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Does it still have that awful coil whine?
by foodstances 9y ago
Does it still have that awful coil whine?
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoLike many others, I was told by their Twitter people that coil whine on my 9560 was "not a known issue per se" and that I just needed to update my BIOS. I won't be buying a Dell next time.
- switch007 9y agoThey've also stated (I think it was a different model) that they deem it acceptable in normal/average (i.e. noisy) office environments with aircon etc. Therefore if you can hear it, the problem is that your environment isn't noisy enough to drown it out !
- eliaspro 9y agoQuoting Barton George: > We are definitely looking into the coil whine issue, this has senior management visibility, and pursuing several avenues for the current system as well as solutions going forward. Source: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/p/20014657/21005539#21005539 http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...
- foodstances 9y agoThat is from June, this is the latest from December: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/p/19992655/21038056#21038056 http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46... A motherboard change and a BIOS update (2.4.2) are supposed to lower the noise as much as they can, while still deeming it "working within specification". Users report the 2.4.2 update didn't help much or even made it worse.
- josephmx 9y agoThis update (without motherboard change) did help by making the fans run less often, which doesn't seem to be causing overheating issues or me
- ianai 9y agoAnd an awful touch pad?
- scorown 9y agoSo glad I am not the only one with that issue on my 9560. I also found out that if I put CPU under stress, the whine goes away. So when I am using the adapter, I run HeavyLoad on 3 cores and that takes whine away, with enough computing power for happy compiling.