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@ I've had an HP X360, a couple of Dell XPS 13s, a Lenovo Yoga 920 and a Lenovo X1 Carbon. The HP comes bottom of the pile for both form factor and customer service. The X1 Carbon is by far the best with the XPS 13 a close second. The Yoga and X360 have big footprints and are heavier enough to feel significant when walking around with them in your hand. votes bookmark report hide +1 vote jesseboy89 on 27/08/2019 - 07:48 I've had three different xps13s, a lenovo, an Asus, and a spectre x360. The x360 is easily the best one I've owned. votes bookmark report hide ADGRM on 27/08/2019 - 09:26 i was in the market for a HP Spectre but after using it in-store, it was a hardpass…that screen bounce was intense. Very nice looking piece of machinery though
Techquickie Thanks for featuring my member review! That was my first ever review, and having it on a LTT video makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside :)
As a tip, you can often find which component is causing the noise by touching it lightly. Often the sound will change as you are restricting the movement of the component, which in turn means that it can vibrate less, causing a slightly different pitch
Just don't open a power supply and go around touching things in there with your fingers. Bare metal heatsinks can carry high voltage and deliver a shock. Things outside the power supply generally aren't greater than 12 volts and "should" be safe to touch.
1: Buy 10m HDMI cables and USB Repeaters 2: Place your PC in another room 3: Run all the fans at max since you can't hear them anyway 4: ??? 5: Profit!
@@TheyWhomTheGodsDetest Future Cancelled sequels In a May 2016 conference call to analysts, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer stated, "We could see doing five or six or seven."[138][139] On March 22, 2017, Haim Saban said that he and Lionsgate already have a six-film story arc.[140] However, in May 2017, Forbes noted that due to the underwhelming performance of the film in most markets, it was unlikely any sequels would be made.[7] Later that same month, it was reported that the sequels could still be made thanks to record-breaking merchandise sales.[141] Prior to the home release of the movie, Israelite confirmed that talks were taking place regarding a sequel[142] and that he would like to include Lord Zedd in it.[143] The possibility of a sequel increased once more in early July 2017 when it was reported that the film held the number one spot in home media sales and rentals in its first week.[144] In August 2017, Saban abandoned its trademark for the film's logo.[145] A Saban Brands representative stated in October 2017 that "Power Rangers continues to own and renew hundreds of trademark registrations worldwide, including for the 2017 movie logo. The trademark registration process is very nuanced, and the status of the single application has no bearing on our ownership of or the future plans for Power Rangers. The franchise remains as strong and enthusiastic about its future as ever."[146] On May 1, 2018, Saban Brands agreed to sell Power Rangers and other entertainment assets to Hasbro for US$522 million in cash and stock with the sale expected to closed in the second quarter.[147] On August 8, 2018, Hasbro announced they would be working with a film studio to develop a follow-up to Power Rangers.[148] In February 2019, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner announced in a financial call that Hasbro was in talks with Paramount Pictures to produce the sequel.[149] Planned reboot On July 11, 2019, in the AMA thread on the Stranger Things subreddit, Dacre Montgomery revealed that the studio had plans to produce a reboot, without him and the rest of the cast and the director returning.[150] On December 13, 2019, it was reported that Jonathan Entwistle is in early negotiations to direct the reboot, with Patrick Burleigh being set to write the script. The plot will reportedly involve time travel and will be set in the 1990s.[151]
You can use a straw to help isolate noise and help you find coil whine. Especially if you have a large, thick-walled straw, that's also flexible. It really helps when trying to hunt down strange noises from your computer. The size of the straw (the opening) helps get more of the sound into the straw. The thickness of the walls helps isolate noises. And flexibility helps you get into strange positions. But even a basic disposable straw can still prove to be an advantage.
Buy a medical stethoscope. They are not expensive. It's literally just flexible air tubes that conduct sound to your ears. It also has pads that comfortably fit into your ears like earbuds, without the potential risk of inserting a rigid plastic straw too deep inside your ear and damaging your eardrum.
Wow, i was kinda confused about the term "Coil Whine", and from the moment on you explained what it was, and played the sound in your video, i must say that i've never in my life had any component doing that o: I'm glad i haven't had to experience this, it's kinda creeping me out real bad :D
In my experience there are 2 things that can help with coil whine, those are: 1-turning v-sync ON to lock FPS to 60 (30, depending the game). 2- play/run the game that where the coil whine is the worst, i have noticed that enventually the coil whine reduces
hey linus, here are some suggestions for your next video a video about: -Chokes, diodes, capacitors, mosfets & more OR -kernels(Linux, windows NT, Unix etc), OR -firmware OR -wattage, voltage, amperage, ohms & more OR -VRM, Digi VRM & Digi+ VRM OR -Filesystems (fat32, ntfs, ext4 etc) OR -Contrast ratio (this is just a worst case scenario suggestion) i'm not giving up until you do a video of my suggestions >__>
I second these. In particular VRM/MOSFETs on motherboards are one of the most important parts on them and knowledge about adequate cooling for them is lacking.( and the AMD crowd would benefit most.) www.overclock.net/a/about-vrms-mosfets-motherboard-safety-with-high-tdp-processors
I normaly just leave the video when the sponsor spot comes... but when i heard cooler master i did a 180 turnaround and continued watching tl:dr it was worth it
my computer isn't whining it is buzzing, like an electrical buzzing that sounds almost like a cricket.. It only buzzes when I open a game up or watch videos and instantly stops if I minimize the game. I don't think it's a fan issue because a fan doesn't instantly stop/start slow down/speed up - fans are gradual. - now it is doing it whenever I move the mouse on the desktop... wonderful.....
@@Rudxain lol, nah man it's because the powerload goes up when gaming! The GPU is the most power hungry item in the PC! I went from a 650w psu and a 1660s with no whine, to a 2070 super and here the whine in the power supply as soon as I amp up the power
@@Ouail98 gpus also have the same claims of being quiet tho, guess coil whine will always exist. Heck the coil whiniest of all gpus are the latest models actually 2070, 2080, 3070 being always mentioned
I love that this is literally @FitmentIndustries but a computer version of it haha. You guys even somewhat sound alike. Thanks for the help Linus! Just dropped $1k on a new GPU and was a bit worried when I noticed 3 days later this little buzzing sound tabbing in and out of games. I guess I don't need to stress!
