Well, as a follow up to my last post, I managed to pinpoint the weird sound problem in my GIGABYTE Aero 15 to the CPU. Apparently, the static-like/sizzling sound is being caused by idle cores, although the exact reason for it still eludes me. After much digging and some tweaking to the CPU C-States settings (hopefully I'm describing this properly, I'm not an engineer ) I was able to reduce the weird sound to a minimum. Still have no idea what is the actual cause of the sound, but this… See More
seemed to fix it. If someone has a similar issue, feel free to contact me, I'll provide you the fix links I followed.
Any opinions on the matter my GTribe fellows?
That's a whine, but not couil whine, it's caused by the cooling solution. Air from the fan traveling through the cooler's fins. When the CPU cores enter idle state, the CPU runs cooler and the fan spins slower which causes less pressure on the cooing and thus slower air that resonates more with the cooling system.
The reason your dad hears it less is that he's older - our hearing loses the higher frequency range as we grow older.
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Oh, and btw, the search for a possible fix was maddening, there is barely anything on the matter, most people attribute this to interference with faulty Audio cards, but this ain't that uncommon of an issue apparently, and many times it isn't due to Audio problems. Interestingly, my father hears the weird noise much less than me (although he also picks it up)
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New one! Coil whine on the cpu...
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