resolved Can Coil Whine Buzz?

[JustSomeRandomGuy]

I’ve never had a GPU with coil whine, so I’ve never actually heard coil whine in person. As such, I am not familiar with the beautiful choir of sounds that can accompany coil whine. Just today, I got a 6700 XT card and put it in my system. Sometimes the card will buzz every now and then. It comes and goes, and only seems to happen when under load. However, even that is not terribly consistent. I could not get the card to make a sound at all when running Fur Mark, but I could with other benchmarking software and games. It sounds a little similar to the buzzing when a zip tie or cable is just barely touching a fan, and it definitely sounds like it could be electrical-related. At first I thought maybe there was an issue with the fans, but they seem fine after manually testing them with Afterburner. Is it possible for coil whine to not actually whine but rather buzz?

[RAS_3885]

Yep, that's coil whine. It's caused by the electrical components physically vibrating and can take on all sorts of different sounds.

[da na]

Welcome to the forums!
Coil whine can make an unbelievable array of sounds...

[RONOTHAN##]

30 minutes ago, JustSomeRandomGuy said:

However, even that is not terribly consistent. I could not get the card to make a sound at all when running Fur Mark, but I could with other benchmarking software and games.

Pretty common. Coil whine can come and go depending on exactly the type of workload it is. Usually higher framerates means higher pitched whine, but that's not always the case.

[lafrente]

You wanna hear it properly? Launch an old game, lower the graphics, turn off vsync or any frame limiter and voila. You'll hear it.

[JustSomeRandomGuy]

Thanks for the quick responses, everyone!