My Predator orion 3000 po3-630 is making a ticking sound when under load/heating up

Hobnob
Hobnob Member Posts: 3 New User

I thought the sound was from a faulty cpu fan (cpu was getting super hot too) so i replaced it with a Noctua. Temps have decreased around 20-30C but whenever i play a game for more than like an hour it seems to start making this fast ticking sound. After closing the game, it keeps going for around 5-10mins then stops.

This has only been happening in the past couple months, not the year or two before that.

This is the sound:

These are before/afters of heatsink replacement:

Answers

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 13,560 Trailblazer

    That could be from the Noctua cpu cooling fan that is touching its outside casing, as it could have a faulty shaft and its making the fan get out of balance when hot and it spins unevenly. You might need to change the fan. Look closely and trace where the exact noise is coming from, and if its the fan, then try to see if you can modify the blade to not touch its outside casing, as this is a very unseal problem as Noctua cpu cooling system are of very high quality and their fan should not be doing that. Good luck.

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  • Axxo
    Axxo Member, Ally Posts: 1,350

    Otherwise known as coil whine from induction coils on the mainboard that gets louder when under load. If your hearing is half-way decent, you should also be able to hear higher pitched hissing sounds mixed in with the racket from smaller inductors and the fans when the cpu and gpu start to heat up.

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  • Hobnob
    Hobnob Member Posts: 3 New User

    My build was making the noise way before I got the Noctua. I tried to fix it with that because I thought the previous fan was the issue but apparently I was wrong

  • Hobnob
    Hobnob Member Posts: 3 New User

    If that is the case should I be worried at all or is it a noise I can start ignoring

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,677 Trailblazer

    If it's coil whine, you can ignore it.

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