I guess we need to wait for reviews on the aorus and see.
I'd much rather skip the 150 premium that MSI charges even for the ventus and go straight for a windforce (which seem to be priced at msrp), but it entirely depends on the whine.
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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread
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I'd much rather skip the 150 premium that MSI charges even for the ventus and go straight for a windforce (which seem to be priced at msrp), but it entirely depends on the whine.
My Gigabyte 4070 Ti Eagle OC was silent… lovely card.
My cousin’s MSI 4070 Ti Suprim is the same… another awesome card.
I am staying away from the reference/FE cards, they just run hot and whine. Previously owned the 3080 and 6950 XT.
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Review: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (reference) (Page 32)
It is time to get into the more affordable (no I did not say cheap) GeForce RTX 5080.The price level of $999 certainly sites better. Armed with 84 streaming multiprocessors and a total of 10,752 CUDA cores (roughly half the core count of the RTX 5090) it features a sleek two-slot design.
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"In our experience with this specific card, the coil squeal has been very noticeable to us. So, the Founder edition RTX 5080 will make average coil whine, rated 5 out of 10."
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Pains me to say it but the fe models are a no go this generation, or rather these day 1 cards.
I feel like they have put niche small form factor users above everybody else, at the expense of thermals, noise and coil whine. If I thought they did it to be nice to their AIB partners I'd be happier, but I'm sure it is just an accident lol.
I feel like they have put niche small form factor users above everybody else, at the expense of thermals, noise and coil whine. If I thought they did it to be nice to their AIB partners I'd be happier, but I'm sure it is just an accident lol.
Naah they just cheaped out on components to keep the
Honestly the dual blow through design is awesome and I can see it being a thing AIBs will adapt in the future.
The only FE card I have bought was a 1070FE and it coil whined like a dying pig. Very bad experience, so never again.
My two last cards were Gigabyte Eagle OC models - 3070 & 4070Ti Super, no whine from either of those.
If I was upgrading (I'm not) I'd be tempted to go for the Eagle OC again.
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That's almost the polar opposite of the 5090. It's not going to be an easy gen lol.
a bit too early to get on the conspiracy train.
Its never too early with Nvidia
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Well just remember all these cards are covered by distance selling regulations even if a retailer dosn't class coil whine as a problem. I have never known a retail try and stop a return due to this however, but it's there just in case.
I'd always advise opening carefully and leaving peels on until you know your happy.
I'd always advise opening carefully and leaving peels on until you know your happy.
If your based in the uk, you have 14 days to send it back with no excuse.
Managed to get one of the Zotac 5080 Solid OCs which arrived today, it certainly has some coil whine but not intollerable to me.
My case is a Fractal North XL mesh with the three stock Fractal fans in the front, Arctic III 360 up top and one additional 140mm Arctic P14 at the back so not a silent build by any means but it is virtually silent when idle and even under load the fans and pump don't seem to really work too hard.
Appears to be worse when the FPS is very high - running Timespy at 1440p when it hits 250+ FPS it is auidble from about 50cm away with my case up on my desk, outside of those scenarioes though it seems to be fine to me though.
For my uses it is fine, and certainly with a pair of closed back headphones for gaming use I cannot hear it at all.
My case is a Fractal North XL mesh with the three stock Fractal fans in the front, Arctic III 360 up top and one additional 140mm Arctic P14 at the back so not a silent build by any means but it is virtually silent when idle and even under load the fans and pump don't seem to really work too hard.
Appears to be worse when the FPS is very high - running Timespy at 1440p when it hits 250+ FPS it is auidble from about 50cm away with my case up on my desk, outside of those scenarioes though it seems to be fine to me though.
For my uses it is fine, and certainly with a pair of closed back headphones for gaming use I cannot hear it at all.
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I have been getting @Personality+ to do extensive tests with his card. Sure he'll bring us his official verdict of the FE in due course
