Hello people,
I'm having this weird annoying sound with my new RTX 3080 GPU. I'm fairly new to PC builds (I'm a 20 years mac user), so I might be missing something obvious here. Firstly I had a hard time figuring out where this sound comes from, because it is really unregular and whenever you try to get one of these issues - it just doesn't show up, right? But finally I found out that it does the sound whenever I start the machine from powered-off mode (weirdly enough it doesn't happen when I restart! It needs to be turned off before!). So when the Aorus Splashscreen appears it does make the sound I'm annoyed by:
https://sndup.net/m5xq/
It sounds like an old mechanical hard drive and is also kinda the same volume. When it happens it might just be there for 2-3 seconds or it might keep going for 4-5 seconds, interrupted by short breaks and then more again. It really sounds like accessing a hard drive and it becomes really annoying especially when everything else is really quiet.
So, I'm 100% certain that this sound comes from the GPU because there are no mechanical drives in my build and I also ruled it out by replacing it with my old GPU and the sound didn't show up with the Aorus splashscreen. Throwing back in the new GPU into the build...the sound is there again. Searching for an explanation I stumbled upon "coil whine" - but that seems to be more a high-pitch hiss sound, right?
Does anyone know what this could be? Should I send the GPU in as a case of warranty?
Cheers and thanks everyone!
I'm having this weird annoying sound with my new RTX 3080 GPU. I'm fairly new to PC builds (I'm a 20 years mac user), so I might be missing something obvious here. Firstly I had a hard time figuring out where this sound comes from, because it is really unregular and whenever you try to get one of these issues - it just doesn't show up, right? But finally I found out that it does the sound whenever I start the machine from powered-off mode (weirdly enough it doesn't happen when I restart! It needs to be turned off before!). So when the Aorus Splashscreen appears it does make the sound I'm annoyed by:
https://sndup.net/m5xq/
It sounds like an old mechanical hard drive and is also kinda the same volume. When it happens it might just be there for 2-3 seconds or it might keep going for 4-5 seconds, interrupted by short breaks and then more again. It really sounds like accessing a hard drive and it becomes really annoying especially when everything else is really quiet.
So, I'm 100% certain that this sound comes from the GPU because there are no mechanical drives in my build and I also ruled it out by replacing it with my old GPU and the sound didn't show up with the Aorus splashscreen. Throwing back in the new GPU into the build...the sound is there again. Searching for an explanation I stumbled upon "coil whine" - but that seems to be more a high-pitch hiss sound, right?
Does anyone know what this could be? Should I send the GPU in as a case of warranty?
Cheers and thanks everyone!