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New GTX 780 ti coil whine
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Don't expect a replacement to sound different, assuming the RMA is even accepted. Coil whine is considered normal and not a fault (99% of the time)
Unless its really bad my suggestion is to just accept it. It only happens when the card is under load so headphones/speakers should drown it out.
I had really bad coil whine when I first got my 780, after about a week it disappeared. although to be fair It's being returned to Overclockers tomorrow due to a bad bearing on one of the gigaybyte fans which has a mind of its own when it decides to make grinding noises.
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Does coil whine cause any damage to the GPU?
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Was this a windforce ?
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We need a "no coil whine guarantee" like dell's bright pixel thing. Nobody should tolerate coil whine. Always rma until they solve it due to high returns.
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I just returned a windforce 780 that made a crazy noise. Not sure if fans or coils. But it said ut was quiet and it isnt so ....
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I bought 2 ghz edition windforce 780s. One of the cards made a shocking noise above 60% fan speed. I returned it and found the replacement did the same. I then discovered that a slight amount of pressure on the fan shroud silenced the fans. So I placed a tiny piece of plastic between the shroud and card and it has been utterly silent since. Think there might be a design issue..is yours a ghz edition? Also noticed one of my cards has a bend in the end of the shroud compared to the other card.
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Mine was just a regular windforce 780, not ghz.
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i get the exact same thing
I have the same noise on my Evga 780 Ti. I have tried another 780 Ti from Zotac, again same noise.
My PSU was a Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 600w, thought I would try a different PSU. Tried a new Corsair RM750 and Corsair AX860i PSU, Exactly the same noise.
Stuck with the AX860i PSU as it's a better PSU than my original Cooler Master M600 anyway and I have the power to go SLI if I want to in the future.
I upgraded from a Gainward GTX 680 2gb, that card was in my system since it launched, ran 24/7 and not a single noise, even if the FPS went over 3000 in some menus.
This 780 Ti squeals like a pig at 120fps+ in some games.
If I run something like furmark, the GPU is working flat out and yet there is no coil whine, yet something like folding@home, GPU again working flat out and yet it produces very loud coil whine
Seems to be many 780 Ti cards with coil whine. Apart from the noise, the card runs fast, cool and stable. Very nice improvement over the GTX 680.
Motherboard is an ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional and 3770k.
My PSU was a Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 600w, thought I would try a different PSU. Tried a new Corsair RM750 and Corsair AX860i PSU, Exactly the same noise.
Stuck with the AX860i PSU as it's a better PSU than my original Cooler Master M600 anyway and I have the power to go SLI if I want to in the future.
I upgraded from a Gainward GTX 680 2gb, that card was in my system since it launched, ran 24/7 and not a single noise, even if the FPS went over 3000 in some menus.
This 780 Ti squeals like a pig at 120fps+ in some games.
If I run something like furmark, the GPU is working flat out and yet there is no coil whine, yet something like folding@home, GPU again working flat out and yet it produces very loud coil whine
Seems to be many 780 Ti cards with coil whine. Apart from the noise, the card runs fast, cool and stable. Very nice improvement over the GTX 680.
Motherboard is an ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional and 3770k.
I have the same noise on my Evga 780 Ti. I have tried another 780 Ti from Zotac, again same noise.
My PSU was a Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 600w, thought I would try a different PSU. Tried a new Corsair RM750 and Corsair AX860i PSU, Exactly the same noise.
Stuck with the AX860i PSU as it's a better PSU than my original Cooler Master M600 anyway and I have the power to go SLI if I want to in the future.
I upgraded from a Gainward GTX 680 2gb, that card was in my system since it launched, ran 24/7 and not a single noise, even if the FPS went over 3000 in some menus.
This 780 Ti squeals like a pig at 120fps+ in some games.
If I run something like furmark, the GPU is working flat out and yet there is no coil whine, yet something like folding@home, GPU again working flat out and yet it produces very loud coil whine
Seems to be many 780 Ti cards with coil whine. Apart from the noise, the card runs fast, cool and stable. Very nice improvement over the GTX 680.
Motherboard is an ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional and 3770k.
Stick with it and bench it to death. My 7990 whined for the first few weeks, now it is quiet as a mouse.
I can't think of a single graphic card I've owned that hasn't had coil whine!
Oh yeah, my old voodoo and riva card
If somebody thinks their graphics card is silent, I dare them to download Ati tool and run it without any cap or Vsync on, you'll hear it sing!
My 7990 had it really bad, it was as if somebody was whilstling in the room, even the rma receipt said "real bad". My new 780ti has it, but it is much more quiet, and I can hardly hear it over the case fans, just a tiny little sqeal.
If you can hear it over the case fan's and its more apparent, then Rma it.
Oh yeah, my old voodoo and riva card
If somebody thinks their graphics card is silent, I dare them to download Ati tool and run it without any cap or Vsync on, you'll hear it sing!
My 7990 had it really bad, it was as if somebody was whilstling in the room, even the rma receipt said "real bad". My new 780ti has it, but it is much more quiet, and I can hardly hear it over the case fans, just a tiny little sqeal.
If you can hear it over the case fan's and its more apparent, then Rma it.
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I know one manufactuer in the past found the solution was as simple as applying a tiny blob of adheasive to the right area..
I just downloaded ATItool and tried it with my MSI GTX 780ti and I get some very quiet coil whine that I can just about hear....