I need help with choosing a gaming laptop
(If this is not where i should post this, please feel free to move it and i'm sorry for the trouble. I'm new to this so i'm still confused) So i decided to buy a gaming laptop to play the sims but i...
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@puzzlezaddict the warranty is six months so everything is good for now. Something that happend this morning though is the constant buzzing noise only when playing games. When i quit the game the noise is gone. I googled it and it's something called coil whine. I don't really know how to fix it and i can still hear it with my headphones on. Any suggestions?
I already limited the fps to 144 using nvidia cp
@EmpressShadow7 Coil whine is due to coils within the graphics card vibrating rapidly enough that we can actually hear the results. It typically only happens at high framerates, not 144 but in the 200-300 fps range or higher. So you shouldn't be hearing it unless the Control Panel setting isn't taking.
It's also not a great sign for your laptop. I mean it's not immediately dangerous, but if the coils are frequently under enough stress to whine, they could eventually break. (This might take a couple years, but it's impossible to predict.) And because their job is essentially to help steady the power being input to the GPU before it reaches the chip itself, they need to be in working order to protect the card.
@puzzlezaddict well nothing i can do to fix this i guess. I'll contact the store tomorrow and see what they can do. I can't play anything on it the noise is driving me crazy.
