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4080 & 4090 Coil Whine Thread

Loosecannon said:
4090 Strix arrived and now installed. Worse than the 4090 TUF I had in Red Dead - just very loud as soon as it hits in game.

Coil whine is one thing, but the whole pitch change when you look around - it's just crazy. One pitch for grass, another for water, another for the sky...

There is no way I can cope with this. Sat around 40 cm from my PC, and it is just so loud. Looks like I might be waiting for next gen too.
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I have had only 1 card that was louder than the ASU’s strix 4xxx series and it was the strix 3090ti water cooled edition. If you thought the 4090’s was loud. You haven’t heard this beast it would coil whine like a mofo when it was in windows let alone gaming.

Also SNAP I get that coil whine pitch change as well we can be twinsies……..
 
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GoRedwings19 said:
I have had only 1 card that was louder than the ASU’s strix 4xxx series and it was the strix 3090ti water cooled edition. If you thought the 4090’s was loud. You haven’t heard this beast it would coil whine like a mofo when it was in windows let alone gaming.

Also SNAP I get that coil whine pitch change as well we can be twinsies……..
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As much as sharing this pain with someone else would be fun, this card is going back asap. Will try a Gigabyte and then give up.
 
Just get the 4090FE. Incredibly well built, and seems to be the least susceptible to coil whine.

I'm sure someone with sensitive ears will argue the toss, but I cannot hear any whine from my 4090FE no matter what I throw at it. Fan noise is the only thing I hear from my PC. My old 3090 and the Asus 3080 previously, had very noisy coil whine. But the 4090FE seems the sweet spot for performance, cooling, and lack of whine.
 
Loosecannon said:
As much as sharing this pain with someone else would be fun, this card is going back asap. Will try a Gigabyte and then give up.
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Should be interesting, gigabyte seems to be universally praised for low coil whine this time around, I had the choice between the msi and giga but I stupidly chose msi and now the gigabyte deal is long gone.
 
Anyone have noticable coil whine when they boot up the game, but after playing for 15 minutes it gets more silent?

Diablo 4 has been pretty annoying because the map is dead silent and gameplay is noticable.

I have the 4090FE and while it is tons better than my original Asus TUF i still hear it. I guess it doesnt help that my PC is dead silent. Even on heavy 4K/ultra/ray tracing my temp does not go above 63c.
 
Seems to me that fan white noise actually served a useful purpose. Tip of the day for dealing with coil whine, get some noisy fans and put under your desk ;)
 
Loosecannon said:
As much as sharing this pain with someone else would be fun, this card is going back asap. Will try a Gigabyte and then give up.
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Gigabyte cards are fine until they break and then you have to deal with the Giga RMA service. Equally as bad as Asus if not worse as it down to their discretion if they RMA or not and even then they might not acknowledge you had ship it to them. And their customer service is as bad as they RGB controller software.

you're still my twinsy tho ....
 
FlyingFish said:
Just get the 4090FE. Incredibly well built, and seems to be the least susceptible to coil whine.

I'm sure someone with sensitive ears will argue the toss, but I cannot hear any whine from my 4090FE no matter what I throw at it. Fan noise is the only thing I hear from my PC. My old 3090 and the Asus 3080 previously, had very noisy coil whine. But the 4090FE seems the sweet spot for performance, cooling, and lack of whine.
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How does the fan noise compare to the 3090FE?
The fans on the 3090FE were far too loud for me, sounded like a turbine and could easily hear them even when I had my headset on while gaming. I ended up swapping that for a EVGA FTW3 3090 and although still loud it was much better than the FE. I'm hesitant to consider the 4090FE unless the fans are much better under load.
 
Steviepunk said:
How does the fan noise compare to the 3090FE?
The fans on the 3090FE were far too loud for me, sounded like a turbine and could easily hear them even when I had my headset on while gaming. I ended up swapping that for a EVGA FTW3 3090 and although still loud it was much better than the FE. I'm hesitant to consider the 4090FE unless the fans are much better under load.
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The 4090 has a larger fan so in general use its abit quieter though anything about 75c on the core it starts to get loud. Undervolting it and keeping temps under 60/65c keep noise down to a minimal to the point where i don't hear it.

