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Inno3d 3060TI TWIN X2 OC Buzzing @GRAPHICS CARD PROS

Im not in work till tomorrow afternoon. I may just put it in tomorrow morning before sending it back and give it one more try.

I've arranged the cable managment a lot better doing all this testing and taken everything in and out the PC. Fingers crossed :(
 
My inno3d 3060 ti has the same horrendous coil whine at anything above 36% fan speed and it just gets louder, heres what I did to get rid of it, undervolt my card -160 on the clock at 850mv 1860mhz, locked the fan speed at 35(1300rpm), no more coil whine, I then benchmarked timespy extreme for about an hour and the max recored temp was 75c, while Im not overly happy with it the coil whine is completely gone, at that undervolt its slightly better then stock while reducing temps and watts.

It appears I have misread your post, but maybe try locking the fan speed at 35% and see it it helps? Doubt it but worth a shot
 
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Spils said:
Never had an issue with EMI in numerous builds I've had over various graphics cards in this case and with the same PCI-E sound card. Soons I put my old graphics card back in the PC the issue goes away.
Always had sound cards to stop issues like this in the past and always found most onboard sound to be crap and a half decent dedicated sound card to be a much better option.

Whats something half decent and not super expensive to try if OCUK send me the card back
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The fact that your previous builds have been fine is irrelevant here, since we know that the addition of the new GPU is the cause of the issues :)

We’re just trying to reduce the effects where possible.

Has your monitor got audio out? If so, try that first.


In your position, though, I’d just reject the card on the basis that you have a 14 day cooling off period and can return a product for any reason (as long as you haven’t damaged it, which it doesn’t sound like you have), assuming you bought online.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/c...nging-your-mind-about-something-youve-bought/
 
Ok Guys Update.

Put card in this morning done what @86dan said no change. Went to work borrowed a usb sound card. Came home and Hallelujah no more white noise and a banging head ache after 15 minutes of gaming.

Only trouble is now the sound quality is a bit rubbish :d so what USB sound card can I get that isnt stupid money and will give as nice a sound as my creative sound blaster Z and able to drive my Sennheiser 598se's.

Cheers to everyone whos helped so far, think we're getting somewhere.
 
I would still send the card back it is defective why should you spend more money on a work round. If they are unable to replace or swap out for a different model / brand get a refund and just be patient until other cards come up.
 
I got the same card but non-OC version, and I was getting an issue with coil whine but also with the LEDs not turning on. I did return it and I got a replacement however the replacement had the exact same issues, which I thought was weird. I talked to them and they said ill get a refund.
 
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it would be very unusual for the GPU itself to be causing coil whine in your headphones, unless an audio cable was running right up against it, so more likely its actually the PSU causing both the whine on the GPU and on the headphones with the PSU being the source and the other two the symptom

a USB sound card is "solving" the issue by not drawing power from the PSU directly
 
shamus21 said:
I would still send the card back it is defective why should you spend more money on a work round. If they are unable to replace or swap out for a different model / brand get a refund and just be patient until other cards come up.
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If im honest from talking to OCUK CS I felt like id send it back it would sit on a shelf for a week and then they'd just send the card back to me. If Bailey was still around I'd drop him a message and get him to have it checked out. But all I got was if its coil whine its coming back. :( I dont really have the time and yep im peed off its cost me an extra 120 quid for an external DAC when my PC had zero issues until I put this Card in. #1stworldproblems


andybird123 said:
it would be very unusual for the GPU itself to be causing coil whine in your headphones, unless an audio cable was running right up against it, so more likely its actually the PSU causing both the whine on the GPU and on the headphones with the PSU being the source and the other two the symptom

a USB sound card is "solving" the issue by not drawing power from the PSU directly
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Im using a dedicated sound card or was until I ordered a DAC last night. No cable to or from the sound card it runs direct from the pci-e power its also a shielded chip so shouldnt suffer EML. I even moved it to the very bottom slot so theres a bit of distance between both components and made sure the PCI-E power cable going toteh GPU was routed so it touched nothing and was routed away from the sound card.

My PSU should be more than up to the job of running a 3060ti its got some of the better internals and enough juice to run my older card that draws more watts and volts than the 3060ti once I undervolted it. Normally id say PSU right away myself mate, but even once I'd stripped all case fans ssd's and anything but the very basics to boot the machince into a game plugged in no change.

My guess is cheap crappy build quality and terrible quality assurance due to global demand. Banking on most people wont RMA as they know its months to get another card back in return if you're lucky.


