[SOLVED] GPU Noise // Boost Clock

[fiuasfbja]

Hello all, A little background: I do a lot of 3D rendering, mainly GPU based. I recently bought 2x ASUS RTX 2080TI cards. One is very quiet and the other makes a high pitched noise. I've had coil whine before but this seems higher pitched and is constant. The sound only goes away while rendering with a normal clock. I did some testing with the included Asus gpu tweak software and found if I cranked the GPU boost clock way up to 1800 mhz + manually the sound goes away when I'm not rendering. However, if I go back to my 3D software and hit render the application crashes. It's getting frustrating constantly having to change the clock settings and the sound is driving me nuts. Should I return it? Will having it cranked to 1800 mhz damage the gpu? Is there anything else I should try? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ps: I'm rocking a 1300 W power supply that I've never had issues with.

 

[cdrkf]

Hello all, A little background: I do a lot of 3D rendering, mainly GPU based. I recently bought 2x ASUS RTX 2080TI cards. One is very quiet and the other makes a high pitched noise. I've had coil whine before but this seems higher pitched and is constant. The sound only goes away while rendering with a normal clock. I did some testing with the included Asus gpu tweak software and found if I cranked the GPU boost clock way up to 1800 mhz + manually the sound goes away when I'm not rendering. However, if I go back to my 3D software and hit render the application crashes. It's getting frustrating constantly having to change the clock settings and the sound is driving me nuts. Should I return it? Will having it cranked to 1800 mhz damage the gpu? Is there anything else I should try? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Ps: I'm rocking a 1300 W power supply that I've never had issues with.

A constant high pitched whine on one card? That is definitely faulty (especially if the other card doesn't do it). It doesn't sound like coil whine, maybe a bad bearing on one of the fans? I'd get the card replaced asap (just don't mention anything about overclocking in your support request).

 

[fiuasfbja]

A constant high pitched whine on one card? That is definitely faulty (especially if the other card doesn't do it). It doesn't sound like coil whine, maybe a bad bearing on one of the fans? I'd get the card replaced asap (just don't mention anything about overclocking in your support request).

Thank you for your response, that makes sense. I've uploaded a video as well to demonstrate the noise:

View: https://vimeo.com/362319479

 

[cdrkf]

Thank you for your response, that makes sense. I've uploaded a video as well to demonstrate the noise:

View: https://vimeo.com/362319479

That sounds like one of the fans to me- as a quick check you can try manually stopping each fan on the gpu one at a time by gently applying pressure to the central hub until it stops- you'll probably find one of them is causing the noise. That probably explains why applying an overclock helps- if you increase the temps the fan rpm will go up (I find fans start to fail at low rpm and slowly get worse over time).