My 4870 is whistling.

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:11

Revieved my new 4870 today, when its stressed, i can hear a whistle come from it.

Anyone else get this, have any idea what it is, or how to fix it without RMA?

Ben M · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:12

is it just capacitor screeching?

I thought these came pre-fitted with hairdryers on top, doesn't that drown it out?

ACESHIGH · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:15

Metalface Mark said:
Revieved my new 4870 today, when its stressed, i can hear a whistle come from it.

Anyone else get this, have any idea what it is, or how to fix it without RMA?

yeah apparently capacitors cause this, but are you sure it is the card and not the PSU from being under stress?

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:41

sounds like the card itself, i never had it with my 8800gts 512.

ken1307 · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:55

that happen with every single ATI cards I have ever owned, from the 9800Pro onward so dont worry about it

Logic Zero · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:04

Maybe he's a cheerful chap?

Darg · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:07

My corsair HX620 whistles when the graphics card is under load. Maybe your GTS wasn't drawing enough to stress your PSU that much?

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:07

Logic Zero said:
Maybe he's a cheerful chap?

I wish he was miserable

Xtrema · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:10

Metalface Mark said:
I wish he was miserable

Then he'd be groaning and you wouldn't want that

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:22

seems to be just when i run ati tool actually.

Corasik · 18 Jul 2008 at 19:21

I've had both ATi and Nvidia cards that "chirp" under load. But never had one that you could hear when the side panel was fitted. Unless its so loud you hear it all the time, just ignore. It wont cause any problems.

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 19:23

Thats the least of my worries, the temp in my case has gone sky high since fitting the 4870, its generating much more heat than my 8800gts, i changed coolers for an akasa blue thingmabob, and the thing is roasting hot, probs have to put the stock cooler back on to see if thats any better.

sanofi · 18 Jul 2008 at 21:48

Metalface Mark said:
Thats the least of my worries, the temp in my case has gone sky high since fitting the 4870, its generating much more heat than my 8800gts, i changed coolers for an akasa blue thingmabob, and the thing is roasting hot, probs have to put the stock cooler back on to see if thats any better.

You fitted the Vortexx Neo on the 4870 and its still hot? How hot exactly?

You could also try playing around with the fan speed using the xml hack to see if the noise is affected.

Big.Wayne · 18 Jul 2008 at 21:57

" i can hear a whistle come from it."

Is this a Vsync issue?

Vsync off = squeal.
Vsync on = gone.

Probably a longshot but I read a few people made the whining stop by enabling Vsync? :confused:

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 22:07

sanofi said:
You fitted the Vortexx Neo on the 4870 and its still hot? How hot exactly?

You could also try playing around with the fan speed using the xml hack to see if the noise is affected.

at 5v, its idle right now at 74C, so pretty hot indeedy.

The cooler is fitted correctly, the heatpipes are roasting hot.

It goes down to about 55C at full speed, but its too noisy.

SS-89 · 18 Jul 2008 at 22:09

ouch stock cooler is silent on mine at 25% and idles at 55.

Metalface Mark · 18 Jul 2008 at 22:27

SS-89 said:
ouch stock cooler is silent on mine at 25% and idles at 55.

im going to stick the stock cooler on tomorrow to see how that goes, stuck the vortex on straight away.

sanofi · 18 Jul 2008 at 23:10

Metalface Mark said:
at 5v, its idle right now at 74C, so pretty hot indeedy.

The cooler is fitted correctly, the heatpipes are roasting hot.

It goes down to about 55C at full speed, but its too noisy.

Thats a shame as I was thinking of getting the Vortexx Neo as I had heard good things about it.

Slashiem · 18 Jul 2008 at 23:22

Could it be more of an issue of a dodgy card rather than the cooler?

~Slash

Final8y · 18 Jul 2008 at 23:32

RMAed my one of my ati 3870 for the squealing that has gotten louder to the point that i could hear it from the other side of the room with which i could hear over the 13" desk fan & rather noisy portable air-conditioner.
And that was just idling on the desktop