The Pascal GTX 1080 Ti Owners Thread

Choimaloy75 · 30 Mar 2017 at 18:16

Razor Time said:
Mines got coil whine and a replacement card has been shipped by evga. A bit of a pain.

You haven't had much luck with your 1080ti's.
I got more word back from msi.
Content:
Dear Troy,

Thanks for your message.
As explained with the previous reply by [email protected] team, the cooler can be removed.
However, to request for warranty service, the card with the cooler must be in original condition.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Thanks.

Best regards,

MSI component service team.

Choimaloy75 · 30 Mar 2017 at 18:18

No coil wine on my msi it's been absolutely fine and seems to be really good aircooled.
Boosts 2060 on air which ain't bad.

Choimaloy75 · 30 Mar 2017 at 18:20

Techen said:
Makes sense being how insanely loud it is.

I don't think it's that loud coming from 290x reference blowers lol

Razor Time · 30 Mar 2017 at 19:25

Choimaloy75 said:
You haven't had much luck with your 1080ti's.
I got more word back from msi.
Content:
Dear Troy,

Thanks for your message.
As explained with the previous reply by [email protected] team, the cooler can be removed.
However, to request for warranty service, the card with the cooler must be in original condition.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Thanks.

Best regards,

MSI component service team.

Nah not much luck on the 1080Ti front, this will be card number 3, I hope its a keeper. At least EVGA were spot on and raised the RMA without question and are doing a swap over service so I am not without a gpu. Its a shame about this 1080ti as it seems to be a good clocker as it hits 2076mhz on stock volts.

I am pleased to see that MSI have come back to you with a sensible and favourable answer, I still haven't got a reply from either of my service tickets. Ah well.

tyler_jrb · 30 Mar 2017 at 19:49

Razor Time said:
Mines got coil whine and a replacement card has been shipped by evga. A bit of a pain.

Same both mine do. Seems a lot of EVGA Ti users are having the same issue with coil whine at the minute.

However after a week and a while bedding them in, seems to have quietened them down somewhat.

Luckily being watercooled, today have foamed (foam sheets) at the back of the cards which has made a difference and is now inaudible.

Choimaloy75 · 30 Mar 2017 at 20:23

Razor Time said:
Nah not much luck on the 1080Ti front, this will be card number 3, I hope its a keeper. At least EVGA were spot on and raised the RMA without question and are doing a swap over service so I am not without a gpu. Its a shame about this 1080ti as it seems to be a good clocker as it hits 2076mhz on stock volts.

I am pleased to see that MSI have come back to you with a sensible and favourable answer, I still haven't got a reply from either of my service tickets. Ah well.

Its good that your not without a gpu, so sounds like good CS from EVGA.

Awahwah · 30 Mar 2017 at 20:33

Can I get an add to the ROH please?

Razor Time · 30 Mar 2017 at 20:33

tyler_jrb said:
Same both mine do. Seems a lot of EVGA Ti users are having the same issue with coil whine at the minute.

However after a week and a while bedding them in, seems to have quietened them down somewhat.

Luckily being watercooled, today have foamed (foam sheets) at the back of the cards which has made a difference and is now inaudible.

I am wondering if EVGA users are reporting it more because allot might be watercooling their cards and once a water block is on the noise isn't hidden by the reference cooler. All these cards should be the same regardless of brand which is why I am thinking this might be the case.

Glad to hear yours is calming done, I thought I would give it a few days and did the normal ie load the card up with a stress test to bed it in but it made no change. I also loosened the backplate a bit as I have read that might make a difference but no change.

Choimaloy75 said:
Its good that your not without a gpu, so sounds like good CS from EVGA.

Yeah it seems a good service so far, I like the cross shipping idea. I had to prepay for the other gpu but it will be refunded to me once they receive my faulty card.

trawetSluaP · 30 Mar 2017 at 20:36

Right got it all set up:

Few points - can't add more than a 100MHz to the core otherwise I crash, bit of a disappointment. I get a load of coilwhine when rendering high frames such as in Heaven etc but in real applications such as gaming I don't.

