Steps to deal with coil whine

[therealdippy]

Thanks for all the comments. I have experimented with undervolting with minimal effect on whine, although clearly there is scope to reduce power that way so I'll likely complete that exercise in order to optimise temps and consequent fan noise. After a bit of web searching I have come to the conclusion that my GPU is not whining any more than is typical so going the RMA route with the risk that the replacement might be worse seems a bad idea. But I think it's true that I need to reset my perspective back to gaming where as long as I get 60 FPS I'm fine - and when I v-sync'ed the 2 benchmarks to 60 FPS there was no whine...

 

[V F]

yeah but that's just wrong, closed back is for cheapskates

Are you serious?

 

[Grim5]

Are you serious?

Its a joke

 

[V F]

Just checking as you never know nowadays.

 

[pp111]

Thanks for all the comments. I have experimented with undervolting with minimal effect on whine, although clearly there is scope to reduce power that way so I'll likely complete that exercise in order to optimise temps and consequent fan noise. After a bit of web searching I have come to the conclusion that my GPU is not whining any more than is typical so going the RMA route with the risk that the replacement might be worse seems a bad idea. But I think it's true that I need to reset my perspective back to gaming where as long as I get 60 FPS I'm fine - and when I v-sync'ed the 2 benchmarks to 60 FPS there was no whine...

Having a 3090 and running it at 60fps is a bit like owning a Ferrari and doing 20mph on the motorway.

 

[Johnny Silverhand]

Dunno why people bought 3090's expecting them to be quiet and cool. Nvidia literally pushed that card too the absolute limit to get the most out of it so ofc it's going to be noisy and hot.