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So what is the issue then? Maybe I will stick with the 3070. Haven't owned a standalone card for 15 years so I am sure I will be blown away anyway.

I know the recommended min for an RTX 3080 is 750W PSU. But when I put my components into the PSU calculator in Outvision, I get recommend a 500W PSU with the RTX 3080. I currently have: Z370 Gaming ITX motherboard i7-8700k 2x Corsair 8GB DDR4 3000 Some SSD card I don't remember My PSU is...

I disabled c1e, c3, C6 and c7 in bios and seemed to make a difference. Almost silent when idle, but as soon as I start doing anything the noise comes back but less intensely than before. So this at least narrows it down to something caused by voltage variation.

I was thinking that perhaps it is caused by bubbles int he thermal paste expanding and escaping (I removed the heat sink and reattached without cleaning the paste and reapply). But I am probably way off. It sounds almost like an old hdd.

Are you watercooled?

Anyone else have any ideas?

OK. Tried that to no avail. :(

It is definitely not a fan. PSU fan is not running, and I tried running it without the heatsink fans attached and I get the same noise. Should a build without a hard drive or optical drive (and fans switched off) be making any noise at all? I'll see if I can find a tube somewhere. May not be...

Grateful for help. Just finished building my first PC (have not put in the case yet). Unfortunately it is making a consistent (but not uniform) light clicking noise. It is a noise that I have always associated with computers under heavy load, and always assumed it is the hdd making that noise...