Hello, I recently built a brand new PC (specs at the bottom). I was so happy with it because it is so quiet and my last one was extremely loud. I just finished FF7 Remake and all was good. Then I booted up FF7 Rebirth and man, the coil whine is insane. That game really demands more than the first one too. I’m getting a lot lower FPS and the CPU and GPU have to work a lot harder. So, I tested in some other demanding games as well and the coil whine is just as bad there.
So far, I have tried the following: undervolting my GPU, power limiting my GPU, making sure the GPU has three separate PCIe cables from the PSU, updating everything, toggling SAM on and off, trying different BIOS versions from the switch on the GPU, and even tested with my old 3080 card. In BG3, I had coil whine with DLSS (balanced) off but not with it on. I ran almost an hour of FurMark (no coil whine at all at 404W power to GPU) with both the standard and knot settings.
Nothing has worked; same annoying buzzing sound and coil whine when the games are demanding. I even tested booting up BG3 on my old PC (with the 3080) and had no coil whine until I turned off DLSS, and then it started there as well.
So, do I have two faulty GPUs or two faulty PSUs? How do I even tell? I have tried listening to the parts and I am not sure if the sound is from the GPU or PSU.
PC specs:
- Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming
- Corsair RM1000e ATX 3.0 1000W V3
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 104MB
- Kingston 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6000MHz CL30 FURY Beast AMD EXPO/XMP 3.0
- Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB Nitro+ Vapor-X
Tested with my ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF OC Gaming. Same coil whine, just a lot less FPS. I used DDU to wipe drivers before swapping cards. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.