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On Wednesday 31 December 2008, 15:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> It's coming from the case, not the speakers. |
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> > BTW, this happens in both gentoo and windows xp for me. |
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> Same here. The sound is loudest when running the "Mother Nature" test |
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> of 3DMark 03. Happening with every card I ever tried (an old Radeon |
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> 9800, an X1950XT and my current HD4870). Could be the graphics cards |
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> then. But it would be interesting to know why this is happening. |
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Google for "coil whine" or "coil noise" and see if it applies to your |
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case. I had one Abit motherboard replaced because the noise it did was |
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really unbearable, although hearing it change pitch depending on what |
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you were doing was kind of cool. |
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