Gigabyte 3080ti loud buzzing sound

[chris1981]

I was playing rocket league and scored a cracking goal. In my celebration I have kicked my case by accident and now my 3080ti is making a loud buzzing sound under load. On the desktop it is fine. I have set the fans to 100% on the desktop and there is no noise so it's not the fans. The card runs fine but the sound is terrible. Any ideas what I have done to it? Can it be fixed?

[Alex Atkin UK]

Is it constantly the same tone or does it change pitch based on load and independently of fan speed?

It could be you broke the fan bearings or coil whine, given the cause of coil whine is inductors being loose and a whack could easily trigger it. 

Manually changing the fan speed in MSI Afterburner could isolate if its the fans or not.

[chris1981]

I have just used afterburner to adjust the fans speeds and it makes no difference so definitely not the fans. The sound stays the same when it's under any kind of load. It only stops when I go back to the desktop. Can I send the card away to have the inductors changed?

[randy123]

48 minutes ago, chris1981 said:

I have just used afterburner to adjust the fans speeds and it makes no difference so definitely not the fans. The sound stays the same when it's under any kind of load. It only stops when I go back to the desktop. Can I send the card away to have the inductors changed?

If you are still under warrenty yes. Just make sure not to tell them you hit the case. Just say it happened randomly 

[chris1981]

10 hours ago, randy123 said:

If you are still under warrenty yes. Just make sure not to tell them you hit the case. Just say it happened randomly 

It has got a 6 year warranty so I am going to try to rma the card. Got nothing to lose by trying. 

[chris1981]

Decided to have another look at everything again today. It is not the gpu making the sound. It is the psu. I am rather relieved!

[randy123]

Good to hear; replace that PSU asap

[chris1981]

Replaced it with a Corsair rm850x