Guild Wars 2

Getting 120+ FPS on my Sapphire 7970 OC edition.
Seems good right?
No, sadly it makes an extreme whine with this game + Blacklight Retribution and without reason it never goes about 70’c and I love it with my headphones I can ignore the minor whine.
Whine = Transistor electrical sound when it is active, this happens in most electronics with a high capacity transistor system.
I’m curious if ANYone else is getting the transistor whine with a gtx5xx+ or 6xxx+? If so, whats your PSU and voltage settings?

Also, on a SSD how much room does the game really use, and does it ‘write’ itself a lot? I’m curious if my 128gb SSD wil lhold this game through the years or if it will kill my SDD outright. Loading an area, etc…does it write to the disk?

Solid State Drives are not really good for gaming, its like you say they Write and read a lot of the hard drive. of course, they gotten better but in the long run it will lessen the lifely hood of your SSD. Just not instantly lol. It takes a pretty long time. SSD’s are small because they are best suited for Heavy load programs, like Operating Systems and say Photoshop.

As for the Whine, I am not experiencing any of it on my GTX 560 TI Asus. You might just have your voltage settings to high really.

How would I adjust said settings?
Im a Overclocking newb…sorry.

Oh, makes since just curious if there is a ‘read/write viewer/monitor’ of some kind to monitor input and output of a HDD so I can manage to see how well it performs on the SSD.

I believe Lavalys everest is capable of monitoring your read and write data in percentages, but I haven’t used it in a while.

I am not 100% familiar with Sapphire, but do they not deliver there own utility software to OC there cards with or Down clock them?

Down clocking didnt help sadly, I’m not sure what to do there…

How old is your card?(when did you buy it i mean)

4 days ago, and I dont feel like doing a RMA on a known 7970 problem, uncles does the same thing since release and its working fine….just its annoying you know?

He even has it maxed out to 1200/1600 speeds.

A transistor making a Whiny noise is an issue, those things can explode. Not to mention the smell they bring forth(good lord, you’ll be venting your room for days!)

I would really suggest you RMA it and make sure you get a NEW card and not a refurb.

True….Gah I hate when this happens.

Im looking up a SSD tester now, no luck :/

I agree sounds like a iffy card (although i’m assuming you’ve eliminated it coming from anything else). Regarding the SSD it will be mostly reads I really wouldn’t worry especially if its one of the latest and more reliable controllers. Some guys actually ran some tests over on another forum and for example a Samsung 830 has written 4,341TB and is still going..

Oh dear lord…..I kinda want to run weird test like that but no money to waste X3

It’s just coil whine wouldant worry to much, it will vary from card to card, you might have alot of whine while someone else who got a card from the same batch won’t have any, it will be the same with AMD and Nvidia cards when it comes to things like coil whine it is just pot luck.

It can varry from game to game aswell not noticed any coil whine on my Spahire 7970 in GW2 but in ME3 it get’s quite alot.

You can try burning the card in by leaveing something like the Haven benchamrk runnign in the background for a few hours this may help reduce the whine.

Another thing that can help is make sure you have vysnc switched on which can help reduce the load on your GPU there is no point having it switched off as any fps that gose over your monitors refresh rate are wasted anyway.

You could also try updating your graphics cards BIOS aswell but do this carefully and at yuor own risk reamber it will void your waranty and if you brick your card while doing it they won’t replace it.

I did this on my Spahire 7970oc you can find guides on how to do this I used the GHZ eddition BIOS basicly a free upgrade it solved afew minor probblem i had but the fan profile was meant for the normal card not the dual fan verssion so you would need to use a program like affterbrner to set up a manual fan profile.

Have you tried giving it some cheese perhaps?

@ Brem
Sounds like a plan.
Now for the SSD….lol Ill keep looking so far only intel has in house test it seems

Syrellaris.9125:

Solid State Drives are not really good for gaming, its like you say they Write and read a lot of the hard drive. of course, they gotten better but in the long run it will lessen the lifely hood of your SSD. Just not instantly lol. It takes a pretty long time. SSD’s are small because they are best suited for Heavy load programs, like Operating Systems and say Photoshop.

As for the Whine, I am not experiencing any of it on my GTX 560 TI Asus. You might just have your voltage settings to high really.

^ i would not ever take one single piece of advice on pc tech from this person,ever.

Syrellaris.9125:

Solid State Drives are not really good for gaming, its like you say they Write and read a lot of the hard drive. of course, they gotten better but in the long run it will lessen the lifely hood of your SSD. Just not instantly lol. It takes a pretty long time. SSD’s are small because they are best suited for Heavy load programs, like Operating Systems and say Photoshop.

ignore this buffoon. he also believes in ancient aliens and santa claus

:)) just wanna say that i have Samsung 128 gb 830 series and it rocks on gaming :P super loading times and suppa fast

Coilwhine is very, very often due to slightly broken capasitators and it was reported as a problem with multiple Sapphire 7970 cards.

I do not know where you live, so I am unaware of your rights as a consumer in your country, but I would try to return the card and get a replacement. The latest revision seems to have reduced the problem.

About the writes etc for your SSD you should not worry. By the time it would start seriously dropping in performance, it’s time to buy a new one anyway so just go for it.

(You could make sure TRIM is enabled and defrag is turned off, you can google for that.)

Anyone who says an SSD will die from writing alot has no idea what the kitten they are talking about! I have had the same Intel SSD since they came out years ago… IT has been my OS drive which I reformat monthly and reinstall whatever game I want to have lightning fast performance. At this time that would be GW2, the rest go on big old hard drives.

My drive still has over 90% life left according to the toolbox and there is NO slowdown. So dont listen to the KittenKitten people tell you about them dying. The only reason your SSD will die any faster than a normal HDD is a BAD one which happens with ANY hardware. TY