Hi Guys...
I've just put a new system together from scratch - an i7 with Sapphire Radeon HD 4870
When i first switched on yesterday (Thursday), everything was great... but slowly over the course of about 12 hours, a very high pitched whining noise appeared
I looked in the case and could see nothing untoward, figured it may be a fan 'bedding' in
Today i switched on, and it was even more noticeable - so again I've looked inside for a closer investigation... i 'tap-stopped' each fan (not recommended i know) and realised it was definitely not any of the fans
Then.. back on the computer itself, i noticed stuff i was doing on screen was effecting the noise... for example... scrolling down a long web page would stop the whine... also resizing a window on the desktop... i confirmed this by quickly rolling the mouse wheel back and forth on a web page, and the sound stopped completely until i stopped moving the mouse wheel... and i grabbed the bottom right corner of a window and quickly moved the mouse back and forth, which made the sound stop
So i positioned the case in such a way that i could get my head right in for a listen.. and the whine is definitely from the GPU (and defo NOT the GPU fan)
And close up it definitely sounds very 'electrical'
So after all that waffle... i guess what i want to know is... does this sound like a fault with the card? - Should i be pursuing a replacement?
- remember i pointed out, that it never made this noise for the first few hours... and it does seem rather odd that just some PCB and Chips could make such a noise.... I've never come across a GPU that's done this before
I went out of my way to build a whisper quiet PC as i suffer from tinnitus (high pitch squealing in the ears) and so I'm more sensitive to noises like this and these type of frequencies actually aggravate my condition... I shall be disappointed if this kind of noise is considered 'normal'
Thanks for reading - ADE
I've just put a new system together from scratch - an i7 with Sapphire Radeon HD 4870
When i first switched on yesterday (Thursday), everything was great... but slowly over the course of about 12 hours, a very high pitched whining noise appeared
I looked in the case and could see nothing untoward, figured it may be a fan 'bedding' in
Today i switched on, and it was even more noticeable - so again I've looked inside for a closer investigation... i 'tap-stopped' each fan (not recommended i know) and realised it was definitely not any of the fans
Then.. back on the computer itself, i noticed stuff i was doing on screen was effecting the noise... for example... scrolling down a long web page would stop the whine... also resizing a window on the desktop... i confirmed this by quickly rolling the mouse wheel back and forth on a web page, and the sound stopped completely until i stopped moving the mouse wheel... and i grabbed the bottom right corner of a window and quickly moved the mouse back and forth, which made the sound stop
So i positioned the case in such a way that i could get my head right in for a listen.. and the whine is definitely from the GPU (and defo NOT the GPU fan)
And close up it definitely sounds very 'electrical'
So after all that waffle... i guess what i want to know is... does this sound like a fault with the card? - Should i be pursuing a replacement?
- remember i pointed out, that it never made this noise for the first few hours... and it does seem rather odd that just some PCB and Chips could make such a noise.... I've never come across a GPU that's done this before
I went out of my way to build a whisper quiet PC as i suffer from tinnitus (high pitch squealing in the ears) and so I'm more sensitive to noises like this and these type of frequencies actually aggravate my condition... I shall be disappointed if this kind of noise is considered 'normal'
Thanks for reading - ADE
