I must say, I really can't hear my G1 ever. Maybe, if volume on my games are on mute and the fan is working above 55-60% but even then, it's very quiet.
I still find it quite noisy at that that level, it's easily the loudest thing in my case. But I'm not used to air cooling as I always watercool my cards. Just waiting on EK. . .
Got a decent overclock of 1525MHz boost and 8000MHz memory on my G1 but considering returning it because of the coil whine, a shame because I was happy with these clocks!
My first G1 was a right pig, had a awful whine which drove me nuts.
Only had a asic score of 66% as well.
Here is a quick video of it whilst playing bf4
I got a replacement though G1 and she is miles quieter, only a very,very slight hint of whine (only when overclocked) and you literally have to put your head right up next to it. I've got no problem with that as you can't hear anything at normal distance whatsoever. All I hear is fans/air moving.
A HUGE improvement!!!
It also has a ASIC score of 75.4% which is a lot better than 66% on my previous card.
It runs a lot cooler over all (even the fans seem quieter at the same rpm) and the best bit I've run it with heaven, valley, firestrike, realbench countless times (and a good dose of BF4!) @ 1504/8000 with just +10v on stock voltage (so 1.1870v at load!!!) no problems at all on the stock bios.
WOW - This girl's got a ton of headroom left in her and I'm sure will go much higher. As I seem to have a little gem now I'm gonna wait till she is watercooled (come on EK!) and then go for it!
Well chuffed now and certainly worth a tiny bit of hassle with swapping cards.