suddenly getting graphics card whining noise when playing games

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Earlier today I was messing with the cable management in my case and I dropped it. Now it only fell a few inches but it landed harder than I would have liked. It fell on the side of the front of the motherboard (the opposite of the cable management side).

The little plastic piece that you push on to get your graphics card to come out popped off but that was all that I could see happened. I reseated everything, popped the plastic thing back on the motherboard and started it up.

Everything seems fine except that I am now getting a high pitched whine from my graphics card while playing games. I have only tested two. It seem to be in the menus mostly. I read online that this gets caused by your graphics card pumping out a lot of frames per second in menus and that enabling vsync will fix it. I tried that and it did help, but it still makes a bit of noise it seems.

It never made this noise before and it cannot be a coincidence.

In short, what is going on? Is it safe to keep running games? Should I do anything?
 
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Steadyy1
What you are describing, is called coil whine.

When you dropped your PC, some of the metal parts inside the GPU could've got damaged, but still work. (I would advise you not to fiddle with the GPU, aka unscrewing stuff in the GPU incase stuff get worse.) But the coils that are in the graphics card, are most likely vibrating the metal. So when you dropped your PC, the metals could've got dis-attached. Then again, It's actually the magnetic field of a coil that causes it to vibrate and thus produce sound.

Also, the more power is being put into the GPU, the louder and more noticeable the noise will be.
Your GPU cannot get damaged from coil whine, although if theres any other things wrong with the GPU, then make sure to post another thread.
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What you are describing, is called coil whine.

When you dropped your PC, some of the metal parts inside the GPU could've got damaged, but still work. (I would advise you not to fiddle with the GPU, aka unscrewing stuff in the GPU incase stuff get worse.) But the coils that are in the graphics card, are most likely vibrating the metal. So when you dropped your PC, the metals could've got dis-attached. Then again, It's actually the magnetic field of a coil that causes it to vibrate and thus produce sound.

Also, the more power is being put into the GPU, the louder and more noticeable the noise will be.
Your GPU cannot get damaged from coil whine, although if theres any other things wrong with the GPU, then make sure to post another thread.
 
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JPokes

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Thank you for your reply steady I figured that is what it was but I am still a little worried. I literally just got this motherboard and cpu the other day. That is why I was fiddling with the cables in the first place. I have the worst luck.

Anyway I guess my question would be there isn't any way I damaged the pci-e slot or anything else is there? Everything was screwed in securely and I haven't noticed any other problems but still
 
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Yeah don't worry, as long as everything else works perfectly fine, and all you get is that noise, then it's just coilwhine. Nothing to worry about.

P.S: Choose my solution above, in order for this thread to be solved.
 
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