4080 & 4090 Coil Whine Thread

Hostile_18 · 27 Jan 2023 at 23:42

I had the same results with Cyberpunk on 2 of my three models. Very little whine compared to RD2, Uncharted and Control.

Hostile_18 · 28 Jan 2023 at 00:02

Noxia said:
Interesting, I wonder what it is. Such a shame though because on a lot of games the fans were so slow that I never heard them and silence is something I really aim for when I build a PC

I'm exactly the same. If the rest of the rig is quiet/silent its awful having one part that makes a noise. Mine is in a home cinema too with Atmos Surround.

The FE didn't have much whine at all but the fans were no where near as good. Can't win. Think I might try a PNY next.

Hostile_18 · 28 Jan 2023 at 09:19

Is there a brand of 4080 that has had largely no coil whine feedback?

For the 4090 there was the Inno X3 but its sold out everywhere.

Hostile_18 · 28 Jan 2023 at 18:56

Looks like the Gigabyte is the best for coil whine and having decent fans. It's just how cheap it looks (IMO) for such an expensive card.

Hostile_18 · 29 Jan 2023 at 10:17

I'm thinking of the PNY NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 XLR REVEL next. Must be a new model?

Looks like the PNY generally have the low/no coil whine AND quiet fans?

Hostile_18 · 29 Jan 2023 at 10:25

Besty said:
Anecdotally, the whole of the gigabyte 4000 range.

If anyone here has a gigabyte card it would be good if you posted here about coil whine.

If I didn't care about looks I'd 100%, go for the Gigabyte. I just can't bring myself to spend so much on something that looks cheap IMO, or has flashing led rings. But they do seem to have nailed the acoustics.

Hostile_18 · 29 Jan 2023 at 14:23

There's definitely a link between components used and coil whine. You just need to look how many Inno and Gigabyte quiet cards there are compared to Strix and Suprim etc.

Bequiet says you can use a glue during the manifactur9ng stage to kill the noise. Look at how many Series Xs have coil whine compared to the PS5 equivalent etc.

Its not random odds across all devices, that's just not based on any evidence.

Hostile_18 · 29 Jan 2023 at 14:33

clone said:
Gigabyte 4080 areo OC just installed zero coil whine

I might just get a white case because at least I like the look of that Gigabyte

Hostile_18 · 31 Jan 2023 at 11:09

So I've had 3 4090 Suprims (all with coil whine, great fans). 1 FE that had small amount of coil whine, not so great fans (but certainly not bad).

I've decided to go with the PNY Epic X card now. I know the PCB isnt the best but overclocking isnt important to me (in fact undervolting is better). This seems to have the best combination of silent fans and no coil whine with a 450w power limit (again will help reduce any noise and heat). Toms Hardware got a 6% increase at only 2% extra power draw. It's also got 3 years warranty.

I'll report my findings tomorrow, but if it passes my seal of approval you know its good. OCUK have the best price on it at the moment at 1729. I'd also recommend the Gigabyte if I didn't not like the look of it.

Hostile_18 · 1 Feb 2023 at 12:32

The PNY was ****. So many reports of it running cool and quiet as well. Annoying fans but *very* slightly less coil whine.

Hostile_18 · 1 Feb 2023 at 12:53

Why can't I have a different super power? Like eating all I want and never putting on weight lol.

Hostile_18 · 1 Feb 2023 at 14:42

I wonder how many go back to the manufacturer rather than the retailer take a small hit as a "B grade" item. Maybe it's cheaper to just deal with a small % of unhappy customers than to fix at manufacture.

Hostile_18 · 3 Feb 2023 at 16:13

Wolverine2349 said:
To me that counts as oil whine or bad unwanted crappy noise if it is audible. I have had like every 4090 do that and it sounds like a chain saw. Some sound fainter than others, but it should be so faint you can barely if at all hear it even with good hearing and ti shoudl sound like a slight change oif pitch in dead air rather than a bees nest or buzz saw.

I hope all the ones who say they have no coil whine actually are not having this electrical buzz and claiming their card i whine free because that is misleading in research as that noise sucks too.

I think it's people having case fans that make noise partly throwing off results. Still if you've tried that many types might as well settle on one and power limit it tbh.

Hostile_18 · 5 Feb 2023 at 11:25

Jay85 said:
Wish i could say the same , that would drive me nuts! Looks like im gonna be playing roulette with a 4090 or just try and do abit of research before ordering one.

Roulette. I'm on my 6th lol.

Hostile_18 · 5 Feb 2023 at 11:27

LtMatt said:
Impressive, technically this is my 8th.

Hope one day we both find "the one" lol.

Hostile_18 · 5 Feb 2023 at 12:26

LtMatt said:
This is my last, after this I'm out of the game for good. Taking early retirement.

7950X3D is going to be my last big tech purchase for a while.

Same here... but I also said the same earlier this week too lol.

Hostile_18 · 5 Feb 2023 at 15:15

GoRedwings19 said:
I have had enough. I don;t have the time anymore to keep posting it back and forth. I have 2 MSI suprims X's 4090, 2 Strix 4090's white editions, 4080 strix white edition and a zotac amp extreme 4090. The worst offenders by far are the strixs it is not even close. Although the 4080 had the least coil whine.

Yeah tell me about it. Which one if any are you going to settle on?

Hostile_18 · 6 Feb 2023 at 20:00

Do AMD cards suffer from bad coil whine this gen?

Hostile_18 · 6 Feb 2023 at 20:23

Pretty much no options then, unless maybe there's a 4080 sku free of it. Pretty depressing.

Hostile_18 · 6 Feb 2023 at 20:34

LtMatt said:
I’ve used 6 XTX, whilst they all had some coil whine it was less than the 4090s I’ve tried. I think the days of getting a high end GPU without coil whine no longer exist. Now it’s a case of how bad the inevitable whine will be.

That's enough for me then, if I'm going to accept some coil whine I probably won't be paying 4090 prices.

I really like the look of the Sapphire XTX nitro, just the Ray Tracing performance holding me back.