Seasonic X-650: Source of Coil Whine?

Andromeda1983

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I recently bought a new MSI Gaming 1080 from OCUK. My previous card was a 970 ironically that had 0 coil whine. However when I paired up my new 1080 with my system I seem to be getting coil whine in games like World of Warcraft. I have tried capping the FPS at 144/120/90/70/60 in multiple games but they all give some sort of coil whine. Now the question is that could my Seasonic X-650 be the source of this coil whine, the PSU itself is about 6 years old and has been my mainstay PSU for the entire time.
 
Graphics cards have had for a long time different level of various coil whines. SilentPCReview often found those:
It was as if a tiny gremlin had crawled inside the machine and started to play miniature bagpipes.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article891-page5.html

And some non-reference cards have quite lot higher power consumption stressing VRM more if it wasn't improved from reference card.
Or who knows if improved VRM might use components more prone to it...
It's not like makers would willingly upgrade every component to highest quality one.

No doubt there's also chance for some interaction between particular card and PSU.
 
Yeah gonna buy a new PSU and compare, been looking to update anyway. It's sad about the coil whine on the GPU's, I would gladly pay an extra premium if someone sold cards that were certified free of coil whine
 
X series does seem to have a bit of a reputation for whine, although I suppose it could just be there are a lot of them out there. My X-750 has what I guess some would consider whine with my 1070. Only a small amount though, have to put head to the back of the psu to hear it, so it doesn't bother me.
 
Never noticed coil wine on any of my X series Seasonics , and have quite a number here, does not say it can't happen however.
 
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