Whining Components

Modo · **Posted:** Sat May 07, 2011 11:00 pm

One Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 Silent Cell. The whine is very faint, barely audible from up close in my old rig during startup and high-FPS 3D rendering, but clearly there.

One Intel SSD 320 (120 GB version). Unlike with the HD 4850, I can't correlate this whining with the device's activity. It's on and off seemingly random. It's high enough to be muffled well by felt dampening material around a hard disk cage. Without dampening, it is annoying at night.

grandpatzer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:28 am

I have 3 IPS 2365wb that whine, the middle just started

juhan1000 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:37 pm **Posts:** 3

Fujitsu ESPRIMOVIEW B24W-5 ECO 24" monitor

Makes an awfully annoying whining sound when brightness is < 92%. The whine can be heard across the room. Totally unacceptable. Returned the first one because of this, was given a replacement that had the same high pitched noise. Wanted to return the replacement and get my money back, was denied because by Fujitsu standards this noise was normal.

Lupine Lacuna · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:38 am **Posts:** 20

Asus P8h67I whines constantly. Do not buy

Lupine Lacuna · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:38 am **Posts:** 20

Everyone, I have just found a very helpful step which removed my whining from the motherboard! Try it:

Its all very weird, but this stopped the (capacitors, I think) sound:

1. Execute: "regedit"
2 .Locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Power \ PowerSettings \ 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b¬740d00 \ 5d76a2ca-e8c0-402f-a133-215849¬2d58ad
3. Change Attributes from 1 to 0.
4. Then, through the control panel - power - in the settings mode select power management processor. There will be an option disabling idle processor and high pitched noise immediately disappears.

Taken from this thread:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/292 ... oming-area

MikeC · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:13 am

Lupine Lacuna wrote:

Everyone, I have just found a very helpful step which removed my whining from the motherboard! Try it:

Its all very weird, but this stopped the (capacitors, I think) sound:

1. Execute: "regedit"
2 .Locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Power \ PowerSettings \ 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b¬740d00 \ 5d76a2ca-e8c0-402f-a133-215849¬2d58ad
3. Change Attributes from 1 to 0.
4. Then, through the control panel - power - in the settings mode select power management processor. There will be an option disabling idle processor and high pitched noise immediately disappears.

Taken from this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/292 ... oming-area

The trouble with this solution is that it significantly increases the power demand of the CPU at idle. Minimize-power-at-idle features in both Intel & AMD processors get turned off. The CPU's idle temperature goes up, along with the power draw. It may be a good solution if nothing else works and you have no return/exchange option.

HellDiverUK · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:56 am **Posts:** 38

Shuttle XPC DS61. The motherboard in this thing is LOUD. Initially I thought the test hard-drive I was using was broken (Seagate Momentus 7200.4 250GB). Swapped the Seagate for a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD, and confirmed the board in this machine is horrendously loud.

Shuttle are correct when they say the supplied cooler is quiet. Shame the coils on the board totally drown out the noise of the two 50mm fans, and even the noise of a 7200rpm Seagate from 2010.

Test system: Shuttle DS61 v1.0, 1x4GB Crucial DDR3-1066 SODIMM, Intel Celeron G540 Sandy Bridge, Crucial M4 64GB mSATA SSD.

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