5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

[Loup Solitaire]

Additional question: Does anyone knows if coil whine is covered by MSI's warranty or not?

 

[Hostile_18]

Additional question: Does anyone knows if coil whine is covered by MSI's warranty or not?

Don't let it get that far. Keep it within the first two weeks, where your customer rights are the strongest IMO.

 

[Nitefly]

Additional question: Does anyone knows if coil whine is covered by MSI's warranty or not?

This is something you need to figure out immediately (well, in a couple of days) when it arrives.

If a card has bad coil whine, just return it straight away - no questions asked.

 

[clone]

Zero coil whine from my asus Astral oc 5090.

 

[redkrptonite]

Zero coil whine on my msi suprim 5090 too.

 

[kindai]

Zero coil whine from my asus Astral oc 5090.

Can confirm (kinda).

Uncapped at mental FPS it does squeal, but the moment I lock it to vsync (144hz) its absolutely silent.

 

[Cosimo]

Zero coil whine on my Gigabyte Aorus Master.

 

[Loup Solitaire]

This is something you need to figure out immediately (well, in a couple of days) when it arrives.

If a card has bad coil whine, just return it straight away - no questions asked.

Don't let it get that far. Keep it within the first two weeks, where your customer rights are the strongest IMO.

Sure,returning it would be the easiest way,but,if the stocks stay that bad,it would mean waiting maybe weeks or months to get a new one...

If it is covered by the warranty,I could manage it for some times and use the warranty to replace it when the shortage will be over.

 

[Rinken]

Hello everyone. Greetings from Spain. I'm sorry if there's any mistake in the text, use google translator to help me.

On the 10th of this month I got a Zotac 5080 Solid OC at normal price.
The coil noise is heard with the box completely closed, the noise comes out of the top of the box where the fans are and a little from the side. I recorded a video with the sound:

In person the sound is much more noticeable, it seems that the mobile phone does not record it well at all.
The doubt I have to what extent it is normal in these cards, I have been informing myself by reading many forums and many people assume it as normal and only return if the sound is somewhat extreme. If all of them are going to have it to a greater or lesser extent I don't know if it is worth returning it, in addition to the stock problems.

I have tried changing the psu for a corsair rm1000 atx 3.1 and many possible solutions that I have read but nothing works. The only thing that works is to do undervolt, it lowers the sound quite a bit and I gain a little performance.

My surprise was when I put the pny 3080 back and discovered that it also has noise, exactly the same as the 5080 but a little lower. Could it be a problem with the voltages delivered by the motherboard's pci? I understand that it depends on the card the type of noise is different and in my case the 3080 and the 5080 make the same type of noise only the 3080 a little lower.

Before I didn't hear anything because in the box I had some much louder fans and a secondary mechanical HDD.
I have to say that I only hear it when I lower the volume to zero or almost zero and look for the sound, it's not that the sound itself bothers me that much but it annoys me to pay €1275 and have the card have that sound.
Is this normal or is it really just bad luck and most cards don't have coil whine?

 

[GoRedwings19]

Hello everyone. Greetings from Spain. I'm sorry if there's any mistake in the text, use google translator to help me.

On the 10th of this month I got a Zotac 5080 Solid OC at normal price.
The coil noise is heard with the box completely closed, the noise comes out of the top of the box where the fans are and a little from the side. I recorded a video with the sound:

In person the sound is much more noticeable, it seems that the mobile phone does not record it well at all.
The doubt I have to what extent it is normal in these cards, I have been informing myself by reading many forums and many people assume it as normal and only return if the sound is somewhat extreme. If all of them are going to have it to a greater or lesser extent I don't know if it is worth returning it, in addition to the stock problems.

I have tried changing the psu for a corsair rm1000 atx 3.1 and many possible solutions that I have read but nothing works. The only thing that works is to do undervolt, it lowers the sound quite a bit and I gain a little performance.

My surprise was when I put the pny 3080 back and discovered that it also has noise, exactly the same as the 5080 but a little lower. Could it be a problem with the voltages delivered by the motherboard's pci? I understand that it depends on the card the type of noise is different and in my case the 3080 and the 5080 make the same type of noise only the 3080 a little lower.

Before I didn't hear anything because in the box I had some much louder fans and a secondary mechanical HDD.
I have to say that I only hear it when I lower the volume to zero or almost zero and look for the sound, it's not that the sound itself bothers me that much but it annoys me to pay €1275 and have the card have that sound.
Is this normal or is it really just bad luck and most cards don't have coil whine?

Hola!!!!! Welcome to the forums.

Let's address your questions and concerns. you got eh angry bees coil whine (Patent pending) So the whole coil whine Is not actually a fault nor is it damaging to the GPU in any way whatsoever. And to be blunt we are at the mercy of the anti coil whine gods. Basically we are relying on good luck and using this thread to gauge which manufacturer and SKU has the best chance of getting a card with the minimum amount of coil whine possible. But this is not 100% guaranteed. In this thread we have seen cards which have reputed to have none at least one person said that had bad coil whine and on cards which are known to have coil whine at least one has said they have had none.

