3070 Coil Whine?

jonnylaris · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:42

Has anyone else noticed a large amount of coil whine on their 30 series cards?

I have a 3070 Gigabyte Eagle OC card and anything over 100fps results in pretty bad coil whine.

The noise gets worse the more fps I get, and with 400+ it sounds like an old 56k modem.

I've had cards with coil whine before but this is pretty unacceptable to be honest, might have to return the card

Jay85 · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:47

running a 3090 Palit card, not noticed any coilwhine tbh. Sometimes the psu can cause coilwhine in some rare instances. Have you tried your card with a different psu to test?

jonnylaris · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:58

Jay85 said:
running a 3090 Palit card, not noticed any coilwhine tbh. Sometimes the psu can cause coilwhine in some rare instances. Have you tried your card with a different psu to test?

Tired 2 other GPU's including a 3060ti and they didn't have coilwhine.

Zeeflyboy · 21 Dec 2020 at 12:01

Haven’t got mine yet, but keep using it and it may go away (or at least reduce to a suitably low level). I remember my 980Ti’s had quite a bit of whine but after a week or two it was gone.

Also, why on earth would you run 400fps?!

tyler_jrb · 21 Dec 2020 at 12:11

Pretty common tbh. Been through many cards because of it. Running above 60fps and they do get pretty noisy. 100-144hz and yes easily the loudest thing in the system,

I know that on a few brands the backplates can make a pretty big difference in terms of amplifying the noise.

pp111 · 21 Dec 2020 at 13:15

Zeeflyboy said:
Also, why on earth would you run 400fps?!

Good point. It's asking for trouble to run it at that framerate. Running it at that speed is just wasting electricity. The average person doesn't need it any faster than their monitor refresh rate and should be limiting it as such.

jonnylaris · 21 Dec 2020 at 13:29

pp111 said:
Good point. It's asking for trouble to run it at that framerate. Running it at that speed is just wasting electricity. The average person doesn't need it any faster than their monitor refresh rate and should be limiting it as such.

I'm not running it at 400fps, I just did that as a test. I'm running at 165hz and fps capped at 165.

keyser · 21 Dec 2020 at 13:49

Try running max power/performance rather than adaptive saving and g-sync on, if you can. I don't currently have nvidia so cant remember exact names.

Radox-0 · 21 Dec 2020 at 13:51

Can be the PSU and FPS, but can also just be the sample you get. My first 3090FE had way too much coil whine buzzing from meters away and this was testing on a AXi 1600w Titanium PSU. Second one had much less but broke HDMI port. Third 3090FE is pretty good. A 3080FE I had whine also while second one did not. So IMO there is some sample to sample variation in my experience (abit only with 5 3xxx cards)

Blue160 · 21 Dec 2020 at 14:57

I’ve noticed no coil whine at all from my Palit GP 3070. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone complaining in the 3070 owners thread either. I suspect it’s your card rather than a widespread problem.

no_1_dave · 21 Dec 2020 at 16:19

30 series is known to have coil whine, just read some reviews and you'll see you're not the only one.
I've found it gets less over time. Had my 3080 since launch and it's a lot less now then it was at first

VortexA1 · 21 Dec 2020 at 20:34

jonnylaris said:
I'm not running it at 400fps, I just did that as a test. I'm running at 165hz and fps capped at 165.

But what is the point of a 400fps test when you don't use it at that?

I'm not being funny, at lower fps it'll be quieter.

varkanoid · 21 Dec 2020 at 21:23

My Palit is fine.

This is the fourth Gigabyte Eagle OC I've read about with issues though.

otester · 22 Dec 2020 at 02:36

I think my 3090 has something living inside it, certainly sounds like it sometimes.

Rroff · 22 Dec 2020 at 02:39

On my FE weirdly I have zero coil whine in Windows 7 but I stuck a Windows 10 dual boot on the system to play Cyberpunk and it gets a slight amount of it under certain circumstances (comparable circumstances in 7 don't produce it) - it is definitely coil whine. Not sure what is going on there.

I just put it down to Windows 10 being rubbish though

Hakanese · 22 Dec 2020 at 02:41

I don't even know if my card has coil whine with my tinnitus

Safetytrousers · 22 Dec 2020 at 02:54

When I have EVGA Precision up and something else working the GPU (2080ti), on every Hz change there is a burst of mild coil whine at the point of every change. This doesn't happen in Afterburner.
There clearly can be a software oddness as a cause of it.

Rroff · 22 Dec 2020 at 06:26

Safetytrousers said:
When I have EVGA Precision up and something else working the GPU (2080ti), on every Hz change there is a burst of mild coil whine at the point of every change. This doesn't happen in Afterburner.
There clearly can be a software oddness as a cause of it.

Yeah - no real difference in my software setup between the OSes but certain things will give a burst of mild but definite coil whine in 10 which I've never had in 7. No idea rhyme or reason but fortunately for the most part my card doesn't exhibit it normally.

Alec potter · 24 Dec 2020 at 11:15

MSI 3080 trio gaming x, very small quiet amount only when pulling serious frames in menu screens.Seems to be getting less but only had it a month. Repositioning the anti sag bracket changes the tone of it and it settles down after a day or two.

Gigabyte 3070 gaming oc, loads of loud coil whine.could hear it over headphones when in menu screens. Quietened a little after leaving Heaven benchmark running for a few hours.” But still bloody loud whilst gaming capped at 144fps. Almost screeching when uncapped frame limit.

MSi 2070 super trio gaming x, loud to begin with,settled down after a couple months of use to an acceptable level.

Coil whine is bit of a lottery.

What does seem to set it off is the menu screen in Warzone. Always get some there no matter what the FPS is capped to.

Ayahuasca · 24 Dec 2020 at 11:28

She’s a squealer.