I only get a slight bit of coil whine from mine as well though i think that has more to do with the psu than gpu as it made my 3090 coil whine where as the older Corsair unit didn't.
 
Steviepunk said:
How does the fan noise compare to the 3090FE?
The fans on the 3090FE were far too loud for me, sounded like a turbine and could easily hear them even when I had my headset on while gaming. I ended up swapping that for a EVGA FTW3 3090 and although still loud it was much better than the FE. I'm hesitant to consider the 4090FE unless the fans are much better under load.
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Obviously no GPU is silent, but I didn't have a fan issue with the 3090fe, the fans very rarely ran past 50% even while under heavy load. And the 4090 fe is very similar, fans don't really push past 50%. Which means fan noise isn't much of an issue for me. My case has a good air flow through it though.

What is striking is the lack of coil whine with the 4090fe, and since its release, others with the 4090fe don't seem to complain about coil whine either.

Apart from the lack of whine, the only difference I've noticed is that I can hear the air moving through the densely packed cooler fins on the 4090fe as the fans get to 50%. But for the performance you get and the cooling ability across the whole card, (core/mem/hotspot) it's an pretty good balance. Especially with clocks it can hold at 100% load. Very happy with it :)

BTW, I've got a monster PSU driving it, so no whine from that end.

I also now through Summer run at 75% power, for basically the same performance, and it still doesn't get over 70C even after a few hours of Starfield :D
 
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Well my 4090 Strix OC is going back tomorrow, coil whine is driving me nuts. It's the fact it changes pitch and is really bad in certain games. Shame as I got it for a really good price (£1575) and the card itself is very well built. Think I'll see if any good deals crop up around black Friday and try another brand.
 
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My msi also went back lol, I too am just going to wait and see what black friday brings, at this rate I only have gigabyte and pny that are left to try. The whole gigabyte rma thing really puts me off them however.
 
Spikey said:
What's the deal their RMA process?
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Its apparently the worst of all the gpu manufacture's, I used to know someone who did graphics card repairs and he said the amount of giga card he would get in due to them refusing rma was about 80% of his business. Slow turnaround and had to get them to rma in the first place, not sure how they are so highly rated on the rma thread here.
 
When I bought my 4080 FE and installed it in a P500A case + Corsair PSU I couldn't hear any whine unless maybe a game was in a menu with no frame limit. I knelt down next to it as well a couple of times.

Now I've switched to a Cooler Master NR200P MAX case with a CM PSU and the case is on the desk I can hear a noise. Not the very high pitched whine I've heard before from GPUs but more of a lower pitch electronic noise. I suspect the PSU more in this case but they are closely situated so it's harder to tell. Not a big issue as it's again more obvious with extreme frame rates which I tend to limit anyway to reduce power and therefore heat in the case.
 
Has anyone used LTmatt's older method to reduce coil whine by running a benchmark over night?

Reduce Coil Whine Today!

Run this as many times as you can tolerate. It can make even quiet GPUs squeal, but boy does it dampen down coil whine in games and other applications significantly over time. Night Raid Stress Test or Sky Diver, part of the 3DMark Advanced suite. 3DMark benchmark for Windows, Android and iOS...
forums.overclockers.co.uk forums.overclockers.co.uk
 
4090 FE received today. Very-little coil whine - it's probably the quietest high-end card I've owned in 10+ years (and I've had a lot). As an added plus, the 4090 FE has to be the most beautiful graphics card ever made.

This was actually my third 4090 within past 2-weeks. I purchased a B-grade Zotac from a competitor which also had very-little coil-whine. Unfortunately the Zotac turned out to be faulty and was promptly returned (core clock would randomly drop to 300Mhz and stay there - even after restart). I then made the mistake of purchasing a "Reconditioned - Excellent" MSI Suprim X from a big electronics reseller on the big auction site. This arrived with a severely-warped PCB (obviously used without an anti-sag bracket), covered in dust and grime, no-accessories, and packed loose within a battered non-OEM box. I didn't even install this one - it got returned immediately. After being burned twice I did what I should have doen in the first place, bought a brand new one. I will only purchase new or from trusted forums (like OcUK) in the future. I think too-many B-grade and so-called refurbished high-end cards have had tough lives. People on here seem to look after their stuff. Tiny-rant over. Happy in the end.
 
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