn't happen often, idk if this is normal?

I don't think anything is caught in the fan because if it was, I would be hearing the sound all the time, which is not the case.

My temps are fine, in the 60's highest for my GPU when gaming and my CPU looks normal too, and I have the latest video card drivers and everything.

I ran benchmarks on 3dmark and the results were good, and my build even surpassed most people with the same builds as me.

I don't know what's wrong and all these stupid problems are starting to piss me off, I just want to play my games in peace.

Thanks for any help.
 

OmiexStrike

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I am on stock cooler, but it has never done it before in the past, like I played bf3 ultra a couple days back and nothing, same with archeage, but now it's started up again. I'm sure it will go away soon but I'm not sure if this is normal if it occasionally comes back again. I haven't overclocked or anything either since I'm on stock cooler. But it has a turbo boost to 4.1 ghz built in and it's on auto in the BIOS, I don't think that's the problem though since it wasn't happening before and my turbo boost was always enabled from the very first time I built my pc.
 

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Ok, I will. I'm new to this program but I looked it up and heard that the stress test (blend) doesn't really stop and that I have to stop it manually. If so, how long should I run it for?
 

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Ok, I ran it for 2 minutes, no sound whatsoever, completely quiet expect for the running fans obviously.

I also shut down my computer completely before I ran the test to make it run from a fresh start.
 

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Ok. I will if it starts to do it again. It's weird though, because if there was something catching the fans, wouldn't the noise be heard anywhere, not just in gaming? And why would it quite down if I turn the graphics to low, alt tab to desktop, etc?
 

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That's what I thought at first, it is possible that it could be coil whine, but why would it suddenly start doing it if it has never done it before in the past? Is it kind of high pitched, but it sounds more of something like a fly next to your ear, you know that sound? except maybe a tad bit higher.
 

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I was wondering, is there some sort of a test on the gpu like we did for prime95 for the cpu? where it can sort of max out the fans and everything to see if the sound comes back? I don't wanna open up my computer and everything and unhook cables, etc. lol.
 

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Ok, I just ran it at full screen 1080p with 8x AA, Once the temps got up to about 70 degrees the noise faintly started and then I ended the test so the temps wouldn't increase further.Then when I stopped the test, the sound came back louder, and I believe this indicated that it was dropping temps rapidly due to the test stoppage, and then the sound stopped when the temps came back to normal.
 

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Well I think it has to be the GPU due to the stress test on the GPU. Once it got to high temps the noise started, and I actually think that this may be coil whine?
 

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Dam this sucks. It wasn't doing this before either. It's so loud and annoying. I'll run msi afterburner and check the gpu temp, because if it isnt reaching 70 degrees then why would it make a coil whine sound? Because in the kombustor benchmark it only made the noise around the 70 degrees area.