I almost never play high-end games so I just found out my GPU has crazy coil whine like a year after buying it
Btw, the game that did it? A fucking Taiko no Tatsujin simulator. So I'm still on my streak of never playing AAA games btw
That's OK, generally GPUs come with generous multi-year warranties
>>730647065I got that shit on eBay vro you think I'm EVER paying MSRP?
What the heck is coil whine?
>>730647129When the GPU makes a weird high-pitched sound that changes depending on what you're doing in-game, it's wildIt's basically harmless I think and I wear headphones so it's basically just gonna be a mild annoyance to me
Pee on it for lubrication.
That's kinda hot
>mfw having multiple games on my backlog specifically for when I upgraded, only to learn what coil whine was the hard way
>>730647029LIVE
>>730647029Happens more often than you think, and with more devices than just GPUs too. Heck the remote access point in my living room drives me nuts sometimes, even though it's supposed to be made by a reputable American brand. That's what you get with cheap components for capacitors, manufacturing QC being crap, etc. Welcome to the modern age. Can't remember coil whine being such a nuisance 10-15 years ago. Wear headphones and try not to let it get to you. Even if you do get it RMA'd, good chance the replacement has it too. I've pretty much learned to just deal with it. Supposedly you can improve it yourself by adding extra isolation to the circuit board but I'm not about to break warranty and do that.
>>730647052Let me guess, you're letting it run at 2000 FPS?
>>730648963It's some Japanese shit and none of the settings make sense I have no idea what it's doing. Only coil whines in the menus when not previewing a song
>>730649117limit the framerate to something sensible like 60, 120 or 200 fpsany card whill whine at thousands of fps
>>730649175My old cards never whined even when accidentally running Touhou 6 at 1000fps
>>730649267The cards or your cpu were not fast enough to reach the whine level
>>730647029>Have to dial gpu fans down to dangerously low levels in order to not get annoyed by the noise they makeIt's over for me.
>>730649340Have you considered replacing fans?
My new monitor has a dead pixel but I don't know if it's worth all the hassle of sending it back to Amazon What do I do anons?
>>730649452The actual GPU fans? No I haven't, didn't realise you could do that and the GPU has always been loud since I boughted it, I run the fans at like 20% because the noise is too irritating for me.
>>730649494google fix dead pixelif that doesn't work we can reconvene
>>730649775what's the hotspot delta
>>730649889I tried one of those pixel scrambling pages but that didn't workI have only noticed the dead pixel twice naturally after using the monitor for a month, it's like off center on one side but not shoved into a corner where I'll never see itWhy can't I just be sent things without fucking problems
>>730649175>>730649117I had a really powerful card that had coil whine when playing a shitty browser 3D game.It went away when I forced vsync manually.If it's an Nvidia card you can force vsync on the options, you just have to select the game/exe itself
>>730649959I'm a brainlet so dunno what delta means but the hotspot doesn't go above 95C on my current settings
>>730650461delta means difference between two numberssubtract gpu temp from hotspotif the difference is over 20 degrees repaste the card
