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Poll: Any coil whine on your 1080 or 1070?

Do you have any coil whine on your 1080 or 1070?

  • Yes

    Votes: 76 32.5%

  • No

    Votes: 158 67.5%
  • Total voters
    234
I voted yes but I'm not 100% sure it's coil whine. I've only noticed it when running 3DMark, and maybe Unigine, because there's no other sound to drown it out. When 3DMark starts running I can instantly hear a faint whining which goes up and down in volume slightly, presumably because the GPU load goes up and down. I don't think it's the fans because they don't whine, and if I bothered to open the case I would probably see that the fans would not start spinning straight away.

Either way it's not something that bothers me because I've never noticed it while gaming.

Edit: GPU is 1070 GameRock Premium, PSU is OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W - obviously not the best quality PSU but considering I barely use 1/3 of its potential it should be fine. Could the coil whine be due to the PSU not providing a very stable supply of power, and the graphics card compensating for it?
 
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Phil87 said:
I voted yes but I'm not 100% sure it's coil whine. I've only noticed it when running 3DMark, and maybe Unigine, because there's no other sound to drown it out. When 3DMark starts running I can instantly hear a faint whining which goes up and down in volume slightly, presumably because the GPU load goes up and down. I don't think it's the fans because they don't whine, and if I bothered to open the case I would probably see that the fans would not start spinning straight away.

Either way it's not something that bothers me because I've never noticed it while gaming.

Edit: GPU is 1070 GameRock Premium, PSU is OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W - obviously not the best quality PSU but considering I barely use 1/3 of its potential it should be fine. Could the coil whine be due to the PSU not providing a very stable supply of power, and the graphics card compensating for it?
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Frome experience, almost all cards will do it to a certain extent in some benches where the framerate is like 800fps or something .
 
I've got some on a Palit Super Jet Stream when benching and in some games with vsync off but I think it is coming from my XFX 750w PSU. If I set FastSync I don't get any at 60Hz. I just hope I don't get any when I upgrade to a 144Hz monitor.

It would be useful if people test their card with vsync off and run the Heaven benchmark so that we are comparing like for like.


Update: The coil whine from my PC is definitely coming from my XFX PSU.
 
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No coil whine with Zotac 1070 Amp Extreme, apart from when frame rates are in the mid to high 100's on loading screens, which I don't consider an issue. Powered by an old Corsair AX850. Abhor coil whine, have and will return any card that has it ,outside of loading screens that is.
 
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No whine on my Zotac Amp Extreme 1070 either. Coming from a 290 Vapor-X it feels practically silent under load.

Powered by Coolermaster Vanguard 850 PSU.
 
No

Zotac 1070 Amp Extreme + Superflower Leadex Gold 650w

Its used with the Vive so wouldn't be noticed anyway but I have been next to it when its been in use.
 
I only noticed it last night when playing csgo and I uncapped the fps. I played OW the night before and I didn't hear it once. Just booted up csgo and messed around with fps_max command and some where between fps_max 350-400 the noise comes back. Dropping it back to 100 it will stop.
 
  • El chepo z77 Arock mobo
  • Corsair 650W (8 years old)
  • Palit 1070
Zero in Games.
Tiny bit of wine in the places you'd expect it (naff programed splash screens etc).
 
Yes but I think the cheap CX 750 isn't helping although am in the process of RMAing my Supernova G2 1000w to Evga.

Just tested it with a toilet roll tube and it's the damn PSU not GPU.
 
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Very very slight coil whine on my EVGA FTW 1070.
Using a corsair TX 650 psu. I only really hear it if the FPS goes to over 400.
Cap my FPS to 60 and I don't hear it.
 
I've got some pretty bad coil whine on my GLH.
I've got a really old Coolermaster Realpower M700 (guess how many W) though, that might be causing the problem. Not that there's anything I can do about it, CS have already told me coil whine isn't a returnable offence.
 
My Pascal cards

4 Pascal Titans

4 GTX 1080 FEs

1 GTX 1070 FE

1 GTX 1060 FE

1 GTX 1060 Asus Strix

No coil whine on any of them.

I use Corsair AX1500i and AX1200i PSUs
 
Kaapstad said:
My Pascal cards

4 Pascal Titans

4 GTX 1080 FEs

1 GTX 1070 FE

1 GTX 1060 FE

1 GTX 1060 Asus Strix

No coil whine on any of them.

I use Corsair AX1500i and AX1200i PSUs
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Might get myself a AX760 if Evga is going to be ****y about replacing my G2. Good powersupplies are so expensive and mine always seem to fail. Had a XFX Core Edition 550w start to fail on me, now the replacement not 3 years later starts doing stupid things like killing my stuffs!
 
Doogles said:
Yeah change that it's my PSU.
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How do you know its the PSU? I've always had this high pitched whine come from the speakers(headphones) when playing really taxing games(high fps).

Its clearly not my new 1080 as it happened before, is there no way to stop it?
 
I've been using a cx750m (backup) since my Evga G2 played up and I ended up getting a refund when I found the corsair more than adequate (and quiet). 1070 gigabyte x2 here and no coil whine at ALL. Ran my older Zotac 980, Ms 970 and KFA2 970 which all had coil whine in some form (then using the 750 evga)

My 980 is in my racing rig with a 600w evga and it has, very mild coil whine (you need to be dead close but it's there). The Msi 970 I had again coil whine was very little indeed but the KFA2 was very noticeable with coil whine and a few friends also had 970's in some form(none were founders based coolers) and nearly all whined.

Prior to the 900 series of nvidia cards I can't say I ever heard coil whine on any of my other previous cards, and there were many.
 
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