Caporegime
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Roll up a piece of paper into a cone and use it like a reverse ear-trumpet to help to isolate the coil noise, have read that it can help to find the culprit.
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The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.
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Can't say I've noticed any on my Sapphire Pulse XTX card - fans I can hear when gaming but I don't think any coil whine ...
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I will try that now, retailer has approved RMA so I will try again a new one and see if I get the same issue.
Coil whine is unfortunately a lottery and you can have the same brand of card with some having it and some not and then sometimes only in certain situations. My Saphire MBA with waterblock on has at times a ticking sort of on/off whine and all in all it is not too bad and is not all the time., I have had worse cards in past.
What I did find when I was testing was that if I overclocked the memory I instantly got a whine so I quickly changed it back to stock. If the memory in your card is pre overclocked then turn it down 100mhz and see if that helps, I had cards in the past where it was the memory whining and reducing clocks by a small amount stopped the noise.
What I did find when I was testing was that if I overclocked the memory I instantly got a whine so I quickly changed it back to stock. If the memory in your card is pre overclocked then turn it down 100mhz and see if that helps, I had cards in the past where it was the memory whining and reducing clocks by a small amount stopped the noise.
A lot of things affect coil while.
The higher FPS your game is running, the higher the coil while (some game menu with no fps limitation can go as high as 1000+ fps and produce really high coil whine)
Also as some have mentioned the coil whine sound can reduce a bit over time as the card is used but it probably won't completly disapear.
The higher FPS your game is running, the higher the coil while (some game menu with no fps limitation can go as high as 1000+ fps and produce really high coil whine)
Also as some have mentioned the coil whine sound can reduce a bit over time as the card is used but it probably won't completly disapear.
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Thanks for all the replies don't know if it's worth sending it back now and getting another, as the chances of it being the same will probably be just as high.
I would be using headphones and my case P600s from Phanteks has noise damping, so I wouldn't hear much at all when gaming.
I would be using headphones and my case P600s from Phanteks has noise damping, so I wouldn't hear much at all when gaming.
The trumpet test or kitchen roll test might surprise you as I had horrible coil whine on a psu. It can happen to motherboards as well. Give it a bash.
Tried this and its definitely GPU and some motherboard
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Cardboard kitchen roll is a good shout.
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It's in, and running smoothly! Just had a quick spin on No Man's Sky, with everything at Ultra- and was stuck fast on the 100fps limit (which I set to save power, as I only have a 100Hz monitor!)
Which sure beats 40-50fps with several settings knocked down...
Happy with that. Now to save up for that 5950X
...and update my sig...
Which sure beats 40-50fps with several settings knocked down...
Happy with that. Now to save up for that 5950X
...and update my sig...
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In other news, I got Mayhems Blood Red coolant everywhere while removing the Vega, and now my fingers are stained orange
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Same. I get some in the main menus but otherwise in game I don’t hear anything.
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I'm considering buying a 7900XTX Nitro, couple of questions:
is a Corsair RM750x going to be enough and
is my 3700X going to be much of a bottleneck for 1440p?
is a Corsair RM750x going to be enough and
is my 3700X going to be much of a bottleneck for 1440p?
The bottleneck will depend on what games you play. Unfortunately a lot of the newest games are terribly optimised on the cpu side of the engine and give terrible performance for no good reason. Upgrading to 5800X3D is always an option in the future if you are not happy with performance. You will get well over 100fps in most games so also depends on if you have high refresh rate monitor or not.
PSU should be ok. I am using a 800w silverstone psu with my 7900xtx with 5800x , the Nitro uses 50w more and if you turn up the power sliders it can use almost 500w. I run my MBA at the 350w stock power and I suggest you run the Nitro at stock power levels with that psu.
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You mean 5800X3D, right?It's in, and running smoothly! Just had a quick spin on No Man's Sky, with everything at Ultra- and was stuck fast on the 100fps limit (which I set to save power, as I only have a 100Hz monitor!)
Which sure beats 40-50fps with several settings knocked down...
Happy with that. Now to save up for that 5950X
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You mean 5800X3D, right?
Probably not! Always intended to go 5950X with this board- albeit eventually. I'm not 100% set on that though, my mind could be changed...
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You'll need to change it, a 5950X will bottleneck a 7900 XTX. Tbh, even a 5800X3D will, but not as badly as a 5950X.
Gaming at 4K max settings will help, but no idea if that's what you plan to run.
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i have a generation older 8700k, recently got the AW3423DWF to replace a 11 1/2yr old U2711. Getting a 7900xtx, trying to decide if I should get the sapphire pulse and or spend the £130 extra for the nitro+.
Planning on going 7800x3d in the coming months, till then wonder how much the cpu will bottleneck the gpu.
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Depends on the game, i also have a 3440x1440 monitor with a nitro+ and a 8700k @5ghz and its regularly hitting 100% usage