Does your graphics card have coil whine?

rids57 · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:33

No.

HIS HD 7950 Boost, Asus P8Z68-VLX, XFX 850 XXX

Case fans run at just over 300rpm on controller. Gelid Tranquillo cooler fan runs between 350rpm and 1150rpm

ackersfury · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:35

No

EVGA GTX 680 SC
Asus AM3 m4a88td-v evo/usb3
XFX 650w

Case fans 2500rpm ...front 1x120mm....top 2x120mm
CPU cooler doesn't have a fan...xigmatek Thor's hammer (passively cooling)

BluD · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:40

Yup plenty

PC in Sig, fans are all Artic F series on their minimum speed. 4x 120mm on rads 140mm on PSU and 2x 80mm 1 in HDD bay and one PSU exhaust.

Everything is at stock atm as im too hot

BluD · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:47

If ya wanna hear some proper coil wine try 3dmark the test with the space ships fighting, its much louder than Heaven as its running at a few hundred FPS. Sounds like the whistling of a kettle boiling or summat.

Tonester0011 · 10 Jun 2013 at 15:52

I've been benching a few cards lately.

HD5870 - Nope
HD5870 - Nope
HD5850 - Nope
HD7970 - Nope - Currently using
HD7970 - Nope - RMAd
HD7970 - Yes - RMAd
HD7970 - Nope - Sold
HD7970 - Nope - Currently using
GTX480 - Nope
GTX260 - Nope
GTX260 - Nope
HD6970 - Yes (old card, but did whine)

Cards left to bench:

GTX275
GTX285
GTX470
HD4850
HD4870
HD4890

Spec:
3930k @ 5105Mhz (104.2x49)
TeamGroup XtreemLV 2223Mhz 9-11-11-25-96 1T
RIVE
AX1200i - Whines
No fans, and chilled water loop.

^Even though i don't run those clocks 24/7 they are what i use when i bench so might as well put them instead of normal clocks.

Edit: Adding all cards i can remember...

HD6850 - Nope
HD6850 - Nope
HD6850 - Nope
HD7850 - Nope
HD7850 - Nope
HD5670 - Nope
HD5770 - Nope
GTX550ti - Nope
GTX550 - Nope

Varying specs of computers, so not listing what system specs are, 2500k, 1100t etc etc.

LtMatt · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:05

My answers are for the following cards

1x MSI 7970 OC
3x HIS 7950 Ice-Q Boost

1. No
2. P8P67 Deluxe, XFX 750W Black Edition
3. Front case fan 500-900RPM, Rear 800-1200RMP. 2xGT 1850's on a H100i 1000-1850RPM.

spixelspixel · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:11

I'll add my other cards that I've used in recent memory

Evga 650 ti - yes
Gainward GTX 670 - yes
Inno3d iChill GTX 660 Ti - yes
Sapphire 7950 boost (reference 7970 pcb) - yes
Evga GTX 580 - yes
Asus directcuII gtx 660 - yes
Evga HD GTX 570 - yes
MSI GTX 570 reference - yes
Gigabyte GTX 570 reference - yes
Sapphire 6870 Flex - yes
EVGA 560 ti - yes

The 7950 was the worst of them all, even made noises in idle and when moving mouse.

Power supplies used - XFX Core 750w, Be Quiet Dark p10 650w, Be Quiet e9 400w, Corsair cx 400, FSP Aurum Gold 400w

Motherboards - Asus p8z68-lx, Asrock z77 extreme4, Asus p8z77-v, Asrock h77 pro4/mvp, Asrock b75m-itx

LtMatt · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:15

spixelspixel said:
I'll add my other cards that I've used in recent memory

Evga 650 ti - yes
Gainward GTX 670 - yes
Inno3d iChill GTX 660 Ti - yes
Sapphire 7950 boost (reference 7970 pcb) - yes
Evga GTX 580 - yes
Asus directcuII gtx 660 - yes
Evga HD GTX 570 - yes
MSI GTX 570 reference - yes
Gigabyte GTX 570 reference - yes
Sapphire 6870 Flex - yes
EVGA 560 ti - yes

The 7950 was the worst of them all

Power supplies used - XFX Core 750w, Be Quiet Dark p10 650w, Be Quiet e9 400w, Corsair cx 400, FSP Aurum Gold 400w

Motherboards - Asus p8z68-lx, Asrock z77 extreme4, Asus p8z77-v, Asrock h77 pro4/mvp, Asrock b75m-itx

Remind me never to buy a gpu from you.

humbug · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:16

spixelspixel said:
I'll add my other cards that I've used in recent memory

Evga 650 ti - yes
Gainward GTX 670 - yes
Inno3d iChill GTX 660 Ti - yes
Sapphire 7950 boost (reference 7970 pcb) - yes
Evga GTX 580 - yes
Asus directcuII gtx 660 - yes
Evga HD GTX 570 - yes
MSI GTX 570 reference - yes
Gigabyte GTX 570 reference - yes
Sapphire 6870 Flex - yes
EVGA 560 ti - yes

The 7950 was the worst of them all

Power supplies used - XFX Core 750w, Be Quiet Dark p10 650w, Be Quiet e9 400w, Corsair cx 400, FSP Aurum Gold 400w

Motherboards - Asus p8z68-lx, Asrock z77 extreme4, Asus p8z77-v, Asrock h77 pro4/mvp, Asrock b75m-itx

You have had almost as many whiny GPU's to make up for the rest of the users who haven't.

