[BuMovin]

I've had my computer for about a week and as of this afternoon, the GPU (a HIS 7950) started getting really hot. Looking into it further in MSI Afterburner, the voltage was downclocked to 825, from the stock 1031. It has been running at 1031 up until this afternoon. I moved the voltage back to stock and it immediately has this weird sound in the video. Does not matter if it is under full load or idle. The sound is constant. Whenever I reboot the computer or it goes to sleep, it auto-downvolts back to 825. There is no sound at 825. Nothing on the card was OC'd and I even tried it with the 2nd bios and the same thing happens. The higher I turn up the voltage, the worse the sound is. There are no visual problems on screen like artifacts or stuttering. Just the noise. It's not coil whine or the fans either, I've checked the fan controls with different speeds and this does not affect it.

Here are some specs from the essentials....
My PSU = http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=110-B1-075...
Motherboard = http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=...
GPU = http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-725.shtml

Apologies if this is the wrong forum, I literally just registered 5 min ago. Still trying to find my way around here. Thank you for looking at this.

-Colin

Should I be looking at the GPU or the PSU as the culprit? How would I test to find out?

 

[truth1675]

I would tend to think psu as I cannot think of anything on the gpu that would be causing that noise I would check that fan on the psu just in case.

 

[BuMovin]

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Originally Posted by truth1675

I would tend to think psu as I cannot think of anything on the gpu that would be causing that noise I would check that fan on the psu just in case.

Thank you for the response!

I thought the sound was the PSU too. Other than the fan, which is not causing the clicking, I could not think of anything on the GPU that would make that sound. However, my roommate is a med school student and I borrowed their stethoscope and the sound is indeed coming from the GPU and not the PSU. I'm not ruling out the PSU as the culprit, as that does affect voltage to the card, but I will rule out the sound coming from it. Sorry for not being more descriptive.

-Colin

 

[truth1675]

this thread might help look at the post in green http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2350110/graphics-card-making-strange-clicking-sound-load.html

 

[BuMovin]

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Originally Posted by truth1675

this thread might help look at the post in green http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2350110/graphics-card-making-strange-clicking-sound-load.html

It wasn't coil whine. I was surprised that this card did not have any since the ATI 7900s are notorious for it. I appreciate you trying to help me. I've been posting on dozens of forums and have only got a few replies so far. It's been a very frustrating process diagnosing the card....I've had an interesting journey with this graphics card order. The first card got lost by USPS and showed up soaking wet 9 days later and smashed. The replacement had all sorts of flickering issues right out of the box, not to mention horrible coil whine and this one (3rd) was fine up until yesterday. It lasted about a week and a half.... I talked with jonnyGURU and he said that he was almost certain that it was the Voltage Regulator Module on the GPU that has failed.

 

[truth1675]

Well he would know better than me. I would ask HIS to refund your money considering this is your third card, I really don't see what else you can do.

 

[F4ze0ne]

My HIS 7950s used to make that sound and they performed fine. If it bothers you then I would just sell the card and get a different brand. HIS is terrible with warranty service.

 

[BuMovin]

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Originally Posted by F4ze0ne

My HIS 7950s used to make that sound and they performed fine. If it bothers you then I would just sell the card and get a different brand. HIS is terrible with warranty service.

If it was just the noise I would not care. I am uncomfortable using a GPU that keeps auto down volting every chance it gets and heating up when it does.

 

[F4ze0ne]

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Originally Posted by BuMovin

If it was just the noise I would not care. I am uncomfortable using a GPU that keeps auto down volting every chance it gets and heating up when it does.

That could be the boost causing the voltage change. I flashed mine with a modded bios (remove boost) and use HIS turbo software to lock it at 1.18v.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1395490/ati-hd-7950-7970-bios-mod-thread

 

[BuMovin]

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Originally Posted by F4ze0ne

That could be the boost causing the voltage change. I flashed mine with a modded bios (remove boost) and use HIS turbo software to lock it at 1.18v.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1395490/ati-hd-7950-7970-bios-mod-thread

The HIS bios change fixed it, thank you!!! Sorry I forgot to thank you earlier. After talking to the seller, I was one of many with a bad bios on this model.

 

[F4ze0ne]

Did you toggle the bios switch to the other bios or reflash?

 

[BuMovin]

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Originally Posted by F4ze0ne

Did you toggle the bios switch to the other bios or reflash?

Reflashed. Switching the bios did not help. I tried that first.