** OcUK & GALAX COLLABORATION: INFINITY BECOMES REALITY, THE BEST 970 ON THE MARKET!! **

Hi, I received this card for Xmas and believe that I have some mild coil whine. This is my first gfx card so not sure what is normal/acceptable and I also think I'm quite sensitive to noises anyway.

Can anyone recommend a method to determine if the card actually is suffering from coil whine and whether it is sufficient enough to justify an exchange?

Many thanks
 
Thanks Darkman. I have actually read and did as Gibbo described but wasn't sure if forcing the card to whine or whine in benchmark software in general was sufficient enough to request an exchange?
 
I thought I'd come to the source with a funny situation of mine. I'm in California and a Newegg marketplace seller has what is advertised as a Galax GTX 970 Infinity 8pack Edition. They're supposedly new and the boxes I got were sealed (got two for SLI). The box has the Inifinity sticker and the backplate also has the Infinity logo, but the HSF is the usual gray color, not black as I understand this card is supposed to have. It also has the 1165 Mhz clock of the stock Galax card (not the 1178 Mhz of the Infinity 8pack). I'm thinking I got just a regular Galax GTX 970 EXOC with an Infinity sticker on the box and the Infinity backplate. Has anyone familiar with the card heard of such a thing? Here's some pics:

https://s33.postimg.cc/8v7ftkp9b/010.jpg
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https://s33.postimg.cc/kx2tny3pb/014.jpg

Did I get scammed?
 
Exclusive product for OcUK and Caseking group designed by myself and only ever sold by OcUK and Caseking.

Quite possible Galaxy through some of their cards and used our coolers and packaging if they had some excess stock.

OcUK sold around 5000 units of this card about three years ago, pretty shocked you even found a new 970 still.
 
Gibbo said:
Exclusive product for OcUK and Caseking group designed by myself and only ever sold by OcUK and Caseking.

Quite possible Galaxy through some of their cards and used our coolers and packaging if they had some excess stock.

OcUK sold around 5000 units of this card about three years ago, pretty shocked you even found a new 970 still.
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New "old" stock I guess. They really are new too - the round plastic seals on the boxes and tape on the anti-static bags have definitely never been pulled back. Kind of a bummer - I was hoping I got the genuine article! Here's the product page at Newegg in the US. I guess I can't really complain too much about a new GTX 970 EXOC for $179.99. The two of them in SLI score a bit higher than my GTX 1070 Ti in benchmarks. Thanks for confirming this for me!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADFR7CB8579&ignorebbr=1
 
BeauCharles said:
New "old" stock I guess. They really are new too - the round plastic seals on the boxes and tape on the anti-static bags have definitely never been pulled back. Kind of a bummer - I was hoping I got the genuine article! Here's the product page at Newegg in the US. I guess I can't really complain too much about a new GTX 970 EXOC for $179.99. The two of them in SLI score a bit higher than my GTX 1070 Ti in benchmarks. Thanks for confirming this for me!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADFR7CB8579&ignorebbr=1
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Sadly SLI is going the way of the dodo now. A single card solution would probably have been the better option. Not many games use SLI anymore so effectively you're stuck using one 970 for quite a few games.
 
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