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Asus Dual 4070 Super - Coil whine so bad I will have to return it? Anything I can do/try first?

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So if the card is running at a high frame rate it literally sings/buzzes a tune it changes from scene to scene. I had it first just moving around the menus in Call of Duty until I selected vsync in Menus.

If I run the Wargame Red Dragon option to test graphics performance it literally sings different squealing notes because I assume it's running a max frame rate as it tries difference scenes to test performance.

So far, if I vsync in games, the buzz it inaudible.



EDIT: Actually - If I try that Wargame Red Dragon test option on my old system with an MSI 1070, I get some squeal on that too, but it's less. Half the volume if not less... Is coil whine predominantly down to very high FPS rather than high work?
 
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NeilF said:
s coil whine predominantly down to very high FPS rather than high work?
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It depends, sometimes they even coil whine more at idle :o But, usually it is high FPS and not high work, yeah. High work is often good for mitigating coil whine, because the FPS is low.

Undervolting or power limiting can have a surprisingly large (mostly positive) influence on coil whine too.
 
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Is it definitely coming from your GPU. A psu can also do it. I didn't notice it on this PSU i have until i upgrade the gpu and now its pulling more power.

Anyway, i have read that if you loop a stress test like furmark for a while it can 'bed them in' not sure how true that is tho
 
This is the absolute worst aspect of buying a GPU nowadays, and there's no way to avoid it except blind luck.

"Solutions" involve reducing your framerate or power consumption/performance to levels below what the card was sold at.

At best you will be lucky enough to undervolt your GPU to get the stock performance at -15% wattage and reduce the whine to manageable levels. Mostly I found you need to fine tune an undervolt and reduce performance by 5-10% and wattage by 25-30% to reduce it enough. This is with the experience of maybe a dozen GPU's over the last few years (mining boom).

It's a complete crapshoot, you can buy the exact same card from the exact same manufacturer and one will be sweet and silent with the other screeching at you like a jilted girlfriend.

As you might have guessed I am so bloody sick of this situation. Manufacturers need to sort it out as I'm tempted to stay with my relatively low whining 7900XT indefinitely.
 
I think it's going to have to go back to Overclockers :(

If I run Red Dead Redemption for example, which is pretty much vsync locked at 60fps at the moment, there's a constant very audible buzz/whine which I can hear from across the room :( Will it reduce/go with time?

Risk another replacement Asus Dual 4070 Super, or go for something else?
 
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What's odd, is even with Red Dead Redemption 2, vsync'd to 60fps, with the gpu being used well under 50%, there's a very audible buzz that goes up and down slighlty in tone as the scene changes...

Turn off vsync, and it gets even louder...
 
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NeilF said:
Will it reduce/go with time?
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Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. If it is really bad, I'd be surprised if it did.

People on here have reported success doing things like this:
cjgardens said:
Anyway, i have read that if you loop a stress test like furmark for a while it can 'bed them in' not sure how true that is tho
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But, it's kind of kill or cure :o

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I've played around for hours and even tried Asus GPU Tweak all to no effect. The buzz/whine is untenable. Requesting a replacement/return etc :(
 
If its new and you still have the option to return/reject it then do it.

Not only have you got to live with it, it will effect its resale if you ever try to sell it.
 
That was interesting.

I plugged the monitor into the onboard motherboard/GPU, NOT THE 4070, and booted up and ran Red Dead Redemption 2... and COIL WHINE.

I had to take the 4070 out of the PC and repeat the above to then get no coil whine, and the expected much lower FPS.


So clearly, even though I was plugged into the onboard GPU, when I ran a game, the 4070 was being utilised/used! Interesting!
 
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Ryzen 7000 has undocumented passthrough :D
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Made me thing the motherboard was the culprit of the buzzing for a moment, until I worked out even though the monitor was plugged into the motherboard, the NVidia 4070 was clearly still be used for the graphics... :)
 
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