So I got my new pc and I hate it.
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Hey so I got my new pc and the case fan is super loud, the hard drive is loud but most annoying when I move the mouse or certain graphical elements appear on the screen there is an electrical hissing whining noise coming from the video card? It's super annoying, does anyone know what this might be? I have the geforce 285 card. Also what is the deal with quiet pc's I thought these things were supposed to be getting quieter not louder. I turned on my old pc and you can't hear it over the sound of the new pc.
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I don't get it on my PC here, I'd also be interested to know what causes it.
Usually if you buy a prebuilt they cut corners to maximize profits, they don't really care about heat or sound.
You might want to check power saving features of your mobo, I've read that hissing is caused by voltage fluctuations.
that fuzzy sound is way too annoying. I experienced it too, it's quite frequent in integrated audio sound cards nowadays. A friend of mine said it's due to bad MB design that cram in too many components creating interference around sensitive areas, considering a current motherboard has something like seven or more electrical layers, it's quite assured it will get everything generated by it's own components. I'm afraid it cannot be avoided on integrated sound cards.
I guess your only real solution to that would be to get a separate soundcard and somehow disable the onboard one. That won't solve your graphics card and HDs being loud though
I'm running a Gigabyte motherboard and the integrated audio is fine
return it, sounds like you got ripped off. Mind me asking what you got and what you paid?
I own a zotac gtx285 amp! edition (super overclocked) and the noise comes from the psu (its fan does not make any noise), and it's because this graphics "absorbs" too much energy. In games like crysis, the noise is quite loud, and all depends of the game. With some 3d applications i have some "mouse noise", it's something like "funny", you pan and rotate the camera and you get a shhhrrrrrrrrr shrrrrrr hehehehe
My psu is one very expensive, a corsair 620hx, and its 12v rail is of 18A. Multi-rail psus make electrical noise with all those nvidia cards (8800, 9800gtx+ and newer). It's annoying, and a possible solution is to change the psu for one MONORAIL with a 12v rail of more than 50A. I have too many friends that changed the psu for a corsair monorail of 750W and more watts, and they have a silent pc (with better cases and fans than me)
To identify where the noise comes from, you can do what i did, put your psu apart from the case, turn or the system and test your apps and games. In my case, the GPU = 0 noise. Like i'm a casual gamer, i didn't see the need to change the psu, it has 5 years of warranty, and i cannot waste more money in my system
If you bought your system recently, test all the components, make stress tests and if something is wrong, return it.
Is quite easy to identify where a noise comes from. good luck!
Funny thing is the PC was so quiet, he started hearing a humming noise coming from his monitor, turns out that when he turned down brightness that would make the monitor hum...which is quite weird.
when i got my new comp (HP), it was kinda loud too, but it wasnt the fan, it was thing continuous zapping/electrical sound.
If you unplug them all and there still is someone testing jet engines in your case, then its probably the power supply, it might have 2 fans, but really just throw the cheap piece of junk out and get something that is quite.
As for the mouse noise, I got that on an old system it never went away and I had disabled the onboard sound. It switched from a high pitched sound, to a low fuzzy sound.
check out these youtube videos if is what you got.
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My old ATI graphics card fan used to do a similar thing, though.
That's a lot louder then I've ever heard. The noise I've heard came out of the speakers, no sound, no noise, but a new sound card didn't get around the problem just changed it.
I gave up on Ati too, i have had 3 ati cards, and 2 got burned :S. Also, the perfomance with max was horrible, although they were nice videocards for gaming.
It happens with both brands, this problem appeared with the 8800GT with nvidia. All GT/GTX series has this annoying problem with PSUs (they demand too much energy), and the series X2 from ATI too. No matter if you have a great 1000 watts psu, if the psu is multi-rail, and the 12v rail has less than 50A, is very probable the psu will make noise.
I havent had this problem with a 8400GS, but when i changed it for the new card, bam, noise
Some manufactures are starting to recommend psus with a good amperage for the 12v rail if we don't want these noises. The bad thing is that they say is something "normal", it can't be helped. You can have less or more noise.
I have some friends with nvidia GTX295s (it "eats" more energy than 285) and with their mono-rail psus, they don't have noise. I have thought to buy another psu but monorail, but with so much money wasted, i opted to wait a bit.
It's a shame to have those problems with new computers.
I've had this problem before in numerous machines, and it usually ends up being the low-grade wiring that's used to run a connection from the onboard soundcard to the case's front panel. It picks up a ton of interference running across the motherboard.
If you are using the front panel, try connecting your headphones/speakers to the back and see if that helps.
I read up about it and found that by disabling C1E in bios (advanced Features section), the whining is GREATLY reduced.. but still there a bit.
Everything i read pointed to it being a result of combinations of different gfx cards and power supplies- people have posted hearing this whining with pretty much all the current I7 mobo's out there.
you won't like it though.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/30/
Yea yea mac's aren't all that bad or expensive. The mac mini makes a great media PC btw.
If you cant find anything like that, or that doesnt help, a pretty quick way to check what is causing the most noise is just to start poking around, put your finger on your CPU fan to stop it, case fan, etc and just pay attention to how much less noise is created when you stop various fans. Alternatively you can try turning your system off and unpluging case fans etc, if you dont want to go poking around.
Cheap fans can cause a lot of noise, and are really easy/inexpensive to replace. Generally i've had pretty good luck with stock intel fans, but you may have gotten a bad one as well, cpu fans run in the $10-30 range for something pretty good, case fans will be like $5 or so. You really should be able to find an app(or a setting in bios) to adjust the cpu fan tho.
With the video card that you have, you might be totally maxing out your power supply(or close to it) so a good option to consider might be buying a much more powerful PSU, that way you arent constantly running at full load, this should help reduce the amount the PSU fan/s need to run. Your video card fan may just be a fucking jet engine too, those gt28* GPUs take a lot of juice, and a lot to cool them.
Any more info you can give on components would be helpful too
Case model
PSU model
How many case fans, what size(generally 80mm or 120mm) the bigger the better(quieter)
CPU cooler type
Its very possible that the guys who built your system cheaped out on everything you didnt specifically ask for, so it might be better to consider returning the thing(if you're able) instead of putting money into fixing what you paid them to do.
Also, if you can find/borrow a different PCI-E video card from someone/work/etc, it would be a good idea to test that out in your system and see if you have the same hissing issues. Video cards can be a pain, because there are about 15 different companies that manufacture the same shit, and there is a good chance they just threw the cheapest possible card they could find in your system.