Just found this many years later while trying to figure out why my 4090 is making a noise, never heard of this before but now i know a lot about it…unfortunately. Thankfully my pc is in a case under a desk so isnt that much of an issue, but after building the thing i was sure worried and thought i had broken something.
same. my Asus Rog Strix Scar III Laptop is making coil whine (it didn't had coil whine for first 2 years) i think i found something for my laptop tho and i will give it a try. For my laptop many users reported that it is the CPU intel i7 8750H and intel i7 9750H (mine) - *Edit:* It's my CPU. I disabled C1E core c-state (C1E drops core to maximum efficiency frequency) and the coil whine completely stoped. what the f 🙃
you can try to capping fps ingame. it usually helps a lot with whining if your card is not trying to push for 1000 fps. i also noticed that my 3080 stopped whining on its own. as if the coil set in better or something.
@@spatrk6634 I'm sorta experiencing this. Low hum, very low but more noticeable when I open a game and the GPU works. Kinda like an electrical hum, static-y. Capped my games to 60, kinda helped.
@@engenheirocaldasodocumenta6172 power supply can also be the issue. people sometimes confused the whine from power supply to be GPU because they are close together.
@@spatrk6634 I mean, as long as it's not damaging I can definitely live with it. Which it seems to not be damaging or harmful, just annoying according to Mr google.
Sealing the coils from the outside world does help, good designs often feature coil shielding. I got a new PS4 due to mild coil whine, and it did solve it.
There are several small, and very old, hardware tweaks that can be done to eliminate whine entirely. First, isolate the component with a small directional microphone, which you can throw together with a small 12-inch tube, small slits down the sides, encased in something fluffy and noise baffling. Then, either epoxy, small em shielding, or em altering. Epoxy circuit encapsulation can be applied to a specific troublesome component. While it is the best solution, it can be tricky, and requires experience. em shielding usually just means a conductive (and insulated) mesh. Conductively connected to the computer casing at opposite points, and positioned between the offending component and the other two high-em components (GPU, CPU, PSU), this CAN reduce or eliminate the issue if it is being amplified by magnetic resonance. Before putting in the effort, you can find out if this is the case by testing with a VERY small and weak magnet, no closer than 8-inches to your computer case. If the whine changes pitch in response the the magnet approaching, you've got a resonance issue that can be resolved with em-shielding. Just be VERY careful with this method, and don't use a strong magnet, or get it any closer to your case.
I wonder how many people have found this video after 250+ watts cards kinda became a norm after 2020 since coil whine becomes so much more prominent with these high powered cards. I just got a TUF 6900 XT and I thought it was faulty only to realise it's noise is pretty normal especially with an overall quiet PC. A guy I know has a Zotac 3080 at that has an audible whine as well. However Linus didn't mention 2 things that can reduce the whine. One is limiting FPS in gaming and undervolting or even underclocking your card. All of these result in less power consumption and stress on the card especially if you combine all of these together. Of course underclocking will result in a slight loss in performance but that's the price we have to pay. My 6900 XT's whine is much quieter at a 2300 MHZ core clock compared to it's out of the box 2500-ish. I didn't really experiment but I'm pretty sure I can undervolt even further at this clock. Oh and I've heard that coil whine can get quiter after a few weeks of heavy usage.
An easy way to put a stop to coil whine would be to, at least in my case with my GTX970, enable v-sync. With a GTX970, which is a pretty powerful, decent card, you're generally going to be running whatever game you happen to be playing at 60 - post 60 fps anyway, so getting rid of that extra screen-tearing is just icing on the cake :)
Saying there's not much you can do about it once you've got it isn't exactly true. I was having GPU coil whine on some older games recently. I started up fraps and noticed the frame rate was insane, over 160 fps. I activated Vsync and the coil whine instantly stopped. For some reason the GPU was being told to operate nearly full bore, but there was almost no "resistance" because the game was old and not demanding at all. Once I was able to regulate it with vsync it stopped.
***** Not sure what you mean, I've gotten coil whine on around 3 games I can remember. Vsync fixed it in all of those cases, I've got about 120 games in my Steam library and only those 3 had the coil whine. Also if the game for some reason doesn't have a vsync option, you can always enable it through your video card driver.
Nathaniel Graham I'm glad it worked out for you. I'm just saying that the problem isn't exactly fixed. What causes the whine is still there. Your GPU simply isn't being used to the degree which would cause the coils to whine. It may never affect you again, depending on the games you play on the future.
***** In my case the coil whine is caused by extremely high framerates, the only specific example I remember is darksiders 2 making the whole when it reached 300 fps. I halfway get what you're trying to say but since when playing modern games at full load it doesn't make the noise, and when playing darksiders 2 (or the other 2 games) I can turn on vsync to stop the whine, I would consider that the problem is fixed. I also think that at a certain point most video cards will make some coil noise, it's just that most of the time the framerate has to be very very high. All coils will whine at a certain frequency, if that frequency happens to happen when the card is producing 60 fps then you've got a problem.
I haven't had coil whine with my newest build. but I also went farther then most are going to. On top of buying an AX760 platinum PSU, I rewired the receptacle where all my computer related things would run off, into it's own 20A breaker, even adding an isolated ground to reduce interference.
I think Linus would be the best rapper in the world. The speed in which he speaks at the end of his videos is just "wow". The best thing is not all the words even sound good together, making it harder to actually say the words that fast.
Nice vid, thanks! An idea for an episode, dunno how outreaching taht will be but, im pretty much interested in. TCP/IP SYN,ACK and the whole TCP+UDP flow, with sequence and data packets :)
Probably not. Remember linus goes through products like candy while the rest of us generally don't have to deal with the sheer volume of products he does. I've only ever had coil whine once in 20+ years of using computers and even then I had to pump a ton of volts into my GPU and OC the snot of out it before it started whining really bad.
So glad this video broke it down for dummies. My new Acer (got it in December) started whining and it scared the shit out of me. I pray they'll take it back/replace it but we'll see.
Hey techi, great video! Got a question for you. Why does my computer start whirring up really loud when I'm gaming or processing a video? I've flipped the switch on the back of the PC from 300 to 325 Volts and all it did was shut off the breaker for that side of the house. Is there a such thing as a compensator to prevent that from happening?
If you hear coil whine, first turn on V SYNC. Coil whine is often caused by an extremely high FPS count- like during start up logos in a game or in light weight games (Halo: CE)!
