When under a graphically intensive load, there is a very loud buzzing, almost sizzling sound that comes from the GPU. Starts off low when opening a game, but gets loud when in game.

Does this sound like coil whine or something more sinister? I've attached a sound recording, you will need to turn up volume to hear it.

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[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If the sound changes with the load on the card, it's very likely coil whine. You might be able to fix it with V-sync.

[–] Nate19@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capping FPS to 140 for my monitor, but that doesn't seem to help.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Try capping it at something like 60 just for testing and see if the whine decreases. It might just be unavoidable at those framerates, although I might see about RMA-ing the card if it whines that much at reasonable framerates.