Question Coil whine gpu or psu?

[Matoo69]

So i have wierd noise but only when benchmarking or gaming when i quit gaming the coil whine stops…

for gpu i have gtx 1060 3gb msi oc ed.
For psu i have antec eag pro 750w 80+ gold.

it is gpu/psu or Is somthing else? Like hdd?

 

[Karadjgne]

Psu is Earthwatts Pro 750 Gold, it's a really decent psu. Mobo doesn't whine when gpu is removed. Sounds like gpu is source of the whine and not the motherboard.

For gpu, what you can do is use Evga Precision X or Msi Afterburner and run a stress test. Then change the clock/memory speeds and power limits slightly, a small overclock or underclock and see if that changes the whine. Just make small changes, run multiple stress tests.

 

[Matoo69]

Psu is Earthwatts Pro 750 Gold, it's a really decent psu. Mobo doesn't whine when gpu is removed. Sounds like gpu is source of the whine and not the motherboard.

For gpu, what you can do is use Evga Precision X or Msi Afterburner and run a stress test. Then change the clock/memory speeds and power limits slightly, a small overclock or underclock and see if that changes the whine. Just make small changes, run multiple stress tests.

ok thanks,do you know any good video about oc?
Do you prefer oc or downclock? Do i need to change memory/clock speed and voltage?
Do you know by how much?how?

gtx 1060 3gt msi oc

 

[Matoo69]

Psu is Earthwatts Pro 750 Gold, it's a really decent psu. Mobo doesn't whine when gpu is removed. Sounds like gpu is source of the whine and not the motherboard.

For gpu, what you can do is use Evga Precision X or Msi Afterburner and run a stress test. Then change the clock/memory speeds and power limits slightly, a small overclock or underclock and see if that changes the whine. Just make small changes, run multiple stress tests.

the problem is in my gpu,my freind give me for test his gpu gtx 1050 2gb and no sound after tests…so f***

 

[Karadjgne]

Don't confuse apples with oranges. Your friend has an entirely different card, running entirely different clocks and voltages and is made of entirely different components, even if they are the same size, brand, capacity. So what your friends card does or does not do has nothing whatsoever to do with your card.

If your clock speeds are 1390MHz, bump it to 1395MHz. If your memory is 7700MHz, move it to 7750MHz etc. If your power limit is set to 0%, move it to 2%. You don't need a video to tell you how to move a slider bar a small amount.

 

[Matoo69]

I undervolt it but set core voltage +10, the max gpuvoltage on gpuz from 1.08 to 0.9 after heavenbenchmark,gpu clock from 1923 to 1531.
Its whine still but not that much…

but idk if i do it right,so any help is appreciated
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1- https://ibb.co/x29vrZC
2- https://ibb.co/ypFz94Y

 

[Karadjgne]

Ok, leave voltages alone for now. Bump gpu upto 1551MHz, memory to 4106, power limit to 105%. See if that helps more.

 

[Matoo69]

Ok, leave voltages alone for now. Bump gpu upto 1551MHz, memory to 4106, power limit to 105%. See if that helps more.

hey good morning,i wil try later when i get home from work then i will post replay here,

btw for low fps the perf. Didnt change but for max fps the perf. Change from ~250 to ~215 in heavenbenchamark.

 

[russell_john]

Yes you can. Put your ear next to it.

GPUs don’t have any components that could whine like that other than maybe fans. You could try placing a finger on the fans to stop them and see if the whine goes away.

If it doesn’t, then it’s your PSU. The large capacitors in your PSU are the only things that could be making an audible whine.

That's not right at all, it's the inductors that whine, they are coils and all coils have certain frequencies they will resonate at which is how the coils in radios do their thing ..... Most likely it's the VRMs on the GPU or the VRMs on the motherboard which run at higher switching frequencies than power supplies do. A few years ago I had coil whine on a single phase VRM that powered the SATA port on an old FX8320 motherboard. The odd thing is it would whine when the drives powered down in power savings mode because the frequency of the switching would rise and hit the frequency that would make the coil go resonant. Solution was to go into my power settings and make them spin all the time. I still have perfect hearing in my right ear and can hear coil whine at frequencies most people much over 30 can no longer hear.

A lot has to do with the manufacturing of the inductor itself, better inductors use a quality "potting" which coats the coils and keeps them from resonating. Cheaper coils will have no potting or use a substance that dries out over time causing whine after they age and are heated and cooled hundreds of times. A good way of trying to locate the coils that are whining is get a cheap stethoscope, pull the head off of it and carefully move the hose over/near the coils on your GPU or motherboard

 

[Matoo69]

That's not right at all, it's the inductors that whine, they are coils and all coils have certain frequencies they will resonate at which is how the coils in radios do their thing ..... Most likely it's the VRMs on the GPU or the VRMs on the motherboard which run at higher switching frequencies than power supplies do. A few years ago I had coil whine on a single phase VRM that powered the SATA port on an old FX8320 motherboard. The odd thing is it would whine when the drives powered down in power savings mode because the frequency of the switching would rise and hit the frequency that would make the coil go resonant. Solution was to go into my power settings and make them spin all the time. I still have perfect hearing in my right ear and can hear coil whine at frequencies most people much over 30 can no longer hear.

A lot has to do with the manufacturing of the inductor itself, better inductors use a quality "potting" which coats the coils and keeps them from resonating. Cheaper coils will have no potting or use a substance that dries out over time causing whine after they age and are heated and cooled hundreds of times. A good way of trying to locate the coils that are whining is get a cheap stethoscope, pull the head off of it and carefully move the hose over/near the coils on your GPU or motherboard

I dont think is the mobo,it is gpu

 

[Matoo69]

I return this gpu and buy asus 3gb 1060 with one fan and all ok, also ofc secend hand,but the guy i returt say that for him on his pc that sound dosent appere,what could that be then?

i test 1050 no sound,i test havenbenchmark and warface without gpu connected with hdmi to mobo directly no sound…how that for him “no sound”? I mean (no coil whine)

 

[Matoo69]

I return this gpu and buy asus 3gb 1060 with one fan and all ok, also ofc secend hand,but the guy i returt say that for him on his pc that sound dosent appere,what could that be then?

i test 1050 no sound,i test havenbenchmark and warface without gpu connected with hdmi to mobo directly no sound…how that for him “no sound”? I mean (no coil whine)

he send me the video i can hear it a little but he has strogner fans then i do so i can hear this coil whine little less but is still there,on this mine bmnkw gtx 1060 ausu 1fan pheonix there is no coil whine,myb a little or its just fan but you must get very very close with your ear,on other one msi i can here it when i come to room,so it was gpu or?

 

[Matoo69]

Are those temp good?

playing warzone for about 3/4h cpu max out at 57c and gpu max out at 73c,is that ok?