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Coil Whine - What Can You Do

jeff83nz

jeff83nz

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One of my 1070s has terrible coil whine (it is an inno3d one).

I thought it was a fan been all squeaky (cause it what it sounds like) but if you stop the fans still hear it.

So I guess the question is this seen as faulty, or you gotta live with it? Because it is such an annoying high pitch sound.
 
take some silicone or hot glue and take the cooler off your card and drip the silicone over the capacitors and put the cooler back on and hopefully that will fix it or dampen the sound a lot as to not make it to noticeable.
and if you decide to sell in the future or rma ect, just remove the rubber silicone.

some cards are prone to this, and some are not, just depends on the capacitors and coil wine is not a defect its just a inherent issue that can happen in the manufacturing process some do it some dont. some people can live with it, some cant.
 
I thought i had coil whine and RMA'd my evga 980 gtx and they sent me a replacement, i didn't have a spare psu at the time and i changed the psu and it went way was using a corsair cx650 changed to a coolermaster 750 watt thing i found kicking around.
 
ViRuS2k said:
take some silicone or hot glue and take the cooler off your card and drip the silicone over the capacitors and put the cooler back on and hopefully that will fix it or dampen the sound a lot as to not make it to noticeable.
and if you decide to sell in the future or rma ect, just remove the rubber silicone.

some cards are prone to this, and some are not, just depends on the capacitors and coil wine is not a defect its just a inherent issue that can happen in the manufacturing process some do it some dont. some people can live with it, some cant.
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Don't use any old silicone - stuff not designed for electrical use i.e. released acetic acid while curing will cause long term corrosion of electrical parts.
 
I went through three GTX1080's and the last one did have some coil whine on day one but disappeared the following day and has been fine since, the first two had a constant high pitched whine which lasted for a few days. I just returned them for refunds.

It sucks but it's somewhat expected now, they need to find a solution.

But no, you don't have to live with it and no it's not seen as a fault as they will often blame other components like power supplies. So the best option is order online if you have issues with coil whine return as unwanted, you don't need to give an explanation beyond that.
 
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Difficult one to solve as you can test a GPU to death at the factory and never have significant whine - someone pops it in their PC and you'll get the most incredible whine - sometimes just putting it in another system it goes away - sometimes even just moving the PSU and GPU to another system and it doesn't exhibit it so maybe motherboard involved in there as well :s

Fortunately it isn't something I've really run into with any of my own purchases - not sure if that is any way related to that I usually have my system running off some kind of UPS or whatever.
 
The psu can have a lot to do with it. We have had people posted about coil whine in the psu section of the forums and they have purchased a quality psu that we have suggested and the coil whine has disappeared. I have no coil whine at all on my Inno3D 1070 with my Seasonic G series. What make and model psu are you using?
 
Thanks all.

Dont think it is the PSU as trsted with two, and are seasonic platinums so decent. Also out of the 14 day period or whatever too.

I am never buying innod3d again
One literally caught fire, this one well grr.
 
Have gone through many Ti's and they are all pretty much the same. My current MSI GX is the best I've had so far.

High pitched squealing is usually extremely high FPS numbers (no v-sync) so ensure you enable that.

My recommendations are if its an AIB card with heat exhausting inside the case then block up the rear of the card and case with some foam sheet.

Best thing i ever did was put my PC case under my desk. Not as cool looking but a damn sight quieter in more ways than one.
 
Run unigine for 2 hours or fireStrike stress test, should run in the card, won't eliminate clthe coil whine but should lower , specially in games. Generally all cards aren't run that long in factories. Zotac, gigabyte , Asus have few factory videos where it's tested about 4 mins in a loud factory .
Having gone through this and other suggestions , might be RMA
 
if there is a more expensive "better rated" PSU than the one you are using then you will be told it is your PSU is not up to standard. buy what EVERYBODY considers a quality PSU but less than 1000w and you will be told thats the problem.
 
That Gigabyte 1080 I got this week from ocuk .. has terrible coil whine in Ark:Survival.. its ******* bad.. like its so bad the coil whine can be heard in the menu screen with **** all really going on... and get this... if you turn off 'Light Bloom' in the gfx options.. the coil whine actually subsides a bit... but yeh that game does have trash developers. So much for high quality capacitors.. my ass.

Anyway luckily it doesn't have it in other games I play more often, otherwise it would be going back whatever the cost.... Gigabyte kinda ****. I won't be buying a product from them again.. I've never seen a such ****** bundled software.. like their overclocking tool.. garbage.
 
Koogle said:
That Gigabyte 1080 I got this week from ocuk .. has terrible coil whine in Ark:Survival.. its ******* bad.. like its so bad the coil whine can be heard in the menu screen with **** all really going on... and get this... if you turn off 'Light Bloom' in the gfx options.. the coil whine actually subsides a bit... but yeh that game does have trash developers. So much for high quality capacitors.. my ass.

Anyway luckily it doesn't have it in other games I play more often, otherwise it would be going back whatever the cost.... Gigabyte kinda ****. I won't be buying a product from them again.. I've never seen a such ****** bundled software.. like their overclocking tool.. garbage.
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If it is actually coil whine then it will be the inductors not capacitors that are the source and if they've been damped then it is probably a combination of the card and something in the chain that is powering it.

Capacitor squeal will often be a faulty capacitor which is likely to fail though sometimes happens for a few hours when new without being an indication of a fault.

I wonder how many GPUs have a ceramic 0.1uf bypass/decoupling capacitor on the power - it can cover a multitude of sins in circuit design and potentially remove the conditions causing whine but seems surprisingly often left out.
 
I have slight coil whine with my AX860 - it's set to not kick the fan in until 50% load, it's platinum rated. Fortunately the system fans help dampen the noise.
 
Yet in the psu section we have had people change to a high quality psu and the coil whine has disappeared so there is a basis to the theory that having a high quality psu can eliminate gpu coil whine.
 
pastymuncher said:
Yet in the psu section we have had people change to a high quality psu and the coil whine has disappeared so there is a basis to the theory that having a high quality psu can eliminate gpu coil whine.
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what is a high quality PSU though? gold rated, platinum rated, 650W, 1000W, EVGA, Corsair. you buy what is considered a top quality PSU and even still when you report coil whine the PSU is the suspected fault because its not in the top 5 highest priced PSU's. i got a gold rated EVGA 650W PSU as it was recommended as a top quality PSU and thats what i am told is my weak point...

i think this coil whine thing needs to come to a head and customers need to make a stand about it. £10 more per card components or even PSU components and it would be solved...
 
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