Lastly, little bit disappointed with EK (although I ordered with OcUK) as my backplate didn't come with a logo...

azazl187 · 30 Mar 2017 at 20:47

My ASUS 1080 strix OC had pretty bad coil wine but after about 6 months it completely dissappeared for some reason

ChrisD. · 31 Mar 2017 at 08:37

Decided to overclock mine a little last night, +130 core and +100 memory. Seemed to sit quite happy at 2Ghz core, memory around 5550 I think?

Techen · 31 Mar 2017 at 08:49

ChrisD. said:
Decided to overclock mine a little last night, +130 core and +100 memory. Seemed to sit quite happy at 2Ghz core, memory around 5550 I think?

Set power to 120% then add 500+ on memory. Should still be stable

ChrisD. · 31 Mar 2017 at 08:50

Power was set to 120%, didn't think there was much point overclocking the memory? Was only in Titanfall 2 which is plays at great FPS anyway with standard clocks!

Techen · 31 Mar 2017 at 08:52

ChrisD. said:
Power was set to 120%, didn't think there was much point overclocking the memory? Was only in Titanfall 2 which is plays at great FPS anyway with standard clocks!

Memory does help a fair bit and its free to overclock. Dont see why you wouldnt @.@

Am at 2012 core and 6003 memory

tyler_jrb · 31 Mar 2017 at 11:31

Razor Time said:
I am wondering if EVGA users are reporting it more because allot might be watercooling their cards and once a water block is on the noise isn't hidden by the reference cooler. All these cards should be the same regardless of brand which is why I am thinking this might be the case.

Glad to hear yours is calming done, I thought I would give it a few days and did the normal ie load the card up with a stress test to bed it in but it made no change. I also loosened the backplate a bit as I have read that might make a difference but no change.

I also tried the same, including another PSU. I did find that most of my noise was coming from the rear of the card (with case door on). So blocked up the entire rear of the cards apart from the used dp and hdmi ports with a foam sheet. Made a big difference.

Coil whine has never really bothered me (1080's had it) but they aren't squealing at high frames. Are reasonably quiet in furmark but in games locked at 100 frames sound like an apache helecopter at takeoff.

Luckily have managed to quieten them and are now inaudible otherwise it would have been a certain RMA for me.

Besty · 31 Mar 2017 at 12:10

My EVGA 1080ti FE is coil whining quite a bit but I expect that from an FE card.

This is like the 1080 launch thread all over again

Gregster · 31 Mar 2017 at 13:00

Ewwww to coil whine! I don't think I would put up with it, unless it really was a sweet card. I did find running Heaven at high clocks sorted out my 680 Lightnings but that won't always work.

Awahwah · 31 Mar 2017 at 13:11

Not hearing much from mine but I game with headphones on and I'm deaf (according to the Wife that is).

Razor Time · 31 Mar 2017 at 13:22

tyler_jrb said:
I also tried the same, including another PSU. I did find that most of my noise was coming from the rear of the card (with case door on). So blocked up the entire rear of the cards apart from the used dp and hdmi ports with a foam sheet. Made a big difference.

Coil whine has never really bothered me (1080's had it) but they aren't squealing at high frames. Are reasonably quiet in furmark but in games locked at 100 frames sound like an apache helecopter at takeoff.

Luckily have managed to quieten them and are now inaudible otherwise it would have been a certain RMA for me.

My card also starts whining at 100fps which is too low IMO and the frame rate I like to play at. Have you tried loosening the block to see if that helps? I have read that it can sometimes make a difference. Also are both your gpus doing it or is it just one?

Besty said:
My EVGA 1080ti FE is coil whining quite a bit but I expect that from an FE card.

This is like the 1080 launch thread all over again

I always buy reference cards and this is the first card I have ever had with coil whine. Fair enough if it was whining at 700 fps but at 100 fps that's not good or acceptable, hence the RMA.

Razor Time · 31 Mar 2017 at 13:25

trawetSluaP said:
Right got it all set up:

Lastly, little bit disappointed with EK (although I ordered with OcUK) as my backplate didn't come with a logo...

So thats what it looks like without the logo in the corner. I was tempted to remove mine as I don't think it looks nice, good job I didn't as its a big hole. I am quite surprised to see it look like that.