AMD R9 Fury X Coil Whine/Buzzing noise..

[Th0rHere]

^This. The card is not loud, it's just the high pitched whine..its like a constant ringing in your ears. I don't get headaches, but rather, my ear drums hurt after hearing it for a while. I hope i'm not damaging my hearing by listening to this.

If anyone's played Call of Duty, think of the sound that is made after a flashbang goes off. That's what the ringing sound of my Fury X sounds like. Except this time, the noise doesn't go away after a few seconds. It's there, and it won't go away until you turn off the computer/put it to sleep. Again, hard to pick up on camera, have to hear it in real life.

To me, Its the sort of noise that, even after turning off your computer, you keep having this ringing noise in your head/ear everywhere go, until it wears off after a while.

Although, I have decided to just blast music anytime i'm on my desktop (for gaming), in order to drown out the whining noise.

If i'm doing anything OTHER than gaming, i will use my macbook pro instead. Desktop for gaming, with music blasting in the background only.

I'd RMA to newegg right now but i'm afraid they will just send me another replacement with the same issue. So i'm going to wait a bit, then RMA, to ensure that I have a Fury X from a batch with the revised, non squealing pump.

Flashbang going off. That's exactly it.

It just gets to you. Whatever is causing it cant be good. Clearly AMD pushed for the fix early on so hoping all units from now on have the new pump.

 

[Eymar]

Yeah, I added enough sound proofing so just mildly annoying so can wait to RMA. If fixed pump eliminates that buzz, then card will be near silent. I set the fan speed to 40% and barely makes any noise while keeping card <50c (default fan speed the gpu will max out at 65c).

 

[darkserith]

Tom's Hardware has an interesting article on their investigations of the pump whine. It's worth a read IHMO:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-power-pump-efficiency,4215.html

They even recorded a video showing how it sounds. Might want to turn up the volume to hear it, depending on your setup.


...look at this guy's Fury X sound. and i thought I had it BAD..this clearly sounds like a flashbang going off :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-G8_jwl9pU

 

[Ire123]

Whoa, that's pretty disappointing.

 

[JDG1980]

Whoa, that's pretty disappointing.

Indeed. It looks like everyone is passing the buck.

You don't launch a premium brand this way. Not if you want it to succeed. But what should we expect from the most incompetent marketing department in the known universe?

 

[rgallant]

any one know if the pump rpm is fixed at max. or some sort of temp. rpm adjusted by the card ?
-if fixed at max. rpm that could be part of the idle buzz issue.

 

[3DVagabond]

Indeed. It looks like everyone is passing the buck.

You don't launch a premium brand this way. Not if you want it to succeed. But what should we expect from the most incompetent marketing department in the known universe?

What does the pump noise have to do with marketing? This is the most unimformed rant I've ever read.

 

[Keysplayr]

What does the pump noise have to do with marketing? This is the most unimformed rant I've ever read.

You know what he meant. Simply put, whatever part(s) of the company responsible for letting the product go out this way.

 

[Zanovar]

Just curious why do you respond to his posts keys?he is ignoring you.just how weird are you?.*s******s*.

 

[KingFatty]

It might help to run the audio file of the pump whine through a visual analyzer like Audacity, and then you could visually see the pump noise at the higher frequency just sitting there.

Or even better, run it through a Fourier analysis and look for the peak at the higher frequency corresponding to the higher pitch of the pump whine.

 

[3DVagabond]

Just curious why do you respond to his posts keys?he is ignoring you.just how weird are you?.*s******s*.

Cheers. Hopefully it sinks in.

The rant to blame AMD marketing is just the opportunity to take a cheap shot. Blame engineering or management, sure. Marketing is just handed the product with a budget and told to go to it. There's also The pet project Syndrome you have to cater to that's always a thorn in marketing's side.

There will be someone, likely on the engineering side, that approved the pump. That or AMD management never really did independent testing of the pump and left it to Coolermaster who proceeded to screw them over with inferior products. Like has been noted, AIO pumps are not typically noisy. There's also the possibility that you have a handful of individuals running around the net shouting it repetitively to anyone who can read making out it's worse than what it really is. Like what happens all of the time.

 

[Zanovar]

Cheers. Hopefully it sinks in.

The rant to blame AMD marketing is just the opportunity to take a cheap shot. Blame engineering or management, sure. Marketing is just handed the product with a budget and told to go to it. There's also The pet project Syndrome you have to cater to that's always a thorn in marketing's side.

There will be someone, likely on the engineering side, that approved the pump. That or AMD management never really did independent testing of the pump and left it to Coolermaster who proceeded to screw them over with inferior products. Like has been noted, AIO pumps are not typically noisy. There's also the possibility that you have a handful of individuals running around the net shouting it repetitively to anyone who can read making out it's worse than what it really is. Like what happens all of the time.

Ive played around with lots of aio coolers.how many have you played around with?.just asking.

 

[utahraptor]

Tom's Hardware has an interesting article on their investigations of the pump whine. It's worth a read IHMO:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-power-pump-efficiency,4215.html

They even recorded a video showing how it sounds. Might want to turn up the volume to hear it, depending on your setup.


...look at this guy's Fury X sound. and i thought I had it BAD..this clearly sounds like a flashbang going off :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-G8_jwl9pU

#pumpgate confirmed!

