MacBookPro 16-inch has current noise, cpu turbo frequency noise?

I found that during the use of the newly purchased MacBookPro 16-inch, such as opening large software and restarting the system, noisy sounds will be heard under the keyboard. Should be the noise caused by Intel CPU Turbo? Some in the community also said that it was noise from SSD read disks. It's strange to hear this kind of sound at night when it is quiet. Is it a quality problem? Is it normal? Does everyone's MacBookPro also have this current noise? Wait for your feedback, thank you. (My MacBookPro 16-inch is i9-9880H CPU and 1T SSD)

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Posted on Apr 4, 2020 2:01 PM

Model - MacBook Pro 16, Intel Core i7-9750H

The coil whine appears when there is a sharp high power supply to the processor.When the turboboost is turned on, the power is jumped to 80 watts and the squeaking is heard. If you turn off the turbo boost and run the test, the power will not rise above 40 watts and the coil whine will not be heard. For the load testing was used Geekbench. For power measurement, the Intel Power Gadget was used. Turbo Boost Switcher was used fo turn on/turn off turbo boost.Below images with measurement.

With turboboost on




With coil whine - turbo boost on


Without coil whine - turbo boost is off


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May 4, 2020 7:59 AM in response to shpakdm

Turbo Boost boosts the clock rate on small number of processors when the rest are idle and the processor chip is comparatively cool. When many processors are in use, such as doing high-end work, Turbo Boost is not available.


If the noise bothers you, there are third-party utilities to turn off Turbo boost. The decrease in real-world performance is very small.


For software development, this means you will, wait a little longer for your single-threaded complies to complete, but it will be less irritating while you wait.

May 4, 2020 8:36 AM in response to shpakdm

" It is not about cooling - the noise comes from bad quality inductors - `coil whine` it is not about cooling "


Then that would suggest Dell and Lenovo install bad quality inductors as well. Forums are constantly complaining about coil whine on these brands as well. I can't say you're right or wrong but I'm not convinced something is of "bad quality" when other major manufacturer's laptops exhibit coil whine.

Jan 2, 2020 7:18 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Hello! I just watched this YouTube video. The sound from my MacBookPro 16-inch i9 1TSSD is similar to this one. Excuse me, does all MacBookPro 16 inches have such SSD noise? Or is it probable that only a few people's MacBookPro SSDs make this sound? Is this a quality issue? I feel that the place where the noise is emitted should be near the keyboard W, E, R keys. I had a ThinkPad P1gen2 (i7-9750H, Intel 512G SSD) before, and I had similar current noise. But when I disable the CPU Turbo function in the BIOS, this current noise disappears, and the SSD reads no noise, but the CPU will be hot. And I found that when the ThinkPad P1 turns on the energy-saving mode, the current noise is small, and when the high performance is turned on, the current noise will increase. So I have always suspected that the MacBookPro 16-inch current noise comes from the CPU Turbo function , the power supply inductance howls, and the higher the power consumption, the more obvious this noise is. And the inductance on Apple's SSD is fixed with glue, which should not cause vibration.

May 2, 2020 7:37 AM in response to area3d

Turbo Boost boosts the clock rate on small number of processors when the rest are idle and the processor chip is comparatively cool. When many processors are in use, such as doing high-end work, Turbo Boost is not available.


If the noise bothers you, there are third-party utilities to turn off Turbo boost. The decrease in real-world performance is very small.



May 4, 2020 8:44 AM in response to shpakdm

I didn't say every model has coil whine. The 13" machines are not high performance machines with dGPU's. The same with Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Extreme. It's a 15" with a dGPU and an 8 core processor. It exhibits coil whine. The Dell XPS 15" also with a dGPU also exhibits coil whine. I'm only mentioning these other brands (especially the Lenovo) because they are expensive and Lenovo's X1 Extreme is just as expensive as the 16" MBP, so the amount someone pays will not dictate if coil whine will exist or not.

May 4, 2020 3:07 PM in response to area3d

Seems to be that SOME here are shunning the fact that other brands like Lenovo and Dell that have incessant coil whine as well and should be ignored so we can focus only the MacBook Pro, which is ridiculous. The point is coil whine is common (for those that experience it) amongst Windows machines as well. Of course people here just want to make it about Apple as if Apple is the only one just so the blame lies only on Apple. Doesn't change the fact that coil whine is common amongst all computer manufacturers. It's silly to give other brands a pass and only place blame towards Apple.

May 4, 2020 3:38 PM in response to DPJ

No this means that apple instead of good quality control give some people macbooks without coil whine, But for Another people - with coil whine - so is this serious on you mind?(please dont give other companies notebooks examples - if i bought other company notebook notebook i would had same conversation on their forum)

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