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1080 coil whine, help?

JABenedicic

JABenedicic

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I think one or both of my MSI 1080 Gaming X's has some serious coil whine.

This is the first time I've had anything this noticeable so I'm not really up on what's to be expected and what I should be doing about it.

The sound is a high pitched noise that while I'm gaming changes pitch, for example if I'm playing WoW and I pan the camera round, as I'm moving the noise changes pitch. Noise only happens when gaming, it's prominent enough that I can hear it over the fans and any in game sound or music I have on at the time.

Any advice appreciated.
 
Is the PC you are talking about the one in your sig?

Coil whine can be caused by poor PSUs but yours seems more than enough in your sig.

try one card at a time and see what they are like or other option is to RMA the cards and send them back if its that bad
 
ED209 said:
Is the PC you are talking about the one in your sig?

Coil whine can be caused by poor PSUs but yours seems more than enough in your sig.

try one card at a time and see what they are like or other option is to RMA the cards and send them back if its that bad
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Yeah the rig in my sig, I'll do some testing with each card individually later today and see if I can narrow it down.

It's the first time I've ever noticed it with a graphics card so it must be fairly bad.
 
mine 1080 had little coin whine for first few days then after run testing and games then it somehow stopped coin whine by itself .
 
I've finally had some time for testing and I've been through many iterations. It appears to affect both cards.

What I have found and this seems odd, it doesn't matter how well it's performing or how many frames you are pushing out (or limit it to) the only consistent way I've found to stop the noise is to disable all forms of AA in games/benches.

With AA off the whine is gone. Comes back instantly the moment you enable any form of AA. The worst whine I get is in WoW and I can recreate it on and off on demand now.
 
There was a post from Gibbo somewhere that said as long as you have a decent PSU, as cheaply made PSU's are the primary cause of graphics card coil whine, then they'll accept returns on them.

edit - found it.

Gibbo said:
As people have requested it here is a guide on what PSU's should help to reduce mild/low coilwhine issues.

Key Points
  • Sometimes even the best PSU on the market will not eliminate coilwhine
  • Coilwhine is not a fault, it is how electricial devices work and any card can suffer it, particular high-end cards, such as dual GPU solutions
  • OcUK stance on coilwhine is if you have a quality PSU and the card has audible coilwhine on an open test bench, we will replace it.
  • Does 970 suffer from whine more so than other cards, well return rates cannot be conclusive of this as we are seeing nothing unusual in return rates but the majority of returns are related to whine issues.
  • Whether a PSU is 80+ Gold does not necessarily mean its a good quality PSU, it is down to the internal components used and frequencies etc.
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benjii said:
There was a post from Gibbo somewhere that said as long as you have a decent PSU, as cheaply made PSU's are the primary cause of graphics card coil whine, then they'll accept returns on them.
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I have a good PSU, and yeah it's an option. Just don't want to be left for ages with no cards. Will have a think.
 
jommy999 said:
mine 1080 had little coin whine for first few days then after run testing and games then it somehow stopped coin whine by itself .
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I had the same thing, it was worse in some games than other TW3 squealed like a maniac, switched it off came back later and its been fine since. Very strange. Keep expecting it to start up again any minute.
 
I had coil whine with half of the cards up to now, especially the last 3 years.
GTX780, R9 Nano, had coil whine but got cured after few weeks. 295X2 and MSI GTX1080 Armor OC, hadn't any coil whine. All 4 cards with the same Superflower PSU.
 
I have a decent PSU so I'm happy that isn't the issue, it came highly recommended on here.

I've spoken to MSI as well and even they have suggested I look at replacements as it is very audible. I'll give the guys in the shop a call and see what the stock levels are like and roughly how long it's going to take to test and swap them. Might need another card in the mean time to tide me over.
 
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