Buzzing/clicking noise on multiple GPU's

[Stonedfish]

Hello there,

I'll make this short. I have already RMA'd my asus strix gtx970 and I've got a replacement without any question, so I got myself a 980ti which has a terrible buzzing noise while gaming, it's the electronic component buzzing and not the whine, but whine is also present above like 200 fps. I decided to throw in my old palit 550ti and realized it makes the same buzzing/clicky noise while gaming but this one has no coil whine whatsoever and is pretty much way more quiet than the other two - it's whisper quiet and barely noticable.

In the meanwhile, I threw my strix 980ti inside my old config and it's also buzzing as hell there.

So this config is:
CPU: i5 4690k
MOBO: Asus Maximus VII Ranger
GPU: Asus Strix 980ti
RAM: G.Skill Sniper 8gb
PSU: Corsair RM850, I use a GS700 in my old config.

What I was wondering, is there a chance certain component, I can only think of motherboard and/or PSU, starts this issue, this buzzing/clicking noise and then once it started it, it becomes permanent on the gpu, no matter which config you put the gpu in.

[Morgan MLGman]

Don't buy ASUS GPUs then, they're not that good

[Stonedfish]

Don't buy ASUS GPUs then, they're not that good

I said my old palit 550ti also has that issue, it's not asus but it's barely audible on that 1 tho. Was just wondering if something in my pc is causing dmg to gpu's, if that's anyhow possible?

[Morgan MLGman]

I said my old palit 550ti also has that issue, it's not asus but it's barely audible on that 1 tho. Was just wondering if something in my pc is causing dmg to gpu's, if that's anyhow possible?

I'd say that's bad luck and ASUS quality combined, you should pick MSI over ASUS for example

[SirDucksallot]

Maybe its coil whine?

[Stonedfish]

Maybe its coil whine?

Nope, it's clicking noise/coil whine, something between. Firmly pressing the backplate towards the pcb removes the noise completely, but as soon as I release the noise is back

[SirDucksallot]

Nope, it's clicking noise/coil whine, something between. Firmly pressing the backplate towards the pcb removes the noise completely, but as soon as I release the noise is back

Maybe one of the screws of the backplate is not all the way in?So,when your card vibrates it just wiggles around?

[Stonedfish]

Maybe one of the screws of the backplate is not all the way in?So,when your card vibrates it just wiggles around?

all r in

[Stonedfish]

Got told by a customer support worker over at evga that this could happen due to a faulty psu - bad voltage and/or a faulty motherboard and that those 2 could make perma dmg to my gpu so it will still whine in another configuration.

[SirDucksallot]

Got told by a customer support worker over at evga that this could happen due to a faulty psu - bad voltage and/or a faulty motherboard and that those 2 could make perma dmg to my gpu so it will still whine in another configuration.

You replaced your PSU,didnt you?I dont think you could get a new one that still would be faulty,so might wanna consider looking at the MOBO.