Well, after having my build together for about a week I've started to notice the inevitable coil whine with the 970's.
In most situations, it's entirely tolerable, but Skyrim seems to make it just flat out screechy, for lack of a better word. I've tried vsync, I've tried limiting frames to 60 with Nvidia Inspector, and I've tried resolutions & settings ranging from 1440p @ max to 720p @ low, always the same issue. I'm pretty sure it's not just fan noise, as one video I'd watched said a good way to tell it's coil whine is to see if the sound 'plays along' with you. To try this, I went in a dark cave and looked between the light shining outside and the relatively dark floor underneath me - as I move the mouse, I hear the screeching change pitch, which stays steady when looking at a steady environment.
I've tinkered with the voltage, really no difference so far in anything.
Older games that I have just for the sake of it (Age of Empires 2 HD for one example) run with no noticeable whine at all, and other newer games I've tried (AC: Unity & DA: Inquisition for example) have a very slight whine that I can live with. Heaven benchmark has the card behaving about the same as these two in terms of noise.
Is there anything particularly special about Skyrim that might just make this card not want to play nice?
In most situations, it's entirely tolerable, but Skyrim seems to make it just flat out screechy, for lack of a better word. I've tried vsync, I've tried limiting frames to 60 with Nvidia Inspector, and I've tried resolutions & settings ranging from 1440p @ max to 720p @ low, always the same issue. I'm pretty sure it's not just fan noise, as one video I'd watched said a good way to tell it's coil whine is to see if the sound 'plays along' with you. To try this, I went in a dark cave and looked between the light shining outside and the relatively dark floor underneath me - as I move the mouse, I hear the screeching change pitch, which stays steady when looking at a steady environment.
I've tinkered with the voltage, really no difference so far in anything.
Older games that I have just for the sake of it (Age of Empires 2 HD for one example) run with no noticeable whine at all, and other newer games I've tried (AC: Unity & DA: Inquisition for example) have a very slight whine that I can live with. Heaven benchmark has the card behaving about the same as these two in terms of noise.
Is there anything particularly special about Skyrim that might just make this card not want to play nice?
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