Coil whine above 70 fps

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Whenever i increase a game past 60-70 fps, i start to get a very annoying sound, sounds mechanical/electrical and friends have told me its coil whine. This is only effected by fps and not be the difficulty of the game to run. Fallout 4 causes no issues. But minecraft above 70 fps, triggers it every time.

i have a ryzen 5 1600 cpu, Gtx 1050 ti MSI, Asus b350 mother board. an evga 650W power supply.

Is there a possible fix for this, or am i just shit out of luck until i upgrade?
 
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Most of the time manufacturers won't replace a GPU that's affected by coil whine as it's an "expected behavior". However, if you're already affected by it you might as well try to limit the framerate. I'm not sure if Nvidia has an option to do this under their driver's settings but enabling Vertical Sync (V-Sync) under the game settings should work too. Of course, if your framerate is not steady, this could only make playing a little bit more annoying. Other than that, there's not much you can do.

It may also be your PSU but I highly doubt it as it doesn't really match the symptoms.

CircuitDaemon

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Most of the time manufacturers won't replace a GPU that's affected by coil whine as it's an "expected behavior". However, if you're already affected by it you might as well try to limit the framerate. I'm not sure if Nvidia has an option to do this under their driver's settings but enabling Vertical Sync (V-Sync) under the game settings should work too. Of course, if your framerate is not steady, this could only make playing a little bit more annoying. Other than that, there's not much you can do.

It may also be your PSU but I highly doubt it as it doesn't really match the symptoms.
 
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