I’ve finally managed to acquire a 5900X, and I’ve paired it with a MSI MEG X570 Unify, and I’m getting a horrible whining noise in games.
From what I can tell it’s related to the transfer rate on the PCI interface. I’ve found that the noise is worst when running benchmarks that results is a high transfer rate, as opposed to just high GPU power. Furmark (with the furry object disabled) and Novabench seem to produce the worst noise.
I can’t tell exactly where it’s coming from, but it sounds like a high-pitched white noise. I've turned off all the fans, so it's no coming from any of them, and the frequency & volume of the noise seems to vary with the framerate in the benchmarks.
I ended up taking the board back and getting a new one, but I’m getting the exact same thing.
I’ve tried it with 3 different GPUs (GTX 1070, GTX 780, GTX 550Ti) and while the 1070 is loudest, they all produce the same noise.
I’ve tried dropping the PCIe bus down to gen 3, disabling XMP, both upgrading and downgrading the BIOS, but nothing makes any difference.
I’m at a complete loss, I don’t know what else to try.
Could the problem with the CPU itself? The packaging it was in was a little beat up, but the CPU box itself looked fine. Unfortunately, I don’t have any other compatible CPUs to try, and I really don’t want to have to send it back and try and get a new one.
From what I can tell it’s related to the transfer rate on the PCI interface. I’ve found that the noise is worst when running benchmarks that results is a high transfer rate, as opposed to just high GPU power. Furmark (with the furry object disabled) and Novabench seem to produce the worst noise.
I can’t tell exactly where it’s coming from, but it sounds like a high-pitched white noise. I've turned off all the fans, so it's no coming from any of them, and the frequency & volume of the noise seems to vary with the framerate in the benchmarks.
I ended up taking the board back and getting a new one, but I’m getting the exact same thing.
I’ve tried it with 3 different GPUs (GTX 1070, GTX 780, GTX 550Ti) and while the 1070 is loudest, they all produce the same noise.
I’ve tried dropping the PCIe bus down to gen 3, disabling XMP, both upgrading and downgrading the BIOS, but nothing makes any difference.
I’m at a complete loss, I don’t know what else to try.
Could the problem with the CPU itself? The packaging it was in was a little beat up, but the CPU box itself looked fine. Unfortunately, I don’t have any other compatible CPUs to try, and I really don’t want to have to send it back and try and get a new one.