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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

Hostile_18 said:
If it was only with your ear pressed against the case none of us would have any problems with it ever :P
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I always thought my 4090 was pretty bad, I can hear it from under my desk if the rooms fairly quiet.

it's like a bunch of digital bees when gaming.

it's almost sounds like a digital printer head during cuda stuff, or as said previously, a mouse squeaking if it;s zipping through files fast enough.

It's never really bothered me, but knowing they could have no coil whine for a few cents.... it's just penny pinching on a premium product.

none of the reviewers/influencers should see it ads acceptable
 
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Vito said:
Hopefully, pre ordered Asus 5090. I wont sell my 4090 till I have it and have no issues. Recently upgraded everything to AM5, including new PSU, so fingers crossed, as didnt realise PSU was a factor.
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I had a card with bad coil whine before and tried 3 PSU's because of that advise and it didn't make any difference so I am not convinced. Unless the PSU* is bad quality they are all providing clean power at the same voltages.
 
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Sideeffect said:
I had a card with bad coil whine before and tried 3 PSU's because of that advise and it didn't make any difference so I am not convinced. Unless the PSU* is bad quality they are all providing clean power at the same voltages.
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That's my experience as well i know people that have swapped psu after psu and had no results. I have swapped GPUS and had night and day differences while keeping the same PSU.
 
Yeah I don't believe a psu changes anything, I've swapped psus on multiple cards that had coil whine and it didn't change.
 
Sideeffect said:
I had a card with bad coil whine before and tried 3 PSU's because of that advise and it didn't make any difference so I am not convinced. Unless the PSU* is bad quality they are all providing clean power at the same voltages.
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sometimes its the psu doing the coilwhine, maybe they just thought it was the gpu in those cases.
 
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Marak said:
What's that? I've seen MSI Ventus, Trio, Vanguard and Suprim, what's the Inspire? Your location says Scotland but are you living outside the UK at the moment where they name them differently?
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The Inspire seems to be a new version of the series they've brough out. A bit more small form factor than the usual where it isn't any wider than it needs to be.

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arknor said:
you probably won't here it unless your rooms quiet.
you need to put your ear case level, it probably won't do it unless the cards under pretty high load
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To be fair I have messed around with it a bit with volume off completely etc and honestly can't hear anything. Plus it's sat on my desk as above.

I've experienced it previously with other cards (a Suprim being one) but usually only due high FPS situations. Nothing notable from the 5080 Inspire so far.
 
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Me and my wife both have a Palit Gamerock 5080 (one OC) and they are both silent in terms of coil whine.

Moved from a Sapphire Nitro+ 6700xt which was terrible for it, and a 3080FE which wasn't as bad but definitely still there, so I'm no stranger to what to listen out for.

Was pleasantly surprised, and have been tested in an array of games already
 
wij said:
Made a couple of short clips under different scenarios, the Timespy is by far the worst one as the pitch seems to go up with the FPS.

The audio on these does make it sound worse than it is in reality, but certainly very auidble without headphones on - with headphones I cannot hear these noises in game so they don't bother me, but I would certainly not enjoy this if I was using the PC in a living room with a controller or some setup like that.

Zotac 5080 Solid OC - this is using the default "performance" BIOS setting, I have not tried the "silent" one yet (and I need to figure out how to disable the silly RGB lighting too!).

Idle on desktop:

Gaming - 1440p with FPS limmiter to 144 to match my monitor refresh rate:

Timespy - 1440p / No FPS limitter:
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a great trick to beat coil whine is to not put your pc next to your face
 
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After almost 8 years of usage, swap from RX 580 nitro+ -> RTX 5080 MSI Suprim. Heaven and earth in relation to the 4080 series. I tested Gaming OC and MSI Slim (40 series) back in December 2024, I returned both the same day I bought them because they had such a large coil whine. 5080 Suprim is deadly silent and cold with almost 0 coil whine. The theory that MSI changed components is probably true.
 
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Hostile_18 said:
Check out the first sound bar on Igors Lab 5080 Vanguard review. Coil Whine sounds pretty bad to me on that one;

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MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC review - The better FE with the SUPRIM inner workings and the slightly cheaper outer skin | Page 8 | igor´sLAB

With the MSI RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC, MSI has slightly reduced the price of the rather serious-looking SUPRIM and is looking for a different target group (purely visually) for an otherwise pretty much…
www.igorslab.de www.igorslab.de
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You can't make a generic statement when it comes to coil whine, each card behaves differently.

My 5080 Vanguard has no audible coil whine unless you put your ear on it.
 
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Mine 5080fe whines at around 100fps is noticeable when listening next to the case, around 140fps I can hear from my desk. But yeah when gaming and game music, sounds are on I don't hear it. Also not many games achieve those frames with 5080 :p
 
So I do plan to undervolt as there's no way I will be doing a 575w card, will that help a lot with coil whine?
It's my main concern for this FE. I think it will annoy the f out of me. Don't get me wrong I am super excited to land the order but I don't know what to expect at all.
And many of the videos probably highlight it at its worst. Open case, full load, 5 cm distance. How are RL scenarios?
 
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