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Sapphire HD 7970 VAPOR-X GHZ coil whine

i have a sapphire 7970 oc edition, it too has minor coil whine. seems to do it more on load up screens that when in an actual game. and sometimes if i tab out of a game and then click back on it, the coil whine will be worse than when i just tabbed out, strange huh? lol. i wouldn't worry about it unless its annoyingly loud.
if that's the case, and you bought it from ocuk, i'm sure they'll sort out a replacement for you.
 
scottmorley said:
i have a sapphire 7970 oc edition, it too has minor coil whine. seems to do it more on load up screens that when in an actual game. and sometimes if i tab out of a game and then click back on it, the coil whine will be worse than when i just tabbed out, strange huh? lol. i wouldn't worry about it unless its annoyingly loud.
if that's the case, and you bought it from ocuk, i'm sure they'll sort out a replacement for you.
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yeah thanks i will look into it i didnt get it from ocuk from another site dunno if i can name it

Will get onto them and see if they will replace it 2 months old


someone said it could be my psu doubt it Corsair AX850 Professional Series 850W ?

also its 2 8 pin card most sites say the card is 6+8 pin but its 2 8 pins
 
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Final8y said:
Some people lately :rolleyes:

Its not normal, its a common problem, fortunately one that i have never had with the 14 GPUs i have had in my personal rigs.
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Well you must have a loud system which drowns out the noise then. I've had coil whine on every single graphics card I've ever owned. In recent memory... 8800 ultra, 560 ti, 3 gtx 570's, gtx 580, 7770, 6870, 650 ti, gtx 660, gtx 660 ti, gtx 670, 7950. Coil whine on every single one of them, 7950 was the worst.

Tried different power supplies etc, its unavoidable. Some people notice it, others don't.. but its always there to some degree.

Here's a video of typical coil whine, starts at 0.30 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9uK-Tnc7I

It's not on all his other gpu videos as he used furmark before, in this video its heaven benchmark. Coilwhine happens because of load on the gpu in conjunction with frame rate so basically only 'real' gaming applications. Bitcoin/furmark etc do not normally cause coil whine even though they stress the gpu a lot.
 
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spixelspixel said:
Well you must have a loud system which drowns out the noise then. I've had coil whine on every single graphics card I've ever owned. In recent memory... 8800 ultra, 560 ti, 3 gtx 570's, gtx 580, 7770, 6870, 650 ti, gtx 660, gtx 660 ti, gtx 670, 7950. Coil whine on every single one of them, 7950 was the worst.

Tried different power supplies etc, its unavoidable. Some people notice it, others don't.. but its always there to some degree.

Here's a video of typical coil whine, starts at 0.30 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9uK-Tnc7I

It's not on all his other gpu videos as he used furmark before, in this video its heaven benchmark. Coilwhine happens because of load on the gpu in conjunction with frame rate so basically only 'real' gaming applications. Bitcoin/furmark etc do not normally cause coil whine even though they stress the gpu a lot.
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My system is silent, I have 2 passive cooled water zalman reserators cooling my system, only the GPUs are not water cooled at the moment and the only coil whine i have had has come from a motherboard in the past and my PSU has slight coil whine when pushed hard with Quad 5970 in but not with the 3x 7950 in and it is the PSU because the PSU is not even in the rig so its easy to track down where the coil whine was coming from, that will be replaced in the next rebuild.

In a previous rig i had 3 x3870 for about a week before i added a fourth 3870, i then got coil whine and presumed it was the GPU, so i sent it back to OcUK, they said it was fine, i put it back in and the coil whine came back so i changed the motherboard and the coil whine was gone.

All you have done is proved that in your personnel experience all your cards have Coilwhine i never contested that but don't try to tell me about my experience, my Rig and that im just not noticing it.
 
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Final8y said:
All you have done is proved that in your personnel experience all your cards have Coilwhine i never contested that but don't try to tell me about my experience, my Rig and that im just not noticing it.
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I have been through so many different motherboards, gpu's and power supply combinations that I am 100 percent certain every gpu has coil whine. Of course it only happens when gaming, maybe you have headphones on and can't hear it?

AFAIK the 5970's aren't exactly quiet cards either so they might hide it or maybe you just got lucky and your 2 cards have no whine ;) What were the other 14 gpus? Perhaps older cards didn't have coil whine, but all modern ones most certainly do.

Just trying to give sound advice to the OP. Unless its exceptionally bad then its not a fault like he thinks it is. I guarantee if he returns it for a replacement it will make the same noises so will be wasting his time.
 
spixelspixel said:
I have been through so many different motherboards, gpu's and power supply combinations that I am 100 percent certain every gpu has coil whine. Of course it only happens when gaming, maybe you have headphones on and can't hear it?

AFAIK the 5970's aren't exactly quiet cards either so they might hide it or maybe you just got lucky and your 2 cards have no whine ;) What were the other 14 gpus? Perhaps older cards didn't have coil whine, but all modern ones most certainly do.

