Is gpu VRM whine classed as fault?

[hornetstinger]

I can notice it, worst case was Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shading building, that's the loudest and pretty darn annoying.

Is VRM whine classed as a fault or "tough luck"

 

[hornetstinger]

If it's really bad you could RMA. It may just disappear over time as coil whine is basically component vibration due to electromagnetic excitation. What often helps is limiting frames to a maximum limit for your monitor (instead of letting it run to the thousands of FPS). It may help by holding frame rendering out of the frequency that causes the components to whine.

yes I just tried doom eternal with vsync off, getting 400-500 fps and VRM whine is pretty bad, changing in pitch.

 

[hornetstinger]

This is ridiculous on your end tbh.

If you disable V-sync/frame caps with ANY modern GPU and let it go wild to that extent you'll get coil whine. That's far, far beyond the refresh rate of any current monitor and absolutely the one you've claimed to use. You need to start capping your frames to your monitors refresh rate, it should substantially reduce any problems. You can do this via RTSS/Afterburner or other means if you don't want to enable v-sync. You're also running your card far outside of any adaptive sync tech ranges, your test is not viable and will not help you RMA.

There's such a thing as tech issues but what you're describing is self inflicted.

In the now distant past there used to be a benefit to going frame-wild as they could improve your personal performance on certain engines in multiplayer, that's really not the case anymore. Higher frames might reduce latency in some titles at best, but again unless you're hyper competitive with a monitor to match in very particular games it's irrelevant.

I'm aware disabling vsync/freesync unlocks max cap, that's why I did it- to show worst case scenario of coil whine.

Sorry if you didn't understand that.

 

[hornetstinger]

Yes, its very often related to the amount of power going through the card. PSU's are the same. Often the higher the power they are consuming, the louder the noise.

Never had GPU's with coil whine before.

 

[hornetstinger]

If a card is ‘annoying’ because if this sort of noise then yes, it’s a crap card and you shouldn’t put up with it.

You should however anticipate some noise at stock with a high powered card. There will be room to address this with an undervolt.

IMO a card is ‘faulty’ when you can’t run it at ‘expected card tier’ performance without it being a noisy menace. I’d rather than no card at all than endure that nonsense.

I have a 144hz monitor, just set frame cap in AMD CP to 145hz.

Concern once I get a new monitor that's 180hz, 240hz etc...I'll have to test in doom in 180hz and 240hz coil whine shows itself