5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

[SeeNoWeevil]

Sorry to hear that. I know that feeling all too well from last Gen. Asus got loads better with later 4090s as well. Wonder why they have gone back over.

I'm gutted. Spend ages F5'ing a bunch of stores, drop £1300, wait for the card only to realise it's going to drive you insane, go through all the faff/expense (£40 insured courier to return) of returning it and not even being able to get another card you can be sure won't have terrible whine or even any card at all.

 

[Hostile_18]

I'm gutted. Spend ages F5'ing a bunch of stores, drop £1300, wait for the card only to realise it's going to drive you insane, go through all the faff/expense (£40 insured courier to return) of returning it and not even being able to get another card you can be sure won't have terrible whine or even any card at all.

Try burning it in. In my experience it won't change long term, but the first few hours up to say 20 it can.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Try burning it in. In my experience it won't change long term, but the first few hours up to say 20 it can.

I only have a handful of days left of the 14 days distance selling returns window so it's all getting a bit risky and tbh, I'm just done with it out of principle. You shouldn't have to deal with this on a £1300 gpu.

At the same time as getting the card, I swapped over to a Fractal North mesh which gives me even less wiggle-room for coil whine due to how 'open' it is. I just can't see a high-power Asus card being a good house mate in this case given their reputation for coil whine. I've put my old TUF 3080 back in now and while there is some whine for sure, it's not over that threshold of wanting to rip your ears out.

It's incredibly annoying, you make a build with a high air flow case that's whisper quiet and coil whine comes along and ***** all over it. If I buy another, I'm buying somewhere where I can return it locally.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

EDIT: I have an RMA that's valid until 20th Feb. My options are to try and see if it lessens over that period or just yeet it on.

I'm contemplating adding some sound deadening to the inside of the mesh panel on the Fractal, I don't think it has much influence on cooling anyway

 

[Marak]

If it's that bad don't accept it chap. The retailers and manufacturers need all these sub-standard cards sent back to them to send the proper message.

 

[Hostile_18]

EDIT: I have an RMA that's valid until 20th Feb. My options are to try and see if it lessens over that period or just yeet it on.

I'm contemplating adding some sound deadening to the inside of the mesh panel on the Fractal, I don't think it has much influence on cooling any way

Trying some max settings Cyberpunk with RT and something like Doom 2016 low res, unlocked framerate.

 

[Marak]

It's not like they don't cost enough!

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Nearly £50 to send the 5080 back insured and that was up to £1000 coverage. I shudder to think what it costs to send a 5090 back.

I won't be ordering another GPU unless I can be 90% sure it won't have excessive coil whine or I can return it locally.

 

[Hostile_18]

Nearly £50 to send the 5080 back insured and that was up to £1000 coverage. I shudder to think what it costs to send a 5090 back.

I won't be ordering another GPU unless I can be 90% sure it won't have excessive coil whine or I can return it locally.

I've never had to pay to send a GPU back for coul whine, only if it was unwanted. Maybe you will get it reimbursed?

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

I've never had to pay to send a GPU back for coul whine, only if it was unwanted. Maybe you will get it reimbursed?

I could try but I think there's pretty much 0% chance they would take it back as faulty. Do I hate manufacturers making so many GPUs that whine, sure - but spending £1300 on something before reading a bunch of reviews and feedback on coil whine is my own stupid fault. Caught up in the hype/fomo train.

 

[Nitefly]

It can be stressful returning something on the basis that you think it’s faulty when it’s possible that someone else might disagree.

My approach is to say it IS faulty but regardless, please take this as confirmation that I don’t want it.

I did have to pay postage to return a monitor with a dead pixel recently… which was not deemed as a fault by ISO standards. Meh.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

It can be stressful returning something on the basis that you think it’s faulty when it’s possible that someone else might disagree.

My approach is to say it IS faulty but regardless, please take this as confirmation that I don’t want it.

I did have to pay postage to return a monitor with a dead pixel recently… which was not deemed as a fault by ISO standards. Meh.

It's ridiculous that manufacturers get to decide what is and isn't a fault. I mean, technically they don't, as UK consumer law uses phrasing like "what a reasonable person would consider..." but they know damn well challenging it is costly and stressful for the buyer so from a practical standpoint, they do.

Is coil whine a fault? Well, if my TUF 5080 was whining much more than everyone else's TUF 5080, then yes. If they're all like that (I struggle to believe this isn't the case), then probably not. That's why people should read reviews on the expensive things they buy. Reviews of the TUF 5080 do say the whine is bad. Buying a £1300 GPU from an online retailer before reading a bunch of reviews and getting a good amount of feedback, imo, is frankly stupid.

 

[wunkley]

MSI Gaming Trio 5080 here. Coil whine is pretty much non existent unless running load screens etc with silly high FPS and Vsync off.

Is a very quiet and decent card it seems, but I'll be honest, aesthetically I just don't like any AIB cards compared to Founder's Edition cards for the last 3 gens. The MSI Trio is quite understated compared to some childish AIB monstrosities, but it still looks **** compared to FE cards.

