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Originally Posted by ElevenEleven 
It does not have a capacitor squeal normally - it's very quiet, I can't even hear it over my case fans. It only did the squealing / rumbling sound when I used a 400-Watt PSU
There is however a capacitor whine like sound when I run something demanding like Prime 95 - only sometimes - and that started happening after my first 750 Watt PSU died in that machine. I can't figure out if it comes from the GPU, as it's somewhere in that area and toward the CPU under the heatsink, and I hope nothing was damaged when my PSU died. Maybe I just didn't notice before as it only happens at certain heavy loads - not in games, but some combination of prime95 and cannot recall what else I had open.
It does not have a capacitor squeal normally - it's very quiet, I can't even hear it over my case fans. It only did the squealing / rumbling sound when I used a 400-Watt PSU
There is however a capacitor whine like sound when I run something demanding like Prime 95 - only sometimes - and that started happening after my first 750 Watt PSU died in that machine. I can't figure out if it comes from the GPU, as it's somewhere in that area and toward the CPU under the heatsink, and I hope nothing was damaged when my PSU died. Maybe I just didn't notice before as it only happens at certain heavy loads - not in games, but some combination of prime95 and cannot recall what else I had open.
Ok, the answer for that sound is stupidly obvious - it's just my CPU cooler fan starting to make an odd tonal sound JUST around 53% rotation speed, neither below, nor much above. So no bad capacitors, phew! But yes, my GPU does make a disturbing rumbling fan sound if I manually turn its fans up to like 60%, for which there is never any practical need. I suspect it was a probable reason my GTX 580 was returned back to NewEgg and then resold as open box - someone was probably trying to overclock it and cranked up its fans and was unpleasantly surprised
For me though, it stays super quiet at low temperatures without a significant overclock.
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(25 items) |
A Vespa / Cooper Mini hybrid... in a box!
(20 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel i5 2400 3.8GHz turbo boost | Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3 | Sapphire Dual-X 7970 OC | Samsung 30nm ULP |
| Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling | Cooling |
| Corsair Force 3 | LG DVD-RW | Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B | Noctua NF-S12B ULN |
| Cooling | Cooling | Cooling | OS |
| Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-14 | Fractal Design R2 Silent 140mm fan | Bitfenix Spectre 200mm fan | Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
| Monitor | Keyboard | Power | Case |
| Achieva ShiMian 27" IPSB (tempered glass) | Logitech wireless | Corsair AX750 | BitFenix Survivor in White |
| Mouse | Mouse Pad | Other | Other |
| Logitech MX518 | Ikea circle! | NZXT Hue | Lamptron FC-9 |
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