PC Drivers & Software

[Cals1143]

Title. Ever since the 24.6.1 release it introduced extremely loud coil whine on the motherboard vrm and or capacitors. it's impossible to ignore and i know for a fact other people are experiencing this but for reference i am running a RX 6600. 24.7.1 And 24.8.1 have not fixed it and i haven't heard anything about AMD acknowledging the issue.

[Koyote7667]

Coil whine is a unit thing, not a software thing. So you are thinking, that a graphics card driver, is now making your motherboard vrm and caps have coil whine? Is this what im reading ?  Interesting. 

[Cals1143]

Yeah except it is software causing it because I have no issues on 24.5.1 but upgrading to anything above it causes the motherboard to start making high pitch noises when simply browsing Google Chrome or hovering the mouse over desktop icons or Windows icons. Other people have reported on it if you simply search "amd 24.6.1 coil whine" I don't understand why it's happening but its not just me.

[radu1006]

Try capping FPS in driver and also make sure you are not undervolting the GPU. This can also cause coil whine. Very High FPS, as well as undervolting will have an effect.

If that is not the case, then it may be related to the issue that I keep bringing up about the aggressive power saving that AMD implemented in the latest drivers.

This may also cause coil whine, as the voltage drops a lot. It also causes driver timeouts.