Hey there,
I'm super stoked on my first ever pc build featuring the card in title. I've got everything set up and have been tinkering with PXOC to learn how it works and how to find a stable overclock. I've upped the gpu clock offset by 100mhz and the same for memory and ran some benchmarks and things were stable (should be because that is pretty mild, right?).
So then I fired up Crysis (running 3440x1440 with high settings on an ultra wide) and started hearing a loud squealing coming from the card. I reset things to default in PXOC and made adjustments to limit frame rates to 100 and now the card still makes noise but not nearly as loud or high pitched.
First question: I realize pc components make noise but what is an acceptable/normal for these cards? Right now it's loud enough that fans do not drown it out but it's not an issue if I crank up the volume or throw on headphones.
Second question: After I returned the card to stock levels and reset the machine, I checked in the xoc app that settings were applied and it was showing 1607mhz gpu clock and 4004 memory clock so I closed out of the application again. Then I ran heaven benchmark (at what I assumed were stock levels) and it was showing the gpu clock at 1911mhz (higher than I OC'd to which is odd)... so I think "what the heck is going on here?". I open up HWmonitor and it is showing gpu clock at 1835mhz. I re-open xoc and it is now showing 1835mhz. It returned to 1607mhz in xoc as soon as I closed unigine heaven. So what is going on here?
Thanks for any comments or advice!