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>when your PSU is always faintly buzzing, even when it's turned off (so long as it's plugged in)

what could it be? power strip!?

>>53662778
yes

at least you have the chance to backup your shit

with an ssd it is sudden death

y- you've served me w- well, disk

>>53662801
Coil whine. If you notice it, you can try running OCCT power supply stress test. It basically puts your cpu and gpu on max loads to work your psu. Sometimes the coil whine will go away but it's not a solid solution. Other than that, all you can do is rma. I'm really sensitive to noise like that so it's sometimes a bit difficult building a pretty quite pc.

>>53662778
It's the NSA inside your desktop case bro

>>53662882
I have tinnitus so the "perfectly quiet" really doesn't matter. I just don't want it damaging my components

>>53662801
Forgot to mention, you must do the test for an hour or so. It worked for my new evga 850w psu. I was genuinely pissed knowing this expensive unit had coil whine. After looking around I found this solution and gave it a go. It actually worked surprisingly. Next day I had no faint buzzing sounds or anything.

>>53662916
Oh, well what kind of psu is it. Had 3 gpus die on me suddenly and I honestly wish I could've found the cause. I had to redo that whole build, rma the parts and sell them for better parts.

>>53662972
some corsair PSU that was like ~$80 forget how many watts but it's more than enough to power what I've got

>>53663127
If it's a cx series model, I don't know if I'd be concerned or not. They are built pretty shitty and their fans are sometimes unusually loud. I don't know if it will or can damage your pc but I do know it can get annoying.

>>53662882
He probably has a shit tier PSU that'll explode or shut down. Not advised.