@@BMcAuley123 Yes, I saw the age of the comment previously, but holy cow... what a coincidence! no coil whine presented all those years on the 980? I'm currently still rockin 970. Since 2014. Team Maxwell! :D
Coil whine is normal, people. Especially when you get very high fps like in menus or stuff, 1000+fps WILL make your card whine. If it's bad even during idle it still is not dangerous, just RMA the card if it bothers you.
Weird. I asked my Computer Science professor (who also has a background in physics) about the matter, and he said it was electromagnetic signals being emitted from the GPU itself and causing interference for tracers. He also told me that if I wanted to stop it, I should get a PCI sound card, put it in the lowest slot, and mount a thick piece of metal in between the GPU and sound card.
skyzefawlun I haven't been watching videos, but I have read a few written reviews, Newegg reviews, etc. Never heard any mention of coil whine. And are you really trying to suggest that Nvidia is the one with a problem lol? AMD has been famous for this in the not so distant past...
YaY, another Techquickie that taught me some stuff, that's two now \o/ Thanks guys. Could you submit some photos to shutterstock of decent components though, dem PSUs bro, do you even modular? :D
My Cooler Master PSU had a nasty coilwhine with dual 6970s. and Linus was right, their RMA rep said they wouldn't help. So I was stuck with it, but went out and bought a 'PC Power and Cooling' (silencer mkII) PSU and it has performed silently through three graphic card generations. 670, 770, and 980. Cooler Master can make great cases, but maybe their PSU's just aren't as good.
What was the model of the PSU? Because CM doesn't make PSUs, they just sell them. IMO the only reliable PSUs from CM are made by Seasonic. They have had PSUs from multiple of OEMs in the past so ofc some of them are worse than others.
***** That PSU is made by Enhance Electronics. XFX doesn't make PSUs, Corsair doesn't make PSUs, Rosewill doesn't make PSUs. Neither does EVGA, Fractal Design, Thermaltake, NZXT, Nexus or BeQuiet. And the list goes on and on. There are only handful of OEMs that make PSUs and they are sold under different brands. There are many PSUs from different brands that are actually 100% identical internally and different price tags. This is how the tech industry works. It's cheaper to order from an OEM than setting up own production lines. Seasonic is probably the biggest OEM on the PSU market.
I'm pissed, my month old 970 with acx 2.0 has coil whine and it just started out of nowhere, as soon as I opened gmod this morning it started :( and to add insult to injury its my fucking birthday!
using mechanic grade silicone (liquid gasket) is heat resistant and inert making it perfect for dolloping onto coil fully dampening a lot of the whine. but not all. be careful near moving parts not dropping any onto fans etc. if you do let it harden its easier to remove from fans etc.
I bought a Corsair CX600 v.2 power supply about 2 years ago, did not have coil whine for a few weeks then it started to whine. The interesting part is that it went away in a few weeks, it was only noticeable during the night when I was in bed and even then, it could be stopped by switching it off via the button at the back. But as I said the whine went away, no problems since.
Hi Linus! An idea for another episode of "As fast as possible" would be to talk about CPU Parking. I think that would be interesting for alot of people! :)
I purchased a EVGA 780 in February 2014. It had terrible Coil Whine. Instead of RMAing the card through Newegg I decided to try a few things before starting the RMA process. I was due for a PSU upgrade with the purchase of a power hungry card. Coming from a Antec Truepower 550W PSU, I upgraded to an XFX 800w Gold (see: rebranded Seasonic) that nearly eliminated my coil while. I also did a FurMark 24-hour burn-in test. After the 24-hour burn in test, I had completely eliminated my coil while. With the 140mm Noctua fans in my Corsair 300R case, it runs in near silence while maintaining 65C on my graphics card under heavy loads. Sometimes coil while can be fix, sometimes it can't. I am not responsible for you torching your GPU for following my experiences.
Quick Tip: when identifying coil whine, listen through a paper towel tube to nail down the exact coil producing noise. In some cases I've had success in reducing whine by using a little bit of hot glue on the coils. Try at your own risk because this _will_ void the warranty, but it worked for me.
I've lukily never had coil whine in my PC but my router/modem on the other hand emits a very high pitched sound that becomes louder whenever it's under heavy load. Even worst though is the modems power brick but luckily I managed to dampen that enough to be inaudible from more than a meter away using a towel. Yeah I know it's probably not the best of ideas to cover a warm/hot power brick with a towel but so far (for the past 2+ years) it has worked without issues.
I think it is still a pretty rare phenomenon for people to notice due to the majority of users having relatively loud fans in their rigs that drown out most coil noise. Another place you can get whine from is large electrolytic capacitors due to similar reasons. Capacitors can be charged and discharged rapidly enough that they vibrate due to internal electromagnetic fields causing them to oscillate. The only place I ever hear annoying sounds from any of my computers are the PCI express buss interference in on-board sound which is why all my computers (except laptop) have external DAC/amps.
Not gigabytes fault. Happens to all manufactures. You can't prevent it. It's an issue that might occur with all electronic products that use Coils and Capacitors.
I've only ever heard coil whine when the framerate goes super high. Like certain game loading screens or menu's that don't cap the framerate and let it get up to 3000 fps. Never noticed it otherwise.
I RMA'd my 8800 GTX to BFG for Coil Whine, the two replacements I got had it worse, and in the end they ended up sending me a brand new 8800 Ultra. No coil whine, and an amazing upgrade. I miss BFG so much. They were the best GPU manufacturer I ever dealt with.
Coil whine is mostly due to improper design of the VRMs. If not designed correctly, the VRMs can self oscillate when at certain amounts of load. Also, the whine might be from a fan, if it is PWM controlled. (Even a CPU fan controlled by the motherboard can whine)
In my lad there were a few HEC power supplies that had the coil whine whenever they were plugged in. Of course, the lab is a noisy environment with hundreds of PCs and a couple of servers, so I didn't notice the noise until I took the PCs with these PSUs out. I'm concerned about reliability of said PSUs, and the damage this phenomenon causes... if any.
You probably have heard it at some point but it is rarely as bad as the example they used in the video. Unless it's really bad the fans and other stuff giving off noise are usually louder then a little coil whine. I've only personally had one GPU ever have a high pitched whine and that was only when I was pumping a ton of voltage in it.
devilmikey00 Never, I built my first PC a little over a year ago and none of the 3 GPU's that have been in it have eve made that noise and they had been overclocked to hell.
