Any official word on the GTX 970/980 coil whine?

[Fleshwerk]

As you are the no.1 supplier of many brands of these cards, have you been in contact regarding the well known coil whine issue?

Many of us build systems on the concept of silence, a lot of games we play aren't GPU intensive so the fan speed runs at low RPM, but the electric buzzing can be heard clearly over GPU/system fans.

The cards are fantastic, the electric buzzing/squealing isn't.

I want one of these again asap as they run the games I play on ultra flawlessly, the msi gtx 970(before I RMA'd it) ran WoW a lot smoother and quieter(except for the buzzing) than my r9 290x, both at stock.

Manufacturers can not blame the PSU for this fault if 2 identical cards used on the same PSU emit different levels of coil whine.

How aware are they of this issue?

 

[Fleshwerk]

After Gibbo gave the all clear below I applied for RMA for the 3rd time..



I got this emil back this morning...

They want nothing to do with the £300 faulty* card you bought of them a week or so ago, this doesn't make me want to buy another one. Mine was RMA'd 2 weeks ago for excessive coil whine.

 

[Fleshwerk]

I have three.

All three of mine are quiet. What are you people classing as unacceptable? Because you're making yourselves sound slightly daft.

Coil whine is a natural phenomenon, it's not unacceptable at all, get some videos up and lets hear this outrage...

The fantastic irony of it is that in actual fact, your card would be more faulty if it didn't whine.





lol they don't like it when you try and do their job for them. I've not mentioned this before but a month or two ago when I returned a 4k panel they tried to tell me it was potentially my CPU causing signal issue, I laughed at them and got their back up a bit.

Not sure who it was I spoke to at the time but it was slightly jobs-worth-esque

You either have amazing luck, are half deaf, or can't simulate the problem many of us have/had.

We all want the card, no one is saying that they think it's not worth the money, it's the noise that doesn't need to be heard that is causing the uproar - I am not ganking my warranty by applying glue to a brand new card, this is something that should happen in the factory.

I bought 2x z97 systems in the last few months from OCUK, no complaints.

Medium range PSU's are being used as a scape goat, even some platinum superflower users are complaining of coil whine lol.

I'd be daft to presume that everyone's cards are the same as mine, I'd be daft to presume that everyone should have the same level of noise tolerance as mine.

 

[Fleshwerk]

I shall have words.

I am purchasing manager and part of upper management, people will do as they are told.

Is the first line in regards to getting an official response or the RMA? I'm sure there's a lot of people like myself in limbo wanting to buy the card but don't want it with the coil whine issue :/

 

[Fleshwerk]

I've had to MSI cards both have had extreme high pitching whining, the second card also had a fault with one of the fans. This with using a Superflower 1000w Platinum PSU.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ul1wzqpsh0i333z/20141020140005.MTS?dl=0

Fml. Don't tell me I've ordered a new psu for nothing lol

 

[Fleshwerk]

I went from Corsair CX750 to Superflower 850 and the coil whine disappeared on my MSi 970 so don't panic just yet.

The Superflower PSU is superb. I haven't had the fan turn on yet even when benching

I'm going from a cx750 to a super flower hx 750, good to hear, £500 spent on an upgrade I didn't really need lol.