When under a graphically intensive load, there is a very loud buzzing, almost sizzling sound that comes from the GPU. Starts off low when opening a game, but gets loud when in game.

Does this sound like coil whine or something more sinister? I've attached a sound recording, you will need to turn up volume to hear it.

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[–] Nate19 2 points 1 year ago

After running a bunch of stress tests and capping the frames to 140. It seems like the whining has decreased after each run.

[–] anon232 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are your games running at uncapped framerates and reaching above 400 fps? The more FPS you're getting the more stress being put on the GPU.

[–] Nate19 1 points 1 year ago

fps was sitting around 140 in the test (running mw2 benchmark)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If the sound changes with the load on the card, it's very likely coil whine. You might be able to fix it with V-sync.

[–] Nate19 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capping FPS to 140 for my monitor, but that doesn't seem to help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try capping it at something like 60 just for testing and see if the whine decreases. It might just be unavoidable at those framerates, although I might see about RMA-ing the card if it whines that much at reasonable framerates.