Coil whining is not due to resonance per se. It is due to the mechanical vibrations caused by the varying electromagnetic field forces exerted on the coil components (winding and ferormagnetic core). The frequency of these vibrations is the frequency of the changing of the amplitude of the electromagnetic forces which is equal to the frequency of changing of the magnetic field which is created by the flow of the current through the windings and which changes according to the load (the gpu load). Typically within each frame the magnitude of the current undergoes at least one increase-decrease cycle/spike. The period of these current increase-decrease cycles is therefore tied to the frame time, or in other words, the frequency these current cycles (and the resulting coil compoenent vibrations) is tied to the frame rate. For 60fps and 1:1 spike:frame time correlation you would have a variation frequency of 60Hz which of course falls witin the audible range of 20-20KHz and that's why we hear the resulting coil component vibrations. Also the higher the frame rate the higher the frequency and the higher the pitch thus the term 'whining'. Sure resonance MAY also happen to occur too on top of that, which will amplify the amplitude of the resulting oscillations and augment the issue even further. But reasonance is not the underlying reason for the coil whining phenomenon.
My Seasonic PSU developed it after a few months. I made it better by taking the lid off it and tapping all the coils and capacitors lightly, just enough to nudge them. Sound dampening your case also helps reduce the noise a LOT.
Hirmuli I know it has been a while, but my girlfriend's Motorola Turbo charger makes a constant pitch. I didn't notice it unless it's almost silent though.
Tip: He mentions that you need to really get in close with your ears to find the source of the whine in the computer, but I learned some time back that you can just get an empty paper towel roll and hold it up to your ear and point the other end at the various components in your pc to find the source.
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I just set my 290x's fan at 100%.
I can't hear any coil whine past my 747 jet engine!
it looks like im entering the 25th dimension
@ I've had an HP X360, a couple of Dell XPS 13s, a Lenovo Yoga 920 and a Lenovo X1 Carbon. The HP comes bottom of the pile for both form factor and customer service. The X1 Carbon is by far the best with the XPS 13 a close second. The Yoga and X360 have big footprints and are heavier enough to feel significant when walking around with them in your hand.
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I've had three different xps13s, a lenovo, an Asus, and a spectre x360.
The x360 is easily the best one I've owned.
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i was in the market for a HP Spectre but after using it in-store, it was a hardpass…that screen bounce was intense. Very nice looking piece of machinery though
damn that comment aged like fine whine
@KRI KRi which brand? i'll be sure to avoid them.
@@Layarion you can get coil whine on any gpu if it's pushed to it's max go on a old game and uncap the frame rate
This is a really GOOD explanation, as an electrical engineer, I feel completely pleased with how well you managed the subject Linus, awesome job!
Stare at linus' neck, doesn't he look like an animated character?
Holy shit
#linusrobottips
It does! XD
Can't unsee
What the fuck. Literally cant unsee
Techquickie Thanks for featuring my member review! That was my first ever review, and having it on a LTT video makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside :)
How relevant since the new ps5 is experiencing this....... thanks youtube
Does yours coil whine? Mine luckily doesnt 😅
Rtx 3060 ti 2
@@crimson3417 3070 too
3080
You must've been living in the future since you had a PS5 when the PS4 was barely out.
As a tip, you can often find which component is causing the noise by touching it lightly. Often the sound will change as you are restricting the movement of the component, which in turn means that it can vibrate less, causing a slightly different pitch
Don't do that, you will get electrocuted!
Just don't open a power supply and go around touching things in there with your fingers. Bare metal heatsinks can carry high voltage and deliver a shock. Things outside the power supply generally aren't greater than 12 volts and "should" be safe to touch.
Don't do that you might die. They carry extremely high voltage.
Linus... you're the STAR man.. your videos are flawless!
1: Buy 10m HDMI cables and USB Repeaters
2: Place your PC in another room
3: Run all the fans at max since you can't hear them anyway
4: ???
5: Profit!
Buy Bose QC35II
Hey. That's not such a bad idea.
@@TheyWhomTheGodsDetest Future
Cancelled sequels
In a May 2016 conference call to analysts, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer stated, "We could see doing five or six or seven."[138][139] On March 22, 2017, Haim Saban said that he and Lionsgate already have a six-film story arc.[140] However, in May 2017, Forbes noted that due to the underwhelming performance of the film in most markets, it was unlikely any sequels would be made.[7] Later that same month, it was reported that the sequels could still be made thanks to record-breaking merchandise sales.[141] Prior to the home release of the movie, Israelite confirmed that talks were taking place regarding a sequel[142] and that he would like to include Lord Zedd in it.[143] The possibility of a sequel increased once more in early July 2017 when it was reported that the film held the number one spot in home media sales and rentals in its first week.[144] In August 2017, Saban abandoned its trademark for the film's logo.[145] A Saban Brands representative stated in October 2017 that "Power Rangers continues to own and renew hundreds of trademark registrations worldwide, including for the 2017 movie logo. The trademark registration process is very nuanced, and the status of the single application has no bearing on our ownership of or the future plans for Power Rangers. The franchise remains as strong and enthusiastic about its future as ever."[146] On May 1, 2018, Saban Brands agreed to sell Power Rangers and other entertainment assets to Hasbro for US$522 million in cash and stock with the sale expected to closed in the second quarter.[147]
On August 8, 2018, Hasbro announced they would be working with a film studio to develop a follow-up to Power Rangers.[148] In February 2019, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner announced in a financial call that Hasbro was in talks with Paramount Pictures to produce the sequel.[149]
Planned reboot
On July 11, 2019, in the AMA thread on the Stranger Things subreddit, Dacre Montgomery revealed that the studio had plans to produce a reboot, without him and the rest of the cast and the director returning.[150] On December 13, 2019, it was reported that Jonathan Entwistle is in early negotiations to direct the reboot, with Patrick Burleigh being set to write the script. The plot will reportedly involve time travel and will be set in the 1990s.[151]
Fuk Yu Bad fukin idea, enjoy your input lag delay
Justin Hasting i don’t think so. There has to be a delay
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Linus is better than EMINEM.
LINUS MODE ENGAGED
Md Ray Eminem has no talent
LYRICS COMING AT YA AT SUPERSONIC SPEED!
Not sure how Linus talking fast has anything to do with that shitty "rapper". Eminem whines more in his songs than the coils do lmao.
