high pitched Whine

smogsy · 24 Jan 2009 at 23:28

Every time i Load up Crysis i get a very high pitched Whine from my PC, its either from the CPU or GPU's

what could be the cause? does not happen on any other game. and happens soon as i hit crysis intro screen.

any ideas?

spec in sig

ljt · 24 Jan 2009 at 23:33

I know my 8800 gtx whines something rotten when I use it for Folding. (i.e. when its used @ 100%) its most likely a capacitor resonating at high frequency so i've been told.

Sounds like it could be something along those lines.

smogsy · 24 Jan 2009 at 23:35

o so can i play crysis for long periods lol?

Happy · 24 Jan 2009 at 23:37

smogsy said:
o so can I play Crysis for long periods lol?

Yeah, it's just capacitor squealing, because they are under heavy load

RJC · 24 Jan 2009 at 23:38

My 8800GTX does the same, there has been a few threads on this in the past.

willy · 24 Jan 2009 at 23:42

My 4870 the same as well when under load

lunarwolf · 25 Jan 2009 at 00:26

smogsy said:
Every time i Load up Crysis i get a very high pitched Whine

sounds like my GF

almighty15 · 25 Jan 2009 at 00:31

Could be one the mosfets going crazy.....

Blackberries · 25 Jan 2009 at 00:54

Sounds like capacitor squeal.. A lot of 280s do that. It's nothing to be concerned about, other than possibly being annoying. I heard that it was caused by the GPU outputting stupidly high FPS, such as on the Crysis menus. It can be helped in games that allow you to enable v-sync, which (I think) puts a cap on FPS.

rare · 25 Jan 2009 at 01:28

Both my 285's do this, the sound is annoying!

Cooler · 25 Jan 2009 at 09:13

Same here a friend of mine was so concerned about the noise he drove from Milton Keynes to OCUK with his 4870x2 and had it tested apprently the tech guy also tested a couple of other brands of the same card and had the same high pitced noise so it cant be to much to worry about other than that bloody noise being a pain in the arse.

RJC · 25 Jan 2009 at 09:20

cooler: your sig is too big and no animated images.

smogsy · 25 Jan 2009 at 09:35

its ok in game xD

DigitalReaper · 25 Jan 2009 at 11:05

Blackberries said:
I heard that it was caused by the GPU outputting stupidly high FPS, such as on the Crysis menus. It can be helped in games that allow you to enable v-sync, which (I think) puts a cap on FPS.

I've found that vsync does help on my 8800GTX when games are pumping out stuplidly high numbers of FPS (menus, empty areas, etc). Turning on vsync caps the framerate at whatever refresh rate your monitor is running.