Coil whine ALL the time?

[Essexboy]

I never had it till i moved over to 144hz and noticed it then. But it seems to have bed in now thankfully.

[BiggusDickus]

Vsync solved my problem when I had a 6900xt (for a very short period).

[Falkentyne]

Sometimes putting a thermal pad on an inductor will help (if it can be secured there).

[Ripcord]

144Hz made my 1060 constantly whine but i overclocked the monitor to 160Hz and the whine is gone (mostly) easy to do in the Nvidia control panel, create a custom resolution and set the refresh rate to 160.

[ik9000]

my card doesn't whine until it peaks 600fps. Running 3dmark night raid made it sing in the physics section where it peaked at over 900fps!!

[Scryder]

My monitor has coil whine when I have the speakers on and it happens every time I move my mouse... I've just learned to accept it. Looked it up and it's common for this model apparently... found out much later. It's still a good monitor.

For a while it didn't exist as one of my intake fans were dying, and was louder. Now that's fixed it's noticeable again... but I just wear a headphone... or have something playing loud. So most of the time it's masked. Only time it isn't is if I'm trying to work quietly!! I COULD turn the monitor's volume down (presume that'll get rid of it), but too lazy to drill down the menu each time!

Also wondering if OP fixed their issue (last post was in Jan!)?

[tazzrats]

I can second other people who had problems with the whine on higher refresh rates.

I have no idea if you have the option but could you use DP if you're using HDMI now, or visa versa? No idea how it should work, but on my card I noticed a real difference in the whine!

[trillo_del_diavolo]

Annoying route: RMA until you get no coil whine.

Expensive route: switch PSUs until it stops.

Cheap route: hot-glue all inductors (don't forget the input filtering ones). Of course you need a glue rated for high temperatures, as inductors can get pretty hot. For the inductors closer to the GPU (and under the heatsink), thick thermal pads are also effective, and 100% reversible, unlike glue. Note that the glue method will void your warranty.

[jamest]

Has changing PSU ever actually fixed whining for anyone where the whining is specifically coming from the GPU? i.e not the PSU whining when the GPU is put under heavy load, but the GPU itself whining while under load?

Not sure if I'm just unlucky but literally every card I've had (GTX 760, GTX 1070, 5700XT, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070) has whined pretty loud while under load with multiple different PSUs (Antec TruePower 750W, Corsair RM750, Corsair RM850x, Seasonic GX-850). In the end I just accepted it, I'd still like to get a card that doesn't whine one day... but am never surprised when every new card I buy whines

[trillo_del_diavolo]

Has changing PSU ever actually fixed whining for anyone where the whining is specifically coming from the GPU? i.e not the PSU whining when the GPU is put under heavy load, but the GPU itself whining while under load?

Not sure if I'm just unlucky but literally every card I've had (GTX 760, GTX 1070, 5700XT, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070) has whined pretty loud while under load with multiple different PSUs (Antec TruePower 750W, Corsair RM750, Corsair RM850x, Seasonic GX-850). In the end I just accepted it, I'd still like to get a card that doesn't whine one day... but am never surprised when every new card I buy whines

Whining comes from the GPU, but the power comes from...? A PSU with too much noise (ripple) may cause coil whine even on a GPU that never coil whined before. Ripple may kill other components as well (hard drives are particularly sensitive).

I guess you mean "multiple different brands of PSUs", as big names just get a Seasonic or Antec design, paint it black, add some RGB and slap their brand on it, pretty much like LCD monitors. It's all a big collusion.

EDIT: jonnyguru seems to be dead and that makes me sad.

[jamest]

I guess you mean "multiple different brands of PSUs", as big names just get a Seasonic or Antec design, paint it black, add some RGB and slap their brand on it, pretty much like LCD monitors. It's all a big collusion.

Yeah brands, but I was purposely picking brands and/or PSUs that were built by different OEMs (Antec TruePower = Delta Electronics, RM750 = CWT, RM850x = Seasonic, BeQuiet SP 10 = FSP) and had no luck with any of them

[Scryder]

Not sure if I'm just unlucky but literally every card I've had (GTX 760, GTX 1070, 5700XT, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070) has whined pretty loud while under load with multiple different PSUs (Antec TruePower 750W, Corsair RM750, Corsair RM850x, Seasonic GX-850). In the end I just accepted it, I'd still like to get a card that doesn't whine one day... but am never surprised when every new card I buy whines

I have an EVGA GTX 1070 with Corsair RM650x PSU, I've never noticed any coil whine from my GPU even at heavy loads... strange. My 144 Hz monitor does have coil whine (see post #22), but never noticed it from any other components.

[ik9000]

Which monitor is it @scryder?

[trillo_del_diavolo]

LCD monitors do whine under certain conditions but I'm not sure if it's the same cause. CRT monitors were also prone to it, usually under high refresh rates/resolutions.

[Sleeperz]

I see coil whine more noticable in scenarios with very high FPS, like loading menus and lower intensive games. I use RTSS to set a global frame limiter to never go above 144fps

[0MEGA]

My 3090fe coil whines when playing games, ive read online most people have the same issue so im just accepting it in this current climate. My previous evga 1080 never coil whined though.