Weird sound from my case!

Hi everyone!

I bought a Bolt3 more or less a month ago!
I noticed that sometimes, when the PC is in ''Auto Mode'' selected from Control Center (so when I'm not playing), a strange sound come from my case, I don't know how to explain that: It's like a pitched up Jet that turns on its engines (best way to explain that, I'm sorry ).
The ''onomatopea'' it's like a pitched up ''UUUUUUE'' (read them letters like you'd read them in the alphabet), you can heard that for 1 sec and then it stops and the volume of the sound it's quite loud, not an aggressive sound but
easily listenable (I know it's difficult to understand, but record it is very hard becouse this sound starts without notice that it's coming and it's 1 sec long, impossible to record but I'll give a try again!)

Can someone help me with this?
I can't understand which component can do that sound, I was thinking about hydrocooling or GPU fan!

What do you think about??
Thanks in advance!

MY SPECS:
GPU - GeForce GTX 1080 (NVIDIA Founders Edition)
CPU - Intel Core i7 5930K @3.5GHz
RAM - 16GB DDR4 2800MHz Digital StormCertified Performance Series
OS - Win7 Professional
120GB SSD Samsung 850 EVO and 1TB HDD Western Digital - Black Edition

EDIT: Yeah, I searched ''Jet Engine Sound'' on YouTube
. It's quite similiar to this one without white noise in background,pitched up and with loud volume not aggressive: https://youtu.be/QNr7YLrQH3M?t=174 (of course it's not equal, but now you can have an idea. ) it's long 1 sec and then it stops!

Waiting for comments and Thanks in advance, again! :)

Edited by LowRoid99 - 15 Sep 2016 at 3:15pm

Hi DST4ME!

I don't remember the precise model of the cooling, I'm going to the Digital Storm site and I'll check the name of it (I can recognize it from its picture)
I'm sending to you two pic of both sides of my PC so you can check the situation :)

It's hard to recognize what it's doing this weird sound, It is quite short and I can't understand which component makes it :(

PICS: https://postimg.org/image/ckf29a6bv/ (left side) https://postimg.org/image/a4w82wpa3 (right side, don't look at the red square, it's not usefull :D )

PS: The case is not opened atm, I opened it a while ago for another problem I posted here, now it is closed (pics are from some weeks ago)

EDIT: I checked on DS site, on Bolt 3 configurator, and I'm quite sure the cooling is a Digital Storm Vortex 240mm Radiator H20 CPU Cooler (Extreme-Performance Edition)


Edited by LowRoid99 - 16 Sep 2016 at 4:03am

Hi bprat22!
Thanks for answer!

Oh ok so we are pretty sure it's a fan doing it, right? The question is: which one?

My GPU is not a EVGA model, Are you sure this probram will works with my Founders Edition?

I think I'm quite good with computers, but only software stuffs. I'm always a little bit scare when I have to touch components (so I'll be scare if I'll have to unplug that fan), I'd prefer to not do that

What do you mean with the sentence: ''The pump in the 240mm cooling unit, attached to the cpu, has been known to make a noise, but that's more unusual''? You mean that the 240mm cooling makes a noise but it's different from the sound I'm listening?

And, the important question: Do you think this can be something that can decrease the life of my PC or that can take to me other (most serious) problems? Or Do you think this is sound it's not a problem and I can go ahead without thinking about it?? :)

Edited by LowRoid99 - 16 Sep 2016 at 11:06am

Hi bprat22!
Thanks for the great explication of all these poits!

I downloaded EVGA Precision but I don't understand what I have to do precisely with it, can you help me with this?
Quite sure it's not a grinding type noise, It's what I tried to explain in my first post! It's like a fan that starts up and makes the kind of sound I explained for 1 sec, then it stops! (this is my interpretation of the sound, I could be wrong, but I'm quite sure is something like what I wrote)
I dind't see any other ''complications'' releated to this sound: Temperatures are normal and I don't heard this sound when the PC is in ''Extreme Mode'' selected from DS Control-Center (so not when I'm playing) but only when I put the PC in ''Auto Mode''. Temperatures are normal in both situation and that sound doesn't increase/decrease temperatures!

Today I was trying to record it, but I failed! It's quite impossible :( However today I noticed it 1-2 times if I'm not wrong, Some days it happens 3-4 times, some days never and some days 1-2 times, so I'm understanding that this weird sound is randomic!

What you suggest now?

Thanks for helping!

EDIT: I unistalled EVGA Precision and I installed MSI Afterburner, EVGA Precision asked me a lot of not usefull things like name, last name and a Serial Code of something that I don't understand I downloaded MSI Afterburner and it starts up so, please, tell me what I have to do precisely with that! :)

Edited by LowRoid99 - 16 Sep 2016 at 3:05pm

Hi DST4ME!

I don't want to do a mess so here's a screeshot of MSI Afterburner: https://postimg.org/image/a4qpg4xml/
Can you tell me EXACTLY what I have to do, please??

Specs I wrote in first post are full specs, I noticed now I just forgot the motherboard: ASRock X99E-ITX/ac (Intel X99 Chipset) (Mini-ITX). I don't have any other HDD/SSD exept that two I mentioned in the specs! :)

Keep me informed and Thanks for helping!

