Reduce Coil Whine Today!

LtMatt · 3 Jan 2021 at 20:57

Run this as many times as you can tolerate. It can make even quiet GPUs squeal, but boy does it dampen down coil whine in games and other applications significantly over time.

Night Raid Stress Test or Sky Diver, part of the 3DMark Advanced suite.
3DMark benchmark for Windows, Android and iOS (ul.com)

Grim5 · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:12

I'm confused

Is the point of this to get your ears so used to bad coil whine that you don't mind the mild coil whine?

I'm lucky though my 3090 has no coil whine and it's the first gpu I've owned in 10 years without coil whine

nvidiamd · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:19

Grim5 said:
I'm confused

Is the point of this to get your ears so used to bad coil whine that you don't mind the mild coil whine?

I'm lucky though my 3090 has no coil whine and it's the first gpu I've owned in 10 years without coil whine

You're whining louder than the coils, that's why you can't hear it.

gpuerrilla · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:31

If you turn on DLSS grim I hear it sounds native!

Grim5 · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:42

nvidiamd said:
You're whining louder than the coils, that's why you can't hear it.

monotone one complaining is you

Gerard · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:42

nvidiamd said:
You're whining louder than the coils, that's why you can't hear it.

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:44

What’s coil whine?

VincentHanna · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:46

Bouton Aide said:
What’s cool whine?

A bottle of white?

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:50

VincentHanna said:
A bottle of white?

awesome my phone changes from coil to cool.

tyler_jrb · 3 Jan 2021 at 21:54

To be honest you can get rid of it with minor tweaks. You’d be suprised at the amount of noise that gets sent through a gpu backplate and out the back of the I/O ports.

Undervolt can help a lot as well.

varkanoid · 3 Jan 2021 at 22:13

Its not 1st April yet or has someone had too much Xmas vino ?

LtMatt · 3 Jan 2021 at 22:37

varkanoid said:
Its not 1st April yet or has someone had too much Xmas vino ?

Not the best start tbf.

The purpose of the thread was to help anyone with a GPU with coil whine reduce it, by running the mentioned tests repeatedly.

I have a RX 580 that had bad coil whine, so left it running Sky Diver graphics scene 1 on a loop overnight. It’s now completely silent.

Gerard · 3 Jan 2021 at 23:15

Why can't something be done in manufacturing to mitigate or stop this entirely? When this first started to occur on cards a good few years back some manufacturers were encasing the components in a glue type substance and others in a type of plastic to stop the noise, now it just seems they don't bother and it's a crap shoot if you get a card that does it or not.

Used to be you could also rma due to this, but now it's such a common issue the card would have to be smashing glass with it's pitch to get it replaced.

varkanoid · 3 Jan 2021 at 23:57

LtMatt said:
Not the best start tbf.

The purpose of the thread was to help anyone with a GPU with coil whine reduce it, by running the mentioned tests repeatedly.

I have a RX 580 that had bad coil whine, so left it running Sky Diver graphics scene 1 on a loop overnight. It’s now completely silent.

Vibrated the offending component into submission.

Gerard said:
When this first started to occur on cards a good few years back some manufacturers were encasing the components in a glue type substance and others in a type of plastic to stop the noise

Just get your glue gun out.

Gerard · 4 Jan 2021 at 00:03

varkanoid said:
Just get your glue gun out.

Then the warranty would be voided, they can do it at the factory.

Wingz · 4 Jan 2021 at 02:20

My 3080 FE had coil whine for the first couple of days then the noise just disappeared.

DeathStorm · 4 Jan 2021 at 02:43

Gerard said:
Why can't something be done in manufacturing to mitigate or stop this entirely? When this first started to occur on cards a good few years back some manufacturers were encasing the components in a glue type substance and others in a type of plastic to stop the noise, now it just seems they don't bother and it's a crap shoot if you get a card that does it or not.

I would happily pay more for a card with a promise of lower or no coil whine, you'd think manufacturer's would use this as a selling point for some of their more expensive versions.

Jimbo · 4 Jan 2021 at 08:28

Coil whine pah. What's a matter with you lot. I used to run a delta cooler on an old athlon, now that was noise.

vapor matt · 4 Jan 2021 at 09:25

never had coil whine on any card, but if you find something that helps, go for it.

varkanoid · 4 Jan 2021 at 10:28

Gerard said:
Then the warranty would be voided, they can do it at the factory.

You canna change the law of Physics man !