Galax/Kfa2 980 HOF coil whine :(

EnjoyTroll · 20 Jan 2015 at 13:58

Smok3alot said:
there's a known bad batch and they have increased the price of HOF wow 90 pounds!!!

This is for the high clocked one that I have got if you look they are brining out a lower clock one soon for less money I am glad I got the 980 HOF when I did

Darren777 · 20 Jan 2015 at 23:17

EnjoyTroll said:
This is for the high clocked one that I have got if you look they are brining out a lower clock one soon for less money I am glad I got the 980 HOF when I did

I'm glad i got 2

Smok3alot · 22 Jan 2015 at 09:56

EnjoyTroll said:
This is for the high clocked one that I have got if you look they are brining out a lower clock one soon for less money I am glad I got the 980 HOF when I did

do you receive the 3rd card? any issues?

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 10:59

Smok3alot said:
do you receive the 3rd card? any issues?

I got the third card yesterday and this too coil whines enough that I can hear it over my 5.1 oh GG Galax you failed ones again

chef-borjan · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:13

I don't think your HM 850w PSU is one of the recommended ones though?

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:17

chef-borjan said:
I don't think your HM 850w PSU is one of the recommended ones though?

I have used a OCed 780 in this rig and no coil whine so please don't say this is a PSU issue as it only ever whines on this 980 HOF cards I have had 570 in this rig 550TI 760 OCed to it's max and none of them coil whined while gaming

chef-borjan · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:06

EnjoyTroll said:
I have used a OCed 780 in this rig and no coil whine so please don't say this is a PSU issue as it only ever whines on this 980 HOF cards I have had 570 in this rig 550TI 760 OCed to it's max and none of them coil whined while gaming

I'm not disputing your past history, but from what I can gather, if you want these cards to be coil whine free you need to get a quality PSU. PSUs that were good enough before might not cut the mustard.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18642494

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:11

chef-borjan said:
I'm not disputing your past history, but from what I can gather, if you want these cards to be coil whine free you need to get a quality PSU. PSUs that were good enough before might not cut the mustard.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18642494

I know all about not having good PSUs don't worry but this is not a pad PSU it may not be the new HXI but it was the one before that which is a good PSU and as the link you sent "OcUK stance on coilwhine is if you have a quality PSU and the card has audible coilwhine on an open test bench, we will replace it." This is the case so It will be sent back after a week if it has not gone.

If you read the past post on here you will see that GALAXY/GALAX/KFA2 know of a bad batch been sent out that suffer from this problem

Wizzfizz · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:13

Take the whole decent PSU solving the problem with a pinch of salt, I've had two Infinity cards and a couple of MSI Gaming cards before that, that have whined like no tomorrow .This with using a Superflower 1000w platinum PSU.

Enjoytroll, you need to fix your signature it's too big as per forum rules

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:17

Wizzfizz said:
Take the whole decent PSU solving the problem with a pinch of salt, I've had two Infinity cards and a couple of MSI Gaming cards before that, that have whined like no tomorrow .This with using a Superflower 1000w platinum PSU.

Enjoytroll, you need to fix your signature it's too big as per forum rules

Thanks for letting me know I have made it smaller now

Ye I agree, I am not worried about my PSU at all I know this is a card issue just really did not think it would take me three cards now and still getting the same issue

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 13:05

I have done so many different tests for this 980 HOF to find the cause of the bad coil whine I even dropped the clocks to below 980 reference clocks there was no change I was shocked guess the only last thing is to give it a week to burn it and see how it goes

skaif · 23 Jan 2015 at 16:19

Enjoy troll what's the plan if you can't get it to stop whining? Gna stick with it or look to another card?

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 16:27

skaif said:
Enjoy troll what's the plan if you can't get it to stop whining? Gna stick with it or look to another card?

At the moment I am going to try really hard to burn this card in for the next few days and if nothing improves then I shall be sending it back again skaif

skaif · 23 Jan 2015 at 16:32

Cool, for another one? Or would you get a completely different card? Looks to be a beast of a card but I feel your pain with the whine. I get the feeling that this could have been avoided by just using better internals like Gibbo has with 970 reference

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 17:02

skaif said:
Cool, for another one? Or would you get a completely different card? Looks to be a beast of a card but I feel your pain with the whine. I get the feeling that this could have been avoided by just using better internals like Gibbo has with 970 reference

I will try one more time with the 980 HOF as like you said it's a beast of a card but I will always settle for something else as long as it does not whine like these do for some reason .
Ye better internals and not allowing for a bad batch to go out I am still finding it hard to believe that every card I have had so far is an affected one must be very unlucky.

I have however seen that they are doing a version 2 on the 980 HOF with lower clocks than mine and this is as I know going to be a fresh batch when they come in stock at OCUK if this is the case I may try for the version 2 as I have always wanted a white HOF card and I would be willing to give it a second shot with a new batch for sure

skaif · 23 Jan 2015 at 17:48

EnjoyTroll said:
I will try one more time with the 980 HOF as like you said it's a beast of a card but I will always settle for something else as long as it does not whine like these do for some reason .
Ye better internals and not allowing for a bad batch to go out I am still finding it hard to believe that every card I have had so far is an affected one must be very unlucky.

I have however seen that they are doing a version 2 on the 980 HOF with lower clocks than mine and this is as I know going to be a fresh batch when they come in stock at OCUK if this is the case I may try for the version 2 as I have always wanted a white HOF card and I would be willing to give it a second shot with a new batch for sure

Yeah that sounds fair enough...kinda ridiculous though as you would think if your going to spend £xxx on a card they should at least QC it properly!

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 18:10

skaif said:
Yeah that sounds fair enough...kinda ridiculous though as you would think if your going to spend £xxx on a card they should at least QC it properly!

Ye I even tried to get more information from GALAX and they never email back it's shocking as like you said for a card at that price range £500+ never should a bad batch have been sent out

skaif · 23 Jan 2015 at 18:50

EnjoyTroll said:
Ye I even tried to get more information from GALAX and they never email back it's shocking as like you said for a card at that price range £500+ never should a bad batch have been sent out

I have tried messaging them directly as well on their website and I have had no response! Good job we have OcUK covering us or we would be screwed!

EnjoyTroll · 23 Jan 2015 at 19:20

skaif said:
I have tried messaging them directly as well on their website and I have had no response! Good job we have OcUK covering us or we would be screwed!

I am glad I am not the only one that has tried and failed at getting any info out of them I got that one answer which told me about the bad batch and that was it never heard from them again

skaif · 23 Jan 2015 at 19:41

EnjoyTroll said:
I am glad I am not the only one that has tried and failed at getting any info out of them I got that one answer which told me about the bad batch and that was it never heard from them again

I suppose they know that they have done wrong and would rather be silent about it. Not the best tactic to use!