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That's not the mouse, but the CPU causing coil whine when the mouses causes the kernel to up it's CPU usage as you fly across various GUI elements.
by 0xfeba 8y ago
That's not the mouse, but the CPU causing coil whine when the mouses causes the kernel to up it's CPU usage as you fly across various GUI elements.
- mohn 8y agoUnless you've tested OP's fiancee's system yourself and found that to be the case, I wouldn't be so sure. I had a Logitech G500 with awful coil whine and the opposite problem: it would stop whining when moving and start when idle. I suspect it had to do with the power saving mode that lots of mice have, where the laser power supply ramps down to dim the laser illumination after a period of no detected motion.
- goldenkey 8y agoA lot of times I've noticed it's the USB controller. It's quite evident when you have headphone ports near USB ports.
- sgtmas2006 8y agoI can be tabbed out and hear when I get into the plane in PUBG from the increase in whine. It's quite nice actually.
- zrobotics 8y agoNot necessarily. Possible, but I had a cheap HP mouse that whined briefly when it first came out of sleep mode. Couldn't have been the computer, since it would make the same noise when the PC was turned off.
- gambiting 8y agoThat is not the case - the mouse itself is whining, it does it even when the receiver is not plugged into anything.