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Has my PSU turned to the dark side (it's black and shiny like darth vader, maybe I should have expected this?) and started slowly torturing the rest of my components to death one by one?
Situation: Yesterday I ran 3dMark 06 (free version) for the first time, curious to see how much I'm getting out of my system. As it tests my graphics card I hear a loudish high pitched fast clicking noise coming from either the card or the PSU, I can't tell which as they're right next to each other. Sound is only made when the graphics card is under strain, nothing else does it.
Then today I noticed my graphics card seems to have lost half its memory, according to all the system information/benchmarking programs (I daren't run another graphics test).
I have noticed this in the past, but it was much quieter (hardly noticeable) and I assumed it was just the fan running slightly off balance when speeding up as the graphics card got hotter under stress. It only bothered me yesterday as I recently installed watercooling on the graphics and cpu so it shouldn't be making that noise at all, let alone loudly. Or it could be the PSU making the noise, though it sounds more like the card.
So: could my psu have just zapped half the memory on my card, or is something else at fault (is the memory lost for good?) and what could be making that noise and why?
Asus P5Q deluxe / Intel Q9450
ATI 4870 X2 2GB with dangerden full waterblock (now claims to be 1GB
)
Tagan 800 BZ PSU
I have run the psu with nothing else plugged in when setting up the watercooling and didn't hear the noise then but wouldn't expect to as it only happens when the graphics card is under load.
Any advice welcome, thank you
(recorded noise below, mouse clicks to start test at 0:04, problem noise from 0:13 on, high pitched so youtube doesn't play it very well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc5MdZE3UbQ
Situation: Yesterday I ran 3dMark 06 (free version) for the first time, curious to see how much I'm getting out of my system. As it tests my graphics card I hear a loudish high pitched fast clicking noise coming from either the card or the PSU, I can't tell which as they're right next to each other. Sound is only made when the graphics card is under strain, nothing else does it.
Then today I noticed my graphics card seems to have lost half its memory, according to all the system information/benchmarking programs (I daren't run another graphics test).
I have noticed this in the past, but it was much quieter (hardly noticeable) and I assumed it was just the fan running slightly off balance when speeding up as the graphics card got hotter under stress. It only bothered me yesterday as I recently installed watercooling on the graphics and cpu so it shouldn't be making that noise at all, let alone loudly. Or it could be the PSU making the noise, though it sounds more like the card.
So: could my psu have just zapped half the memory on my card, or is something else at fault (is the memory lost for good?) and what could be making that noise and why?
Asus P5Q deluxe / Intel Q9450
ATI 4870 X2 2GB with dangerden full waterblock (now claims to be 1GB
)Tagan 800 BZ PSU
I have run the psu with nothing else plugged in when setting up the watercooling and didn't hear the noise then but wouldn't expect to as it only happens when the graphics card is under load.
Any advice welcome, thank you
(recorded noise below, mouse clicks to start test at 0:04, problem noise from 0:13 on, high pitched so youtube doesn't play it very well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc5MdZE3UbQ
