EVGA SuperNOVA 550 GS buzzing/cricket typenoise

Arch1e · 2 Feb 2019 at 12:03

Hello all,

I have an EVGA SuperNOVA 550 GS and few days ago I replaced my GTX 1060 to new Vega 56 Pulse (amazing GPU!)...
OC`ed the GPU and run some games for 6-8 hours, everything stable no crashes, power draw around 190-210W on GPU + 1600x around 100W and few SSD`s, so everything under 550W... but next day my EVGA PSU started doing buzzing/cricket typenoise like in this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjq3K7e7s1c ) but much quieter so I can`t record it on my phone...

Should I leave it as it is? or it will damage my other components at some point? or try to reach EVGA and explain them what happened and maybe they replaced it?

Thank you in advance!

Arch1e · 2 Feb 2019 at 12:16

Forgot to mention that this noise the same on idle and under load the...

pastymuncher · 2 Feb 2019 at 14:22

That sounds like coil whine from a heavily stressed psu to me. I had something similar years ago on a Zalman 750w psu with a heavily overclocked HD5850. There's nothing you can do about it and it went away when I upgraded to a GTX480. It won't do any damage, it's just really annoying.

Arch1e · 3 Feb 2019 at 09:00

pastymuncher said:
That sounds like coil whine from a heavily stressed psu to me. I had something similar years ago on a Zalman 750w psu with a heavily overclocked HD5850. There's nothing you can do about it and it went away when I upgraded to a GTX480. It won't do any damage, it's just really annoying.

Thank you for your reply. Yes, it is very annoying, but I will have to keep it for some time before I change it.