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LTK:
Ouch, that sucks. I had to deal with the same problem; in my case it was the bottom-of-the-line PSU that was making the noise. I looked into it a bit, and no one seems to agree on the cause. It may be shoddy components, or a bad manufacturing batch. Whatever the cause, buying a higher quality PSU (same wattage) got rid of the problem for me. Good thing you still have your old graphics card, that gives you opportunity for elimination. I can tell you it's probably not the CPU; it doesn't have coils that can whine.
If it's indeed the graphics card, and you're feeling creative, I heard it helps to coat the capacitors in a layer of nail polish. But you might not want to do that if you're planning on returning it.
Hey, the good news is, you can put together a computer without totally screwing something up. Hardware faults > human faults.
As for myself, I just moved out of the house, into an apartment which has internet and cable tv included in the rent price. Now I'm not about to buy a tv when I just moved my computer and 24" monitor in there, that would be silly. But it's a shame to let it go to waste, so I'm thinking of just buying a tv tuner card such as this one. It's going for €55 and comes with a remote and recording software; that beats any piece of crap tv you can buy for that price.
Caleb:
Well the old video card just didn't work. So it's completely dead and I can't use it to test the computer.
It could be the PSU but it's a Corsair 800 watt thing. So it's not like it's a cheap PSU.
I did a stress test using Prime95 without the video card in the computer and it's been as quiet as a mouse. But I have no clue if that means anything.
If running a game is what causes the noise and I *think* the noise the noise is coming from the video card than I have no clue how to test this situation.
I mean at this point I don't have any idea how to test the computer under the conditions it's in when it's running the game without the video card.
With the video card there is a loud noise but for the life of me I can't be sure where it's coming from.
I am thinking my only recourse is to return the video card for a new one and if that still makes the noise than return the PSU for a new one.
It's sloppy but I don't see any other way to handle this situation.
LTK:
High frequency noise is a bitch to pinpoint. It doesn't look like you've got shoddy products at all, but you might just have something out of a bad batch. There's nothing sloppy about returning a faulty product; there's not much you can do about it, after all.
Are there any other applications besides graphics-heavy games that cause whine?
Caleb:
Since my motherboard had 2 PCI Express slots I moved the card to the other slot and carefully listened from different sides of the computer.
I am 75% sure that the coil whine noise is coming from the PSU and not the video card. I mean the only thing on the freaking video card that could cause so much noise would have to be the fans and since I already tested them at 100% it's not them! There are no huge coils on the video card. There are on the PSU.
*edit*
Also I checked and the Corsair site already had a sticky in their forums about their PSUs creating a buzzing noise.
None of their suggestions helped except for the last one which was to return the product.
The best thing to me to do is return the PSU for a new one and hopefully that will solve my problems.
If worse comes to worse I can always return the card for a replacement as well. But honestly I think it's the PSU.
...my cable management was a work of art. It really broke my heart to have to take all those cables out.
Caleb:
Yeah Honestly I am just going to say screw it.
The computer works once it's on. It just restarts the reboot process once while booting.
I have no idea. I reconnected everything. It didn't do this before with the old power supply. I might have a short from a bad connection but I reconnected everything basically. It can't be the wiring to the power switch because I checked it.
If it's an issue with the power supply then fuck it. I don't want to screw around with this shit anymore. I will get a new power supply down the road.
All I am going to do with this computer is play video games and maybe edit some video anyways.
I am going to leave Starcraft 2 on for awhile and see if the computer crashes or not.
If it can play games than fine. I don't see how the reboot during startup can be an issue that could hurt anything.
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