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Coil Whine is a Problem for Everyone

I havn't had a card yet that didn't whine,but not annoyingly loud

game menu's is pretty much the norm but it shouldn't be heard through speakers or headphones while actually gaming/in the game

differing brands of gpu/mb/psu can also affect it

x58 boards suffered badly from coil whine aswell,idk if they heightened it more so in gpu's or what but it was bad
 
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One x58 board of mine whined like an angry gf, a p6 x58de. Only when the CPU in it was oc'd. A 930 @ 4.3ghz. Bad board, poor for sli. Mu other x58 rig at the time was a 920 @4.2 in a p6t dlx v2. Great board, not too bad a cpu. Probably my favourite ever Intel board/cpu combo. High end and well priced, x99 sounds great but price is rather high.
 
Personally, I only ever really hear coil whine while in I'm in a game menu with a very high fps. I don't really find it noticeable while I'm actually playing any games. (GTX 670 user).
 
Bf4 in particular, if you remove the 200 fps cap, which it will hit in menus. Cards will whine a bit. I've found using a 120 fps limit to be good. Stops my top card running like a heater, less fan noise. Even on an ancient 60Hz monitor, its grand. I don't notice screen tearing, maybe cause I'm half blind lol.:D
 
I've been lucky only card I've had that whines is my 780 and only when its got 1.3 v though it and even thats getting quieter as time goes on

Really i wish both sides could do more and tell us more about their own tech rather then trying to find flaws in the other side, I dont agree with bringing others down just to build yourself up
 
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shankly1985 said:
That could be the case why I never had it.. Am not one for pushing extreme overclocks, my clocks are weak against most you guys.
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Same here, I've yet to experience coil whine and hopefully won't (touch wood) as I don't go far if I overclock and I always drop back to stock for general use and gaming anyway.
 
I had coil whine with a single 7950 and a 700W tagan psu. I got a corsair 1000w rm psu, coil whine went instantly, added another 7950, still no coil whine. so since then iv always just assumed it was the quality of the power supply.

But.. I had my 7950s cores from 1.1v stock up to 1.3v yesterday for benchmarking, and they had a tiny bit of whine, but I mean like Liturally Nothing compaired to before I got the RM power supply, the single 7950 would whine with the old psu on web pages. now they don't whine at all at 1.2v which I run 24/7 now.
 
All the 970's I have had buzz a bit under unusually high FPS but nothing is like my 7970 reference card I can play tunes on the thing. It has had a very hard life though so I forgive it...
 
My EVGA whines like a dog.. the MSI does not.

Not something I noticed with the 480 that preceded it, or any before that, so it's either a modern problem or luck of the draw

Suppose the ambient fan noise of the 480 could be seen as a mitigating factor though!
 
So, the "coil whine" I've heard is the squealing at high fps whilst overclocking and benching or at menus or static screens when the frames shoot up under normal useage. It's noticeable but not really annoying. I hear it sometimes whilst gaming when the card gets a good workout.

Is my experience different to others because I don't really see it as a problem?
 
I don't think I've ever had a card that suffers coil whine. A mate has a 7990 that is terrible for it, I couldn't have that going on all the time when using it.
 
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