Hi, I recently installed a brand new Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 reference graphics card in my recently built PC and I immediately noticed a coil whine heard through the headphones only when gaming.
I have done a lot of reading and yet I haven't found a clear answer.
The pitch goes up and down depending on the frame rate of the game and mouse movement. This does not happen during browsing the net or any other activities other than gaming.
The coil whine is not too noticeable when you take your headphones off, it is only there (horribly loud) through the headphones.
I have tried enabling Vsync, but the sound was still there, although at a lower pitch. It was happening during high frame rate as well as low frame rate, like 40-60. I haven't moved any cables around, but I had not much room to be playing with it anyways.
The sound card is integrated into the Gigabyte Gaming 5 motherboard and I am connecting the headphone's jack through the IO panel. I tried different headphones and the same happened.
I have been able to isolate the noise in my headphones by connecting to the front audio port of the case, oddly enough, which appears to be better shielded from interference? I read it is usually the other way around... I mean, the buzzing is completely gone there, until I connect it to the IO again.
Anyway, even though I don't have the horrible mosquito sound through my headphones anymore on this jack, however I still would like to know if you guys could advice me to return my GTX 970 or to keep it, as I have also read that sometimes you can get a worse one, being this coil whine a common problem among these series. Most people have reported the coil whine without the headphones, so I am a little worried that this could be a faulty device and not just the coil whine, but 2 problems in one with a possibility of premature failure.
Could it be the PSU?
As a reminder, everything in this built is brand new.
Thank you very much for your advice in advance.
My PC:
Gigabyte Gaming 5 rev 1.0
CPU: i7 4790k
CPU cooler: EVO 212
RAM: 2x 8GB=16 GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 reference model
PSU: Seasonic x 850 gold series 850W
Case: Enermax Coenus
I have done a lot of reading and yet I haven't found a clear answer.
The pitch goes up and down depending on the frame rate of the game and mouse movement. This does not happen during browsing the net or any other activities other than gaming.
The coil whine is not too noticeable when you take your headphones off, it is only there (horribly loud) through the headphones.
I have tried enabling Vsync, but the sound was still there, although at a lower pitch. It was happening during high frame rate as well as low frame rate, like 40-60. I haven't moved any cables around, but I had not much room to be playing with it anyways.
The sound card is integrated into the Gigabyte Gaming 5 motherboard and I am connecting the headphone's jack through the IO panel. I tried different headphones and the same happened.
I have been able to isolate the noise in my headphones by connecting to the front audio port of the case, oddly enough, which appears to be better shielded from interference? I read it is usually the other way around... I mean, the buzzing is completely gone there, until I connect it to the IO again.
Anyway, even though I don't have the horrible mosquito sound through my headphones anymore on this jack, however I still would like to know if you guys could advice me to return my GTX 970 or to keep it, as I have also read that sometimes you can get a worse one, being this coil whine a common problem among these series. Most people have reported the coil whine without the headphones, so I am a little worried that this could be a faulty device and not just the coil whine, but 2 problems in one with a possibility of premature failure.
Could it be the PSU?
As a reminder, everything in this built is brand new.
Thank you very much for your advice in advance.
My PC:
Gigabyte Gaming 5 rev 1.0
CPU: i7 4790k
CPU cooler: EVO 212
RAM: 2x 8GB=16 GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 reference model
PSU: Seasonic x 850 gold series 850W
Case: Enermax Coenus
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