RX 6600 Weird Noises

[lOphis]

This GPU has a lot of that noise I forgot the name, when it's being heavily used (that noise people say it's pretty common on AMD GPUs).

And now, I also noticed THIS noise while the GPU is idling (I'm almost sure it's coming from the GPU). Should I be worried?

 

[Caring1]

Coil whine?

 

[evernessince]

that noise people say it's pretty common on AMD GPUs

Nonsense, the AIBs making video cards use the same PCB components to make Nvidia and AMD cards. The only difference is the GPU die itself which isn't the source of coil whine.

It's a roll of the dice if you get coil whine and how bad it is. My 4090 is vastly worse than what I can hear in the video.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Nonsense, the AIBs making video cards use the same PCB components to make Nvidia and AMD cards. The only difference is the GPU die itself which isn't the source of coil whine.

It's a roll of the dice if you get coil whine and how bad it is. My 4090 is vastly worse than what I can hear in the video.

Had to try 3 different 4090s to get one without coil whine and def just a lottery although I found it comical that out of Asus, MSI, Gigabyte the Giga card has almost 0 you have to put your ear right next to it when it's pushing 500+ fps but on the Asus and MSI card you could hear it from 5 feet away.

I can deal with loud fans any day but coil whine hell to the na na.....

To the OP it's normal just annoying AF.

 

[Sunny and 75]

Giga card has almost 0

Interesting!

 

[inquisitor1]

Had to try 3 different 4090s to get one without coil whine and def just a lottery although I found it comical that out of Asus, MSI, Gigabyte the Giga card has almost 0 you have to put your ear right next to it when it's pushing 500+ fps but on the Asus and MSI card you could hear it from 5 feet away.

I can deal with loud fans any day but coil whine hell to the na na.....

did you run benchmarks to stress and see if the whine was there or as soon as you started using it the whine was audible?

is the whine strnger with more stress on the gpu or all the time, same level?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

did you run benchmarks to stress and see if the whine was there or as soon as you started using it the whine was audible?

is the whine strnger with more stress on the gpu or all the time, same level?

Tied to framerate and I do play games that exceed 200fps but both models I tried were audible starting around 100fps.

 

[inquisitor1]

meh, im happy with 60fps at 1440p so it wont matter for me.

 

[lOphis]

Coil whine?

Yup, but is this needle-like noise also a, like, lighter coil-whine? Lol.. Cuz I never heard it before, it's indeed a very low noise, and I just happened to notice it by coincidence. If it's just a coil whine, as people are saying, then I'm ok with it.

Nonsense, the AIBs making video cards use the same PCB components to make Nvidia and AMD cards. The only difference is the GPU die itself which isn't the source of coil whine.

It's a roll of the dice if you get coil whine and how bad it is. My 4090 is vastly worse than what I can hear in the video.

Yup, but I never heard it before, and GPU was just idling.. lol (I really wasn't playing anything for at least 30 minutes, and only browser was opened). I didn't know this needle-like was also coil whine, since I only know coil whine as that very loud, static-like noise, which yep, is annoying af.

 

[evernessince]

Yup, but I never heard it before, and GPU was just idling.. lol (I really wasn't playing anything for at least 30 minutes, and only browser was opened). I didn't know this needle-like was also coil whine, since I only know coil whine as that very loud, static-like noise, which yep, is annoying af.

I can't with 100% confidence say it's coil whine, I was just pointing out the fact that GPU brand shouldn't matter when it comes to coil whine.

I amplified the volume of your YouTube video to the max with Audacity before clipping kicks in and am listing to the video with a ridiculously overpowered amp and from what I can hear it's either coil whine or some other noise that's the result of vibration (typically the fans generating the noise directly or vibrations causing the case to generate noise). You could always open you case and try to see if you can't directionally pinpoint the source of the sound.

The potential sources of unwanted sound in a PC are 1) fans (both the sound of the air moving and vibrational noise) 2) coil whine 3) HDD

I didn't hear a HDD in the clip so I'm going to assume we can eliminate that.

You can eliminate fans as a potential source by either unplugging them, setting them to 0 RPM is software / BIOS, or by pressing on the fan hub with your finger. If the noise persists, it isn't a fan bearing noise or resulting vibrational noise.

In terms of coil whine, the GPU is almost always the source. There have been cases of motherboard VRM coil whine but they are vanishingly rare.

Honestly it's hard to tell just how loud your unwanted noise is given how quiet the video is and even when amplified the fan whirling noise appears to be quite a bit louder. Are you getting higher pitched noise as well? YouTube tends to remove higher pitched noises at the edge of human hearing as they tend to be unwanted and it saves bandwidth.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Most of the time my cards make the PSU audible for coil whine. Are you sure to have pinpointed the card being the issue? The coils are rather small and don't typically become audible.

 

[Chrispy_]

Sounds like coil whine and it's normal.

Typically it's only audible when your GPU is rendering something at a few hundred FPS. Vsync should reduce or eliminate the noise.

It's a bit of a crapshoot - cards will whine in some PCs and not in others, making me think the PSU, the motherboard, or both are contributors.

Sometimes coil whine can get picked up by onboard audio circuits and amplified through your speakers/headphones - so using a USB audio device solves that particular component of the problem.

 

[lOphis]

Thanks guys... I really ain't hearing the same sound today, but if I ever hear it again, I'll try to confirm better where's it coming from... I'm quite sure it was the GPU though, cause I approached my ear near it, and could hear it better, but I'll try to confirm for real next time.

Edit: I just opened my browser (Opera GX) to post this reply, and the noise was there again... It's coming from the GPU indeed... Really weird how opening my browser triggers it, imho.

 

[natr0n]

As long as not spooky sounds. You should be fine.

 

[Chrispy_]

Thanks guys... I really ain't hearing the same sound today, but if I ever hear it again, I'll try to confirm better where's it coming from... I'm quite sure it was the GPU though, cause I approached my ear near it, and could hear it better, but I'll try to confirm for real next time.

Edit: I just opened my browser (Opera GX) to post this reply, and the noise was there again... It's coming from the GPU indeed... Really weird how opening my browser triggers it, imho.

You got a high-refresh monitor?
If so, three (four) options for you:

1. Reduce desktop refresh rate to 120Hz or lower
2. Disable hardware acceleration in your browser
3. In the Radeon driver, setup a "game" for Opera GX's exe and enable a frame-rate limit.
4. (Just ignore the noise, it's not doing any harm)

 

[evernessince]

Thanks guys... I really ain't hearing the same sound today, but if I ever hear it again, I'll try to confirm better where's it coming from... I'm quite sure it was the GPU though, cause I approached my ear near it, and could hear it better, but I'll try to confirm for real next time.

Edit: I just opened my browser (Opera GX) to post this reply, and the noise was there again... It's coming from the GPU indeed... Really weird how opening my browser triggers it, imho.

Could be the hardware acceleration browsers typically enable that's triggering it. Technically your video card is always producing noise, it just that certain workloads tend to push that noise into the audible human hearing range.

 

[lOphis]

You got a high-refresh monitor?
If so, three (four) options for you:

1. Reduce desktop refresh rate to 120Hz or lower
2. Disable hardware acceleration in your browser
3. In the Radeon driver, setup a "game" for Opera GX's exe and enable a frame-rate limit.
4. (Just ignore the noise, it's not doing any harm)

Thanks a ton man. Limiting the framerates actually worked like magic. Awesome!

 

[eidairaman1]

Coil whine?

I hear a clicking noise, like a keyboard or a fan going bad, if its a popping noise, electrical arcing can produce it.

 

[inquisitor1]

(Just ignore the noise, it's not doing any harm)

easier said then done for some people who may have misophonia. especially high pitched ones. id sell my card and get something else that doesnt whine

someone should make a log from others inputs of what cards have whine and those with less.

 

[eidairaman1]

easier said then done for some people who may have misophonia. especially high pitched ones. id sell my card and get something else that doesnt whine

someone should make a log from others inputs of what cards have whine and those with less.

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To fix is to stabilize the coil, and coil whine affects both nvidia and amd.

 

[inquisitor1]

it makes a huge difference. for people who want to know. also will put pressure on then 2 to make gpu and consider the whine issue. im sure once a log is out, that would be a good thing for consumers. not good for oem, but who gives a shit about oem. they dont give a shit about users. thats been proven

dont deflect. it needs to be done

gpu are ridiculous. theyre oversize, overweight, TDP is crazy high, crazy prices and coil whine. a database is important.

 

[eidairaman1]

This GPU has a lot of that noise I forgot the name, when it's being heavily used (that noise people say it's pretty common on AMD GPUs).

And now, I also noticed THIS noise while the GPU is idling (I'm almost sure it's coming from the GPU). Should I be worried?

it makes a huge difference. for people who want to know. also will put pressure on then 2 to make gpu and consider the whine issue. im sure once a log is out, that would be a good thing for consumers. not good for oem, but who gives a shit about oem. they dont give a shit about users. thats been proven

dont deflect. it needs to be done

gpu are ridiculous. theyre oversize, overweight, TDP is crazy high, crazy prices and coil whine. a database is important.

Never was deflecting fyi,

Whining about Coil Whine here isn't going to get their attention, go to their social media pages, create videos on youtube about it.

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[RJARRRPCGP]

Sounded like a watch to me, literally. I hear what sounds like ticking.

 

[eidairaman1]

Sounded like a watch to me, literally. I hear what sounds like ticking.

Exactly, a tapping/clicking, which are fan bearings or a wire being hit by a fan blade, coil whine is a chirp/hum