Whinning GTX safe?

Bikerz · 19 Jun 2008 at 15:29

I know the nvidia cards when when folding due to loads of power through capacitors. Is it safe to ruin them like this for long times? If i clock my gtx back to 300mhz the whinning is inaudible. What are you guys doing? putting up with the winning under clocking cards?If so what are you clocking them down to?

Talrinys · 19 Jun 2008 at 16:03

Well not all capacitators do this and i believe they are okay to run even if they do?
It would be a shame to have a good card and lose PPD because of that issue?

Mattus · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:09

I'm a bit worried about it too. With my 8800GT at default settings the whining is really high pitched, quite loud and pretty annoying. Can't sleep with it, so I'm downclocking to 500 core / 1250 shader when I go to bed - gets rid of it almost completely. (The speed of the client depends mostly on the shader clock.) Hope this isn't killing my GPU!

Bikerz · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:47

Ive gone down to a 400mhz core on my gtx as then the whinning is inaudible and makes me feel like its doing no damage. I might upgrade to a new ati or a 260 or 280 in the next month unless they can change the folding client so it doesnt require soo much power

james.miller · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:48

its perfectly fine

Mattus · 19 Jun 2008 at 21:48

Guess I'll put the stock cooler back on and RMA it to eVga if it dies. Their fault for using crappy voltage regulators anyway

Bikerz · 19 Jun 2008 at 21:51

Mines an EVGA too but overclocked so cant RMA it, or can they not tell if you over clocked or not?

james.miller · 19 Jun 2008 at 22:03

they cant tell and it REALLY is noting to worry about.

Bikerz · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:03

What about if I didnt register the EVGA card? Apparently you have to register it within 30 days of buying it (only just realised) and I havent, but do have original recipt. Would they RMA it still? Hopefully I wont have to, but nice to know just incase

theheyes · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:28

If it's less than 12 months old you can return it anyway. Overclocking... not so sure about that side of things whether that invalidates the warranty.

Bikerz · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:41

Ah cool, my GTX is only 2 months old

Mattus · 22 Jun 2008 at 02:08

The folks here at Silent PC Review seem to think it's not actually a coil or capacitor that makes the noise, but rather the buzzer which warns you if the power connector is disconnected. Supposedly it's picking up some kind of interference, and you can shut it up by stuffing something in the little outlet hole?

Might try it - would be happy to know that the noise wasn't actually coming from the power circuitry.

(edit) Nice idea, but no cigar. Took card out, took cooler off, sellotaped over buzzer, put back in. Difference: none, apart from the 100 points I lost in the time it took to do it

(edit2) If you have a modular PSU, try plugging the 6-pin cable into a different socket. My GT is still whining but it's quite a bit quieter after I switched to the other output on my Corsair 520.