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Mine is OTT Positively 
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I know that I have written something similar previously, but......
"Praise the Lord", for my continuous tinnitus, both ears. I can genuinely say that I have never heard coil whine.
My 4080FE is perfect, then again so has every other GPU that I've owned.
Had to buy the hated 4060ti today for my son. I know it’s got a lot of bad press for only having 8gb vram, but I also remember somewhere reading that its larger cache somewhat mitigates this by tapping into system memory more efficiently?
Anyone know how true that is or have I completely made that up?
Anyone know how true that is or have I completely made that up?
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Nope, sounds like bull****.
This 100%. Many special people say "no coil whine" - but have a card that screams like a pig to someone with some hearing left.
Either that, or they're using a 4090 @ 1080P with Windows 7, on a 60hz monitor (there are people in this scenario on this forum) - where GPU utilisation doesn't get close to 100%, so the card is nice and quiet.
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Do they just like buying Jensen jackets? I don't get it
So far as I know, the cache in modern cards (e.g. RDNA2, Ada) is primarily used to mitigate the performance loss of shrinking the bus (e.g. 4060 Ti has a bus that is half the size of the 3060 Ti). The more data you can fit in the cache, the less it has to use significantly slower dram. How much that helps with performance, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it won't help when you run out of memory.
I generally can hear coil whine when other people complain of it, but so far not heard the slightest hint of it with the Gigabyte 4080 Super Gaming OC. My 3070s are slightly odd and both do it for some reason, when I have high FPS (i.e. 500+ in a menu) in Windows 10 there is some coil whine, but they do not produce the same under Windows 7 or 11, not sure what is going on there.
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Thanks everyone, sounds like I may have just been unlucky, this is the first time I’ve ever had coil whine on any gpu.
Guess we’ll try a 3rd time!
Guess we’ll try a 3rd time!
What other GPU's are you comparing it to?
Higher the power draw of the GPU means louder coilwhine.
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PSU can also cause coilwhine on GPU's.
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I haven't heard coil whine since the 2070 Super really. 3080 ti FE had some minor but only in some display resolutions/conditions. 4090 has none, although on a new PSU for that.
You've obviously gotten older since 2019 (2070 super release year)- so it's likely you just can't hear the high frequencies any longer. One of the advantages of aging
I still find water cooling pumps annoying - will be lovely when it's the same noise as a Noctua cooler to my ears
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Previous was a 2080ti.
Also tested 5 other 4080 / supers last few months for work and they were ok, so seems to have just been bad luck
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Nope I can still hear high frequency noises from electrical devices like I used to, that has never changed 
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It’s on any game / benchmarking.
Helldivers 2 / Darktide / dragons dogma 2 / Granblue fantasy relink - just seems to be soon as under load high or low fps happens.
Collecting the 3rd on Thursday so we’ll see what happens
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