LigTasm
Supreme [H]ardness
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So I just picked up a 6900XT from a user on here, and I'm seeing very strange issues with my EVGA power supplies hooked up to this card. Note that I did some searching and a few others with high end 6000 series cards have had the similar experiences when combined with EVGA power supply coil whining.
Basically what happens is once the card gets under load in a game, the PSU itself will start to coil whine like a maniac and the fan will go to 100% straight away. I have a Supernova G something 1000W and an older 850W platinum rated model, can't remember it off the top of my head but I know they are both Leadex based. I haven't heard a PSU fan running in a very, veryy long time. I was confused at first and assumed the card itself had the coil whine and its fans were loud because that seems way more likely but the card itself is nearly silent.
What can be happening here? To be totally honest I risked it a little bit and hooked the card up to my Gigabyte 450W unit that I basically just use for testing/building since it was so cheap and that thing barely ramped up the fan at all and everything was silent.
Basically what happens is once the card gets under load in a game, the PSU itself will start to coil whine like a maniac and the fan will go to 100% straight away. I have a Supernova G something 1000W and an older 850W platinum rated model, can't remember it off the top of my head but I know they are both Leadex based. I haven't heard a PSU fan running in a very, veryy long time. I was confused at first and assumed the card itself had the coil whine and its fans were loud because that seems way more likely but the card itself is nearly silent.
What can be happening here? To be totally honest I risked it a little bit and hooked the card up to my Gigabyte 450W unit that I basically just use for testing/building since it was so cheap and that thing barely ramped up the fan at all and everything was silent.
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