Whining sound from new 290

[ElliottC420]

I have just installed my new 290 and got the 13.11 catalyst beta driver, and when I run certain games (especially borderlands 2) it makes quite a loud buzzing/whining noise, and gets louder the higher my FPS go. Do any of you guys know how to stop this or am I just going to have to enable vsync in all of my games? (and i'm not talking about the fan by the way, I don't understand why people say its so loud its really not that bad)

Also i'm not sure if it's supposed to be like this or not but i'm only getting around 5-10fps higher than I did on my GTX 660, does that sound about right? (30-40fps in crysis 3 maxed out with 2x AA, 30-40fps in AC4 maxed out with 2xMSAA, 80-144fps in borderlands 2 with vsync)

 

[LtMatt]

Sounds like coil whine. What you should do is do whatever causes it to make the most annoying, high pitched noise and then leave it doing that overnight, for 12 hours or so. This might well cure it, or at least make it less intrusive. Failing that you can RMA/DSR it and try a different one. Coil whine is luck of the draw im afraid, unless you have a 7990 where its lucky if you get one that doesn't have a bit of coil whine.

 

[ElliottC420]

Yeah that sounds like it, i'll give that a go

 

[LtMatt]

Yeah that sounds like it, i'll give that a go

If it its still doing it after 24 hours of that, send it back under DSR unless the retailer will agree to let you swap it out for a different one.

 

[ElliottC420]

I got it from here, nice to get a pack of haribo like usual haha. But hopefully it won't come to that

 

[LtMatt]

I got it from here, nice to get a pack of haribo like usual haha. But hopefully it won't come to that

Don't eat the haribo or they won't accept the card back!

 

[Silent_Scone]

My ASUS 290X had lethal coil whine. A lot of cards do it though, and personally the luck of the draw is the one you get in return will have it just as bad. It will get better.

 

[teppic]

My Asus 670 came with coil whine. It disappeared after 2-3 days of normal gaming, except in Heaven's exit benchmark screen which seems to make every GPU on the planet whine.

 

[ElliottC420]

Don't eat the haribo or they won't accept the card back!

Oops too late

 

[Silent_Scone]

My Asus 670 came with coil whine. It disappeared after 2-3 days of normal gaming, except in Heaven's exit benchmark screen which seems to make every GPU on the planet whine.

That's because that screens almost designed to make your card go mental. I hit 8000 FPS on that screen lol.

 

[ElliottC420]

That's because that screens almost designed to make your card go mental. I hit 8000 FPS on that screen lol.

I was hitting 4000fps on the Crysis 3 menu, it sounded like my card was having a panic attack

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Here's something odd... Yesterday, I had clearly audible coil whine with my HIS 290 during Unigine Heaven and during XCOM unless I enabled Vsync.

This morning I replaced my old Viewsonic (built-in speakers) monitor with a nice shiny BenQ 2411T and a pair of Creative speakers.

Ran Unigine Heaven to check an overclock and had zero coil whine. Fired up XCOM and again there's zero coil whine regardless of having Vsync and framerate smoothing disabled.

 

[Silent_Scone]

You sure it was coming from the cards? The powersupply for my IPS screen whines at certain times.

 

[CoolHotCold]

I have horrible coil whine on my MSI 290. Tried to RMA it, declined as "Tiny amount of coil whine detected". should have DSR it instead, but stupid me thinking "Well this is unbearable, it must be faulty"

Sounded like a mouse had their nuts trapped in a mousetrap, it wasn't a electrical whine it was a squeaking whine like plastic.

I await it back see if it burns in

 

[LtMatt]

I have horrible coil whine on my MSI 290. Tried to RMA it, declined as "Tiny amount of coil whine detected". should have DSR it instead, but stupid me thinking "Well this is unbearable, it must be faulty"

Sounded like a mouse had their nuts trapped in a mousetrap, it wasn't a electrical whine it was a squeaking whine like plastic.

I await it back see if it burns in

Lol that sucks. I'm very careful when i send things back. For example when i sent my 7990 back to OcuK i said it was overheating but if it was within tolerances i wanted to DSR it. Didn't want to find it getting sent back to me with a £15 charge.

 

[ElliottC420]

I'm running a brand new AOC 144hz monitor and I had no sound coming from any components prior to installing the 290, plus I use a 2.1 speaker set that gets its audio straight from the motherboard, not through the GFX card HDMI, I haven't noticed any change in the sound yet but i'll leave it running borderlands walking in circles overnight, hopefully it won't explode while i'm asleep haha.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

You sure it was coming from the cards? The powersupply for my IPS screen whines at certain times.

You could be onto something there... The new BenQ monitor is fed directly from the mains and the old Viewsonic's mains adaptor did sit next to the PC.

 

[ElliottC420]

After removing all nvidia drivers from my PC and reinstalling the AMD ones it seems to have solved it which is nice, but i've noticed theres no option to override the hz limit on games like there was in nvidia control panel, do any of you guys know how to do it on an AMD card?

 

[Silent_Scone]

You could be onto something there... The new BenQ monitor is fed directly from the mains and the old Viewsonic's mains adaptor did sit next to the PC.

I'm normally on to to something

 

[Nasher]

I have it on a 670 and it has never gone away, but you can't really hear it through a sound dampened case

I also have a BenQ monitor that does it if you turn up the brightness beyond a certain point (using the monitor's own settings), weird.