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Coil whine to that extent is definitely not normal. I've got a reference powercolor 56 with an EK block on it and it's virtually silent. There can be some influence from the psu too, as I had some slight coil noise on my old GTX 780 using my corsair supply and tonnes of noise using an antec supply. Both were good quality 650W seasonic OEM too.I managed to make the fans start at a lower RPM, so that's reduced some of the noise.
Absolutely nothing seems to reduce the coil whine though, eg reassembling bits of the PC or reducing the FPS. Not even my Nano or Fury whined on the desktop or in Chrome, I think it's going to have to go back.
Coil whine to that extent is definitely not normal. I've got a reference powercolor 56 with an EK block on it and it's virtually silent. There can be some influence from the psu too, as I had some slight coil noise on my old GTX 780 using my corsair supply and tonnes of noise using an antec supply. Both were good quality 650W seasonic OEM too.
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A little late to the party.
I went with the Vega 56 as I already had three Pascal cards this gen and was bored with them. Gotta say this thing is very exciting to tweak and bench with.
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i hate this coil whine lark. all they ever say to you is "your PSU isnt good enough". seems like some very deep ploy to get you to spend more money as you can go through PSUs until you get the most expensive PSU they sell and then they sort it out. maybe? you buy a PSU suggested as really good quality - EVGA silver etc etc and still because they use 2000watt max price range PSU to test thats where your problem is... really grates on me. i will be trying GPUs fully on the day or week i receive them in future so i can send them back with coil whine and use the 14 day returns thing. credit card purchase for insurance aswell.Coil whine to that extent is definitely not normal. I've got a reference powercolor 56 with an EK block on it and it's virtually silent. There can be some influence from the psu too, as I had some slight coil noise on my old GTX 780 using my corsair supply and tonnes of noise using an antec supply. Both were good quality 650W seasonic OEM too.
Vega56 competing with 1070 ( which launched a year earlier ) which is also 980Ti performance and both overclocked to max the Ti pulls ahead is not great for AMD the only card they have which is a clear win over a 3+ year old 980 Ti is Vega64 even then the power consumption and price is laughable compared to it.
Vega56 competing with 1070 ( which launched a year earlier ) which is also 980Ti performance and both overclocked to max the Ti pulls ahead is not great for AMD the only card they have which is a clear win over a 3+ year old 980 Ti is Vega64 even then the power consumption and price is laughable compared to it.
We need AMD to be competitive again, if Nvidia launch the 1180 soon and it's a 30-35% performance boost over 1080 Ti then you've got a card that's going to be around 50-60% faster than Vega64 use less power and all the more reason to price it insane (n)
We do need AMD to be more competitive long term but as for Vega 56 vs 1070, well my Vega is faster than the 1070 ftw that I had.
The drivers have also been more stable across the same range of games that I play. I also have a Samsung HG70 monitor which has great colours and image quality and I'm glad to see the back of the banding that I had with my GSync TN monitors from both Dell and Asus even though I ran a 1080ti.
I noticed better image quality on this setup so I will be keeping this arrangement for a good while even when faster cards arrive from the green team. I even thought about exchanging my card for a 64 Strix for a little more but I don't see the point.