nvidia - Videocard makes strange noise

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2014-07
  • Danil Gholtsman

    Few days ago I bought Gigabyte's Nvidia 770GTX videocard. I noticed that it makes some cracky noise. It's not actually loud but I could hear it sitting at least from 40cm from my PC.

    I made stress test for it I used Furmark, also I played Crysis and Battlefield 3 maxed out. So I realized that noise is NOT getting louder.

    I think it's not fans.

    Is it okay? What could it be and why?

    • Answers
  • ZEE

    Probably it is an electrical problem...

    But first things first...

    1) Verify cables and connector, unplug end plug again pressing a little more 2) Remove the card from the socket, verify all connections are clean and insert it again

    If the card make the same noises before the OS loads (load the drivers for the card) then for sure it is a card problem... change it!


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    This just happened when I started google chrome, my pc had been turned on for an hour, i just went to take a shower, a shave and breakfast, and when I came back, this happened.

    So really, I want to make sure that this is nothing bad. I'm assuming it's the processor, it's an Intel i7 920.


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  • kurast

    Based on your description, and this is just a guess, this could your hard disk starting to spin.

  • Bobby

    I can remember such a noise as you described it, but can't really put it anywhere...

    Might also be your CPU or GPU fan. Some GPU fans are turning at 100% during boot because the driver hasn't kicked in yet (to throttle them). Also check if a CD is in the drive. Best thing would be, however, to open the PC (only if there's no guarantee on it anymore) and listen carefully from where the noise is coming.

  • rodey

    More that likely it's a fan. Bearings go bad / out and it'll sound like a rocket taking off. One thing to test if it's a bad fan is if you feel extra vibration.

  • neminem

    I've definitely had a laptop with a fan that went bad and sounded sort of like that. I also had (same laptop, it was getting old at this point) a hard drive sound like that sporadically for a few days before it died completely. If you've had the computer a while, and you've never heard a noise like this, you might want to back up, just in case... ;)

    On the other hand, if it's always sounded like that, you probably just have an unusually loud fan (and/or hard drive). I had a roommate in college with a computer like that. Was fun when I was trying to go to sleep, and he was pulling an all-nighter.

    And... apparently it was already determined to be a loud hard drive. I can totally read comments. Still true in general, though.