Graphics card making high pitch noise after OC

[Bradguin121]

Today I OC'd my HD7850 and since then, every game I start up ends up making the GPU make a high pitched squeaky kind of noise. Have I damaged my GPU by OC'ing? It doesnt make a noise when idle, just when its under load.

Specs:
Phenom ii x4 960 BE @ 3.8GHz
HD 7850
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
Corsair 600W PSU
4GB DDR3 RAM
1TB HDD

 

[RetrogamerX]

Today I OC'd my HD7850 and since then, every game I start up ends up making the GPU make a high pitched squeaky kind of noise. Have I damaged my GPU by OC'ing? It doesnt make a noise when idle, just when its under load.

Specs:
Phenom ii x4 960 BE @ 3.8GHz
HD 7850
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
Corsair 600W PSU
4GB DDR3 RAM
1TB HDD

You might have?

 

[Bradguin121]

You might have?

...S***

 

[Rilot]

VRM coil whine probably.
I've not heard of OCing damaging the VRMs before though. Did you push the voltage really high or something?

 

[Bradguin121]

VRM coil whine probably.
I've not heard of OCing damaging the VRMs before though. Did you push the voltage really high or something?

I wouldnt dare touch the voltage! Im a pussy when it comes to the voltage I changed the power limit, core clock and mem clock.

 

[RetrogamerX]

VRM coil whine probably.
I've not heard of OCing damaging the VRMs before though. Did you push the voltage really high or something?

Yeah ,but he hears the sound all the time now. even when idle. That's not good

 

[Bradguin121]

Yeah ,but he hears the sound all the time now. even when idle. That's not good

I said it doesn't make any noise @ idle lol. only when i fire up a game.. so basically when the card is under load it happens.

 

[RetrogamerX]

I said it doesn't make any noise @ idle lol. only when i fire up a game.. so basically when the card is under load it happens.

Oh I misunderstood. Then yeah.....it's whine...something you'll have to deal with.

 

[chris-82]

Sounds to me like when your going into game your running very high fps and its whining due to high fps does it go away once in game?
Sounds like coil whine to me it's a deal with it situation if it is!

Mine does the same thing but only when I first start a game up and on loading screen then goes away in game and idle.

 

[Bradguin121]

Sounds to me like when your going into game your running very high fps and its whining due to high fps does it go away once in game?
Sounds like coil whine to me it's a deal with it situation if it is!

Mine does the same thing but only when I first start a game up and on loading screen then goes away in game and idle.

Yeah, Just realized it stops when i enable Vsync!