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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

playtech1 said:
I had a Trio briefly and it's a step above the basic Ventus, but is definitely not a premium level card - the shroud is fairly lightweight plastic, the heat sink is only a bit bigger than the Ventus and the iridescent dragon design looks good to my eyes but some might find a bit tacky. The fans were decent and on my copy the coil whine was fine too, but I really struggle with value. I bought the Ventus for £980, the Trio £1,289 and the Aorus Master for £1,299 (all from a well known high street retailer) and the Master is a massive step up from the other two. The Trio should really be much closer to MSRP card - definitely not worth an extra £300 over MSRP.
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Thank you for great insight. I agree with the Dragon and it would match my motherboard. The Aorus Master looks good apart from those rgb rings (which I hated on the 4090 gaming OC). Do you find them annoying/distracting? Would I see the case flashing all the time in a horizontal position?
 
Hostile_18 said:
Thank you for great insight. I agree with the Dragon and it would match my motherboard. The Aorus Master looks good apart from those rgb rings (which I hated on the 4090 gaming OC). Do you find them annoying/distracting? Would I see the case flashing all the time in a horizontal position?
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I have it mounted horizontally so I can't see the RGB rings directly, except... I have Lian-Li infinity fans on the bottom, so can catch the reflections in that! It's not bothered me though. I had assumed you can turn them off but have not yet tried.

I should say that I like (and am keeping) the Aorus Master, but it's not perfect - the fans are not as quiet as the reviews led me to believe, the small screen is very nice to have but is not particularly great quality or that flexible as to the information display and it makes a weird noise on fan stop. None of these are deal breakers for me, but others may find them to be. Of more importance to me (and this thread) my copy has the least coil whine of the four 5080s I have tried.

I will say that the power usage and heat this thing kicks out makes me wonder whether a 5090 might justify a water cooled model. I do wonder how some of the smaller 5080 coolers that are also being used for 5090s will handle that level of power consumption without fans constantly going at 100%.
 
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playtech1 said:
I had a Trio briefly and it's a step above the basic Ventus, but is definitely not a premium level card - the shroud is fairly lightweight plastic, the heat sink is only a bit bigger than the Ventus and the iridescent dragon design looks good to my eyes but some might find a bit tacky. The fans were decent and on my copy the coil whine was fine too, but I really struggle with value. I bought the Ventus for £980, the Trio £1,289 and the Aorus Master for £1,299 (all from a well known high street retailer) and the Master is a massive step up from the other two. The Trio should really be much closer to MSRP card - definitely not worth an extra £300 over MSRP.
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How's the cooling compared to the trio? I mean it's probably the best bang for buck but at the same time if you can spend £2500 for a trio but not stretch £2800 for a Surpims or astral then yeah it's overpriced. Let's see what happens once the initial demand is satisfied, curious to where prices will sit in 6-12 months time
 
DizzyZ said:
How's the cooling compared to the trio? I mean it's probably the best bang for buck but at the same time if you can spend £2500 for a trio but not stretch £2800 for a Surpims or astral then yeah it's overpriced. Let's see what happens once the initial demand is satisfied, curious to where prices will sit in 6-12 months time
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I would guess that Master has about twice the size of heat sink than the Trio - they are both extremely long, but the Master is much thicker/heavier and the heat sink fills up the shroud much more. In practical terms though both need to run the fans at a reasonable rate to cool the 5080 and both do the job just fine.

I should say that the Trio is a perfectly decent card, it's just priced badly IMHO. I think it's because MSI have too many models at the very low-end with two variants of Ventus, each in regular and OC variants. That's four models with increasing price points before you even hit the Trio, which itself also has regular and OC models. Having so many steps means pricing gets out of hand as each model has a price differential up the ladder. Which means you end up paying £300+ over the MSRP model for quite marginal quality improvements. Other AIBs also suffer from this to some extent.
 
What turns me off with the Master is that thermal putty that does well, but reportedly a nightmare for maintenance. I hope to never have to do that, but if I do, thats not really something I want to deal with.
Would it be fair to say that coil whine, aside of the variance between samples, the cooling used is the same between the Suprim and Gaming Trio atleast?

I want to go for a Suprim or an Astral if I get the chance. I think both came out fairly well on the coil whine front. As did Gaming Trio, but then I've seen some people just be straight up unlucky and have really noisy versions of the Gaming Trio.
 
stfn said:
What turns me off with the Master is that thermal putty that does well, but reportedly a nightmare for maintenance. I hope to never have to do that, but if I do, thats not really something I want to deal with.
Would it be fair to say that coil whine, aside of the variance between samples, the cooling used is the same between the Suprim and Gaming Trio atleast?

I want to go for a Suprim or an Astral if I get the chance. I think both came out fairly well on the coil whine front. As did Gaming Trio, but then I've seen some people just be straight up unlucky and have really noisy versions of the Gaming Trio.
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No it's different. One more heat pipe in Suprim and the Trio has no Vapour Chamber.
 
Hostile_18 said:
I love the design of the Trio but if everyone is saying it feels cheap :(

Just give me a good premium black card please!
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While the trio matches in no way the kind of build and engineering I would expect from a suprim or Astral. I can accept it as it clocks as fast as my liquid suprim 5080 has no coil whine and was substantially cheaper. And while I will put these up for sale in the next few days I will miss the trio more than the suprim liquid. Go figure!
 
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