gpu noise when voltage hits limit

[MR Chow]

hi everyone, so i have set up MSI afterburner and enabled various different settings to be displayed while on screen. one of them being the voltage limit , which is between 0-1 as i haven't OC anything.

The card does a high pitched grinding sound when its under load, typically its constant in high end games with high settings. i have noticed when in far cry 4 that the sound begins when the voltage limit is at 1.

another example of this is when i tab out of a game, to enter a browser etc, such as steam. at the time of posting this i have a game running and the voltage just high the limit, and the sound has begun. the fan speed does not increse with the sound.

so my question is, is this okay to run like this? is it normal i guess?
the card is a Gigabyte geforce 1070 aftermarket

[Beardface31]

It may be coil whine then. You may be able to RMA it for that, not sure. You should contact Gigabyte and ask.

[MR Chow]

Publicado originalmente por Beardface:

It may be coil whine then. You may be able to RMA it for that, not sure. You should contact Gigabyte and ask.

Would you know why it does it as the voltage hits the limit? Also is it okay for it to reach the limitation?

[Beardface31]

It could be that they whine at max load. The limit is what your GPU uses while operating, it is fine.

Did you increase the voltage at all?

[MR Chow]

Publicado originalmente por Beardface:

It could be that they whine at max load. The limit what your GPU uses at full load, it is fine.

Did you increase the voltage at all?

The sound doesn't always occur under max load, sometimes the voltage reaches the max even when not at 100% gpu usage.

I believe my brother increased the voltage slightly via afterburner, however he set it back to the original settings shortly after.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If the GPU is actually producing a coil-whine related issue; this generally has zero to do with loads; it can happen or poorly produces GPUs just due to when the FPS happens to be at a ridiculous range.

You have a warranty, register your GPU Serial# with Gigabyte free Support account; and then speak with them about this issue and see if an RMA is the best route here.

Most GPUs will have a lengthy "burn-in" time and may settle down after a bit of usage.

[MR Chow]

Yeah sometime fps will get quite high so the sound will increase I'm pitch, so I just cap the fps so spare my ears. And thanks for the help both of you

[Cathulhu]

Sadly, coil whine is not a valid reason for an RMA, as the coil itself works fine. If a manufacturer replaces that product, it's entirely from goodwill. They aren't required to do so.

[MR Chow]

Regarding the voltage limit, should I increase this at all? And if so by how much?

[rotNdude]

A high pitched grinding noise is generally a fan bearing or some fan obstruction like a wire interfering. Check to make sure you don't have a cable in the fan area.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If it IS actually GPU-side coil whine, somethings if you enable both CPU and PCIE Spread Spectrum in your BIOS, that can help with that type of issue.

If it occurs more and/or changes pitch when u are seeing a really high FPS on-screen, try limiting the FPS as well.

My Dual-RX-480s have this issue and it doesn't seem to go away fully, but using these steps, I can lower the whine to a certain degree. My MSI 980 Ti and EVGA GTX 1070 don't do this though, not at all.