I have never really understood defragmenting, so a video on that would be great!
No matter what computer related subject I turn to youtube to investigate - Linus is there to explain it to me. :)
I am TRULY grateful for this video, thought my brand new computer was a goner today and then found this.
You can use a straw to help isolate noise and help you find coil whine. Especially if you have a large, thick-walled straw, that's also flexible. It really helps when trying to hunt down strange noises from your computer. The size of the straw (the opening) helps get more of the sound into the straw. The thickness of the walls helps isolate noises. And flexibility helps you get into strange positions. But even a basic disposable straw can still prove to be an advantage.
Buy a medical stethoscope. They are not expensive. It's literally just flexible air tubes that conduct sound to your ears. It also has pads that comfortably fit into your ears like earbuds, without the potential risk of inserting a rigid plastic straw too deep inside your ear and damaging your eardrum.
The more common knowledge coil whine is, and the more it's talked about, the better. Great video.
9 years later still pretty rough
Loved the topic of this video,seriously,thanks for covering it!
Wow, i was kinda confused about the term "Coil Whine", and from the moment on you explained what it was, and played the sound in your video, i must say that i've never in my life had any component doing that o:
I'm glad i haven't had to experience this, it's kinda creeping me out real bad :D
In my experience there are 2 things that can help with coil whine, those are: 1-turning v-sync ON to lock FPS to 60 (30, depending the game). 2- play/run the game that where the coil whine is the worst, i have noticed that enventually the coil whine reduces
Or you can limit Fps to 45 sth it depends on Rivatuner
hey linus, here are some suggestions for your next video
a video about:
-Chokes, diodes, capacitors, mosfets & more
OR
-kernels(Linux, windows NT, Unix etc),
OR
-firmware
OR
-wattage, voltage, amperage, ohms & more
OR
-VRM, Digi VRM & Digi+ VRM
OR
-Filesystems (fat32, ntfs, ext4 etc)
OR
-Contrast ratio (this is just a worst case scenario suggestion)
i'm not giving up until you do a video of my suggestions >__>
I second these.
In particular VRM/MOSFETs on motherboards are one of the most important parts on them and knowledge about adequate cooling for them is lacking.( and the AMD crowd would benefit most.)
www.overclock.net/a/about-vrms-mosfets-motherboard-safety-with-high-tdp-processors
I normaly just leave the video when the sponsor spot comes... but when i heard cooler master i did a 180 turnaround and continued watching
tl:dr it was worth it
my computer isn't whining it is buzzing, like an electrical buzzing that sounds almost like a cricket.. It only buzzes when I open a game up or watch videos and instantly stops if I minimize the game. I don't think it's a fan issue because a fan doesn't instantly stop/start slow down/speed up - fans are gradual.
- now it is doing it whenever I move the mouse on the desktop... wonderful.....
@Badr Ahmed lol i have the same problem but dont know the fix
Maybe something related to the ICH/SouthBridge?
Means you're PSU is likely not good enough
@@Rudxain lol, nah man it's because the powerload goes up when gaming! The GPU is the most power hungry item in the PC!
I went from a 650w psu and a 1660s with no whine, to a 2070 super and here the whine in the power supply as soon as I amp up the power
did I hear a hitmarker @1:46 LMAO
+Darcy Ferrier that was interference.
+Darcy Ferrier For a second I seriously thought my new laptop gone wrong lol...
Plus another sound at 2:40
+Darcy Ferrier XD
+Darcy Ferrier And his shirt, it looks like he has the Faze logo on it xd
No that was definitely a hitmarker
Who's here after their PS5 started coil whining?
All PS5s have coil whine, its normal. All PS4 Pros had that too.
Me
@@Ouail98 overall coilwhine is normal, people panic quickly without searching it up
@@King-gv4lg Yeah, but i do understand their concerns since they said PS5 would be dead quiet. Some units have a high pitch coil whine.
@@Ouail98 gpus also have the same claims of being quiet tho, guess coil whine will always exist. Heck the coil whiniest of all gpus are the latest models actually 2070, 2080, 3070 being always mentioned
Most smooth transition from the video to the ad. Ever.
I love that this is literally @FitmentIndustries but a computer version of it haha. You guys even somewhat sound alike. Thanks for the help Linus! Just dropped $1k on a new GPU and was a bit worried when I noticed 3 days later this little buzzing sound tabbing in and out of games. I guess I don't need to stress!
0:03 i love your "well" :DDD
Just found this many years later while trying to figure out why my 4090 is making a noise, never heard of this before but now i know a lot about it…unfortunately. Thankfully my pc is in a case under a desk so isnt that much of an issue, but after building the thing i was sure worried and thought i had broken something.
same. my Asus Rog Strix Scar III Laptop is making coil whine (it didn't had coil whine for first 2 years) i think i found something for my laptop tho and i will give it a try. For my laptop many users reported that it is the CPU intel i7 8750H and intel i7 9750H (mine)
- *Edit:* It's my CPU. I disabled C1E core c-state (C1E drops core to maximum efficiency frequency) and the coil whine completely stoped. what the f 🙃
you can try to capping fps ingame.
it usually helps a lot with whining if your card is not trying to push for 1000 fps.
i also noticed that my 3080 stopped whining on its own.
as if the coil set in better or something.
@@spatrk6634 I'm sorta experiencing this. Low hum, very low but more noticeable when I open a game and the GPU works. Kinda like an electrical hum, static-y. Capped my games to 60, kinda helped.
@@engenheirocaldasodocumenta6172 power supply can also be the issue.
people sometimes confused the whine from power supply to be GPU because they are close together.
@@spatrk6634 I mean, as long as it's not damaging I can definitely live with it. Which it seems to not be damaging or harmful, just annoying according to Mr google.
Sealing the coils from the outside world does help, good designs often feature coil shielding.
I got a new PS4 due to mild coil whine, and it did solve it.
There are several small, and very old, hardware tweaks that can be done to eliminate whine entirely. First, isolate the component with a small directional microphone, which you can throw together with a small 12-inch tube, small slits down the sides, encased in something fluffy and noise baffling. Then, either epoxy, small em shielding, or em altering.
