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Cricket Noise from PC

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joel_90

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Hey guys, so yesterday out of nowhere my pc started making strange cricket noises (no hardware upgrades or anything done), very rythmical like a pulsing heartbeat, it´s not the typical common coil whine noise I´ve heard, but instead very much like one single cricket singing. I believe it comes from the PSU but I can´t be sure it´s difficult to isolate, I´m pretty sure it´s not the HDDs.

It sounds almost identical to this:



Is there a way to test each individual component? is it safe to unplug the GPU power cable and start the computer to see if it´s the GPU..? It could also be the watercooling fan on the cpu I guess. Could I unplug it for a couple of seconds and quickly turn off the computer just to see if thats the one causing it? The noise never changes, it´s always there, on very rare occassions the sound is lower though, and I tried disabling stuff in the bios c1 - c2- c3 and all those features including the power saving processor idle thing with the regedit workaround, nothing worked.

My specs -

GPU: nvidia geforce 970
motherboard: gigabyte z77x-UD5H
cpu: intel core i5 3570K
PSU: XFX brand
 
Any reason why you can't manually stop the fans one-by-one and eliminate them as a source?

Personally, I think you might be dealing with coil whine. I had an early Radeon that, instead of a proper 'whine', made a 'tick - tick - tick' noise that I thought was a fan at first. A finger in the fan as a test proved that assumption wrong.
 
I'd put a female cricket in there to tempt it out.

Yes you can cut the power to a fan momentarily with no issues.
As pointed out you can stop a fan with a finger or piece of cloth for a very quick test.
But first I'd make sure the noise stops when the system is powered off :p
 
Thanks guys, so I did some tests and I´m almost 100% sure its the power supply thats making the noise now and you´re probably right about the coil whine EchoWars. Is there anything I can do to decrese the noise from PSU, I guess cleaning the inside of psu from dust wont make any difference will it? Do I simply buy a new one?

Which power supply would you guys recommend? I´ve had alot of issues with coil whine on my previous power supplies so finding one is gonna be tough, this one XFX PRO 650W lasted 6-7 years or so without any issues of coil whine.
 
Contact XFX?

They might have some special female crickets for this situ.
Or might do a warranty repair.
 
Nenu said:
Contact XFX?

They might have some special female crickets for this situ.
Or might do a warranty repair.
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werent xfx psus kind of shit to begin with? Not sure i'd want a repaired one coming back to me.
 
Thanks so much everyone, love this forum! Bought a new corsair rmx, hopefully the cricket will be pleased hehe :) Will know in a couple of days.
 
It's haunted, there's water dripping in a nearby cave, there's a cricket, slack wire near some fan bouncing off the blades constantly, a mechanical HDD having power "problems", also my HX520 would chirp similarly when using a SSD.
It does also sound like a form or coil whine or generally some inductor wobbling somewhere.
 
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