squeaking HD3850!

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Limp Gawd
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Yes that right I have a squeaking videocard. Oddly enough it is not a fan fault because I have disabled it and I could still hear ,high pitch squeaking ,not loud (but you can here it very well) annoying noise... My HD3850 is making this noises only in certain games/app . Its loudest in ATI Tray tool when you try to find artifacts or when you launch a game and intro is playing. When you in game you can barely here or not at all. It is not a sound card for sure. It could be mother board ,but I doubt it because I just bought that videocard and my old X1900GT did not make any squeaking noises! PSU is also good. I just bought new one and I thought it could fix it but still, I can hear it. System is 100% stable. I have also disabled CPU fan and other case fans but thats not the case,I can still hear it!!!!!! :bang:Nor its a Hard Drive .... it all comes to GPU.

So.. any ideas? maybe they have on board speakers? I will remove the videocard and play with it ,maybe I will spot something strange,but I doubt it.


ohhh ,and even on stock clocks ,it does the squeaking noise ... just to let you know.
 
what are your temps?

i have a x1950Pro that made the high pitched whine, and it was am audible warning that the temp was too high. it did not occur for some time, and ran without issue. the heatsink was not flush against the GPU or 2 RAM chips.


maybe...maybe not, but worth checking.
 
I have that squealing sound too on my 3850. :mad:

I can hear it go on and off while I'm in the Crysis main menu...horrible sound to hear and it's getting on my nerve !
 
LOL Squeal ? LOL
What Brand is that ???
Mines is totaly Silent even when i am trying to kill it with over clocks
 
Mushkin 550W .

My temps are low ,just 60c @ 770Mhz on core . HD3850 easily gets 89c on core with stock crappy coolers.
 
My 8800 Ultra does this, as do lots of the 8800's, it's an inverter on the card that is the culprit. It will do no damage to the card but is highly annoying I know. I you can find the offending inverter, putting a dab of hot glue on it will remedy this and stop it from vibrating to such high frequencies that our ears can pick it up.
 
cantankerous said:
My 8800 Ultra does this, as do lots of the 8800's, it's an inverter on the card that is the culprit. It will do no damage to the card but is highly annoying I know. I you can find the offending inverter, putting a dab of hot glue on it will remedy this and stop it from vibrating to such high frequencies that our ears can pick it up.
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Would you be kind enough, and supply a picture of what part you talking about ???
That would causes that Noise?
And also an arrow showing what they would glue up ?
Sorry might be too much to asks, but hey pretty sure some ppl Dont wanna glue up the wrong part.
As of on my part i am curious what that is. LOL
 
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