PSU starting buzzing after overclocking GPU

[SSTitan]

I decided to overclock my EVGA 1070ti last weekend. I didn’t keep the overclock setting after playing with it so now it’s back at stock. I noticed this week I have a weird hum or buzz coming from my power supply when under load. I took it halfway out of the case and fired up a game to confirm it was the power supply. It’s a cheap 600W standard 80 plus certified from cyberpower. I don’t remember the name. My question is can overclocking damage a power supply? I’ve watched some videos on humming being an annoying but common thing. I just found it odd that it started after I started to overclock my GPU

[emosun]

change it regardless, especially if its a cheap unit

[seriosbrad]

Are you sure it's the Power Supply? It's very common for video cards to have "coil whine" under load.  My non-Ti 1070 does it, and I've had plenty of cards in the past do it. It's also harmless.

[Terabyte_272]

Could be your mobo too , when i put my system under load sometimes my motherboard coil wines

[SSTitan]

1 minute ago, seriosbrad said:

Are you sure it's the Power Supply? It's very common for video cards to have "coil whine" under load.  My non-Ti 1070 does it, and I've had plenty of cards in the past do it. It's also harmless.

I’m almost certain. I took it about halfway out of the case and placed my ear right near the exhaust. I say almost Certain because I have a meshify c and the case isn’t know for quiteness. I did see in a vid that gpu’s did that as well, which is news to me. Just really curious if a power supply can be damaged from overclocking. 

[SSTitan]

13 minutes ago, emosun said:

change it regardless, especially if its a cheap unit

I ordered a EVGA supernova 750 80 plus gold yesterday. I couldn’t really find an answer to my question so I decided to join and post here. 

[SSTitan]

5 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

Could be your mobo too , when i put my system under load sometimes my motherboard coil wines

I didn’t know a motherboard could have a coil whine. I’m about 98% sure it’s the power supply 

[Terabyte_272]

1 minute ago, SSTitan said:

I didn’t know a motherboard could have a coil whine. I’m about 98% sure it’s the power supply 

ok. (Some slightly older motherboards can have coil whine I am on the am3 platform and some am3 motherboards at least have coil whine)

[Terabyte_272]

 

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, SSTitan said:

I ordered a EVGA supernova 750 80 plus gold yesterday. I couldn’t really find an answer to my question so I decided to join and post here. 

Which one?  EVGA has six different Gold PSUs.  Half of them will have the same problem.

[SSTitan]

[SSTitan]

23 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

 

Interesting..sooo I’m not going to tell my wife that I didn’t need a new power supply because I thought I screwed it up lol

[Ankerson]

22 minutes ago, SSTitan said:

 

 

The 750W EVGA G2 would have been a better choice, it's a much better UNIT, one of the most solid PSU's you can buy.

[Rexper]

9 hours ago, Ankerson said:

The 750W EVGA G2 would have been a better choice, it's a much better UNIT, one of the most solid PSU's you can buy.

How is the G2 a much better unit than the G3...?