GPU has coil whine, OCUK refuse RMA

Cool Breeze · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:25

You got one hell of an upgrade as a RMA replacement just enjoy it.

Or you can A)sell it, B)sell it or C)sell it

you catch my drift ?

Bailey · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:25

youdsy said:
ye no worries pal.

lucky to get a great card and it probs will be sorted with different PSU.

play with headphones on so not an issue in game.

thanks everyone

No worries, feel free to give me a shout if you need anything else.

Best Regards

Bailey

youdsy · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:29

Cool Breeze said:
You got one hell of an upgrade as a RMA replacement just enjoy it.

Or you can A)sell it, B)sell it or C)sell it

you catch my drift ?

not sure what your getting at...

teppic · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:30

A like for like swap would be a 660 ti, so you've effectively jumped past the 670 to the 680, and got 4GB too. Pretty good result there.

Enabling vsync usually gets rid of coil whine.

Flying_Hellfish · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:32

My EVGA 670 has coil whine, but it isn't very loud.

It increases at high FPS though (for example, with vsync disabled).

Surely it is just a minor gripe considering the deal..?

youdsy · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:33

teppic said:
A like for like swap would be a 660 ti, so you've effectively jumped past the 670 to the 680, and got 4GB too. Pretty good result there.

Enabling vsync usually gets rid of coil whine.

yeh very fortunate .

year or so ago i contacted giga -man on here about my faulty GB motherboard that was two weeks away from its 3 year warranty running out.

he sorted me out a g1 sniper worth £350!.

G1 sniper made some horrific noises, under any load, even moving the mouse made it screech.

he said to send it back and they fixed it.

just though same would apply here.

youdsy · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:35

Flying_Hellfish said:
My EVGA 670 has coil whine, but it isn't very loud.

It increases at high FPS though (for example, with vsync disabled).

Surely it is just a minor gripe considering the deal..?

ye it is a minor gripe, just wondering if it could be fixed.

hate coil whine.

teppic · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:35

Well, you can sell the 770 for more than twice what your 580 was worth now, if it's terrible.

spixelspixel · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:36

Bit strange you got a 4gb, surely a 2gb 770 would be considered equal or greater than a 580. Might be a customer return which infact has pretty severe whine.

Find a way to upload a video, I'm curious now

Silent_Scone · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:38

My Titan's suffer from it under load but in fairness you can't really hear it unless you're up next to it. I've had more GPU's than I can remember and some do it less than others. I've never even considered to class it as a fault, as it's never impacted performance or failed.

youdsy · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:39

spixelspixel said:
Bit strange you got a 4gb, surely a 2gb 770 would be considered equal or greater than a 580. Might be a customer return which infact has pretty severe whine.

Find a way to upload a video, I'm curious now

i had a 3gb 580 and they cant give me a 2gb as it might be useless to me.

for all they know i could be using three monitors.

i agree, they probs were aware of the coil whine.

youdsy · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:41

MjFrosty said:
My Titan's suffer from it under load but in fairness you can't really hear it unless you're up next to it. I've had more GPU's than I can remember and some do it less than others. I've never even considered to class it as a fault, as it's never impacted performance or failed.

if i bought a titan and it had coil whine id ask for RMA or refund.

end of the day they shouldn't be making noises.

why should you pay same as everyone else for a titan and get inferior quality?

Loxa · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:43

I had Coil Whine on my 7950 and it was sent back to Gigabyte directly and when I received the card back.. MY god I was horrified. I sent the card in mint condition and it came back with grease stains on it and all the front metal scuffed.....

tommybhoy · 2 Oct 2013 at 16:54

Try splitting the load off the psu, use two Pci-e cables instead of one like so:

Totally eliminated coil whine for me with a 7970 and some others here also, unfortunately not everyone though but it's certainly worth a try.

Cool Breeze · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:04

youdsy said:
not sure what your getting at...

Just saying your not stuck with it, you could sell on and get a pretty good price. And if you buy a new card your protected under DSR no quibbles 14 day if OCUK or 7 day else where guarantee.

That was all

HighlandeR · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:12

Does the coil whine vanish when in idle ?

Maybe look into getting a silent case with foam dampening to help out...

Diagro · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:14

Im sending my 7990 back under rma due to coil whine, But it was £800 new and its a serious amount of whine

LtMatt · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:17

tommybhoy said:
Try splitting the load off the psu, use two Pci-e cables instead of one like so:

Totally eliminated coil whine for me with a 7970 and some others here also, unfortunately not everyone though but it's certainly worth a try.

Tommy is an encyclopedia of knowledge!!

youdsy · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:18

tommybhoy said:
Try splitting the load off the psu, use two Pci-e cables instead of one like so:

Totally eliminated coil whine for me with a 7970 and some others here also, unfortunately not everyone though but it's certainly worth a try.

already have that config mate.

thanks though.

arc@css · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:22

Wow, what an upgrade! I wish I'd got that when I rma'd my 480. *Insert jealous emoticon*.