Whistling 760

[TiniestCosine65]

Hey guys, I have a strange question for ya. I have a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 760 (2gb version) I was playing Minecraft today, and when I move my "head" in the game, moving my mouse in different directions, I get a strange whistle or high pitch buzzing sound. The sound is almost similar to the way old mechanical hard drives get when you are scrolling through your web browser making them think. But as I listen to it more, it seems to be coming from my card. And as soon as I get out of the game to come to the forums to post this topic, it stops. I'm guessing because the card doesn't have to work as hard rendering a web page as it does a Minecraft world. Does this make sense to anyone? Anyone ever had this problem? Is it a problem? If so, how do I fix it? I'm not a fan of high pitch noises.

[Sanderman135]

Sounds like you've got some bad coil whine. There's not much you can really do about it. 

[Guest]

Probably the fan on the GPU cooler wearing out. When the card has to work harder the fan spins faster and makes the noise. 

[TiniestCosine65]

Is this just from the fans ramping up to cool the card as it renders the new area? This is the first time Ive heard it do it. The card still runs beautifully.

[TiniestCosine65]

I guess I'll have to start paying attention to it with other games and see if it still does it. As I said, this is the first time ive noticed it, and the card still runs great.

 

[don_svetlio]

Coil whine - nothing you can do about it

[Bajantechnician]

1 hour ago, TiniestCosine65 said:

Hey guys, I have a strange question for ya. I have a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 760 (2gb version) I was playing Minecraft today, and when I move my "head" in the game, moving my mouse in different directions, I get a strange whistle or high pitch buzzing sound. The sound is almost similar to the way old mechanical hard drives get when you are scrolling through your web browser making them think. But as I listen to it more, it seems to be coming from my card. And as soon as I get out of the game to come to the forums to post this topic, it stops. I'm guessing because the card doesn't have to work as hard rendering a web page as it does a Minecraft world. Does this make sense to anyone? Anyone ever had this problem? Is it a problem? If so, how do I fix it? I'm not a fan of high pitch noises.

coin whine.

 

if you can, rma.

else, gg

[TiniestCosine65]

I highly doubt rma is a possibility, Ill just have to deal with it. Ive had it for quite a while, and it was mine second hand.

[TiniestCosine65]

I have a question. Coil wine would be a constant pitch while the fan is at that certain speed right? Well when I'm playing Minecraft, It changes pitches as I look up and down or in different directions. I don't understand this at all. Can anyone explain this?

[Guest]

23 minutes ago, TiniestCosine65 said:

I have a question. Coil wine would be a constant pitch while the fan is at that certain speed right? Well when I'm playing Minecraft, It changes pitches as I look up and down or in different directions. I don't understand this at all. Can anyone explain this?

The fan should be tied to temps and temps are tied to GPU usage. If you want to know for sure, use a program such as MSI Afterburner and manually set the fan speed to listen to the noise it's making at various speeds.

[TiniestCosine65]

Alright cool, that sounds like a great idea. Is MSI Afterburner free? I didn't think about that

[Guest]

1 minute ago, TiniestCosine65 said:

Alright cool, that sounds like a great idea. Is MSI Afterburner free? I didn't think about that

Yes you can download it from msi free. 

[TiniestCosine65]

Awesome, thanks man. I'll download it sometime tomorrow and post the results.

[bcredeur97]

coil whine varies. typically gpu's dont ramp up and down that quickly. 

Im 95% sure you have a coil whine issue. 

 

nothing much you can do though sadly

[Snadzies]

Likely coil whine.

 

Not that uncommon to have during games that aren't very demanding and can run at several hundred, even thousands, or frames per second.

The kind of strain that puts on a GPU is not always the same compared to more graphically demanding games and can make cards that run perfectly fine during more demanding games whine at an audible frequency.

 

Try using v-sync or something like MSI afterburner with Rvia Tuner to cap the framerate and keep it from going so high.

 

I haven't had a card yet that didn't whine during the opening splash screens of Crysis and during loading screen in The Sims games if I didn't limit the frame rate.

I've seen those run at over 3,000fps if I left them unchecked.

[TiniestCosine65]

Thanks Snadzies, I will definitely test this out! I never even thought of that. I get multiple hundreds, sometimes thousands fps in Minecraft, so that may be it. Cause like you said, in the other games Ive test so far, GTA V and CoD BO3, I didn't hear it.

[TiniestCosine65]

I limited it to 250, pretty much the max I could limit it to, other than unlimited. And I don't hear it now from the very short test. You would think it would happen in the new more demanding games instead of Minecraft because it has to work harder in them.