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5080 & 5090 Coil Whine Thread

I was experimenting with my current 3080 TUF OC that is quite whiny (but not terrible). Running it under high load/framerate and then undervolting down in steps until the whine was greatly reduced. It was possible but then I'd try a different workload and most of the whine was back so it wasn't reliable. Plus also the 50 series is such poor value, not being able to claw that back with an overclock because of coil whine just makes it even worse value.

Coil whine is a pretty annoying topic to discuss tbh as everyone's environment and even hearing is different. Reminds me of input lag disussions. I've seen people describe something as feeling 'good' or 'fine' and then latency was actually measured and turned out to be massive.
 
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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.
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I have this card. I tried two games. Spiderman 2 did not seem to cause any coil whine. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II did however cause a lot of coil whine. It's probably a 7/10 loudness. Its one of those coil whines where if you pause the game or go into a inventory screen, the coil whine goes down significantly. I find that inconsistency extremely annoying. I'm siting here at night on my computer, with low pc volume and a completely quiet pc, and I keep hearing bzzzzzzzzzz. Talk about ruining the experience. Coil whine is the worst thing ever.
 
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@zenker the first thing I would do to guage how bad it is (and how much you can mitigate it) is to open Heaven benchmark and MSI afterburner at the same time.

Heaven should max out your GPU and cause coil whine. Then with afterburner, decrease the power limit in increments until the whine goes away.

Assuming you have configured Afterburner and Rivatuner to show FPS (in the usual way) then you should be able to see the FPS change in Heaven from leaving the power limit at 100% and reducing.

I’m ultra sensitive to electrical noise and my coil whine only stops when my power limit is reduced to 80%. However, the performance cost in FPS is 6-8%. For completeness, this is a 3090. As it stands, this trade off is worth it for me.

Once you’ve figured that out, you can have a look at sorting a ‘true undervolt’ (rather than a quick and dirty power limit reduction) - which might yield less performance loss whilst solving your coil whine.

I’d start off with just playing with the power limit though as this is quicker and less fiddly - if you start getting performance instability (heaven crashes or there’s artefacts) BEFORE the coil whine goes away, then unfortunately it looks like you have a very noisy card… but that’s hopefully not the case!

Give it a go and, if so, let us know how you get on :)
 
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I have this card. I tried two games. Spiderman 2 did not seem to cause any coil whine. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II did however cause a lot of coil whine. It's probably a 7/10 loudness. Its one of those coil whines where if you pause the game or go into a inventory screen, the coil whine goes down significantly. I find that inconsistency extremely annoying. I'm siting here at night on my computer, with low pc volume and a completely quiet pc, and I keep hearing bzzzzzzzzzz. Talk about ruining the experience. Coil whine is the worst thing ever.
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GPUs need mufflers now
 
i got super lucky with my 5080 fe, very quiet under load, if i put my ear right next to my pc i can hear a tiny bit if squeel, but its very minimal, at 30cm disatnce i cant hear it at all
 
Inno3D X3 OC 5080 zero coil whine
Founders Edition 5090 yes, but not all the time especially when gaming it’s fine. It seemed worse when I first got it because I hadn’t put the side of my case on when testing it.
 
Which 5090s come out well for least amount of coil whine? I don't mind waiting a bit longer if it means I can possibly avoid getting annoyed by the whine down the line.
My friends with MSI Gaming Trio 5090s all seem to love theirs. But I did see a singular report of a bad one too.
 
stfn said:
Which 5090s come out well for least amount of coil whine? I don't mind waiting a bit longer if it means I can possibly avoid getting annoyed by the whine down the line.
My friends with MSI Gaming Trio 5090s all seem to love theirs. But I did see a singular report of a bad one too.
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According to Techpower Up and Guru 3D, the MSI Suprims were the ‘best’ along with Palit - the last time I checked.

Have a look at the reviews on those websites for the latest.
 
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According to Techpower Up and Guru 3D, the MSI Suprims were the ‘best’ along with Palit - the last time I checked.

Have a look at the reviews on those websites for the latest.
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In my experience when I started to use MSI suprims and Asus strix since the 3xxx series generations every single one of them had coil whine. So I am sceptical as I do believe these were cherry picked samples.

I have had since the 3 series.

msi suprim 3090ti, 3x suprim 4090's all had coil whine to varying degree. From Asus 3090ti LC (the worst card I have ever heard for coil whine no contest), 3x strix 4090's and 1 strix 4080.