Epoxy circuit encapsulation can be applied to a specific troublesome component. While it is the best solution, it can be tricky, and requires experience.
em shielding usually just means a conductive (and insulated) mesh. Conductively connected to the computer casing at opposite points, and positioned between the offending component and the other two high-em components (GPU, CPU, PSU), this CAN reduce or eliminate the issue if it is being amplified by magnetic resonance. Before putting in the effort, you can find out if this is the case by testing with a VERY small and weak magnet, no closer than 8-inches to your computer case. If the whine changes pitch in response the the magnet approaching, you've got a resonance issue that can be resolved with em-shielding. Just be VERY careful with this method, and don't use a strong magnet, or get it any closer to your case.
I wonder how many people have found this video after 250+ watts cards kinda became a norm after 2020 since coil whine becomes so much more prominent with these high powered cards. I just got a TUF 6900 XT and I thought it was faulty only to realise it's noise is pretty normal especially with an overall quiet PC. A guy I know has a Zotac 3080 at that has an audible whine as well.
However Linus didn't mention 2 things that can reduce the whine. One is limiting FPS in gaming and undervolting or even underclocking your card. All of these result in less power consumption and stress on the card especially if you combine all of these together. Of course underclocking will result in a slight loss in performance but that's the price we have to pay.
My 6900 XT's whine is much quieter at a 2300 MHZ core clock compared to it's out of the box 2500-ish. I didn't really experiment but I'm pretty sure I can undervolt even further at this clock.
Oh and I've heard that coil whine can get quiter after a few weeks of heavy usage.
Thanks for sharing. If even TUF GPUs have coil whine, there is no hope.
I miss this old, straight talking format. Also crabs.
I own a Mac and game on Xbox, yet I watch your videos religiously.
Thanks for explaining it very well.
iPhone 7 hissing as fast as possible
That is also coilwhine
I find wireless mic buzz to be more annoying than coil whine. :-P
I don't actually care about the video, just wanted to compliment the thumbnail. Genius.
thanks for that valuable info. thought something was close to its end in my pc now i know better.
An easy way to put a stop to coil whine would be to, at least in my case with my GTX970, enable v-sync. With a GTX970, which is a pretty powerful, decent card, you're generally going to be running whatever game you happen to be playing at 60 - post 60 fps anyway, so getting rid of that extra screen-tearing is just icing on the cake :)
v sync
Dr. Strange: you call it _tearing_ but I call it _seeing through the fabric of the Time-Space Dimension_ , even if it's just half a future frame.
Saying there's not much you can do about it once you've got it isn't exactly true. I was having GPU coil whine on some older games recently. I started up fraps and noticed the frame rate was insane, over 160 fps. I activated Vsync and the coil whine instantly stopped. For some reason the GPU was being told to operate nearly full bore, but there was almost no "resistance" because the game was old and not demanding at all. Once I was able to regulate it with vsync it stopped.
but whenever you play a game that is about as demanding as the game you played before, you will hear coil whine.
***** Not sure what you mean, I've gotten coil whine on around 3 games I can remember. Vsync fixed it in all of those cases, I've got about 120 games in my Steam library and only those 3 had the coil whine. Also if the game for some reason doesn't have a vsync option, you can always enable it through your video card driver.
Nathaniel Graham I'm glad it worked out for you. I'm just saying that the problem isn't exactly fixed. What causes the whine is still there. Your GPU simply isn't being used to the degree which would cause the coils to whine. It may never affect you again, depending on the games you play on the future.
***** In my case the coil whine is caused by extremely high framerates, the only specific example I remember is darksiders 2 making the whole when it reached 300 fps. I halfway get what you're trying to say but since when playing modern games at full load it doesn't make the noise, and when playing darksiders 2 (or the other 2 games) I can turn on vsync to stop the whine, I would consider that the problem is fixed. I also think that at a certain point most video cards will make some coil noise, it's just that most of the time the framerate has to be very very high. All coils will whine at a certain frequency, if that frequency happens to happen when the card is producing 60 fps then you've got a problem.
Nathaniel Graham *whine not whole haha
changed my audio mode to chipmunk and it makes this guy sound hilarious! love his videos btw not hating
I haven't had coil whine with my newest build. but I also went farther then most are going to. On top of buying an AX760 platinum PSU, I rewired the receptacle where all my computer related things would run off, into it's own 20A breaker, even adding an isolated ground to reduce interference.
who is here after ps5 coil whine issue
me
You caught me
All of we are HAHAHA
Yep. It's so annoying...
yup, its here to stay
1:46 Hit marker?
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I think Linus would be the best rapper in the world. The speed in which he speaks at the end of his videos is just "wow".
The best thing is not all the words even sound good together, making it harder to actually say the words that fast.
Nice vid, thanks!
An idea for an episode, dunno how outreaching taht will be but, im pretty much interested in.
TCP/IP SYN,ACK and the whole TCP+UDP flow, with sequence and data packets :)
OMG...His tongue is faster than a high end GPU. :O
LoL
+Paolo Ibayan >Implying he's good at "Cunnilinus".
+Paolo Ibayan his tongue overclock is good for benchmarking but probably too aggressive for 24/7 usage.
🙄😏
@@AbyssmalAngel LOL
Also am I the only one who has NEVER had any electronics with Coil Whine?
i've never had coil whine, but i've seen it happen.
Same here
Probably not. Remember linus goes through products like candy while the rest of us generally don't have to deal with the sheer volume of products he does. I've only ever had coil whine once in 20+ years of using computers and even then I had to pump a ton of volts into my GPU and OC the snot of out it before it started whining really bad.
Open up a simple game, let it run for 1000fps (the more the better) and then say again that you never heard anything. :D
You're not the only one.
So glad this video broke it down for dummies. My new Acer (got it in December) started whining and it scared the shit out of me.
I pray they'll take it back/replace it but we'll see.
My friend's computer did this. We all thought it was the speakers, but this video helped me see the light!
I thought "coil whine" referred to the sound of Linus' voice?
same
Hey techi, great video! Got a question for you. Why does my computer start whirring up really loud when I'm gaming or processing a video? I've flipped the switch on the back of the PC from 300 to 325 Volts and all it did was shut off the breaker for that side of the house. Is there a such thing as a compensator to prevent that from happening?
If you hear coil whine, first turn on V SYNC. Coil whine is often caused by an extremely high FPS count- like during start up logos in a game or in light weight games (Halo: CE)!
my 1080 sounds like a high pitched squirrel getting tortured with a 1000c knife
My 980 had some pretty annoying coil whine, but it seems to have gotten better over time. :)
I wonder what caused it to stabilize.
