5080 Coilwhine - stuttering?

[mclste]

Good afternoon all,

I recently built a whole new system to replace my 2070 build. I did have a 4070ti S but was fortunate enough to win a TUF 5080 in a raffle so naturally, shiny new GPU went in.

things are mostly fine, performs as expected except today. I decided to jump onto GTA V and straight away it seemed like the GPU was struggling, driving around town FPS 170 (monitor refresh rate) but pretty frequent drops down to 60/70 and just overall stuttering.

so I took my headphones off to answer a call and heard the coil whine, it seemed to stutter also, from low to high pitch for only a brief moment but constantly doing it. I have never once heard this - I have been very fortnuate that none of my cards have ever suffered from coil whine of the audible level.

has anyone ever had an experience like this? one would assume the specs of my PC should be able to play a game that's been on PC for 10 years without breaking a sweat. and although at the moment I am heavily fixated on the whine I know it's more than likely in ASUS' tolerable levels so they'd politely tell me to do one if I tried under warranty.

something just feels off to me.

 

[mclste]

i'd also like to add that I know coilwhine can get louder quieter depending on load - 3D Mark TimeSpy for example likes to squeal right toward the end for this 5080 - I have just never heard it stutter quite like this.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I sent my 5080 TUF OC back for a refund with the retailer because of the coil whine, it's terrible. I suggest you do the same. Your options are to potentially fight with the retailer to have it returned as faulty (they will cover postage) or send it back under your 14 days distance selling rights, but you will have to pay ~£50 insured courier costs. Horrible situation.

EDIT: sorry, I missed that you won it. That changes things.

 

[sx_turbo]

In the GTA v thread members have stated that the game suffers from stuttering when high fps is used, try locking the FPS down to 120 and see if that helps

 

[mclste]

I sent my 5080 TUF OC back for a refund with the retailer because of the coil whine, it's terrible. I suggest you do the same. Your options are to potentially fight with the retailer to have it returned as faulty (they will cover postage) or send it back under your 14 days distance selling rights, but you will have to pay ~£50 insured courier costs. Horrible situation.

EDIT: sorry, I missed that you won it. That changes things.

Yeah, this is my Dilemma, Refund is not an option so only warranty but as I said, I highly doubt ASUS would accept the level of noise as reason for replacement/repair.

 

[mclste]

In the GTA v thread members have stated that the game suffers from stuttering when high fps is used, try locking the FPS down to 120 and see if that helps

I will give that a try and see how it runs, thank you.

 

[Nitefly]

Just an idea for the stuttering: do you still get it if you kill all of your GPU power monitoring software? Such as afterburner /Rivatuner.

Apparently that’s been causing stuttering for some people.

 

[mclste]

Just an idea for the stuttering: do you still get it if you kill all of your GPU power monitoring software? Such as afterburner /Rivatuner.

Apparently that’s been causing stuttering for some people.

I don't use tem on start-up - only software that runs in the background when playing is L-connect 3 for my AIO screen. but I'm not sure if that may also be a root cause.

 

[Nitefly]

I don't use tem on start-up - only software that runs in the background when playing is L-connect 3 for my AIO screen. but I'm not sure if that may also be a root cause.

I’d be surprised if that had an impact. I think it was more software monitoring ‘wattage’. But you could always close L-connect and test it out.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Yeah, this is my Dilemma, Refund is not an option so only warranty but as I said, I highly doubt ASUS would accept the level of noise as reason for replacement/repair.

Yeah, there's zero chance Asus consider it faulty. Coil whine is like dead pixels on a monitor, manufacturers have all collectively agreed it's fine.

 

[mclste]

I’d be surprised if that had an impact. I think it was more software monitoring ‘wattage’. But you could always close L-connect and test it out.

tried that - to no avail sadly, limiting frames helped but still stuttered a bit.

 

[mclste]

Yeah, there's zero chance Asus consider it faulty. Coil whine is like dead pixels on a monitor, manufacturers have all collectively agreed it's fine.

yeah, may need to invest in better headphones I suppose or get used to it. I do hear it when game volume is lower but that could be down to fixation.
I can imagine hearing it in my sleep shortly.

 

[Heisenberg]

Try a bit of undervolting the card to see if that gets rid of coil whine. I’ve had success in the past with this for very minimal performance loss.

 

[mclste]

Try a bit of undervolting the card to see if that gets rid of coil whine. I’ve had success in the past with this for very minimal performance loss.

I have been considering this, and altough I'm fairly tech literate due to hobbies/Career, I've never really dwelved into undervolting. I wouldn't know where to start. I may look for reccomendations of those who have the same card to see if it help. knock it by 0.1V?

 

[Heisenberg]

I have been considering this, and altough I'm fairly tech literate due to hobbies/Career, I've never really dwelved into undervolting. I wouldn't know where to start. I may look for reccomendations of those who have the same card to see if it help. knock it by 0.1V?

Download msi afterburner and use the curve editor. How I do it is run a demanding game that hits rt & tensor cores, cyberpunk silent hill 2 etc. Check the core clock when gaming and the voltage using a monitoring tool.

Then in the curve editor, along the bottom is the voltage and the left is the clock speed. In the main afterburner window lower the clock speed slider completely to the left. Then in curve editor select the dot that’s around 50mv lower than stock and move it up to the stock clock speed you noted earlier.

Then finally hit the tick to apply in the main afterburner window. Keep tinkering to see how low you can go without crashing. Sure there will be YouTube videos explaining it better than me

 

[Ayahuasca]

I have been considering this, and altough I'm fairly tech literate due to hobbies/Career, I've never really dwelved into undervolting. I wouldn't know where to start. I may look for reccomendations of those who have the same card to see if it help. knock it by 0.1V?

Different card but this shows how to do it:

There’s also a 5080 undervolt/overclock thread in this section where you can see people’s results but they’re overclocking at the same time.

 

[Nitefly]

I think this guy’s vids are the best for undervolting. He just gets straight to it. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have one specifically for 5080 for now, but you’ll get the idea:

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I don't know why everyone over-complicates undervolting. Just increase the core incrementally to offset the whole voltage curve upwards until you find the highest stable value. Then just drop the power limit until you get your acceptable trade-off of performance loss and power reduction - or slide it upwards for an overclock. Same end result, no need to mess around bending the manufacturer curve which is super fiddly and doesn't need to change.

 

[Heisenberg]

I don't know why everyone over-complicates undervolting. Just increase the core incrementally to offset the whole voltage curve upwards until you find the highest stable value. Then just drop the power limit until you get your acceptable trade-off of performance loss and power reduction - or slide it upwards for an overclock. Same end result, no need to mess around bending the manufacturer curve which is super fiddly and doesn't need to change.

You get a much more efficient undervolt to performance using the curve editor. Curve editor lowers voltage as well as power limit which would help in the op's case of coil whine from my experience.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

You get a much more efficient undervolt to performance using the curve editor.

I'm not saying *just* drop the power limit. Upping the core first moves the entire curve upwards, lowering the voltage value each Mhz requires. It's the exact same thing but you're not altering the shape of the curve i.e bending it and then flattening. I did a bunch of tests just to validate this and the end result is exactly the same but way easier.