Yes, your motherboard can contribute to coil whine sounds, especially if it has older or poorly designed components.
Yes, your motherboard can contribute to coil whine sounds, especially if it has older or poorly designed components.
You’ve built a fresh system and encountered coil whine when the side panel is open. Initially, you suspected the power supply, but switching to a higher-wattage unit didn’t help. Replacing the GPU with a GTX 1050 didn’t eliminate the noise, which now seems localized near the VRM area on your ASRock A620AM-X motherboard with a Ryzen 5 7600. Consider checking connections, ensuring proper cooling, or testing with a different GPU model if possible.
Motherboards can indeed produce coil whine, though it's less frequent than with GPUs. It occurs occasionally.
It's merely a noise, causing no harm or deterioration to the PC coil.
Everything featuring a coil—capacitors included, in theory—can experience coil whine. A coworker mentioned they can actually detect Bosch e-bike batteries.