GPU whine-how much is normal?

I have a T61p ThinkPad with a 570M, which as most may know is basically an 8600M GT, it whines when i move the TrackPoint or use the touchpad, and whines in certain patterns when gaming. I haven't done any major gaming yet, and keep it cool all the time, hovers around 43-45 in normal use with 3 IE8 tabs open.

 

You mean the fan whines, right? I've never heard a GPU whine. Does this happen if you disable the speakers? Try moving the mouse to another USB port.. I think it's more likely that this is a grounding problem, than a GPU / heat issue.

Just for the heck of it, also try and see if this happens when running on battery vs AC power.

 

I dunno, but there sure is a lot of MW2 whine lately. I don't know how much of that is normal?

Is it high pitched or like a fan? Sounds like vibration.

 

The only whine i hear when i game is that from my CPU...

 

True, it may also be the CPU... hopefully it is, but i have a feeling it is the GPU since only halfway through bootup the noise is a sequence of "whine", it's not a fan bearing noise, i know that, and it may be the GPU initializing at boot. I tried a guide to eliminate the Pentium M/Core processor whine to no success. I just want to confirm that this is just normal and not a slowly failing GPU. I went to the nVidia page also to see if they have any symptoms of failing GPU's on the site, they didn't have a page about it, or specifically the G84 core defect problem. It does seem to run cool, i tried that stress test for GPU's that has all the shiny silver/multi colored balls with HDR and i think it's the most stressing test available for a GPU, even at 1920x1200 (native res) i struggled to get the GPU itself to climb to 70. I think good temps is a sign i may have a good one still, also there was no artifacts, or any other sign of failure that i know of.

 

my fan souds like a jet engine spooling up no joke.

 

tsk tsk tsk, my T61p is super quiet, even while fan is at max. I thought though, since what caused premature failure of this GPU core was packaging that shrunk or expanded too fast, wouldn't it make sense that if you cooled the GPU down slowly and gradually it would eliminate this problem? I know with notebooks not everyone has time to wait 10 minutes to let the GPU cool down gradually before they turn it off, but i am going to try cooling it slowly, monitoring temps and adjusting the fan speed to something lower, so that the GPU is not cooled too fast.