By using this thread we can only increase our chances nothing more, nothing less. Now if you do get a card with bad coil whine what should you do? If you are sensitive to coil whine return it immediately. But don't say it down to coil whine as most manufacturers and most retailer for that matter can refuse the RMA as it neither a fault neither is it running out of specifications.

If you don't have a card but are thinking of getting one. WAIT. Prices could drop but more importantly there will be supplies to be exchanged with you in the event of the RMA. While the 5080 series is slowly starting to become more freely available it still a huge pain in the azz.

Unfortunately whether you paid 1200, 1500 or 2000 or in the case of the 5090's closer to 3k coil whine is an equal opportunities hater. It hates if you are on the budget, mid range or high end budget.

I get the actual sound doesn't bother you that the fact you paid so much money just to have that sound is what annoys you. Unless you are willing to keep buying and testing gpu's there is not really much we can do. And that's reliant on the retailer/manufacturer accepting the RMA and then the whole cost of sending it back taking time out of your day to get to the postal services and send it off.

No we shouldn't have to put up with it. No card tbh should have coil whine. it been 30 years since I was involved in the electronics industry and even then we had ways make it stop that cost pennies like literally pennies. We can get a AI chat program to mimic human interaction, live translate a different language to our native tongue but we can't afford to stop coil whine that cost pennies? GTF0!@##$$%^^&

 

[JetSetter1984]

Got lucky to bag a 5090 FE on launch day, squealed and buzzed pretty badly. Sold on for a sizeable profit. My 5080 FE replacement was much quieter, barely audible. Sold that and got a 5090 MSI Gaming Trio now. This has the buzzing, not the squeal, but it's almost as bad as the FE I had.

 

[Hostile_18]

Got lucky to bag a 5090 FE on launch day, squealed and buzzed pretty badly. Sold on for a sizeable profit. My 5080 FE replacement was much quieter, barely audible. Sold that and got a 5090 MSI Gaming Trio now. This has the buzzing, not the squeal, but it's almost as bad as the FE I had.

Welcome aboard, be careful mentioning selling, there's some sensitivity around the subject. I was crucified for selling my Suprim lol.

That's disappointing to hear about both models having it. So far it feels a lot more random than the 40 series.

 

[JetSetter1984]

Welcome aboard, be careful mentioning selling, there's some sensitivity around the subject. I was crucified for selling my Suprim lol.

That's disappointing to hear about both models having it. So far it feels a lot more random than the 40 series.

I can appreciate the sentiment around selling and I intended to keep the card, until I saw them going for 3.5k + at which point you can not blame people for wanting to make money, but you can blame nvidia for continuing to basically paper launch cards and rip off consumers. Their focus is the ai market now, they care nothing for gamers who put them where they are.

 

[Hostile_18]

I can appreciate the sentiment around selling and I intended to keep the card, until I saw them going for 3.5k + at which point you can not blame people for wanting to make money, but you can blame nvidia for continuing to basically paper launch cards and rip off consumers. Their focus is the ai market now, they care nothing for gamers who put them where they are.

Yep 100% agree I intended to keep mine, and it still is the card I want more than any other (Though I am trying out an AMD card on Thursday). You just can't turn down thousands when all you want to do is game. Nvidia stopped production of the 40 series months before launch, this is obviously a very manufactured shortage.

I was actually considering a Trio. Seems to be one of the models reported to have little coil whine, but some people have reported it feeling cheap so a bit undecided. It is the Nvidia card that will match my case best though visually.

 

[Major774]

Palit GamingPro 5080 here, no serious coil whine, the auto fan curve drowns out any coil whine noise.

Most cards will have a small electrical buzz (coil whine) when stressed, as long as the whine is not louder than the fans, it’s a keeper.

 

[Matthew Hunt]

Anyone got the Gigabyte 5090 Windforce OC - Does it have coil whine?
Just managed to get hold of one.

 

[Flows33]

Hi

I tested a 5080 Asus prime OC, coil whine present.
I also tested a 5080 MSI suprim liquid and it has a little coil whine.
For the moment my 5080 suprim is the one with the least coil whine.
I dream of a 5090 without coil whine.
I will soon test a 5080 aorus waterforce, to be continued

 

[GoRedwings19]

Hi

I tested a 5080 Asus prime OC, coil whine present.
I also tested a 5080 MSI suprim liquid and it has a little coil whine.
For the moment my 5080 suprim is the one with the least coil whine.
I dream of a 5090 without coil whine.
I will soon test a 5080 aorus waterforce, to be continued

I returned the suprim liquid. It has a little coil whine. Not excessive but not close compared to my gaming trio which has none and my suprim 5090 has coil whine but it so quiet you wouldn’t notice it.

 

[Hostile_18]

Do people feel I should include 90xx series AMD cards here or strictly limited it to 50 series?

 

[GoRedwings19]

Do people feel I should include 90xx series AMD cards here or strictly limited it to 50 series?

I rather a separate thread. Having AMD stuff here will get clustered. Having a separate thread would be ideal. People who are not interested in Nvidia cards won’t have to wade through pages pages of text which don’t apply to their brand and sku.