 

[GoRedwings19]

It's ridiculous that manufacturers get to decide what is and isn't a fault. I mean, technically they don't, as UK consumer law uses phrasing like "what a reasonable person would consider..." but they know damn well challenging it is costly and stressful for the buyer so from a practical standpoint, they do.

Is coil whine a fault? Well, if my TUF 5080 was whining much more than everyone else's TUF 5080, then yes. If they're all like that (I struggle to believe this isn't the case), then probably not. That's why people should read reviews on the expensive things they buy. Reviews of the TUF 5080 do say the whine is bad. Buying a £1300 GPU from an online retailer before reading a bunch of reviews and getting a good amount of feedback, imo, is frankly stupid.

I had a company try to get out of the Rma of my brand new Asus 3090 ti strix liquid cool edition which cost 2100 at the time. They will actually phone you up while they checking out the card. They said that it was normal for such a powerful card.

So I quite simply said have you ever heard coil whine ever as loud as this? The technician/Rma person said no never. Rma approved....

The 4 series was terrible for launch day high end cards. Suprims, strixs they all had it. Sure later they fixed the issues.

I am not really sensitive to coil whine unless it is very very extreme aka Asus 3090ti that I had. I have never owned any card in all the time since I embarked on this journey which was loud as that for coil whine.

 

[GoRedwings19]

MSI Gaming Trio 5080 here. Coil whine is pretty much non existent unless running load screens etc with silly high FPS and Vsync off.

Is a very quiet and decent card it seems, but I'll be honest, aesthetically I just don't like any AIB cards compared to Founder's Edition cards for the last 3 gens. The MSI Trio is quite understated compared to some childish AIB monstrosities, but it still looks **** compared to FE cards.

I am not gonna lie the founders edition 2 series even though that generation suxx0rz and 4090 FE is amongst my top5 best ever looking graphics cards. I think the 4090 FE could be my number 1.

Funnily enough I have a 5080 trio that I picked up from the members mart to play around as a stop gap as I have no idea when I would be able to get one. I have been unlucky at pre ordering and even though a friend says I can have his spare pre order he is waiting for his order as well and I think it will be a while. So 5080 tinkering it is.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Sure later they fixed the issues.

Later revisions were consitently much better? Did manufacturers make a point of this or was it just something people noticed? Did they have a different model number?

 

[Nitefly]

Later revisions were consitently much better? Did manufacturers make a point of this or was it just something people noticed? Did they have a different model number?

ASUS advertised that the ROG Matrix (the watercooled 4090 Strix) had ‘new capacitors’ to help reduce noise and several reviewers said that they had it confirmed by ASUS that the newest Strix models had the same capacitors. MSI reportedly made similar changes on their models, although I think this was more ‘word of mouth’.

Not sure about model numbers, I’m afraid.

 

[GoRedwings19]

So I have plugged the 5080 in and there is some coil whine but it not too bad. It in an open test bench which is practically next to me. The air whooshing from the fans drowns it out though although it not the really high frequency it more of an electrical buzzing.

Run a really aggressive fan curve where for every 1c=1% so for example if the core temp is 50c then the fan spins at 50% etc.

I have used plenty of gaming trios before so I kinda know what to expect of them.

I like my gpus to be chonky and this is more slimline to fit more modest cases. Temp wise I use the performance mode and use my own custom curve profile as mentioned above. Temps are better than I expected but the air whooshing is very noticeable.

Temps in dawntrail is about 55-57c at 100% power limit and +400 on the core. I have yet to much about with the memory.

With it own built in fan curve I am seeing roughly 63/64c .

There is a tiny amount of RGB but hardly what I would call intrusive.

I have owned a few 4080’s before and I got to be honest I just hated them. It wasn’t so much that price to performance ratio it just I felt there was such a gap between that and the 4090. That is what irked me the most.

Is the gap between the 5080 and 4090 so huge still. Tough to say my day to day 4090 was the suprim X and that had a very moderate clock on the core but the memory could clock all the way till it maxed out afterburner slider control.

And as I am typing this I just went straight in at +1000.

So the core is fluctuating between 3157-3187 mhz and the mem is at 16020mhz. Only long term testin for stability will determine what will be end clocks.

Lulz who am I trying to kid. In at +2000mhz on the mem which is 17000mhz effectively

 

[Coolasmoo]

So guys, Asus TUF 5080 just got installed.

Barely fits in my case, but that's another story.

Very small amount of electrical noise with my ear against the card, however outside of the case its pretty silent.

Fans are silent and this is in the stock performance mode.

I am using this on a 760W Fractal PSU until my 1000w Corsair comes Monday.

Will update if things change going forward.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

So guys, Asus TUF 5080 just got installed.

Barely fits in my case, but that's another story.

Very small amount of electrical noise with my ear against the card, however outside of the case its pretty silent.

Fans are silent and this is in the stock performance mode.

I am using this on a 760W Fractal PSU until my 1000w Corsair comes Monday.

Will update if things change going forward.

At 120fps+?