[SOLVED] How do i know if my psu in giving consistent power to my gpu

[Obsnacks]

I got a seasonic focus gold plus and a rtx 2060 super and played yesterday and i got a weird noise coming from my gpu someone said that maybe my psu is giving consistent power to the gpu and i wanted to know if thats the case

 

[jay32267]

I got a seasonic focus gold plus and a rtx 2060 super and played yesterday and i got a weird noise coming from my gpu someone said that maybe my psu is giving consistent power to the gpu and i wanted to know if thats the case

You can run HWInfo or a similar sensor monitoring program and monitor the voltages.
It will record the high and low voltages.
You want them to stay within +/- 5% of nominal.

 

[Obsnacks]

How do I run this program

 

[jay32267]

Just download it and run it.

 

[Ahhmmed]

I got a seasonic focus gold plus and a rtx 2060 super and played yesterday and i got a weird noise coming from my gpu someone said that maybe my psu is giving consistent power to the gpu and i wanted to know if thats the case

It might be coil whine and coil whine is perfectly fine

 

[Obsnacks]

This is what it sounds like and it doesn't sound normal

View: https://youtu.be/qNoqexaeYkE

 

[Obsnacks]

and what if it is not +/- 5

 

[Ahhmmed]

This is what it sounds like and it doesn't sound normal

View: https://youtu.be/qNoqexaeYkE

Coming from the gpu , right?

 

[Obsnacks]

When I i listened I heard nothing from the psu and its from the gpu but people say it can be from the psu not supplying enough power

 

[Ahhmmed]

When I i listened I heard nothing from the psu and its from the gpu but people say it can be from the psu not supplying enough power

Does it start only when you play a game or run a program that makes the gpu work hard ?

 

[jay32267]

and what if it is not +/- 5

I would replace the power supply because if it's not it can cause crashes.
the major voltages you want to pay attention to are +12, +5 and + 3.3.

 

[Obsnacks]

So far I only played modern warfare and when I do it makes the noise

 

[Ahhmmed]

So far I only played modern warfare and when I do it makes the noise

I think that's coil whine and coil whine is perfectly normal and won't hurt anything , but you have to make sure that it is coil whine because if the sound comes from the psu , it might be a problem

 

[Ahhmmed]

View: https://youtu.be/jtXAuIJchps
watch this video to know more about coil whine

 

[Obsnacks]

i downloaded the program what am i looking for there is alot of stuff i dont understand

 

[jay32267]

i downloaded the program but were do i look

This is from memory so it might nor be exact., but you want to click on "sensors"...and you will see a huge list and you want to look for +12, +5 and + 3.3 or something similar.

 

[jay32267]

I didn't listen to the video...but if it's coil whine in the GPU....it's probably not caused by bad voltages from the PSU.....it's probably just normal coil whine.

 

[Obsnacks]

but just to make sure what category would it be under

 

[Obsnacks]

i found it one is 3.344 for the +3.3v for the +12v its 12.096 and for the 5v its 4.980 so does that mean the psu is good

 

[Obsnacks]

so the psu is fine

 

[jay32267]

i found it one is 3.344 for the +3.3v for the +12v its 12.096 and for the 5v its 4.980 so does that mean the psu is good

That means the PSU is putting out good voltages AT THAT TIME.
So what I usually do is...minimize HWMonitor....then run a real demanding game for a while...then exit out of the game and look at the high and low values in HWMonitor.

Those should remain within 5% of 12, 5 and 3.3.

Normally with a PSU...they fail more often on the low side than the high side.

 

[Obsnacks]

If this helps it seems like when I turned my fps from 60 to 144 the noise gets louder

 

[jay32267]

If this helps it seems like when I turned my fps from 60 to 144 the noise gets louder

Coil whine generally gets louder the harder you make it work.

 

[Obsnacks]

So does this end the discussion of saying its my psu and its actually just coil whine from the gpu

 

[jay32267]

I'd still run the PSU under load and check that the voltages don't go outside 5%.

Ahhmmed heard your video and he thinks it's coil whine.....so I'm thinking it probably is.