EVGA GTX 970 Coil Whine even after a RMA

dorsetknob · May 5, 2015

Dear Doctor
My *********Graphics card has a whine from the coil

I was told that if i poked out my eardrum the coil whine would not be hearable

Does my graphics Card coil still whine (i know i am a whiner) or have i cured the Coil whine ????
Yours Rufas rednekeer

Freezer · May 16, 2015

I believe some of you need to study Physics!

Coil whine is most likely the cause of resonance, and not an issue with the card itself.

yogurt_21 · May 21, 2015

Icarus said:
Coil whine is an issue for cards being advertised as quiet! Especially the 0db option ones that stop the fans at idle. I'd rma it in a heartbeat if it was loud enough to hear over ambient, and you all should too.

doesn't have to be loud to be annoying to me. For me I have a history of running pretty loud systems, never bothers me as I work with servers all day and I put on headphones when I game anyways. But coil whine just seems to hit that frequency zone where I can go from calm cool and collected to raging ax murderer in a matter of seconds. I get that there are some people it doesn't bother but for some of us it's a total deal breaker.

MxPhenom 216 · May 22, 2015

Icarus said:
Coil whine is an issue for cards being advertised as quiet! Especially the 0db option ones that stop the fans at idle. I'd rma it in a heartbeat if it was loud enough to hear over ambient, and you all should too.

Except for the fact thats advertising the fans, and coil whine is not in fans. Coil whine is normal thing for these kind of electronics. My 780 does it depending on what overclocl and voltage I have it at. By no means does coil whine mean its a faulty card. I see no reason too RMA them, unless you have the worlds most sensitive ears.

OneMoar · May 22, 2015

you don't want coil whine then replace the psu with a 80+ platinum unit
and that MIGHT get rid of it

Icarus · May 26, 2015

MxPhenom 216 said:
Except for the fact thats advertising the fans, and coil whine is not in fans. Coil whine is normal thing for these kind of electronics. My 780 does it depending on what overclocl and voltage I have it at. By no means does coil whine mean its a faulty card. I see no reason too RMA them, unless you have the worlds most sensitive ears.

If it's loud enough to hear over your fans, imo its a defect, as it's not a silent card then no matter what makes the noise. They should be fairly quiet if not silent this day and age and the type of coils used in these cards...
A very minor bit wouldn't bug me personally, but as MxPhenom said, some are a lot more susceptible to it. My 480's had it mildly on cut scenes and super high fps area in older games, so I turned on vsync for older ones and for others it was only for a short period so I left it as they were great cards. If it did it constantly and I could hear it over my fans, or quiet scenes etc constantly, the cards would be gone...

OneMoar, its a crap shoot if a new PSU will fix it, and as I've found out personally it usually doesn't.

hapkiman · Jun 8, 2015

I'm betting it's an issue with that old Thermaltake PSU. Especially if you've had the same experience with two cards. Do you have a different PSU to test, or can you test the card in a different rig?

BTW, I have seen PSU replacement FIX coil whine issues from graphics cards.

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EVGA GTX 970 Coil Whine even after a RMA

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

Freezer

yogurt_21

MxPhenom 216

ASIC Engineer

OneMoar

There is Always Moar

Icarus

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