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Thread ID: 132672 2013-05-19 02:12:00 Annoying intermittent buzzing and slight pause when playing games. ChazTheGeek (16619) Press F1
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1341971 2013-07-01 02:22:00 If SMART is reporting the HDD health as anything less than OK, it may well be the problem. If it's a WD Green it probably has highly aggressive head parking (default is about 8 seconds idle time!)

The health warning might be due to this and a resulting high number of head load\unload cycles. I would use their WDIDLE3 utility to change the time-out value to maximum.
Agent_24 (57)
1341972 2013-07-01 05:34:00 It's a Seagate Barracuda 500GB RMA replacement.

My 1000GB Caviar Blue is fine.
ChazTheGeek (16619)
1341973 2013-07-01 23:26:00 Perhaps you have some noisy chokes on the GPU? GPU whine is not usual! SolMiester (139)
1341974 2013-07-02 07:09:00 As far as I know my GPU is fine. I'm not quite sure what you mean there. ChazTheGeek (16619)
1341975 2013-07-02 07:55:00 Can you get any more details about why your HDD health is showing as warning? It might give you some clue. Biggest give-away is that the buzzing stops when you unplug it. Agent_24 (57)
1341976 2013-07-02 20:33:00 When I unplug it the buzzing stops. When I plug it back in the buzzing comes back.
I'm going to replace it very soon anyway.
ChazTheGeek (16619)
1341977 2013-07-02 22:11:00 10 bonus points for me for guessing it in 1, some 76 posts ago? :D Chilling_Silence (9)
1341978 2013-07-02 23:40:00 Would love to see why SMART is reporting the drive as unhealthy. Agent_24 (57)
1341979 2013-07-04 07:11:00 10 bonus points for me for guessing it in 1, some 76 posts ago? :D

Hahaha :). A least I found that the RAM was bad as well. :)
Replaced the drive and had no issues. Thanks.
ChazTheGeek (16619)
1341980 2013-07-04 09:02:00 Perhaps you have some noisy chokes on the GPU? GPU whine is not usual!

I think not in this case but nearly suggested something similar at one point, I had a XFX GTX260 once that had a high pitched whine that altered pitch as you moved the camera around in game. I figured it was some component under stress but it never played up apart from making the noise and it wasn't too annoying.
dugimodo (138)
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