 

[Osjur]

...look at this guy's Fury X sound. and i thought I had it BAD..this clearly sounds like a flashbang going off :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-G8_jwl9pU

Mine sounds exactly the same, like a flashbang going off in CS

 

[NesuD]

So where did Tom's put the video recording the pump whine with the cards cover on rather than off like the video they posted. I am sure the pump is making noise but should we be looking at the noise level of the card in it's factory configuration not partially disassembled like in Tom's video? Also looks like that retail card they checked was from the initial batch of cards shipped (newegg has been out of stock since about 2 minutes after launch so they must have had one from the first batch) It is pretty likely that they weren't testing a card with the pump noise fix.

Overclock 3d has a card with the revised pump http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_s_revised_r9_fury_x_-_pump_whine_issues/1

Looks like it is fixed on cards using the new easily identifiable pump.

Tom's should try a little harder. They knew they didn't have the new revision.

 

[Keysplayr]

So where did Tom's put the video recording the pump whine with the cards cover on rather than off like the video they posted. I am sure the pump is making noise but should we be looking at the noise level of the card in it's factory configuration not partially disassembled like in Tom's video? Also looks like that retail card they checked was from the initial batch of cards shipped (newegg has been out of stock since about 2 minutes after launch so they must have had one from the first batch) It is pretty likely that they weren't testing a card with the pump noise fix.

Overclock 3d has a card with the revised pump http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_s_revised_r9_fury_x_-_pump_whine_issues/1

Looks like it is fixed on cards using the new easily identifiable pump.

Tom's should try a little harder. They knew they didn't have the new revision.

Try harder to what? Debunk the myth that a few defective cards got out only to reviewers and the retail cards were supposedly fixed as per AMD?
I dont think they need to try harder at all.
How many reviewers have come forward with a "fixed" pump version saying the noise is gone? Thats what I want to see. Actually Im sure we'd all like to see that. Although AMD certainly doesnt deserve a break, they sure do need one.

 

[Hitman928]

I thought Tom's article was fine and informative. End users were clearly having an issue and so they investigated, I wish more tech journalists would actually do some investigations. It sucks that the first batch had issues, but it seems like it's been resolved and AMD is reimbursing oem's for cards with the issue. We need to see more examples of the new batch just to confirm, but it seems to be a small bump in the road that AMD has passed at this point.

 

[h1ghst0r3y]

Overclock 3d has a card with the revised pump http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_s_revised_r9_fury_x_-_pump_whine_issues/1

No they have not, how do i know that? Because that picture was taken by me and i'm quite certain i'm not working for them. My picture got taken up from my YT channel and then spread into forums and then spread onto all the tech news magazines, everyone labeling it as "the fixed version" and the likes.

Fact is, my card is silent, but just the different cover is no proof until AMD says something officially.

 

[Leeford]

I had my Fury X in my case for about 10 minutes before I was repacking it up for RMA. I'm sorry, but the pump sound you hear in the various videos just does not do it justice. It has a pitch that immediately attacks the deepest depth of the brain. The card they sent me belongs in a CIA interrogation room. Sadly, I will most likely get a refund rather than a replacement if it is not in stock, which it most likely wont be when my RMA is fully processed this week. Since I feel AMD basically lied about fixing this issue for production and they had the sheer gall to send out cards with this issue, I don't think I will do business with them in the future.

 

[Th0rHere]

I just did another recording of the sounds, this time you can clearly hear the whine, and keep in mind, that this whine sits at the back of your head while your using your computer. It really does get to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxaA2PTFPHE

That's with the microphone around 2 ft away from the card.

 

[utahraptor]

I just did another recording of the sounds, this time you can clearly hear the whine, and keep in mind, that this whine sits at the back of your head while your using your computer. It really does get to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxaA2PTFPHE

That's with the microphone around 2 ft away from the card.

That sound reminds me of the sound you would hear near a pool filtration system.

 

[n0x1ous]

I think Tom's did a nice job on this article. It's pretty clear that AMD intentionally mislead the press with their "small batch/sample" as we only have 1 user on our forum with what might be a revised pump and no press with a revised pump. In fact, the press that bought retail samples say they sound even worse then their press samples used for review indicating AMD potentially cherry picked the least offensive pump units to send to reviewers.

Either mine is a decent unit or I'm not that sensitive to this but AMD should pull a Warner Bros/Rocksteady and halt sales until only revised pumps are in the channel.

What a disaster for an otherwise beautiful, well made, and impressive card. This will certainly give me pause before buying launch day AMD cards in the future.

Oh and AMD DX11 drivers suck - based on looking at frame times in BF4. Thankfully Mantle works fine for me even though its not GCN 1.2 optimized, its much smoother than the dx11 path though not able to hit quite as high of average FPS.

 

[el etro]

Is not that bad because is a fixable issue. Worst thing of it is that ultimately damages AMD reputation.

 

[n0x1ous]

Is not that bad because is a fixable issue. Worst thing of it is that ultimately damages AMD reputation.

Especially when you are trying to launch a premium branding line like Fury

 

[EXCellR8]

Hoping the whining is fixed on the air cooled Fury... most likely will be there but the fan will drown it out :whiste: