RTX 5070 Ticks Under VRAM Load

This reads less like a dangerous defect and more like a weird load-state resonance in the card's memory or power-delivery path. The transition from ticking at partial load to buzzing at full load is odd, but the lack of crashes or thermal symptoms keeps it in "annoying, not alarming" territory.

• –The noise shows up when VRAM is near full, which points away from fans and toward electrical behavior tied to memory load.
• –A change in sound as the workload ramps suggests distinct power states, not a loose cooler or obvious mechanical failure.
• –Stable temps and no crashes are reassuring, but they don't rule out an acoustically bad sample or PSU interaction.
• –NVIDIA pitches the RTX 5070 for AI-heavy workflows, so local LLM users are exactly the audience most likely to notice this kind of edge case.