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I've realised that the majority of coil whine on mine is actually the fan and shroud vibrating ! gonna try a support and some rubber gromits.
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Another thing I checked even ran the card down to 35% fan speed like someone suggested ealier. No change to the background noise once the card gets loaded and draws upwards of 100watts 0.7 volts headache inducing noise - that after about 15 minutes ive had enough. As the sounds just there constantly there in my headphones buzzing away.
 
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Im using a dedicated sound card or was until I ordered a DAC last night. No cable to or from the sound card it runs direct from the pci-e power its also a shielded chip so shouldnt suffer EML. I even moved it to the very bottom slot so theres a bit of distance between both components and made sure the PCI-E power cable going toteh GPU was routed so it touched nothing and was routed away from the sound card.

My PSU should be more than up to the job of running a 3060ti its got some of the better internals and enough juice to run my older card that draws more watts and volts than the 3060ti once I undervolted it. Normally id say PSU right away myself mate, but even once I'd stripped all case fans ssd's and anything but the very basics to boot the machince into a game plugged in no change.
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Exactly, all of this is suggesting to me that the PSU is passing bad power to the sound card itself, I don't see how the GPU is passing EMI to the sound card. The fact that a USB device avoids it again suggests that its the PSU, as the USB power is being cleaned up by the motherboard. The PCIE slot passes 12v directly to the sound card. Its not necessarily a question of being "up to the job", you've changed the nature of the load on the PSU.

I know someone else had the exact same issue, they also tried a USB sound card, in the end a PSU swap solved it.

A quick google of your PSU model returns a lot of hits for coil whine issues.
 
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Pretty weird to get noise through on the headphones, that’s a new one on me.

You could try moving the card to the other slot.

You could slap a ferrite choke on power connector to the card, might help.
 
Alan McFall said:
I've realised that the majority of coil whine on mine is actually the fan and shroud vibrating ! gonna try a support and some rubber gromits.
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Let me know how you get on as I have just worked out all my coil while seems to be from vibrations because as soon as I put my hand on the fan is goes away, problem is a support or trying to wedge something in the shroud does nothing so I have to lock my fan speed to 35%, I don't want to send back as I wont get another one at the price i paid.
 
86dan said:
Let me know how you get on as I have just worked out all my coil while seems to be from vibrations because as soon as I put my hand on the fan is goes away, problem is a support or trying to wedge something in the shroud does nothing so I have to lock my fan speed to 35%, I don't want to send back as I wont get another one at the price i paid.
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I managed to sort it by putting a bit of rubber (lego car wheel haha) at the right hand front corner, it's not moving the shroud at all just slotted in snug. Still got a slight rattle at low speed but no rattle when gaming, still get's bad with fan speed over 85% but it only hits 60-65% max when gaming with the curve I have. Definitely better than it was. I reckon another bit of rubber on the back corner would likely improve things a bit more but cba taking card out and faffing right now, it my day off ffs :)
 
I have never had noise coming through the headphones before sometimes the speakers but thats been down to the transformer (powered speakers). Try the card in a mates PC.
 
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.

Why oh why are you messing about so much trying to "fix" the card? If it's broke, send it back. If you're unhappy send it back under the DSR. Just stop. Put it back in it's box and send it back and request a refund or a replacement.
 
Smok3y said:
Why oh why are you messing about so much trying to "fix" the card? If it's broke, send it back. If you're unhappy send it back under the DSR. Just stop. Put it back in it's box and send it back and request a refund or a replacement.
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You act like he can just pop out and buy another card or have a replacement sent out, maybe he tries all those things because he knows he wont get another chance to buy one at RRP for a long long time if he rma's it.
 
The Asgard said:
Pretty weird to get noise through on the headphones, that’s a new one on me.

You could try moving the card to the other slot.

You could slap a ferrite choke on power connector to the card, might help.
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Ground loops are very common issues in PCs. They are metal boxes with loads of electrical signal/data/power lines going in and out of it. Where you have multiple paths to ground between 2 or more components that should have the same ground reference, you can hear the difference in potential as noise in your headphones.

Your solutions are heading in the right direction though. Its about finding those auxiliary ground paths and eliminating them. Sometimes they can be tricky to find but ferrite chokes and unplugging/re-plugging stuff in somewhere else is something you will probably end up doing.
 
86dan said:
You act like he can just pop out and buy another card or have a replacement sent out, maybe he tries all those things because he knows he wont get another chance to buy one at RRP for a long long time if he rma's it.
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But he can because OcUK have them in stock. What's the problem?
 
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