My 4870 is whistling.

[Monkeynut]

I have a very tiny squeal out of my 3870, it's normal.

 

[Metalface Mark]

respectfully, no card should ever squeal, however it only does appear to do it when i run atitool, ive not heard it with anything else, so ill stick with it if thats the case.

 

[Metalface Mark]

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

Dont get me wrong, it does work fine, but putting the fan on the default setting to me was pretty noisy, if my pc was in an office or games room, it would have been fine, but it sits in my living room, so its unacceptable, i was disapointed, as yewen had said it was extremely quiet, and its not so at all.

 

[The Asgard]

respectfully, no card should ever squeal, however it only does appear to do it when i run atitool, ive not heard it with anything else, so ill stick with it if thats the case.

Most high end cards suffer from capacitor and inductor squeal, its normal.

 

[Bigsy]

I have a saph 4870 and it makes the same noise with ati tool, nothing else mind.

As for cooling I have a Accelero with a Scythe fan I bust the frame off and tie rapped to the sink, it runs at 500rpm which is completely silent and keeps the card under 60C under max load. No vrm cooling but the 4870 doesn't need it, I have a probe on them and they never go over 65C. I think there temp is very much dependent on the gpu and pcb around them, keep that cool and they're fine.

 

[thegoonden]

" 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?

Ermmmm you don't think it might be just load?

Vsync off=100% load and let's say that's 180fps......stick sync on and that limits to 60fps.....33% load.

I this is easily verified by having rivatuner logging everything.

I did this test with whatever you call that shiny balls benchmarker (I am incapable of remembering it's name), and basically, shrieking= big load.

Oh, and you're as likely to hear it through your soundsystem as through any physical means.....while only the worst onboard sound chips would suffer CPU "Burbling", I'm sure that screaming caps/GPU if loud enough to physically hear, can induce signal in ANY nearby sound hardware.

 

[james.miller]

my 8800gtx squeals. like 2 pigs on a honeymoon! still, there isnt anything wrong with it. but i could be annoying if i sat closer to my pc.