Just trying to give sound advice to the OP. Unless its exceptionally bad then its not a fault like he thinks it is. I guarantee if he returns it for a replacement it will make the same noises so will be wasting his time.
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You really should stop dictating because you're to busy dictating and not listening or observing when it comes to other peoples setups which you are not personally in front of, there is another dictator called Rollo and he did the same as you and was trying to tell me about my rig, he didn't even notice that my 5970s were special just like you, there is no quieter air cooled cards, if you had owned one you would have know that and i already said that my 3x MSI-7950 have no coil whine.

As far as the OP, you don't know how bad he's is there is a chance that he may get another squealer, but he wont know until he tries.
 
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You really should stop dictating because you're to busy dictating and not listening or observing when it comes to other peoples setups which you are not personally in front of.
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Ok, I'll stop dictating and just roll my eyes

:rolleyes:

We'll have to agree to disagree it seems as I don't believe you had 3 7950's with no coil whine.
 
I went through 3 video cards thinking I had a coil whine problem except it wasnt the video cards at all, it was a rubbish OCZ1000 PSU in the end. YMMV but I've had 12 video cards in the last 3 years with no coil whine.

Edit, just remembered some Nvidia cards I had. Really must stop buying video cards!
 
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spixelspixel said:
Ok, I'll stop dictating and just roll my eyes

:rolleyes:

We'll have to agree to disagree it seems as I don't believe you had 3 7950's with no coil whine.
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What you believe and what actually is can be worlds apart.
My setup is open bed atm, not in a case at all as im waiting for the Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case.

Dan_D [H]ardOCP Motherboard Editor, 11.3 Years

This guy had more motherboard than most and he would not listen to suggestions that about CF issues he was having was motherboard related initially by the users who were not having issues, it turns out that me and the other users were right.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1708626&page=15

Got new info from AMD that I'm allowed to share. AMD has identified a potential compatibility issue with a specific manufacturer’s hardware and is working closely with them to resolve the issue. The issue is receiving the highest attention at AMD and they hope to have a solution very shortly. AMD wants to thank all the users that have reported this problem, their feedback has been really valuable for them.
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The point is there is no absolute with anyone's personal experience being the de facto.
 
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All on low. I water cool for near silence, not for speed. I don't play with headphones either.

I generally don't post in coil whine threads as people have some pretty fixed opinions about what causes it but my own view is that it can be anything from the PSU to the motherboard to the gpu (in that order being the usual culprits). GPU's always get the blame first as its normally the last thing that was changed, therefor it 'must' be the problem.

Once you suffer from it, it's an annoying process of throwing money at it to find the offending item.
 
Final8y said:
What you believe and what actually is can be worlds apart.

Dan_D [H]ardOCP Motherboard Editor, 11.3 Years

This guy had more motherboard than most and he would not listen to suggestions that about CF issues he was having was motherboard related initially by the users who were not having issues, it turns out that me and the other users were right.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1708626&page=15
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I don't want to get into an argument but that's completely unrelated to coil whine, unless you trying to say that you're always right?

I bought a graphics card second hand that had coil whine. I contacted the seller and he was adamant that he never heard it. I tried several different power supplies, motherboards and even another house. Coil whine was still there.

In my opinion it all depends on the environment the card is in. Ambient noise, case fans, how close you are to the pc. If you put headphones on right before launching a game or have loud speakers then there's a good chance you'll never hear it. This is just my opinion though, I accept that you are unable to hear it, but as far as I'm concerned every single graphics has coil whine to some degree and I'm not the only person who thinks this.

tribz said:
All on low. I water cool for near silence, not for speed. I don't play with headphones either.
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What RPM and fans are they? Noise levels are very subjective :D One persons quiet can be another persons loud.
 
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spixelspixel said:
I don't want to get into an argument but that's completely unrelated to coil whine, unless you trying to say that you're always right?

I bought a graphics card second hand that had coil whine. I contacted the seller and he was adamant that he never heard it. I tried several different power supplies, motherboards and even another house. Coil whine was still there.

In my opinion it all depends on the environment the card is in. Ambient noise, case fans, how close you are to the pc. If you put headphones on right before launching a game there's a good chance you'll never hear it. This is just my opinion though, I accept that you are unable to hear it, but as far as I'm concerned every single graphics has coil whine to some degree.
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First point is not that im always right my point is that i don't treat my personal experience as absolute in relation to others.

And again your not listing and full of presumption.
I said im passive water cooled CPU and mobo, zero fans besides on the GPU.

Did i say i always wear headphones, i didn't even mention headphones at all and often i don't play with any sound, some games are not dependent on it and sometimes im just not in the mood for sound even if they are.

And lastly how would i have noticed the coil whine from other components if i had blocked myself from hearing coil whine.

every single graphics has coil whine to some degree
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I'm not interested in being Anal to an unrealistic degree, in not going to rest my ear on the GPU or stick a mic under the GPU shroud, people are not complaining about those levels and neither is the topic, stop talking in absolutes.
 
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