Hi all,
For a few weeks now my GPU (Sparkle Calibre GTX580 Thermal Guru - stock clocks) has been making a fairly quiet 'electronic buzzing' kind of noise. It only does it when I'm playing games, and will stop if I pause. It seems to be linked to how hard the GPU is having to work (i.e. playing Crysis 2 will result in fairly loud buzzing whilst Half-Life 2 is much quieter). It's definitely not the fans, I've checked and double checked, it's coming from the GPU itself. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated; I basically just want to know if it could be damaging my system at all. I'm pretty sure it wasn't doing it for the first few months of owning the card, unless it was and I just wasn't paying attention. Aha.
For a few weeks now my GPU (Sparkle Calibre GTX580 Thermal Guru - stock clocks) has been making a fairly quiet 'electronic buzzing' kind of noise. It only does it when I'm playing games, and will stop if I pause. It seems to be linked to how hard the GPU is having to work (i.e. playing Crysis 2 will result in fairly loud buzzing whilst Half-Life 2 is much quieter). It's definitely not the fans, I've checked and double checked, it's coming from the GPU itself. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated; I basically just want to know if it could be damaging my system at all. I'm pretty sure it wasn't doing it for the first few months of owning the card, unless it was and I just wasn't paying attention. Aha.