Hello all. For some reason I struggle to understand what coil whine exactly is. Does the sound actually come from the graphics card itself? Or is the sound transmitted, and is audible through sound systems like speakers or headsets? Whichever it is, I've run into this problem.
Today I got my MSI GTX 970 in the mail and I popped it in after fighting a clamp on my case. After all was said and done, everything seemed fine, until I decided to play Witcher 3. Before I started up the game, I had my external speakers on, low volume, and I didn't hear anything wrong. As soon as I pulled up my xonar dgx audio center and switched to headphones, and put them on, I heard it clear as day. A high pitched whistling noise that doesn't stop. Now for the headset volume, on the audio center itself, I have the volume set to 60, so the volume can't possibly be too loud.
At first I thought maybe it was because the sound card and the graphics card were too close to each other, as they are both taking up the first two PCI slots on my motherboard, the sound card first is in a PCIE slot. So I decided to move the sound card down to the PCIE 4 slot, and restarted my computer. The whistling was gone, but so was my sound all-together. When I tried scanning for hardware in device manager, and even installing the audio drivers, it wasn't recognized that the sound card was in the PCIE-4 slot. Putting the sound card back into the PCI-E 1 slot yielded the same results, even after the reinstallation of the drivers. I don't know if moving the graphics card would do any good, although I guess I could try to move it down to the secondary PCI slot, albeit it would be sitting on top of my PSU practically. Im at a loss, and really, I can't game at all until this problem is fixed, because the whistling is just god awful irritating with my headset on.
Here are my specs, just in case:
Mobo: AsRock Z77 Extreme 4
PSU: Corsair TX 750
CPU: Intel i7-3770k
GPU: MSI GTX 970 4G
Soundcard: Xonar DGX
OS: Windows 10 Pro
I know the issue isn't being caused by my headset or my speakers, because they were working fine just last night when I had my GTX 760 in.
Thanks.
Today I got my MSI GTX 970 in the mail and I popped it in after fighting a clamp on my case. After all was said and done, everything seemed fine, until I decided to play Witcher 3. Before I started up the game, I had my external speakers on, low volume, and I didn't hear anything wrong. As soon as I pulled up my xonar dgx audio center and switched to headphones, and put them on, I heard it clear as day. A high pitched whistling noise that doesn't stop. Now for the headset volume, on the audio center itself, I have the volume set to 60, so the volume can't possibly be too loud.
At first I thought maybe it was because the sound card and the graphics card were too close to each other, as they are both taking up the first two PCI slots on my motherboard, the sound card first is in a PCIE slot. So I decided to move the sound card down to the PCIE 4 slot, and restarted my computer. The whistling was gone, but so was my sound all-together. When I tried scanning for hardware in device manager, and even installing the audio drivers, it wasn't recognized that the sound card was in the PCIE-4 slot. Putting the sound card back into the PCI-E 1 slot yielded the same results, even after the reinstallation of the drivers. I don't know if moving the graphics card would do any good, although I guess I could try to move it down to the secondary PCI slot, albeit it would be sitting on top of my PSU practically. Im at a loss, and really, I can't game at all until this problem is fixed, because the whistling is just god awful irritating with my headset on.
Here are my specs, just in case:
Mobo: AsRock Z77 Extreme 4
PSU: Corsair TX 750
CPU: Intel i7-3770k
GPU: MSI GTX 970 4G
Soundcard: Xonar DGX
OS: Windows 10 Pro
I know the issue isn't being caused by my headset or my speakers, because they were working fine just last night when I had my GTX 760 in.
Thanks.