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Graphics card making funny noises ...

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Right jumping from my other thread because I thought this noise was coming from my ram durp :( my graphics card seems to be making a whining noise that varys between each game I play. If I play metro or run furmark it makes a low whine but if I play stalker it makes a very high pitched whine.

Its a gainward 470GTX and I bought it end of last week and it has been working fine up untill today ? :confused:
 
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Stalker for some reason made my old card whine but only in the menu screens, its to do with capacitors...if you have only just bought it ask for a RMA but they might refuse if it is working as stated.
 
It's called capacitors whine / squeal . It can be cured by changing psu.
I have 2 psu and I get the whine on one but not the other. Both run the system stable.
 
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I turned on vsync, no luck there. I dont think it could be the PSU because I have been playing Mafia 2 when i got the chance this week and it was fine but it has also started doing it with that game aswell ?
 
Yea, when I used a cheap psu my card whined like anything when doing certain things- better psu sorted it. In my case I m pretty sure it was the power regulation on the card working overtime and resonating trying to clean up what the crappy psu was feeding it with.
 
I have an OCZ 600W StealthXStream Power Supply which should be fine ?

Also during some games I am also starting to get flickering sets of green lines over the screen. I have called OCUK and I am sending it in for them to have a look so what is the right way to discribe that other than " flickering sets of green lines" ?
 
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