Sajin
It's not defective, it's just annoying. It's called coil whine, it happens to a lot of cards. 
 
Fixes for coil whine:

#1 Put glue on the caps.
#2 Burn the card in overnight by running the card on a scene inside a game/benchmark that causes it to whine the loudest.
#3 Increase/decrease voltage on the card.
#4 Try a different psu.
#5 Use frame rate limiter software to limit fps in game to reduce whine.
#6 RMA the card.

For this suggestion, you believe that I should run a very graphically demanding game or benchmark and have it run for up to 12 hours or while I'm sleeping and think that it will resolve this issue overnight or will it take multiple nights of this?
 
When I let the game run without an FPS lock, it whines like a new born baby. Perhaps I should do this method with your #2 suggestion.

zamip

Sajin
It's not defective, it's just annoying. It's called coil whine, it happens to a lot of cards. 
 
Fixes for coil whine:

#1 Put glue on the caps.
#2 Burn the card in overnight by running the card on a scene inside a game/benchmark that causes it to whine the loudest.
#3 Increase/decrease voltage on the card.
#4 Try a different psu.
#5 Use frame rate limiter software to limit fps in game to reduce whine.
#6 RMA the card.

For this suggestion, you believe that I should run a very graphically demanding game or benchmark and have it run for up to 12 hours or while I'm sleeping and think that it will resolve this issue overnight or will it take multiple nights of this?
 
When I let the game run without an FPS lock, it whines like a new born baby. Perhaps I should do this method with your #2 suggestion.

It may take a few nights.

zamip
I'm honestly considering overclocking it and increasing the power consumption to really force out the coil whining to it's maximum and have that run for 12 hours. Do you think that this is a good idea as a fast and effective method to get rid of this bull****? I guess I'm quite irritated that I spent $1000 on a card that makes more noise than any component inside of my computer.

Yes, I've personally done it in the past and it has worked before.

No problem. Hope it works out for ya. 

zamip
What do you think is a safe overclock while running on air to really pressure this coil whine? I figured I'd ask you since you seem to be quite knowledgeable about this type of stuff.

1480-1500MHz should do it. 

With MSI afterburner, the max I can set for power limit is 133%. Is this safe and what you're recommending? Also you're saying to have my boost clock result to 1480-1500 and not what I was saying earlier (~1600)? Just to confirm.
 
Thanks again

I guess if the gfx drivers start crashing, that would assume it's not stable and I should lower it, correct?

Alright thank you again for your help. I wish you had a donate button or something because I certainly would give you financial compensation for your assistance. You've been extremely helpful and I hope this resolves my issue. If it does resolve my issue, I'll certainly reach out to you in some other means to compensate you for your time and your solution!

The coil whine is so radical. I can even hear it when there's nothing being played. It's literally aids to my ears right now. I've got my fans ramped up to try and filter out the whine but it's still not enough. I'm so frustrated right now that I'm at that point where I'll break this card and swap in my previous 980 card just to rid me of this horrific sound.
 
I've ran benchmarks which would make it whine the most (2000-4000FPS) for the past few days now and I don't think it's made the slightest bit of difference. If there was a difference, I think it enabled it to whine without anything being played now and me just doing normal 'desktop' stuff. What should I do at this point? I feel as though the benchmark tests only made it worse and that's why I can now hear the coil whining when I'm not playing anything and the card is idle.

Rma would probably be your best solution at this time.

So I guess the real question is... Why is EVGA using garbage internal components for high-end graphic cards that are in the $1000 range? You would imagine that with all of these materialistic things you get in your box, you'd get some decent components to help reduce coil whine. It's quite clear that the PCB/caps are using cheap components but I don't understand why they would do that to their customers who put out a lot of money for their #1 advertised product. It's just giving them a horrible rep in the long run because people will start saying "don't buy EVGA cards.. they all coil whine until your ears bleed". It's like telling someone to never buy an HP or a Dell. You know it's garbage quality.. don't waste your money on it.
 

Sajin

zamip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYmn-n2m2k#t=10
 
This video belongs to someone else but they too are experiencing the same problems as me. Granted they're using a Gigabyte and not an EVGA product, it's still the same garbage going on.

I don't hear anything in that video.

Really? I hear the whine. That's weird.

zamip
I think the worst part from all of this is that I basically now suffer from PTSD caused by the coil whine. Any time I hear a "buzzing" or "whining" sound, it just frustrates me and reminds me of this card. Last night I was watching a show called Dark Matter on Netflix for the first time and when these people were waking up from their deep-sleep in their pods, it made a buzzing or whatever sound that reminded me of the card and I was so irritated by it that I had to turn the show off because it was stressing me out.

Lol. Just rma it. At least give evga a chance to correct the problem.

Slushpup11
Yep might just be a bad one. I have two and they are perfect(except for the lights turning off then back on whenever they want to lol).

I'd put up with lights turning on and off whenever they pleased over this bull(Deleted for Foul Language) :(
 
Thanks for the advice!