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New Gigabyte GTX 780 Ghz coil whine

nitram100

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So just installed my new 780 Ghz Gigabyte and the coil whine is unbearable, it sounds like a 56k modem dialing up. I can even hear it when I click a button in Planetside 2. The coil whine completely stops when something is loading such as a map.

Can anything be done about this? Never had this problem with my 7950.

Thanks
 
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Frame rate limiter or vsync. When menus and logos are shown the card is doing like 3000fps and that causes some of the whine. You say it's not whining when loaded so that's normal.

You can try breaking the card in with some benchmark looping, if it persists after that you can try some other tricks but I can't recall the specifics atm.
 
Ok pretty sure I narrowed it down to the power supply. Any idea why it is suddenly whining when it was fine with my 7950? Is there anything I can do?
 
Try setting the power management setting in the nVidia control panel to adaptive.

Problem with coil whine it can be affected by all sorts of things and even go away on its own after awhile - looping some stress tests can help there sometimes.

If your PSU has multiple rails and/or multiple PCI-e connections could try swapping them around.
 
You can try covering the offending coils in hot glue / nail varnish but that's a last resort and obviously invalidates warranty.

Are you using extensions on the PSU cables?
 
MjFrosty said:
As above limit frame rate limit power draw and thus limit coil whine. Try listening to three of them! :)
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I used nvinspector to frame rate limit a couple of games specifically as they go nuts rendering 700+fps in the menus - the coil whine on mine become audible once it starts pumping out about 350fps onwards though nothing too bad.
 
I had the same issue with my R9 290X. The first one I got made a noise whenever it displayed anything, for example scrolling up and down a webpage would cause it to make noise. I had to return it, and the new one isn't as bad but you can still hear it when playing games. Frame-rate doesn't seem to affect it much, it's the same at 60FPS or 120FPS (though the pitch changes). It's even more noticeable because I watercool it, so I don't have any fan noise to cover it up.
 
Hi guys,

It does appear to be my power supply that is causing the whine. It also whines even at 30fps and don't really want to have to limit my fps as I like the 120hz screen.

Currently on my livingroom computer with the 780 installed into a 2500k machine with a ModXstream Pro 600w OCZ power supply. I am about to load up Planetside 2 to see if it is whining. That way I know for sure that it is the Antec TruPower 750 causing the problem.

Also, I am not using any extensions on the Antec PSU, just straight from the PSU to the GPU.

Would a 600W power supply be sufficient for the spec in my sig? Except change the 7950 for a 780.

Thanks
 
Doesn't help much but I had a 1000w OCZ PSU that started coil whining once when I changed my GPU. Ended up replacing the PSU.
 
Just tested the 780 with a ModXstream 600w and there is no coil whine, even when Planetside 2 hits 160fps there is still no coil whine.

So, it's my PSU. What could be causing this? The 7950 was absolutely fine, is the 780 drawing that much more power?
 
nitram100 said:
Just tested the 780 with a ModXstream 600w and there is no coil whine, even when Planetside 2 hits 160fps there is still no coil whine.

So, it's my PSU. What could be causing this? The 7950 was absolutely fine, is the 780 drawing that much more power?
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Just combinations of hardware can do it - you could plug that PSU into another system with another 780 and it would be absolutely no problem - coil whine is a bit random and annoying.
 
Rroff said:
Just combinations of hardware can do it - you could plug that PSU into another system with another 780 and it would be absolutely no problem - coil whine is a bit random and annoying.
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Yeah it's very irritating. I have it with my 770 Lightning. Iv'e tried both my Corsair TX650M and my Seasonic G550 and the thing still whines :(
 
Rroff said:
Which PSU is that on?
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The Antec, I put the gigabyte back in my main machine. I was just playing planetside 2 and the game is doing something it has never done before.

It will freeze for 1-2 seconds, go to a black screen, CPU usage will go full whack then the game will go back to normal.

All of this is happening since putting this card in.
 
Kind of sick of this card already, should have stuck with AMD. Now when playing Planetside 2, the game will freeze completely and has a sound loop, screen goes black and then returns to the game.

Should I RMA this thing? I never ever had problems with my AMD cards in the last 6 years, this card has given more grief than all the last 6 years combined, so disappointed with Nvidia.
 
nitram100 said:
Just thought I would add that it seems to respond to mouse movement and selecting of things in game.
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I get this, very very slightly noise in the background when moving mouse I find it pretty funny its not annoying though.

My card whines above 180FPS , some menus (farcry3 especially) well over 1k FPS and it gets squealing

If Coil whine is present at normal FPS and its super annoying then most manufacturers will replace the card but like others have said try breaking her in with some heaven runs on loop

also make sure you are using 331.82, NOT the latest beta drivers. Friend just had nightmares on those beta ones with his 780
 
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