Vega 64 making weird noise and freezes after running benchmark

[AdemKahraman]

So, games used to run super smoothly on my Vega 64, and modern warfare would run at 100+ FPS. But after downloading some drivers and updating my bios because windows loaded pretty slow. After doing all of this, Windows loaded in a lot faster than before. But for some reason it had a drawback and I couldn’t figure out why playing modern warfare the game couldn’t render anything as it used to anymore. So I immediately reverted my bios and reinstalled windows. My games got corrupted so I instead tried to benchmark and I got some very weird results. The first couple of time of benchmarking it worked, giving me an outstanding rating for my GPU and CPU saying the CPU ran more than expected and my GPU ran as expected, but my RAM and SSD were underperforming. So I dropped from 32 GB to 16 GB RAM. I also ordered a new drive, which is an SSHD 2TB. So I thought everything would be fine until I wanted to test again to see if my benchmark score can improve... “spoiler” it did not improve at all... I ran the benchmark, cpu did good at testing and when it got to the part where the GPU was being tested I heard a weird noise coming from my computer(still can’t figure out where the noise is coming from) it was almost like a long click noise, it clicked once or twice, for the duration of each benchmark screen, then my windows freezes and the benchmark stops continuing. I also noticed that the fans don’t spin on the GPU while going through the benchmark, keep in mind that those fans used to spin when it was working. I have to end up hard restarting it completely. I’ve heard it’s called coil whining, but it’s not that loud at all. It’s just a low pitch noise and bam the benchmark immediately stops and then windows freezes. All my antivirus and firewall is off as well. I have literally tried everything except replacing the parts. I don’t know if it’s the GPU at all because it’s brand new and was working fine before. But anyway, I stripped my computer down to its core and rebuilt it back up and still same issue. I also heard that it’s the PSU, but i do not know if it is because those people aren’t going through the exact same issue as me. I’m using a 750W EVGA PSU, the part number is 100-N1-0750. I should probably also mention that I have one Cable that has two pcie 2/6 that are all on one cable, people said that’s one of the issues, but my psu is not modular and you can’t replace the cables. I will also post my specs. Please someone help me with this issue, I just got the GPU brand new and I’m scared that I messed up.

Specs:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE: X470 ultra gaming
CPU: Ryzen 2700x
GPU: GIGABYTE RADEON RX VEGA 64 OC 8GB
RAM: Corsair vengeance 2x, 2x8GB
SSD: XPG SX6000 LITE
PSU: EVGA 750W 100N10750

[Juular]

58 minutes ago, AdemKahraman said:

PSU: EVGA 750W 100N10750

Ooch, that's no good, pairing group regulated PSU with AMD Vega, replace it ASAP, you're sitting on a powder keg.

[AdemKahraman]

8 hours ago, Juular said:

Ooch, that's no good, pairing group regulated PSU with AMD Vega, replace it ASAP, you're sitting on a powder keg.

What psu do you recommend? I’m going shopping rn...

 

[Juular]

12 minutes ago, AdemKahraman said:

What psu do you recommend? I’m going shopping rn...

 

Judging by your username i have a feeling that you're not in US so it's hard to say, give me a couple online stores local to you and i'd see what you can get there.

[AdemKahraman]

3 hours ago, Juular said:

Judging by your username i have a feeling that you're not in US so it's hard to say, give me a couple online stores local to you and i'd see what you can get there.

I’m in the U.S. I just stopped at Best Buy and picked up a Corsair CX750M modular psu 80 plus bronze. Is that good enough? Otherwise I can return it, but this is all that Best Buy has to offer.

 

[Juular]

55 minutes ago, AdemKahraman said:

I’m in the U.S. I just stopped at Best Buy and picked up a Corsair CX750M modular psu 80 plus bronze. Is that good enough? Otherwise I can return it, but this is all that Best Buy has to offer.

 

For 80$ ? No. I'd recommend Enermax Revolution D.F. or Corsair RMx from Amazon or Corsair RM if you'd rather get it at Best Buy.

[AdemKahraman]

13 minutes ago, Juular said:

For 80$ ? No. I'd recommend Enermax Revolution D.F. or Corsair RMx from Amazon or Corsair RM if you'd rather get it at Best Buy.

Ah, well I replaced the psu and the problem is gone... I’m still hearing that weird noises coming from the computer though. But still, I’m not experiencing any type of crashes or freezes anymore.

[Juular]

Well that weird noise is a coil whine, if it wasn't there before then probably GPU's VRM got damaged because of previous PSU's bad power delivery but that's rather unlikely that it'll start to whine just because of that. There are some coil whine with any GPU, maybe you wasn't paying attention to it before.

[AdemKahraman]

Yup that has likely been the issue, thanks so much man!!!! You’re a blessing! I’ve been doing lots of benchmarks and not  single freeze! But however I feel like my Vega 64 underperforms a little because it says it can run 4K pretty good, but when I’m running 4K on modern warfare, textures in the game are not generated and rendered. But the benchmark says that my GPU performs at or above expectations. It gets very weird.. the coil whine can’t really be heard anymore, although it’s very very faint, even at 4K. But 1920x1080 works fine, it’s just anything higher than that resolution, gets wonky. Any suggestions? I’m well opened to it.

[AdemKahraman]

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5 hours ago, Juular said:

Well that weird noise is a coil whine, if it wasn't there before then probably GPU's VRM got damaged because of previous PSU's bad power delivery but that's rather unlikely that it'll start to whine just because of that. There are some coil whine with any GPU, maybe you wasn't paying attention to it before.

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Yup that has likely been the issue, thanks so much man!!!! You’re a blessing! I’ve been doing lots of benchmarks and not  single freeze! But however I feel like my Vega 64 underperforms a little because it says it can run 4K pretty good, but when I’m running 4K on modern warfare, textures in the game are not generated and rendered. But the benchmark says that my GPU performs at or above expectations. It gets very weird.. the coil whine can’t really be heard anymore, although it’s very very faint, even at 4K. But 1920x1080 works fine, it’s just anything higher than that resolution, gets wonky. Any suggestions? I’m well opened to it.

EDIT: I have only used the old PSU w/ the Vega 64 for only a week before swapping it out w/ a new one.

[Juular]

No current generation GPU are capable of running 4K games with 144Hz FPS, RTX2080Ti gets you 80-120 FPS in most games but Vega 64 would be lower in some and much lower in other.

[AdemKahraman]

Of course not. I fixed the issue and my Vega 64 can run Modern Warfare all high settings @160-200 FPS on 1080p res. Before my textures weren’t rendered on 1080p and when I tried 4K I would literally crash, but I have fixed that issue as well.