GTX 460 Hawk buzz

[schmunk]

Hey all,
I have a MSI GTX 460 hawk that I do overclock at 925Mhz, giving extra power to GPU and RAM, and I get an electronic hum when I run games with my headphones. My soundcard is a Creative X-fi and I have the HD Audio plug from my Antec P180 case plugged into the card, and plug my headphones into the front jacks.

I did not have this happen before this GPU, when I had a GTX260.

Anyone else have this issue? It is a slight background hum that changes when the screen changes in pitch and cycle, kind of sounds like someone is trying to tune a shortwave radio into monster island, "Calling monster island, come in monster island." (old Godzilla reference)

 

[Vdubchaos]

I have the same card, but its at stock speeds, I simply don't have a need to OC it as it runs all the games I play maxed out.

Did you try putting back to default?

 

[badb0y]

Is it coming from your headphones or from the computer itself? If it's the computer it a coil whine coming from your PSU or graphics card. It's not going to hinder performance but if it's annoying you isolate the problem and RMA it.

A good way to find out is by rolling a paper up and trying to listen inside your computer where the noise is coming from and then go from there.

 

[cadred]

This is kind of a known issue with the 460's. I believe it's some transistors that are vibrating when certain frequencies are hit on the screen. For me, it's the video in Crysis/Warhead. The only advice I've heard is to try turning on vsync, which limits your framerate, but otherwise I don't know.

 

[combust3r]

I've heard that it was the chokes on the 460's that are producing it when highly overclocked, dont know if this is true or not. Bring back your HAWK to reference clock and try again.

If this is indeed comming from the headphones, try to plug them into the sound card directly.

 

[Rifter]

both my 460's are OC'ed and quiet(1 MSI cyclone and 1 Hawk)

 

[iGas]

No buzz form my GTX 460 hawk talon attack card at 811MHZ to 1040MHZ.

 

[schmunk]

Thanks guys, I will test tonight. Yes, it is from the headphones themselves, at first I thought it could be the unsheilded end of the case wires that go to the HD audio header on the sound card picking up interference. I twisted them all together which should have cancelled any interference, but I will try to plug into the back and see whats up.

 

[schmunk]

OMG, feel so stupid. When I was playing around with plugging headphones into back, I noticed pulling on card stopped noise. It still cycled with what was on the screen, and didn't do it before this card. Oh well, time for new headphones!