Anyone had this before or know the possible cause. Sorry for the long post but will try and supply as much info as possible.
1st off the coil whine and buzzing in my headphones can only be heard when the GPU is under load. Desktop/General use/Youtube etc no problems.
Got a Inno3d 3060TI TWIN X2 OC Thursday from OCUK. Was really happy as id been waiting for ages to finally upgrade my old 1070 - Seemed to run well until I went into a game and put my headphones on. As soon as the GPU gets fully loaded - I get a humming/buzzing noise in my headphones.
(Checked the odvious). Put old GPU back in No buzzing ermmmm
I noticed the buzzing right away as soon as the GPU loaded up as Id just ran the RDR2 benchmark on my old card see the performance difference after fitting new card, the old GPU was a 1070 Inno3d Ichill x3 Hercules for reference.
Its not mega loud and doesnt increase with the volume ie its the same at 5% as it is at 50% voulme. But becomes more pronouced the lower you go with the volume to the point when gaming last night, while my girlfriend was reading a book so no background noise. I could hear it constantly in the background of the game, more so when the game gets sections where its very quite in game.
My Girlfriend also noticed there a sceeching sound coming from the PC she said
We tracked it down to the GPU I got her to put her head in the PC with the side off I couldnt really hear this at 1st but now ive removed all the fans from the case etc I can here it screeching/clicking away.
She said she can hear it over the TV so thats bad news.
Things I've tried.
- Stripped my tower down yesturday to make sure theres no earthing issues etc.
- Changed VGA cable from PSU to GPU
- changed the port the VGA is plugged into on the PSU
- unplugged everything but essentialls to test.
- undervolted the GPU(never done this before seems its the new overclock and what you do with the 2*** 3*** series cards)
- Ran onboard sound (this sounds crap and still buzzes) so not related to the soundcard.
- VSYNC
- capped frames to 141
- had a good read of various forums, reddit etc found fixes to try and if other people are having same issue with my hardware combo, few coilwhine issues come up but nothing really with a buzzing through headphones when the GPU's underload.
My PC spec (Everything below but the headphones purchased from OCUK)
CPU: Ryzen 3600x (stock)
Motherboard: MSI B450 Thomahawk MAX
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Ram: Team Group 8Pack Edition 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz
GPU : Inno3d 3060TI TWIN X2 OC
Few SSDs plugged in all Satas.
Soundcard: Sound Blaster Z
Monitor: Dell s2716dg GSYNC pannel
Headphones: Sennheiser HD 598 SE
Case: Silverstone TJ09
Few things I've noticed.
COD WARZONE - This is about the worst game for the noise as the frames sit around 141 constantly high.
In total wars 2 end of turn when the FPS drop down to single digits while it calculates all the AI moves and the GPU produces single digit numbers It stops humming. As soon as the FPS go back above 60FPS it buzzes again.
RDR2 - Contsant buzzing heard through headphones. Unless in main menu.
Heaven Benchmark -Contsant buzzing heard through headphones as soon as I start the bench.
Alt tabbing out of a game to desktop - buzzing stops instantly. Alt tab back in buzzing starts within a second max.
Spent all weekend reading and trying things even got the other half involved as she can hear the coil whine much easier than my old ears.
I've undervolted the card so it drew a max of 160w indicated by Nvidia Overlay so its pulling around the same power as the previous card. Still buzzes. which ruled out something else I thought maybe its the PSU. But to be fair to the GPU its got pretty solid internals I thought it would be more than up to the job of going from a 1070 to 3060ti and googling people are running 3070 and 3080 and ti variants on the same PSU no issues.
Not sure what else to try or do. the buzzing kills the experience of the game and the mrs said the sreeching is driving her mad dam it. Normally id just RMA the card but I've waited to get a GPU since the 3070 release day. Finally got one and though the performance is very good the buzzing in my headphones gives me a headache after half an hours gaming.
Anyone got any ideas to help a brother ?
