Playing some games and suddenly started experiencing a beeping noise that sounds exactly like an old school motherboard speaker. Pretty sure its coming from the graphics card but I could be wrong, although nothing else in my computer has a speaker as far as i know. Just goes and goes until I alt-tab or close out the game, and then continues randomly after a few minutes and sometimes just stops all together.
 
I just got this 3070 ti about a week or so ago, it replaced my 3070 xc3 which ive had zero issues with since January. When i "upgraded" to the 3070 ti, i went ahead and changed out my PSU to a corsair 850 watt unit since mine was getting pretty old.
 
Have the latest version of PX1 and it did indeed do a firmware update on the first start, have latest drivers, and 94.04.5A.00.FO vbios if any of that matters
 
Nothing funky going on with temps, everything is in the 60s looking through all the sensors on AIDA 64.
 
Is there actually a speaker on these cards?
 
Thinking it could be a low voltage warning or something like that? Sorry if this has come up, search function is broked.

3070 ti ftw3 ultra
r5 3600
gigabyte b550 aorus board
rmx 850 psu 2021 unit
few m.2s and a handful of HDDS.
completely air cooled
 
Motherboard does not have a speaker, some of the drives might but they are in a completely different part of the case. I do also have a wifi PCIE card right underneath, ill have to look into that but it seemed louder on the opposite side of the card to where its located. Probing around with my phone recording video, that seems to be where the noise is most intense.
 
Had aida 64 up on my second monitor and system temps all seemed pretty fine, everything from chipset to m.2s was in the 40s and 50s max. Nothing crazy from the CPU either. This is playing battlefield 4 which is not a very demanding game either, so its not like im really challenging this hardware.

Don't have a UPS.
Yeah its a lot going on lol, got a new drive a few months back and have been using the older as file backups temporarily.
Might not be the best for performance but I haven't noticed any issues. GPU is still appears to be able to use a full 16 lanes on PCIE 4.0
But forsure not the best for heat and power. Planning to get a new case this week and downsize either way.
 

GPUs do not have built-in speakers/buzzers. Motherboards used to have back in the day, now it's mostly gone as well (there are some high end models that still carry them). Since you have located the sound on your card, are you sure it's not just heavy coil whine? Alternatively and if it's a clear "beep-beep" sound, is your system a pre-built system? System integrators often use an aux speaker when setting up a new system, they might have left it on your m/b. It wouldn't explain why it goes off when the card is under load as normally it shouldn't (beep codes burst while the system is self checking under post), but it's a good start. Look at your front panel headers, both Master and Elite versions of Gigabyte's B550 m/bs have speaker headers there to connect a speaker.

aka_STEVE_b
If it's not a UPS backup power unit - it has to be the motherboard alarm of either overheat or undervolt .?  Doesn't it .?...
 
I mean the only other alarm beeping than those I've ever heard from a PC is from a case/ chassis intrusion alarm that some units had to protect from people opening them .
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yes... and if its not the UPS because you dont have a UPS why the hell dont you have a UPS?  

it does look like the b550 has speaker headers in the Fpanel spot.  must be plumed in there.  

rjohnson11

rblaes_99
I would strip the whole thing down to a barebones build.  one drive, one stick of ram, one GPU and slowly add parts.  
 
and get a damn UPS you animal. 
 

A UPS might be needed in the USA but in other countries, like those in Europe, it should not be necessary. 

I would think it would still be useful if you work with data you can't afford to lose....You might have current protection built into the grid (do you??)
but I assume you still have power outages?
 
(Curious, not accusatory)
 

I use a pure sinewave UPS to make sure clean steady power is always hitting my rig.  power surges, lightning, data protection are all secondary but on my list as well. 

I don't use a UPS. Never have.

Can we get back on the subject of the beeping noise?

Played a few hours this morning and but could not recreate it. Here's a clip of when it happened the first time. Excuse the dust, its bad I know, i need a case with actual filters lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zTa_Hw9cOE

also 50/50 sounds like a mechanical hard drive dieing.  

Monst3r
Played a few hours this morning and but could not recreate it. Here's a clip of when it happened the first time. Excuse the dust, its bad I know, i need a case with actual filters lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zTa_Hw9cOE

Sounds like coil whine/squeal, yup. It's fairly common these days and to be expected. It might get away gradually as the capacitor/inductor in question "wears in" or might get worse. You could try RMA the card (not sure where EVGA stands when it comes to coil whine) but, judging by the current market situation, I'd definitely wait a bit. Others things you could do is either bump the fans speed a bit to help with ample airflow and lower temps. Various users over the years have reported that framerate limiters, enabling V-Sync/G-sync/FreeSync could help. Undervolting or lowering the o/c, too. A bit more advanced and the only proper fix is to use insulating varnish/hot glue to stabilize the inductor(s) and secure them in place but I would not advise that if you're not confident enough around the pcb.

This may sound like a random thought, but can you try to run your games with the GPU power limit set to 60-70%?

Better yet, undervolt it to around 0.937V and 1890MHz clock and see if the sound goes away. This will reduce your power draw by a good amount. Thinking that if the GPU is squealing in a repetitive pattern, then it could be related to a regular switching that is synchronized with hitting the limiter. Get your card to run below the limit, see what happens.

Record before and after data with GPUz and make sure you capture the limiter data.

It sounds like coil whine to me.  Based on the video, it could be the motherboard VRM, the video card VRM, or that m.2 SSD.  I have heard all of those make similar noises.  A PSU can also make coil whine noises, but in the video, it doesn't sound like it is coming from the PSU.
 

rblaes_99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP73edpQwgc

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