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The Ada Lovelace RTX 4090 Owners Thread

Dave2150 said:
In my experience, the only solution to this is getting a 4090 with the largest cooler you can find. My Strix 4090 is in 0DB mode at idle and at low loads, even in games it's whisper quiet. There are a few AIB cards that are also very quiet, MSI Supreme, Zotac AMP etc.
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But are they also free of coil whine? No point killing the fan noise if she's still wailing like a banshee from screaming inductors. :D
 
nomadd said:
But are they also free of coil whine? No point killing the fan noise if she's still wailing like a banshee from screaming inductors. :D
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I've used around half a dozen 3080, 3090 and 4090 cards, all have had some kind of coilwhine at 100% load. You'll get many saying their 4090 has "no coilwhine", then as

At idle though, which is what we're talking about, there is no coilwhine. Ask the same people to do a hearing test, and they'll not be able to hear above 15,000Hz in this test

Guess what I'm saving is, the vast majority of high end GPU's have coilwhine at 100% full load. Many have age related hearing loss (or went to lots of festivals!) and can't hear the higher frequency tones, so will sat their card has "no coilwhine".
 
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nomadd said:
But are they also free of coil whine? No point killing the fan noise if she's still wailing like a banshee from screaming inductors. :D
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All cards exhibit coil whine, but not all do under the same conditions. My gamerock 3090 had no coil whine until I used a custom 550w bios. With anything under 500w there was nothing.
 
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Dave2150 said:
I've used around half a dozen 3080, 3090 and 4090 cards, all have had some kind of coilwhine at 100% load. You'll get many saying their 4090 has "no coilwhine", then as

At idle though, which is what we're talking about, there is no coilwhine. Ask the same people to do a hearing test, and they'll not be able to hear above 15,000Hz in this test

Guess what I'm saving is, the vast majority of high end GPU's have coilwhine at 100% full load. Many have age related hearing loss (or went to lots of festivals!) and can't hear the higher frequency tones, so will sat their card has "no coilwhine".
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Clubbing in the 90’s was a beautiful thing with all those guitar bands. Tinnitus not so much now. I bought some fairly expensive headphones and thought these are rubbish I can still hear lots of whistling. Disconnected them from my computer and could still hear it.
 
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I admit I haven't read through all 41 pages of this thread but is there any consensus on which edition 4090 is the best all rounder in terms of noise, heat, warranty, build quality, and price?
 
No issues here, others here have zotac too with same experience as me.

Mine is in quiet mode 24/7 and I also have it set to 80% power limit in afterburner as it reaches its 2700 boost there too but stays below 360 watts.
 
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mrk said:
Zotac :D

FE price, 5yr warranty, silent, cool in silent mode.
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Zotac looks a bit naff compared to the FE imo BUT it’s all about the performance really. And most PCs under the desk so you won’t see the gpu half the time so it doesn’t matter which one you get as long as it performs and you get your warranty for as long as possible.
 
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mrk said:
No issues here, others here have zotac too with same experience as me.

Mine is in quiet mode 24/7 and I also have it set to 80% power limit in afterburner as it reaches its 2700 boost there too but stays below 360 watts.
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So no performance penalty?
 
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