I thought I would ask here how many people have experienced GPU Coil Whine.  I have had many cards over the years and have never had this problem, not with a single one.  However, I have seen many complaints and when I worked for EVGA in Tech Support, I got many calls regarding it.  Am I just lucky, or is this problem really a bit over inflated?

Had it in my GTX 760 SC when new..Was very pronounced when running 3DMark/stress testing, but only sometimes gaming..Seems the more I stress tested it the less frequent/quieter it became..It went away after about a week or so and I haven't heard a peep out of it for 2 years now.

2x Gigabyte GTX 770 : huge coil whine. The only noisy GPUs I ever got (except noisy fans on older cards or reference design ones). One day, my daughter even thought the rig was dying while she was playing Crysis 3. She powered it off, asking for help !

Off the top of my head I count 13 EVGA GPU's.  All run on air and I've never heard any coil whine.  This ranges from a 6800 up to my current 970's.

I'm with Zuhl, I've never heard it. Either I'm lucky enough that the literally dozens of GPUs I've owned have all been symptom free, or I'm deaf to that particular sound.

Or something...

When in testing I have heard it, but that is an open case environment so it would be more pronounced and many cards if you get your ear right next to it you can hear a small whine, but really not much aside form that.  Sure there have been some here and there that got RMA'd which were bad, but honestly an occasional issue is expected, we do our best to keep it from happening but sometimes things break.  For my own cards, the only ones I ever had whine on me was my old 3778's, and that was ONLY with a huge clock and a LOT of additional voltage.  Voltage target was all the way up and I forgot how much I added in from the voltage utility but it was a bunch, and over 1400 core clock, and even then it was audible but not bad.  Also my case is kinda noisey.....so I am not the best judge of how loud is too loud.
 
Some of it I also wonder if it could simply be the frequency of the noise, case and point, my San Ace 38mm fans were definitely louder than my old Ultra Kaze fans, however the other half complained about the sound form the Ultra Kazes WAY more, she said they "went right through me" so it  could also be that, like why nails on a chalk board will stand some peoples hair on end and others it is just a mundane scratching noise in the background....  For what it's worth, that's my 2 cents.

I've had it on GTX 970's and that's about it... It was really loud on my Corsair HX750... When I moved it over to a EVGA 850 G2 it was a lot quieter. When I changed out my system and went to the set-up in my signature now... I have not heard it. When I sold my R9 290X's they didn't have coil whine in my system... When the person that bought them put them on a Corsair HX750, they were loud... I've read and listened to youtube videos where people try to narrow it down to one reason... It's really a combination of components... Your PSU can effect it, your motherboard can effect it... or it could just be the card it self.

Zuhl3156
Sorry, but I still don't know what I'm listening for. Can someone give me a description, please?

Best way to see if you have it is to run the Windows Experience Index and listen for it. If you have it, you will know.

Zuhl3156
Sorry, but I still don't know what I'm listening for. Can someone give me a description, please?

If you have to ask what you're listening for, you probably don't have any.  At least not noticeable enough to make a difference...

bcavnaugh
 
Nice video, I cannot hear any pitch after about 9400 Hz.
Good clip to add to my Favorites, Thanks

It was a lucky find. It might come in useful for someone trying to describe a whine in the future. My hearing isn't as good as it used to be due to natural degradation from age and attending way too many rock concerts when I was much younger at the Spectrum in Philadelphia when they used to have dance concerts instead of seated only concerts. Dance concerts were banned due to people getting trampled to death at a dance concert in Cleveland or Chicago. I always liked the way you cannot only hear deep bass noted but also feel them. That's why I spent over $300 on my Bose Companion 3 PC speakers. I love to feel the bass and hear the crash of cymbals in my music.

That's what I was picturing in my mind. It's almost out of my hearing range these days so maybe I have it but don't even know. Ignorance is bliss!

bdary
I wonder if the speakers used to listen to the video play a part in what a person will hear or not hear?

If you're hearing the whine from your video board and not in the video, I would say yes. Most speakers are rated with a high frequency response of between 18 Khz and 20 KHz though I think they degrade over time and the spec is sometimes exagerated by the manufacturers.
 
P.S. Even with my Bose Companion 3 speakers my ears lose the signal above 10 kHz.

My GTX 960 did whine, then i changed power supply's and it stopped, I'm guessing it didnt like the power it was getting