# Youtube videos are making weird mechanical sounds

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-are-making-weird-mechanical-sounds/684332 "2014-03-23T02:11:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-are-making-weird-mechanical-sounds/684332/1 "2014-03-23T02:11:35Z")

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When watching youtube sometimes I’ll get a mechanical sound, like if I were hearing the video really slow down for a second. Then things go back to normal. This happens on different browsers. I don’t know how to describe the sound other than just distortion that lasts a second or two, and sounds like the computer isn’t processing the videos properly.

I downloaded advanced system care to see if that would fix it, and it didn’t. So I researched it and saw that a high temp CPU could do it. So I downloaded speedfan. It says my GPU and core are at about 60C. I don’t know how high that is, is that something to worry about?

A little over a year ago I had to have the CPU fan replaced on my PC. I’m wondering if it broke again.

Or it could be a totally different cause.

FWIW, I don’t think I"ve ever had this problem when gaming on my laptop, just when watching videos like youtube.

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-are-making-weird-mechanical-sounds/684332/2 "2014-03-23T03:04:12Z")

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I’m pretty sure it’s Youtube, it just randomly started to happen to me the last couple days as well.

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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-are-making-weird-mechanical-sounds/684332/3 "2014-03-23T22:13:56Z")

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Yeah, something like a clicking sound. I know it’s ridiculous in this digital age.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-are-making-weird-mechanical-sounds/684332/4 "2014-03-24T13:47:39Z")

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I’ve been watching _Foyle’s War_ on my Roku-TV combination on a channel that streams British TV called “AcornTV,” and last night, I noticed the sound y’all are describing. It’s a mechanical, scraping/clicking sound that lasts only a fraction of a second. Reminds me a little of scraping a phonograph needle across a record, but oh-so-briefly.

I didn’t keep track of the intervals, but it seemed to be about every 20 minutes or so.

So maybe it’s not just YouTube; maybe it’s connected with the streaming function itself. \<shrug\>