Strange thing I thought I’d ask here - when I am pushing the cards really hard, I get a very high pitched noise eminating from the cards themselves - it sounds like a UHT (like when someone turns on a CRT is the best approximation).
All the GTX-8800’s do it here and it’s getting to be annoying - although it only happens when they’re running the engine code hard (500+ threads) and lots of memory access.
Anyone else come across this? Is it normal? Is there a fix - it’s grating on my nerves after 3 days?!
i get that, i found that it clicks quietly for every fram it renders, i can tell because if i play crysis at dx10 max when the framerate drops i can hear it click with each frame rendered. the only solution is to turn your music up :P or get a silent case.
Is it actually your GPU making the noise, or rather your power supply? Eons ago when I was a graduate student, I could hear my code running on an old Sun 4/110, but what I was hearing was some component in the power supply making a high pitched noise. It was funny because the sound was distinctively related to which phase of the calculation the code was in, I could listen and tell how far along the code had gotten by the sound. I have a couple machines that make similar noises now, though I haven’t checked, it seems likely that these are noises coming from the PSU components as well.
I’ve heard of cards and motherboards themselves making noise, the first generation of 8800GTX had this problem afaik. It was a high pitched shriek of the capacitors, and can very well be your problem.