Just a query about coil whine

[Wayfall]

Hi Community

I was playing some Dying Light Enhanced Edition last night and after playing a while I started to hear my GPU making a buzzing noise, it got louder if I set the game to windowed, I always have Vysnc on with my 1080p 60HZ display. I couldn't really hear it if I put the volume up and not at all if I used my earphones.

I decided to do a full reinstall of the GPU and its driver, so I took it out and gave it a quick wizz with my air can then put it back in again. I then driver sweeped the drivers and used ccleaner then restarted and put the newest driver on. The coil whine wasn't there anymore but after about 2 hours it started to buzz again.

If I'd play a different game after Dying Light Enhanced Edition such as Dishonored I can kind of hear the buzz but if i restart the pc and play any game other than Dying Light Enhanced Edition I don't get whine.

I have had my MSI GTX 970 4GB OC Edition for about 2 years now and my EVGA G2 SuperNova 550w Gold Rated PSU for about a year.

 

[Shaun o]

Coil whine is all about the frequency electronic components oscillate at, or are set to run at.

All electronic components do this depending on the amount of voltage at the time is being used or provided to the component in question, or the rate in hz it is asked to run at by the voltage fed to it.

Electricity, the increase or reduction of voltage runs in Hz cycles.


And why often strange as it sounds you may hear coil whine when playing one game and not when playing another game.
Because not every game puts the same graphical demand on the gpu of the graphics card or there is a lower Gpu utilisation or load put on the gpu and components of the card.

A lower overall Gpu utilisation of the gpu often means less power is required for example 50% for one game when running on the graphics card.

So a lower Hz range is produced, and collates at a lower frequency, speed.

To another game title where it may demand 80% utilisation of the gpu where more power is required of the gpu chip and components of the graphics card Wayfall.

 

[Shaina11]

The ATI HD 5870 M in my G73JH also has a whine or rhythmic buzzes when playing games, looking at GIFs, SWF, or even scrolling through certain pages on the internet. And I can't tell you how many different buzzes, whines, and other strange noises you'll hear from my 2002 Gateway 600YG2. 😛 😀 Personally, I think it sounds awesome, though I'm a fan of vintage tech, the humming of old spinning hard drives and the seeking of the heads, I love it.

 

[Hlsgsz]

UNfortunately, all the steps you took are meaningless when it comes to coil whine. It's all about teh way your componenets interact electrically at different loads(mainly PSU and GPU). And it's not about them being bad individually, just a bad pairing.
Barring switching one of teh components for something different there's pretty much nothing you can do.

 

[Hlsgsz]

The ATI HD 5870 M in my G73JH also has a whine or rhythmic buzzes when playing games, looking at GIFs, SWF, or even scrolling through certain pages on the internet. And I can't tell you how many different buzzes, whines, and other strange noises you'll hear from my 2002 Gateway 600YG2. 😛 😀 Personally, I think it sounds awesome, though I'm a fan of vintage tech, the humming of old spinning hard drives and the seeking of the heads, I love it.

LOL. Aren't you a special kind of geeky freak? ))

 

[Wayfall]

Its just odd as I have never heard it while playing The Witcher 3 as that game puts the most stress on my pc even thou it has a i7 4790K and 16GB RAM.
The GPU goes like 70-90% on The Witcher 3 while Dying Light will be at 80% at the most.

Just to double check, coil whine isn't because the card is slowly dying right?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Its just odd as I have never heard it while playing The Witcher 3 as that game puts the most stress on my pc even thou it has a i7 4790K and 16GB RAM.
The GPU goes like 70-90% while dying light will be at 80% at the most.

Just to double check, coil whine isn't because the card is slowly dying right?

No, not dying. And it's not about the percentile load either.
Have you ever had fans or hard drives that go into resonance. Let's say this is similar. Two fans can work very well together at the whole load spectrum, but resonate from, say, 50 to 60%(i literraly had that on a two fan GPU. f**n awful since those are exactly teh loads the fans would be using under load).

 

[Wayfall]

Its just odd as I have never heard it while playing The Witcher 3 as that game puts the most stress on my pc even thou it has a i7 4790K and 16GB RAM.
The GPU goes like 70-90% while dying light will be at 80% at the most.

Just to double check, coil whine isn't because the card is slowly dying right?

No, not dying. And it's not about the percentile load either.
Have you ever had fans or hard drives that go into resonance. Let's say this is similar. Two fans can work very well together at the whole load spectrum, but resonate from, say, 50 to 60%(i literraly had that on a two fan GPU. f**n awful since those are exactly teh loads the fans would be using under load).

I do not know if this would be part of this but when I had the coil whine and I looked inside the case I saw that the left fan was spin slightly slower than the right fan. They kept revving up and down for some reason, reinstalling the driver seemed to fix this I think.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Its just odd as I have never heard it while playing The Witcher 3 as that game puts the most stress on my pc even thou it has a i7 4790K and 16GB RAM.
The GPU goes like 70-90% while dying light will be at 80% at the most.

Just to double check, coil whine isn't because the card is slowly dying right?

No, not dying. And it's not about the percentile load either.
Have you ever had fans or hard drives that go into resonance. Let's say this is similar. Two fans can work very well together at the whole load spectrum, but resonate from, say, 50 to 60%(i literraly had that on a two fan GPU. f**n awful since those are exactly teh loads the fans would be using under load).

I do not know if this would be part of this but when I had the coil whine and I looked inside the case I saw that the left fan was spin slightly slower than the right fan. They kept revving up and down for some reason, reinstalling the driver seemed to fix this I think.

Well, i presume you woudl know the difference between two resonating fans and coil whine. that being said, thing s resonate at similar frequencies, so teh fans having different speeds would prevent that.

 

[Wayfall]

Well I would of thought the MSI fans would spin the same speed. Maybe I just haven't noticed before that the fans spin at different speeds.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Well I would of thought the MSI fans would spin the same speed. Maybe I just haven't noticed before.

No. They are independent. SOmetimes only one spins depending on need. Sometimes they both stop. All good modern GPUs do this.

 

[Wayfall]

Its just weird when like the temp gets to a point when the fans should turn on then the GPU gets cool then they turn off again and so on.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Its just weird when like the temp gets to a point when the fans should turn on then the GPU gets cool then they turn off again and so on.

Yeah. No weirdness, just normal MO.

 

[Shaina11]

LOL. Aren't you a special kind of geeky freak? ))

That's the best kind. 😉

 

[Hlsgsz]

LOL. Aren't you a special kind of geeky freak? ))

That's the best kind. 😉

Well, atleast it's waaaaay easier on the pocket and nerves than beeing a silence freak )