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Coil Whine is a Problem for Everyone

I have never had coil whine ever over the decades and I've had a few cards ie Voodoo1,TNT,Geforce 2,ATi 9700,GTX7800,AMD 4870,Nvidia 560Ti,AMD R9 280x to name a few.


I'll say if I did it would go straight back,I like my PC quiet period even in gaming.
 
My Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming only has coil whine when I bench mark and it's producing very high fps, so it's not really an issue as far as I'm concerned. It's not that bad really, though I think my Rabbits in the next room might be scarred for life
 
I've apparently been lucky with coil whine down the years, as I'd never had a card that exhibited it under any circumstances before the 970. That was an MSI one, bought here, which was insufferable even during regular gaming. WoW with vsync enabled was enough to have it buzzing. Returned it and was refunded the same day, which was nice.

That experience, along with all the reports of it around the web, has put me off ordering another one so far though. Currently leaning towards grabbing one of the reference models that Gibbo's cooked up once they're available.
 
Some people are confusing two separate things when talking about coil whine i think


Actual coil whine,which can be heard on pretty much any card when you hit extremely high FPS (say over 400).Its loud and emits from the card,and is extremely distinctive.Personally i never had a card that exhibited coil whine in general gaming.Although i have in the past had friends who had cards that did,and it is pretty annoying and in some cases defiantly warrants an RMA imo

Then theirs people complaining of 'buzzing'.The buzzing isnt coming from the card itself,and can only be heard via your speakers/headset.Its interference messing with the audio.


I experienced this since i upgraded my mobo/cpu ,using both a 280x and now a 970.The buzzing was worse on the 280x,but thats because it draws more power than a 970 so causes more EMI interferance.The only real solution was for me to get an external USB soundcard.Now i never hear buzzing whiule my GPU is under load.

No coil whine on my 970 either :D

Although i actually got some whine on it the other day after unlocking titanfalls frame cap.Got whine at the main menu when the fps was at 2400 lololol
 
As above, coil has been audible on every ATI/AMD/NVidia I have owned during extremely high fps scenes and cut scenes between games and benchmarks. None of mine have caused issues with vsync enabled and during normal gameplay.
 
I don't really think the above is what the problem is here. I find that the 970s are buzzing and making other noises, at much lower FPS. I cannot play Battlefield without hearing one of my two MSI 970s whine away.

The other one is not as bad, but if u wanna hear it, you can, especially if the case is opened, but the 2nd one, boy, in a noise damped R4, gaming with a headset, the 2nd is still audible.

I've had a 280x which was far worse, and a 670 which got returned because of it aswell, none of the 4 780s i owned, all reference by the way, had any coil whine whatsoever.
 
My card whines like a bitch on her ****ing period and guess what. I dont care because i wear headphones instead of plastering my ear to the sidepanel and listen for coil whining.

I guess its safe for me to assume you casuals play games on speakers :p.
 
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