Noisy Powercolor Red Devil RX 470 4GB. Possibly coil whine. What should I do?

[davin2016]

So I upgraded from an overclocked 7950 to the Powercolor red devil rx 470 and the 470 is producing what I think is really loud coil whine. Here is a video I took of the noise.

It is louder in person than what my tiny phone could capture and even while browsing I can hear the buzzing while scrolling websites though not as loud as in a game. One of the reasons I upgraded was my overclock on the 7950 was producing loud fan noise (not the buzzing/grating sound like the new card makes just regular fan noise) so I wanted something faster but not quite as noisy.

I've tried the two latest driver updates and the drivers on the install disc. I tried downclocking my processor and flipping the little bios switch on the gpu. I tried moving the card to the second, slower slot, and removed my sound card but it still made the noise. The only time it doesn't make noise is when nothing is happening on the desktop or if the drivers aren't installed and windows doesn't recognize the card.

My PSU is an OCZ ZT 750W
original P8P67 mobo with v2303 bios (won't accept newer ones)
2500k @ 4.4Ghz
8GB DDR3 1600mhz
Win 10 64bit

Is this something I could fix with a new proc/mobo/diff PSU or should I look into getting an RMA with newegg.ca? I've never returned anything online so this is a new experience for me.

 

[basroil]

PSU is pretty crappy (https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/OCZ/ZT_750W/7.html) You'll definitely get coil whine with something like that. Not much you can do without upgrading to a decent PSU (EVGA g2 550, XFX ts gold 550, seasonic g550, corsair RM550x are all good choices for your system)

 

[davin2016]

PSU is pretty crappy (https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/OCZ/ZT_750W/7.html) You'll definitely get coil whine with something like that. Not much you can do without upgrading to a decent PSU (EVGA g2 550, XFX ts gold 550, seasonic g550, corsair RM550x are all good choices for your system)

Thanks for the reply.
Alright, just ordered an evga g2 550 so hopefully that helps and if not, I didn't like the old PSU much anyways. Never even knew what coil whine was until today.

 

[davin2016]

So the new PSU came and the problem still persists. Going to look into replacing it if possible.

 

[BlackHoleBox]

It's definitely the card. It's unfortunate you ordered a new PSU. The new RXs are incredibly power efficient and I'm sure your old PSU was perfectly fine.

 

[basroil]

So the new PSU came and the problem still persists. Going to look into replacing it if possible.

It's rare, but does sometimes happens. 99% of the time it's the PSU, last bit it's the card.

Luckily there's something you can try before sending off the card. Go download the newest blender version with AMD OpenCL support and run a heavy render for a few hours (don't try using the computer during that time, it will be nearly unresponsive). Sometimes that will "burn in" the components and the noise goes away. Doesn't work 100% of the time, but worth giving it a shot

 

[davin2016]

Any chance it may be the motherboard? I don't feel like upgrading cpu+mobo now but this is one of the original sandy bridge boards with the faulty sata 2 ports. Just like to know before I make my decision. Also, I'll try running some benchmarking software on loop or look into blender (never used it before) at some point.

 

[JOY11]

same problem with me ,i will replace my gpu soon