@@Pax.RUclips I wrote this 8 years ago. 😅 My update to you is shortly after this the card went pop and broke. So this might be involved.
@@BMcAuley123 Yes, I saw the age of the comment previously, but holy cow... what a coincidence! no coil whine presented all those years on the 980? I'm currently still rockin 970. Since 2014. Team Maxwell! :D
Coil whine is normal, people. Especially when you get very high fps like in menus or stuff, 1000+fps WILL make your card whine. If it's bad even during idle it still is not dangerous, just RMA the card if it bothers you.
The last 20 seconds were the best Linus I've ever seen.
I never noticed the noise before this video. Thanks Linus.
Weird. I asked my Computer Science professor (who also has a background in physics) about the matter, and he said it was electromagnetic signals being emitted from the GPU itself and causing interference for tracers. He also told me that if I wanted to stop it, I should get a PCI sound card, put it in the lowest slot, and mount a thick piece of metal in between the GPU and sound card.
@Cemil wanna know it too!!!
TF?
Well
lol so pretty much stay away from every 970
What? I haven't read anything about coil whine in 970's. My 980 certainly doesn't have any.
***** i know but literally everyone is having problems with 970s right now
My brother has a 970 OC and it's quiet.
It's the lottery man.
all be it AMD is more prone.
Thomas Riddle Really? Almost the entire related video list is vids of 970s whining. Hmm, they're all Nvidia cards. I wonder what that says....
skyzefawlun I haven't been watching videos, but I have read a few written reviews, Newegg reviews, etc. Never heard any mention of coil whine. And are you really trying to suggest that Nvidia is the one with a problem lol? AMD has been famous for this in the not so distant past...
First time Ive heard of this. Cool Linus, thanks for teaching me.Now I have another thing to neerd my friends crazy with :D
YaY, another Techquickie that taught me some stuff, that's two now \o/
Thanks guys.
Could you submit some photos to shutterstock of decent components though, dem PSUs bro, do you even modular? :D
My Cooler Master PSU had a nasty coilwhine with dual 6970s. and Linus was right, their RMA rep said they wouldn't help. So I was stuck with it, but went out and bought a 'PC Power and Cooling' (silencer mkII) PSU and it has performed silently through three graphic card generations. 670, 770, and 980.
Cooler Master can make great cases, but maybe their PSU's just aren't as good.
What was the model of the PSU? Because CM doesn't make PSUs, they just sell them. IMO the only reliable PSUs from CM are made by Seasonic. They have had PSUs from multiple of OEMs in the past so ofc some of them are worse than others.
WayZHC Excuse me? I have a silent pro gold. I'm almost sure cooler master made it.
*****
That PSU is made by Enhance Electronics.
XFX doesn't make PSUs, Corsair doesn't make PSUs, Rosewill doesn't make PSUs. Neither does EVGA, Fractal Design, Thermaltake, NZXT, Nexus or BeQuiet. And the list goes on and on. There are only handful of OEMs that make PSUs and they are sold under different brands. There are many PSUs from different brands that are actually 100% identical internally and different price tags. This is how the tech industry works. It's cheaper to order from an OEM than setting up own production lines. Seasonic is probably the biggest OEM on the PSU market.
WayZHC Can I buy it directly from them?
*****
Well, you might be able to get them directly from an OEM, but that would mean you have to buy like 500+ of them at once.
I'm pissed, my month old 970 with acx 2.0 has coil whine and it just started out of nowhere, as soon as I opened gmod this morning it started :( and to add insult to injury its my fucking birthday!
That sucks :/ it would drive me crazy. Hope it goes away soon.
*****
thanks :D
Are you sure it's coming from the 970?
DaGleese
yup
try capping your fps to 60 in your graphics drivers.
using mechanic grade silicone (liquid gasket) is heat resistant and inert making it perfect for dolloping onto coil fully dampening a lot of the whine. but not all. be careful near moving parts not dropping any onto fans etc. if you do let it harden its easier to remove from fans etc.
I bought a Corsair CX600 v.2 power supply about 2 years ago, did not have coil whine for a few weeks then it started to whine. The interesting part is that it went away in a few weeks, it was only noticeable during the night when I was in bed and even then, it could be stopped by switching it off via the button at the back.
But as I said the whine went away, no problems since.
Hi Linus! An idea for another episode of "As fast as possible" would be to talk about CPU Parking. I think that would be interesting for alot of people! :)
no
@@yuyukosfaithfulservant Opinion noted and ignored.
@@Gold171 im joking dumbass
@@yuyukosfaithfulservant Same lol
@@Gold171 ok tbh i didn't know that
This white background is making my plasma coil whine.
My super conduck has many wine. Delicious wine. And the worlds finest cheese.
Does anyone know if adjusting your core clock or changing the wattage of your graphics card would stop or at least make coil whine less audible?
I find that re-seating your graphics cards heatsink can fix the issue. Often bubbles of air between the card and thermal tape cause the sound.
I have a little Linus in my power supply
I consider swapping it to a more Luke-y power supply.
My fucking mouse makes coil whine.
***** no I pored water in the mouse.
skase re malaka
if you're still having issues try plugging your mouse into the front i/o. helped me with my razer mamba t:e w/ 6700k
AnnaChanel100 giati tosa nevra?
i've had this in the past with some gfx cards, its nice to know what caused it now!
i just figured it was 'the electricity'
I purchased a EVGA 780 in February 2014. It had terrible Coil Whine. Instead of RMAing the card through Newegg I decided to try a few things before starting the RMA process.
I was due for a PSU upgrade with the purchase of a power hungry card. Coming from a Antec Truepower 550W PSU, I upgraded to an XFX 800w Gold (see: rebranded Seasonic) that nearly eliminated my coil while. I also did a FurMark 24-hour burn-in test. After the 24-hour burn in test, I had completely eliminated my coil while. With the 140mm Noctua fans in my Corsair 300R case, it runs in near silence while maintaining 65C on my graphics card under heavy loads.
Sometimes coil while can be fix, sometimes it can't. I am not responsible for you torching your GPU for following my experiences.
0:59 I got this static noise on my HP Laptop, only when I move the muse (only.. lol)
u mean mouse???
Recently got a 970 and sadly I can hear the coil :/
oh #firstworldproblems
Totaly lost it when he started explaining what coil whine sounded like. Laughed my ass off :P
Quick Tip: when identifying coil whine, listen through a paper towel tube to nail down the exact coil producing noise. In some cases I've had success in reducing whine by using a little bit of hot glue on the coils. Try at your own risk because this _will_ void the warranty, but it worked for me.
