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Originally Posted by
Drorsh4
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clearly comes from the computer - probably the power supply
Yeah, this is not uncommon and yet a bit problematic to sort out.
Unfortunately, any time you go looking for info or specs on PSU noise, it's all about fan noise. There's not a lot of focus on electrical noise or EMI emissions - no ratings, rarely any specs. And if you go searching anything about PSU noise you will get a zillion results on fan (acoustic) noise ... sigh.
Let's look at one simple win I had with an older PC. It radiated audio band electromagnetic interference. It sucked. Looking at it I realised that the metal case should be containing a lot of it - why wasn't it? It occurred to me that all the metal parts were coated in black paint, including along the joints and even into threaded parts where the PSU mounted. Multimeter testing revealed that, sure enough, this stuff was an insulator and the PSU case wasn't really connecting the case at large to ground, nor were the doors and other panels electrically connected to the case frame. So, I filed off the paint at selected points of contact and tinned them with solder. Everything electrically connected and grounded itself properly and the noise emissions reduced about 90%! So look at that.
I eventually replaced that PSU. As I say, getting good information is hard. I decided to go relatively up-market replacing a <$100 supply with more like a $250 supply at the time. Just to get a better design and higher quality component choices. In doing so, I noticed some of the supplies boasted a bit about their premium name-brand capacitors. That was as close as I could come to some kind of focus on electrical noise reduction so I bought one of these supplies and it was so much better - completely removed all the remaining noise. Below is an example of this sort of 'capacitor pride' on a modern Corsair SF600 SFX PSU.
There's no real guarantee there I know ... and it's plausible you may have to buy (and possibly return?) several PSUs to solve this, but it's the best I can suggest.