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Coil Whine - After adding water block?

Haha yes one does get surprised me too.....

Well I will try many say that although I find it funny if it actually works ....

Card is only one week old today and younger with water cool and high oc current ... I hope it will break/burn in !
 
Gregster said:
I remember taking apart a MSI 680 Lightning and putting a waterblock on and as soon as I did, coil whine heaven..... I though WTF have I done??? Ran Heaven on a big overclock for a couple of hours and the whine disappeared. It might just need to settle down, so my advice is give it a good test.
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That sounds like 'thrash it till it stops crying'.
That's some gpu abuse right there. :p;)
 
Smffy said:
You do have to wonder why EK lazily throw the same bag in with GPU blocks still where as new CPU blocks have grizzly and bespoke fittings.

@EK Luc you may want to feed that back its a bit silly to include a ton of screws and also alan keys which you dont even need for the cross head screws - waste of metals.
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Same it is annoying as I’ve never used any of the longer screws only the ones described in the instructions.

They include all these screws yet don’t even include paper instructions anymore. Have to go online which can be a pain.

With regards to whine. It’s there on all power hungry cards. Just usually masked by the fans, large heatsink and shroud. I’m positive other parts of the vrm buzz other than the chokes and I think that’s where most of the noise comes from unless it’s at 2000fps or so.

The block doesn’t so much change the whine the card is producing. But with it being more open than a generic heatsink. It’s more audible.
 
Yes exactly and no fan noise no more either ... I just doesn’t recall my 1080 whining? Maybe it did a little, it’s also a “much” smaller chip even though still ultimate

I guess the 2080ti is an aggressive beast when showing full potential then it wanna roar or whine lol haha
 
Distracted said:
That sounds like 'thrash it till it stops crying'.
That's some gpu abuse right there. :p;)
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Lasse Kristensen said:
Haha I’m already on it ! Abuse with 380w bios and oc :p

(FE Card)
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Worked for me and coil whine gone. I had 2 MSI 680 Lightnings in SLI and not sure if both or just 1 had it but it was bloody loud. A good stress test on them made it go and no need for undoing the block. Worth a shot anyways.
 
Thanks friend :) I’ll let you know ....

Personally I need to see it before I believe it.... but then again I have no experience with the subject ...

Otherwise I was wondering if one could seal/ stuff the graphic card haha ... all cracks and openings ... but again only bothers me when benchmark otherwise not at all due to surround - loud haha ...

Well I’ll let you know in a while how it all works out :-p
 
Lasse Kristensen said:
Well I have now had the card for two weeks and coil whine is same as ever.. loud under full load.. using and benching and gaming dident help any settle.. which I also find hard to believe honestly..
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Small note of interest. EK revised the 2080/2080ti block instructions. The 'added' thermal pads to the chokes, they did this after complaints of coil whine!
 
Lasse Kristensen said:
UPDATE: I completly cured the coil whine by reassemble the card WITHOUT the back plate.. it was the culprint!

Its reduced 90-95% to a normal very faint non noticeable level in case...
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Interesting :) hopefully it wasn't just the reassembly. It may be possible for me to remove my back plate without taking the card out the loop.
I have coil whine. Not as loud as my last card though, could hear that amped through my av receiver, used shielding etc but could never reduce it. This one is quieter, but would be great to have just a slight buzzing.
 
Lasse Kristensen said:
UPDATE: I completly cured the coil whine by reassemble the card WITHOUT the back plate.. it was the culprint!

Its reduced 90-95% to a normal very faint non noticeable level in case...
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Good stuff and glad you got it sorted. Nothing worse than that horrendous buzz. Surprised removing the backplate work though.
 
Strange resolution to say the least, would have thought it was more the front of the card being the issue rather than the backplate.
 
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