5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

[GoRedwings19]

There are a lot of variables, I think the user's hearing and the openness of their PC case have the biggest impact. I moved from a Fractal Define Mini (quiet focused case) to a Fractal North, which is all mesh with a pretty open front. My current GPU had quite a bit of coilwhine and I never really heard it until I moved to this new case. Airflow cases drop temps which allow fans to run slower to they can be as quiet as more restrictive cases due to fans running slower HOWEVER, with an open case, you are way more vulnerable to audible coil whine.

I also don't care about coil whine at very high framerates (i.e above 120fps) as I will often cap to slightly above that. Most cards will squeal at hundreds of FPS in my experience e.g on uncapped title screens.

it's funny you should say that. I was playing league the other day and I saw the framerate spike to something like 1050 fps and there was not a peep. But on a menu screen for some reason like at 400-500fps there is a very very quiet angry bee. I could barely hear it.

On another note the other day I had a scare. there was a strange rattling sound coming from the card. I thought that can;t be like coil whine as I never heard it that low and slow. As the minutes went by it got louder. So I played around with fan control and notice it changed in loudness and noise. I thought please don;t tell me I got a sketchy fan and have to RMA it given the current situation. So I looked inside and I saw something stuck between the fan and the heatsink. it was thin and transparent. In my excitement to get my card installed, I forgot to take that thin plastic wrapper that is on the fans central spindle. it had worked loosed and went inside. I pulled it out and everything was back to normal.

the moral of the story is...IDK so just carry on

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

it's funny you should say that. I was playing league the other day and I saw the framerate spike to something like 1050 fps and there was not a peep. But on a menu screen for some reason like at 400-500fps there is a very very quiet angry bee. I could barely hear it.

On another note the other day I had a scare. there was a strange rattling sound coming from the card. I thought that can;t be like coil whine as I never heard it that low and slow. As the minutes went by it got louder. So I played around with fan control and notice it changed in loudness and noise. I thought please don;t tell me I got a sketchy fan and have to RMA it given the current situation. So I looked inside and I saw something stuck between the fan and the heatsink. it was thin and transparent. In my excitement to get my card installed, I forgot to take that thin plastic wrapper that is on the fans central spindle. it had worked loosed and went inside. I pulled it out and everything was back to normal.

the moral of the story is...IDK so just carry on

I could be wrong but I think the frequency increases with FPS, so it's always there but beyond a certain point it's inaudible to humans and really just annoying your dog .Hence why they might be quiet at 60fps. Buzzy at 120fps. Squealy at 400fps and 'quiet' beyond that.

One of the reasons my TUF 5080 was louder than my TUF 3080 was I could run way more games at 120fps+, especially if you use framegen.

 

[Foliedelanuit]

Personal experience is that it increases alongside the voltage and clock speed. Which tbf are usually hand in hand with higher FPS, but I've played games at 120fps with no whine, and several at 60fps with noticeably worse whine (and in those it was due to higher clocks/drawing more power). For a long time I thought that undervolting was the most effective solution, but limiting clock/boost speed has had the highest impact. At that point though you're making the call on how much you're willing to hobble the GPU to reduce noise.