Now I am not saying that suprim/stix/astral 5xxx series do or don't have coil whine. What I am saying generally speaking if I were to compare those two companies to all the other brands I have ever owned then those are the two that stand out to me as the worst company for coil whine. Their performance, build, temps etc are not in question they are legit up there. But I mean I am not really susceptible to coil whine but just because it doesn't really bother me , means I wouldn't want one without. Like when you lookat the giga, the zotacs etc not one of them which I owned had coil whine of either the high pitch type (strix type whine) or the angry bee bzzzz electrical noise.
 
stfn said:
Which 5090s come out well for least amount of coil whine? I don't mind waiting a bit longer if it means I can possibly avoid getting annoyed by the whine down the line.
My friends with MSI Gaming Trio 5090s all seem to love theirs. But I did see a singular report of a bad one too.
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I don;t have the 5090 version of the gaming trio but I do have the 5080. So initially it didn;t have the high pitch squeal coil whine but more of the lower frequency electrical noise buzz. The for whatever reason within the next day or two it kind of subsided. It still there but it ever so faint. If I mute my speakers and put my ear next to the card as it in an open/testbench setup then I can hear it. I have no idea why it subsided and that's practically a first for me.
 
@GoRedwings19 thanks for the heads-up. Yes, I’m aware that the Strix and Suprim have been the WORST cards for whine in the previous generations.

From what I can tell, with the 50 series both manufacturers have taken some effort to reduce this over a lot of returns / criticism from the 4000 series. In fact, ASUS revised their product mid-4000 series to try and change components.

I guess I’ll see what happens when it (Suprim) arrives :o :)

There will always be outlier individual units as well. I had the FE and Gaming OC from the 4090 series on the basis that they were widely considered the quietest cards for coil whine - well, I got both cards and in my experience they absolutely sucked for coil whine, to the point where I sent them back. Meanwhile, the Aorus has no coil whine.
 
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@GoRedwings19

There will always be outlier individual units as well. I had the FE and Gaming OC from the 4090 series on the basis that they were widely considered the quietest cards for coil whine - well, I got both cards and in my experience they absolutely sucked for coil whine, to the point where I sent them back. Meanwhile, the Aorus has no coil whine.
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It's funny you should mention the FE. When they were considered the quietest, I remember a whole bunch of people posting that they were't. When I finally got round to getting one, my one at least was as quiet as a mouse. I got lucky that time. Usually I am unlucky and always end up with cards with it. I only owned one giga last gen and that had none.

While Asus and Msi may have made claims to combat coil whine I will be cautious about it.

I was hoping with advancing age the high frequencies coil whine would be diminished turns out that didn't happen in my case as that tends to happen with *cough cough* a more vintage person...

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I have recently built a new PC with a TUF 5080, the coil whine is a dim consant at idle, this can be drowned out with headphones and even gaming it's not too noticeable (Lian Li O11 Vision Compact on the desk beside me) but when I stress tested it, specifically 3d Mark TimeSpy, it got quite annoyingly apparant towards the end of the test.
 
Hello,

This is my first message here :)

I find this topic important! especially when you give yourself the means to have a silent configuration and everything is ruined with this famous coil whine!!

I find it really unfortunate that with this kind of sum +1000+2000+3000$ we still encounter this problem..

I just bought a msi 5080 suprim soc and I'm pretty lucky with it, the coil whine is really reasonable compared to my 4090 Suprim X.

I see on guru3d that the 5080 suprim is rated 8/10 and that the 5090 suprim 5090 is rated 5/10 but should these ratings be taken into account knowing that the coil whine is still random?

Are there any happy owners of 5090 suprim who can testify on the coil whine?

In my case I know that I lose a little in performance with the 5080 compared to the 4090 but the little coil whine is so pleasant..

I would like to try with the 5090 suppressed but I am afraid of having more coil whine than the 5080 :(
 
Flows33 said:
Hello,

This is my first message here :)

I find this topic important! especially when you give yourself the means to have a silent configuration and everything is ruined with this famous coil whine!!

I find it really unfortunate that with this kind of sum +1000+2000+3000$ we still encounter this problem..

I just bought a msi 5080 suprim soc and I'm pretty lucky with it, the coil whine is really reasonable compared to my 4090 Suprim X.

I see on guru3d that the 5080 suprim is rated 8/10 and that the 5090 suprim 5090 is rated 5/10 but should these ratings be taken into account knowing that the coil whine is still random?

Are there any happy owners of 5090 suprim who can testify on the coil whine?

In my case I know that I lose a little in performance with the 5080 compared to the 4090 but the little coil whine is so pleasant..

I would like to try with the 5090 suppressed but I am afraid of having more coil whine than the 5080 :(
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First off welcome to the forums. I have been a long time suprim user. All suprims I have had. Had coil whine no exceptions.

I read the 5080 suprims and 5090 have none but I am aware of suprim past history. but from what you say there is still some. There is only one person I know of with the suprim 5090 and even then it the liquid cool edition. The sample size is too small ATM to make a judgement I would have thought
 
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