Noisy OCZ Z1000W modular power supply part 2

While Idle, this 1000W PSU is nearly silent. Sadly, as soon as you start any game, it starts screeching. Supposedly this affects a "small batch" per the OCZ forums, but this is #2. . .and a 3rd is on the way.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• OCZ
• Z1000W
• gold
• PSU
• noise

[bajaroms]

Hi, same noise on my PSU (powercooler PS500S), i read that comes from the coil because is forced by voltage, did you fix it? sometimes do it, sometimes not, even if i'm not playing it does it. Pardon if my english not the best.

[drewer757]

@bajaroms I've heard the "coil whine" claims before, but heard it was mostly on older Nvidia gfx cards. As for the actual power supply, a few things: why kind of chipset do you have? (I've found others with the same noise have intel chipsets, as do I.) The only "solution" for now is to limit frame rates via forcing v-synch on. It drastically reduces the noise, but isn't really a fix.

[emrico1]

I feel your pain. I was blaming my GPU but I have the exact same issue. (see my channel).

[fixx572]

Lol.My 850watt version of that psu does the same.And it don,t mater what card is in the computer it does it.And my does it no mater what settings are in the game vsync on or off.I changed my psu out to a themaltake and never heard it agian.It was getting anoying.I was reading on the ocz fourms and a few others were having the same issue.One guy Rma his twice and still the new psus kept doing the same thing.I guess they said it is somthing to do with the caps????.

[ezwip1]

EA games virus.