1st off the coil whine and buzzing in my headphones can only be heard when the GPU is under load. Desktop/General use/Youtube etc no problems.
Got a Inno3d 3060TI TWIN X2 OC Thursday from OCUK. Was really happy as id been waiting for ages to finally upgrade my old 1070 - Seemed to run well until I went into a game and put my headphones on. As soon as the GPU gets fully loaded - I get a humming/buzzing noise in my headphones.
(Checked the odvious). Put old GPU back in No buzzing ermmmm
I noticed the buzzing right away as soon as the GPU loaded up as Id just ran the RDR2 benchmark on my old card see the performance difference after fitting new card, the old GPU was a 1070 Inno3d Ichill x3 Hercules for reference.
Its not mega loud and doesnt increase with the volume ie its the same at 5% as it is at 50% voulme. But becomes more pronouced the lower you go with the volume to the point when gaming last night, while my girlfriend was reading a book so no background noise. I could hear it constantly in the background of the game, more so when the game gets sections where its very quite in game.
My Girlfriend also noticed there a sceeching sound coming from the PC she said
We tracked it down to the GPU I got her to put her head in the PC with the side off I couldnt really hear this at 1st but now ive removed all the fans from the case etc I can here it screeching/clicking away.
She said she can hear it over the TV so thats bad news.
Things I've tried.
- Stripped my tower down yesturday to make sure theres no earthing issues etc.
- Changed VGA cable from PSU to GPU
- changed the port the VGA is plugged into on the PSU
- unplugged everything but essentialls to test.
- undervolted the GPU(never done this before seems its the new overclock and what you do with the 2*** 3*** series cards)
- Ran onboard sound (this sounds crap and still buzzes) so not related to the soundcard.
- VSYNC
- capped frames to 141
- had a good read of various forums, reddit etc found fixes to try and if other people are having same issue with my hardware combo, few coilwhine issues come up but nothing really with a buzzing through headphones when the GPU's underload.
My PC spec (Everything below but the headphones purchased from OCUK)
CPU: Ryzen 3600x (stock)
Motherboard: MSI B450 Thomahawk MAX
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Ram: Team Group 8Pack Edition 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz
GPU : Inno3d 3060TI TWIN X2 OC
Few SSDs plugged in all Satas.
Soundcard: Sound Blaster Z
Monitor: Dell s2716dg GSYNC pannel
Headphones: Sennheiser HD 598 SE
Case: Silverstone TJ09
Few things I've noticed.
COD WARZONE - This is about the worst game for the noise as the frames sit around 141 constantly high.
In total wars 2 end of turn when the FPS drop down to single digits while it calculates all the AI moves and the GPU produces single digit numbers It stops humming. As soon as the FPS go back above 60FPS it buzzes again.
RDR2 - Contsant buzzing heard through headphones. Unless in main menu.
Heaven Benchmark -Contsant buzzing heard through headphones as soon as I start the bench.
Alt tabbing out of a game to desktop - buzzing stops instantly. Alt tab back in buzzing starts within a second max.
Spent all weekend reading and trying things even got the other half involved as she can hear the coil whine much easier than my old ears.
I've undervolted the card so it drew a max of 160w indicated by Nvidia Overlay so its pulling around the same power as the previous card. Still buzzes. which ruled out something else I thought maybe its the PSU. But to be fair to the GPU its got pretty solid internals I thought it would be more than up to the job of going from a 1070 to 3060ti and googling people are running 3070 and 3080 and ti variants on the same PSU no issues.
Not sure what else to try or do. the buzzing kills the experience of the game and the mrs said the sreeching is driving her mad dam it. Normally id just RMA the card but I've waited to get a GPU since the 3070 release day. Finally got one and though the performance is very good the buzzing in my headphones gives me a headache after half an hours gaming.
Anyone got any ideas to help a brother ?
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and if its driving the other half mad, its going to have to go back I think will try talking to Customer Service tomorrow see what options I have, Im guessing not a lot with the state of the market I doubt they have stock to replace the card. 
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