I’m experiencing weird buzzing sound that’s coming from speakers or headphones unless I play through bluetooth - it’s not always buzzing tho, but 8/10 times it does. It only happens it World of Warcraft, it gets more noticeable while doing certain activities in game like opening character panel etc, if i alt+tab it’s less noisy. No it’s not coil whine, no it’s not related to too high FPS - i tried at uncapped so 150-200, locked 30, 60 and so on and problem still exist. Any ideas? Not like it’s unplayable but rather annoying.
So here are things that aren’t issue of my problem as I’ve checked it already.
It’s not related to windows sound settings as I’ve tried everything available there.
It’s not drivers issue - everything is up to date.
It’s not caused because of addons.
It’s not external program issue.
It’s not hardware issue as same problem existed on previous rig.
It’s not speakers or headphones issue because they’re working everywhere else without that issue.
It is not coil whine
It’s not overclock issue
It’s not overheating issue (cpu doesn’t exceed 55-60C, gpu sits at 60-65C)
If needed PC specs:
R5 3600 (oc’ed)
Aorus RX580 8GB
Ripjaws V2x8GB RAM
MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max
Bitfenix Whisper M 650W
Headphones are Bose QC35 II with newest firmware, and speakers are dunno, some 10yrs old speakers.
This sadly isn’t a WoW issue, but a hardware one, so outside the scope of support we can provide.
I can suggest though that you enable vsync to stabilize frame rate. Another cause of audio whine can be power supply noise/load balancing, which your PSU features. How this is managed by the PSU varies between models, please check with your manufacturer on management of this.
Enabling Vsync gonna literally kill fps and I tried it already before - it makes no difference between generating input lag and making game basically unplayable. Problem doesn’t exist in overwatch for example where im running at 270-300fps all the time and it doesn’t exist in any other game at all.
I had that problem to with all games and i just remove my speakers away from electricity points.
If that not helps maybe this linkhttps://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/how-to-fix-buzzing-noise-in-headphones/will help (point 5 and 6)
Also try to diferents setting in the ingame sound options good luck!
Everything, try not overclocking the processor and see if that does it. Less power strain on PSU and motherboard compacitors. See if that removes the noise.
If so, then it’s that motherboard and for overclocking you need a more expensive board with better compacitors that can take the strain.
Cheaper the board, the cheaper that parts so moving from standard clocks and all can bring issues such as this.
MSI MAX generation of 'boards are pretty new and were upgrades specifically for Zen 2/Ryzen 3xxx CPU’s.
OP - how long have you had that PSU and how hard have you 'clocked that CPU?
I have a R5 3600 & it’s perfectly happy to run @ 4.1-4.2 w/o any help from me - if you pushed it much harder than that, you could be looking at your culprit. Drop back to stock speeds & let the internal boost do the 'clocking for you… if the interference goes, you be vindicated.
BTW - if you’ve already decided before you posted here (unless you’ve edited out of desparation) that nothing you’ve done with the setup is an issue, you’ve pretty much shut to door on anyone giving you help… another thought I have is if the speakers are a common link to the issue with your last build, maybe it could be that the shielding on the speaker cables is f***ed & THAT is your issue… you tried turning them off & removing them from (near) the system…?