Sin_Chase · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:18

I would suggest the OP is listening with a stethoscope and does not have what 99% of the percent of the population would call coil whine....or you know.......has tinitus.

Tonester0011 · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:19

spixelspixel said:
I'll add my other cards that I've used in recent memory

Evga 650 ti - yes
Gainward GTX 670 - yes
Inno3d iChill GTX 660 Ti - yes
Sapphire 7950 boost (reference 7970 pcb) - yes
Evga GTX 580 - yes
Asus directcuII gtx 660 - yes
Evga HD GTX 570 - yes
MSI GTX 570 reference - yes
Gigabyte GTX 570 reference - yes
Sapphire 6870 Flex - yes
EVGA 560 ti - yes

The 7950 was the worst of them all, even made noises in idle and when moving mouse.

Power supplies used - XFX Core 750w, Be Quiet Dark p10 650w, Be Quiet e9 400w, Corsair cx 400, FSP Aurum Gold 400w

Motherboards - Asus p8z68-lx, Asrock z77 extreme4, Asus p8z77-v, Asrock h77 pro4/mvp, Asrock b75m-itx

You've either got terrible luck, or something else is causing that whine....
I'll add to my list to offset yours...

spixelspixel · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:23

Sin_Chase said:
I would suggest the OP is listening with a stethoscope and does not have what 99% of the percent of the population would call coil whine....or you know.......has tinitus.

Haha, I don't even need to get close to the pc to hear it! It's not deafening but the cards definitely whine the moment heaven starts. Its not high pitched whine, rather a 'cricket' sound. Check the video I posted in OP. Maybe I need to call an exterminator ?

Borsch · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:32

EVGA 670ftw - no

Gigaabyte z68ap-d3, enermax 550W

spixelspixel · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:41

Tonester0011 said:
You've either got terrible luck, or something else is causing that whine....
I'll add to my list to offset yours...

Is the whine from your power supply the buzzing kind or like the video posted in OP?

Also I have sold most of those cards and not one complaint.

cainer · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:43

Gigabyte 7950 wf3, no

AMG · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:48

HD4870 stock no
HD4870 vapour cooler nope, think I rma'ed that
HD4890 Xfire nope
GTX480 Nope
Ram 2 formular Q9550 ~3.6Ghz Tagan 1.1 Kw

GTX670 FTW nope but hates being overclocked anymore

max V gene, Ivy I5, XFX 850 XXX

spixelspixel · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:54

Please list your fan speeds if possible. For example if someone is running several high speed fans they're not going to hear anything even if its there. The point of this thread is to try to pinpoint the cause and have a list of info that other people can find helpful either to solve a coil whine issue with their card or to make a decision on what card to get :-)

se_vietboi · 10 Jun 2013 at 16:55

Card history,

Nvidia:
5200
6600GT
6800GT
8600GTS
560Ti
560Ti 448

Ati:
9800Pro
3850
4850
4870
5870
7950

Only card that had coil whine was the 560Ti 448 cores. Fans generally run 30-60% speed.

Kei · 10 Jun 2013 at 17:08

Connect3d Radeon 9800 XT - No
Powercolour Radeon x850 XTPE - No
MSI Radeon HD3870 - No
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 - Yes

The sapphire HD6950 toxic did have quite severe coil whine. I solved that problem using clear nail varnish over the coils, now pretty much silent with slight noise on the credits screen at the end of unigine benchmarks. I also had a ground loop from the sound card to my amp which picked up bucket loads of noise from the gpu, like scrolling etc which caused chirping noises through my hifi. Isolation transformers cured that issue.

Other parts that make noise.
6 gentle typhoons @ 1000rpm, 1 enermax t.b silence 140 @ 1000rpm, 1 bequiet silentwings 140 @ 1000rpm, 1 XSPC D5 vario @ 5, 1 seagate barracuda, 2 western digital caviar SE.

PSU is a TX650 V2 with the enermax fan in place of the rowdy yate loon and the motherboard is a gigabyte MA-790FXT-UD5P

spixelspixel · 10 Jun 2013 at 17:12

Kei said:
Club3d Radeon 9800 XT - No
Powercolour Radeon x850 XTPE - No
MSI Radeon HD3870 - No
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 - Yes

The sapphire HD6950 toxic did have quite severe coil whine. I solved that problem using clear nail varnish over the coils, now pretty much silent with slight noise on the credits screen at the end of unigine benchmarks. I also had a ground loop from the sound card to my amp which picked up bucket loads of noise from the gpu, like scrolling etc which caused chirping noises through my hifi. Isolation transformers cured that issue.

Other parts that make noise.
6 gentle typhoons @ 1000rpm, 1 enermax t.b silence 140 @ 1000rpm, 1 bequiet silentwings 140 @ 1000rpm, 1 XSPC D5 vario @ 5, 1 seagate barracuda, 2 western digital caviar SE.

My 7770 has those open coils, was considering varnishing them as I heard it can resolve it but it looks like there's already a coating of some sort on it. Almost all newer high end cards have closed coils though so there's nothing you can do.

Could you edit the post to include your power supply + motherboard.