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to say an important thing. I noticed that this sound starts (not only in this case but the 80% of times is for what I'm going to say now) when I leave the PC powered on without using it for a while. After I move the mouse and I open a thing (it can be a folder or a program) the sound starts.
I tried and tried many times to record it but I failed again! :(

Edited by LowRoid99 - 17 Sep 2016 at 5:53am

Hi DST4ME!
Thanks for that ''poit per poit'' explication! :D

Ok So I did it, I put the speed to 85, I clicked ''Apply'' and I heard a normal ''air-noise'' like all fans do when them are going fast! No weird sounds! But it's the second time that when I double click on MSI Afterburner I heard the famous weird sound! I'm so confused!

I recorded two videos, in this one you can heard GTX 1080 fan set to ''auto'' speed: http://sendvid.com/56nd2p54
And in this one you can heard the fan when I set the speed to 85: http://sendvid.com/cgort4b8
I recorded these videos really really close to the window side.

What do you think about this?? :)

Edited by LowRoid99 - 17 Sep 2016 at 12:23pm

Hi DST4ME!
Yeah, sorry for that site :( I was having problems with youtube and that one was the only site I found! Sorry again! :(

Which is this utility for Vortex fans? I have bad experience with BIOS, I broke a lot of PCs in past so maybe an utility is better

So are you sure it's definitely not GPU fault??

@LowRoid99 as bp mentioned its probably not your gpu fan, so we are left with case fans and vortex fan/pump.

Since you are not comfortable call DS and have them walk you through the bios to check fan/pump on vortex.

If your case fans are connected to the psu then its probably not them, since they spin at the same speed all the time, but it does not hurt to check like bp said.

They can email you the steps its not that difficult, local shop can do it but its not needed its not that difficult.

You are not bothering anybody.

if you go here and fill this out and check email for support you should get an email back.

if you don't hear from them soon contact Alex directly or contact him now.,

[email protected]

he will get you in touch with the right person.

Edited by DST4ME - 19 Sep 2016 at 8:56am

Sorry I missed that

Ok so the sound not happening its too soon, lets wait and week and if you still have not heard it, then honestly I don't know what to tell with the exception of you are lucky.

Since we never were able to pinpoint the source I don't like to speculate and say well maybe it was something stuck around fan and got loose, or perhaps something changed in the fan in the process of us speeding it up, or maybe it was the bearing or a coil whine, So I'm not gonna say those things, to be honest I still don't think it was your gpu fan at all.


lot of times with these types of stuff either the noise gets louder or goes away, sometimes they go away and comeback and get louder.



Don't call DS for support till the noise is back otherwise it will be impossible for them to trouble shoot a trouble that does not exist right now I'm sure you have better things to do with your time

Edited by DST4ME - 19 Sep 2016 at 10:58am

Hard drives can and do make noises as they start to fail.    If you simulate it again, after leaving it idle and then opening a folder, touch the HDD case and see if you can feel any vibration.    It does make sense.

I have heard of whining and grinding noises, some subtle and others more pronounced.   

Hello guys, thanks for explication!
Softwares and stuffs I open when I get the weird sound are on HDD, but I don't get it every single time! I get it after the situation I explained in past posts and even if I go to open a folder or a program after some hours of inactivity I don't experience the sound everytime, It's A LOT randomic!
Just right now I turned on my PC and I recognized that the weird sound I hear it's the same sound I can hear when I turn on my PC, So now I'm going to turn off my PC, turn on it again so I can record that sound becouse it's the same!

DST4ME, you said: ''You can try and put your pc under heavy cpu load for a good while and see if we can raise the temp of the cpu a bit, and by doing so making the cooler's fan run faster and see if you can hear the sound during that time, if so then we know is the cooler, either fan or pump.'' I don't understand this part very well, What I have to do? Can you explain it more clearly, please?

EDIT: Ok, guys, finnaly you can hear that sound too: http://sendvid.com/cwivntrs
The sound is that one that seams a ''turbine'' sound. The first one is me pushing the power button and the other is the fluid of the cooling so don't think about them, just about the ''turbine'' sound becouse is the only one I hear in the situation I explained (Sorry again for sendvid.com :( Don't kill me for the pop-ups)

With the sound Can you now understand in a better way the situation, I think! :)

Edited by LowRoid99 - 20 Sep 2016 at 4:17am

Hi DST4ME!
Apologize me for the late on the answer!

So, did you hear the sound? Before trying to disconnect every component that can make that noise one by one, I want kindly ask you If you can understand which component can do that sound, by hearing that from my last vid!
Then, like I already said in past posts, I'm not that excited to open my PC and disconnect components So if we can detect which can be the most probable component that makes that sound, I can disconnect only that one!

So tell me, please, If the sound you can hear on this video http://sendvid.com/cwivntrs from 0:02 from 0:03 sounds familiar to you and if you recognize which component can do that!

Keep me posted! :)

Edited by LowRoid99 - 22 Sep 2016 at 5:18am

Hi DST4ME! thanks for your great explication!
Yeah, I think I'll do that: I'll wait and if this sound will give me some errors, I'll prepare me to solve the problem. From now, no problems releated to this sound (luckly )

I'll keep you posted about what will appen with this, I'll keep monitor the sound and I'll see what to do in future!

Thanks to everyone for help, I appreciated it!
Cheers!