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kindai

kindai

kindai

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Just ordered 2 titan blacks... feels like ive stabbed myself in betrayal!


Unfortunately after going through the best part of 30 cards and 3 psus to find a coil whine free card, I have 1 so far.


Time to give green a try....
 
The whine on my 290 is annoying, didn't even notice it up until i put a block on it.
Just hope my other blocked up 290 isn't the same. Wont be doing any gaming if that's the case.
 
Tonester0011 said:
The whine on my 290 is annoying, didn't even notice it up until i put a block on it.
Just hope my other blocked up 290 isn't the same. Wont be doing any gaming if that's the case.
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Exactly my problem, plus I use this PC for work, so if ive got a render running for a client in the background, after 10-15 minutes the whine does your head in.

I built my PC for next to perfect silence, not to listen to coilwhine.
 
Fair play if you can justify the cost.

I'm trying to convince myself I need a 290 at the min...
 
kindai said:
Just ordered 2 titan blacks... feels like ive stabbed myself in betrayal!
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:confused:

Dunno why, its a graphics card, get what works best for you and don't have loyalty to specific brands, ultimately all that does is bite you in the ass.
 
Two msi 290 Gaming edition here no coil whine. My last 7950s xfx also didn't have coil whine.

I read the other week someone pointed out that coil whine in graphics cards can be down to the psu and not really the GPUs fault. How true this is a not sure. But it makes sense seeing not everyone is effected.
 
Did you change mobo at all? Considering some power comes through the mobo to the cards which has a chance to be providing a different voltage to the PSU, I would certainly of tried that.

But almost 30 cards, considering I've never had coil whine on any amd or nvidia card, those that get it, it's still rare. Just a case of those that don't have a problem don't post on the internet, those that have a problem do. But one person having more than 20 cards with coil whine is effectively a statistical impossibility. I also have trouble when I think about where I would buy 20+ 290's from at good prices and repeatedly RMA'ing them to companies and having them accept it.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Did you change mobo at all? Considering some power comes through the mobo to the cards which has a chance to be providing a different voltage to the PSU, I would certainly of tried that.

But almost 30 cards, considering I've never had coil whine on any amd or nvidia card, those that get it, it's still rare. Just a case of those that don't have a problem don't post on the internet, those that have a problem do. But one person having more than 20 cards with coil whine is effectively a statistical impossibility. I also have trouble when I think about where I would buy 20+ 290's from at good prices and repeatedly RMA'ing them to companies and having them accept it.
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Mobo is the only thing which I havent changed as I have tested it with a known coilwhineless card and... no whine :)

And when I mean 0 whine, I mean ZERO, not low levels that you cant hear over a fan or you cant hear in a closed case.
 
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