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Possible PSU Issue?

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FenFox

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So I've been experiencing a strange issue with my computer for the past year and a half, but I never bothered to fully investigate the problem because it only occurs when I play video games and I rarely
play video games anymore.

I notice that when I load up Doom or Friday the 13th--I'm sure any modern game would do this--it would *seem* that my PSU generates a lot of noise, at least, I'm pretty sure It's coming from the PSU and not the video card.

When I exit the game, the noise goes away. What's even more unusual about this situation is that when I use compressed air to clean out my computer (which is something I do every 3-4 months ), and I go to play a game, I don't hear this sound anymore, but it eventually comes back weeks or months later. But I don't play games often enough to gauge the exact number of days it takes to return.

Is there a test that I can run to know for sure if this is an issue with my PSU? One user thought it may be the fans on the graphics card, but it doesn't sound like that's where this noise is coming from.
 
It's likely just coil whine from either the GPU or the PSU that gets going once the CPU+GPU is loaded.

Can you youtube some sounds of coil whine and check to see if yours sounds similar? (There are many variations, the coil whine on my GPU sounds more like buzzing or that the GPU fans slightly hitting something, except that the fans were off at the time I heard them)
 
mda said:
It's likely just coil whine from either the GPU or the PSU that gets going once the CPU+GPU is loaded.

Can you youtube some sounds of coil whine and check to see if yours sounds similar? (There are many variations, the coil whine on my GPU sounds more like buzzing or that the GPU fans slightly hitting something, except that the fans were off at the time I heard them)
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Out of the 6 YouTube videos I've watched, it doesn't sound like coil whine.

The computer never did this when I first got it and I gamed every day.

It just sounds like there's a fan in the PSU working a lot harder than it should. I don't hear any squeaky high pitched sounding noise.

And I still don't understand why cleaning out the PC with compressed air would solve that problem--temporarily.
 
fire up a game and then when the noise starts stick a toothpick in the psu fan see if it stops. use you fingers to stop the gpu fans to check those. then if it is coil whine, try limiting your fps to that of your display.
 
pendragon1 said:
fire up a game and then when the noise starts stick a toothpick in the psu fan see if it stops. use you fingers to stop the gpu fans to check those. then if it is coil whine, try limiting your fps to that of your display.
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I don't see an exposed PSU fan. I'll try stopping the GPU fans though with my fingers.
 
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