Buzzing noise from my ASUS STRIX RX 480, coil whine?

Tekelectric · Dec 4, 2016

This buzzing noise seems to happen at the most random times, but my RX 480 makes this short but weird 'brrrttt" noise every half a second, then stops after awhile. I thought it was my HDD dying, but it was coming from my graphics card! I cleaned out the card to see if a fan was hitting something but it's just a little dust that came out. Is this just coil whine or something? It's starting to worry me a little bit.

jboydgolfer · Dec 4, 2016

when does it happen specifically?? normally coil whine occurs during high load rendering, etc.... try and test how, and when it is happening.

report back...if it is coil whine, there is Nothing to worry about, its normal for many cards...dont sweat it

RejZoR · Dec 10, 2016

My Strix GTX 980 makes funny noises with it's fans, usually at very low RPM.

the54thvoid · Dec 10, 2016

Run the inbuilt GPU-Z gfx test. It runs such high fps it could make dead cards coils whine. Coil whine requires GPU stress but normally high fps.

Tekelectric · Dec 11, 2016

jboydgolfer said:
when does it happen specifically?? normally coil whine occurs during high load rendering, etc.... try and test how, and when it is happening.

report back...if it is coil whine, there is Nothing to worry about, its normal for many cards...dont sweat it

Sorry for the long reply, but it's extremely random. It seems to start when I start up CS:GO and persists a little while after. I can possibly upload a video to show you guys since I've never heard coil whine like this.

eidairaman1 · Dec 13, 2016

Tekelectric said:
Sorry for the long reply, but it's extremely random. It seems to start when I start up CS:GO and persists a little while after. I can possibly upload a video to show you guys since I've never heard coil whine like this.

if it bothers you so much go get another card.

qubit · Dec 13, 2016

Run the gpu-z test like the54th suggested above and get back to us.

Tekelectric · Dec 13, 2016

eidairaman1 said:
if it bothers you so much go get another card.

Yeah I just did that and grabbed another copy. Doesn't do it anymore, thanks guys!

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Buzzing noise from my ASUS STRIX RX 480, coil whine?

Tekelectric

jboydgolfer

RejZoR

the54thvoid

Intoxicated Moderator

Tekelectric

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

qubit

Overclocked quantum bit

Tekelectric

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