Nothing more fun than voiding warranties on decades old electronics
Here on behalf of my new PS5
i get coil whine when i play this video
I've lukily never had coil whine in my PC but my router/modem on the other hand emits a very high pitched sound that becomes louder whenever it's under heavy load. Even worst though is the modems power brick but luckily I managed to dampen that enough to be inaudible from more than a meter away using a towel. Yeah I know it's probably not the best of ideas to cover a warm/hot power brick with a towel but so far (for the past 2+ years) it has worked without issues.
Just a suggestion, video on DDoS? Since a lot of people seem misinformed about it
Can't believe coil whine still exists :(
I think it is still a pretty rare phenomenon for people to notice due to the majority of users having relatively loud fans in their rigs that drown out most coil noise. Another place you can get whine from is large electrolytic capacitors due to similar reasons. Capacitors can be charged and discharged rapidly enough that they vibrate due to internal electromagnetic fields causing them to oscillate. The only place I ever hear annoying sounds from any of my computers are the PCI express buss interference in on-board sound which is why all my computers (except laptop) have external DAC/amps.
Well, although product quality affects coil whine, on some level you can't stop it, because PHYSICS!
A lot of the new 970's and 980's have coil whine
Try enabling vsync or a FPS limiter that usually solves the problem.
I spent $230 on a gigabyte 960 g1 gamers edition card and it slapped me in the back with coil whine after 1 year.
FRIK YOU GIGABYTE
Not gigabytes fault. Happens to all manufactures. You can't prevent it. It's an issue that might occur with all electronic products that use Coils and Capacitors.
A320M-DS2 same issue :/
I've only ever heard coil whine when the framerate goes super high. Like certain game loading screens or menu's that don't cap the framerate and let it get up to 3000 fps. Never noticed it otherwise.
I RMA'd my 8800 GTX to BFG for Coil Whine, the two replacements I got had it worse, and in the end they ended up sending me a brand new 8800 Ultra. No coil whine, and an amazing upgrade. I miss BFG so much. They were the best GPU manufacturer I ever dealt with.
have a 970 with this annoyance
asus turbo?
The Fresh Peddler - Beats For People Who Hate Radio nope a Palit but most 970 have this problem
did you get your $30 for their lying bullshit?
just bought an evga 970 and now i have this fucking whine coming from the psu...
wades623 no its us only and its not $30 for the coil whine its for the 0.5GB Rant
actually you can make it stop by limiting the FPS to 60.
@@StereotypedFilms It is if your monitor doesn't support higher FPS.
Coil whine is mostly due to improper design of the VRMs. If not designed correctly, the VRMs can self oscillate when at certain amounts of load.
Also, the whine might be from a fan, if it is PWM controlled. (Even a CPU fan controlled by the motherboard can whine)
In my lad there were a few HEC power supplies that had the coil whine whenever they were plugged in.
Of course, the lab is a noisy environment with hundreds of PCs and a couple of servers, so I didn't notice the noise until I took the PCs with these PSUs out. I'm concerned about reliability of said PSUs, and the damage this phenomenon causes... if any.
I've never even heard of coil whine.
You probably have heard it at some point but it is rarely as bad as the example they used in the video. Unless it's really bad the fans and other stuff giving off noise are usually louder then a little coil whine. I've only personally had one GPU ever have a high pitched whine and that was only when I was pumping a ton of voltage in it.
devilmikey00 Never, I built my first PC a little over a year ago and none of the 3 GPU's that have been in it have eve made that noise and they had been overclocked to hell.
? Is it normal that I've never ever ever had this or heard this?
Yes it is. Not all components whine.
or... you might not be playing intense games. gtx 970s n 1070s usually whine.
Coil whining is not due to resonance per se. It is due to the mechanical vibrations caused by the varying electromagnetic field forces exerted on the coil components (winding and ferormagnetic core). The frequency of these vibrations is the frequency of the changing of the amplitude of the electromagnetic forces which is equal to the frequency of changing of the magnetic field which is created by the flow of the current through the windings and which changes according to the load (the gpu load). Typically within each frame the magnitude of the current undergoes at least one increase-decrease cycle/spike. The period of these current increase-decrease cycles is therefore tied to the frame time, or in other words, the frequency these current cycles (and the resulting coil compoenent vibrations) is tied to the frame rate. For 60fps and 1:1 spike:frame time correlation you would have a variation frequency of 60Hz which of course falls witin the audible range of 20-20KHz and that's why we hear the resulting coil component vibrations. Also the higher the frame rate the higher the frequency and the higher the pitch thus the term 'whining'. Sure resonance MAY also happen to occur too on top of that, which will amplify the amplitude of the resulting oscillations and augment the issue even further. But reasonance is not the underlying reason for the coil whining phenomenon.
Linus tech is everywhere on RUclips and I love it.
The 90's called, they want their mens ear rings back
Kille78 bro...have you ever considered being a comedian? You're killing it!
I came here after PS5 have coil whine.
Ah , fu*ck you then I guess 🤗
@@Zeegoku1007 lmao
My Seasonic PSU developed it after a few months. I made it better by taking the lid off it and tapping all the coils and capacitors lightly, just enough to nudge them. Sound dampening your case also helps reduce the noise a LOT.
Holy shit please don't do this anyone who reads this lmao
You will actually die
Turn on the V-Sync worked for me
Can coil whine damage anything? My computer kinda whines a little when playing games.
Nope your pc is safe :)
good. At one point in time i thought my 780 was frying haha
Douglas Gardner lol
its a very quite whine so im not to worried. Nothing compared to some videos i've seen on youtube.
***** :o you're here too?
does anyone else have this problem with a phone charger? my note 2 charger makes painful ~15khz noise
Hirmuli I know it has been a while, but my girlfriend's Motorola Turbo charger makes a constant pitch. I didn't notice it unless it's almost silent though.
I remember my old GeForce 7800GS... Flying through clouds in GTA San Andreas caused the card to sound like singing birds lol
Good old hot glue helped.
Tip: He mentions that you need to really get in close with your ears to find the source of the whine in the computer, but I learned some time back that you can just get an empty paper towel roll and hold it up to your ear and point the other end at the various components in your pc to find the source.