Hi people, first post first problem . . 
 
Sat here doing some work, nice and quiet in my office (games room/office but wife thinks just office) when I noticed a high pitched intermittent whining coming from my pc. I turned everything else off in the room leaving only the pc on and still the sound continued. Removing the side of the case and placing my ear as close as possible to the insides I have now pinpointed the sound to my Titan. Now I have had the Titan since the 11th of March and it has only just started to do this. I sit here late at night working (yes really working) with no sound on what so ever so I would definitely of noticed if this had happened before (I can hear it at the moment and it's raining really heavy against the window). Now the card is not over clocked,never has been, its all at default . Hardware wise my rig isfine, no other issues at all. The odd thing is I decided to run the Heaven Benchmark to see if stress could provoke it so I could pinpoint the noise easier and I did not hear it once while it was running. At soon as it had finished it started again, low whine - high whine back to low whine.
 
Temps when under stress are 80 - 85, idle 38 - 40. 
 
I have unmounted and remounted the card, just to make sure it was seated ok etc. 
 
Is there a reason for this? Is the card likely to pop?
 
Just to add I have tested 2 Seasonic 850W X series power supplies on my rig (I read it could be psu related) and its still there. 
 
It's the only card I have and because of the nature of my work I cannot be without my PC functioning for any length of time. 
 
Arrrgh, technology
 
Thanks in advance for any help
 
Chris 

Try to get those temps down by getting more cooling air into your rig. Then see if the whine continues.

Why are some of you guys idling so high?
 
40c is the highest my cards have idle with the normal being in the 30s.  

Rei86

Why are some of you guys idling so high?

40c is the highest my cards have idle with the normal being in the 30s.  

Mine does the same, I idel at 29c 

Thanks all for your input on this. I have never experienced coil whine before, even after owning many Nvidia Cards including a GTX 680 previous to this one. I just found it odd that it's started doing it after a month of use. I'm not sure why my full load temp is such a high temp, that was running the Heaven benchmark 4.0 on Ultra with 8Xaa. I will look at some temps whilst gaming to get a more "real world" picture of the highs and lows of the card. Is it worth me replacing the paste as suggested earlier?

zeroskillz

Rei86

Why are some of you guys idling so high?

40c is the highest my cards have idle with the normal being in the 30s.  

Well as I stated, I'm running SLI.

 
Well so am I.

rincewind

Just wanted to post to this thread and let folks know that I had a GTX Titan with some severe coil whine (under load) as well. I bought the card direct from EVGA and was able to RMA it without any problems. And since I had the advance RMA, I was crossed shipped with another Titan, which had the same problem. Really, really loud coil whine.  Both cards whined when they rendering at a high frame rate, and the whine would be less pronounced if I implemented a frame limiter of some sort.

I talked with EVGA phone support, they suggested I try a new PSU/UPS combo or live with the whine (but they were willing to go through as many RMA as I wanted. I opted to overnight a Seasonic PS-Platinum 1000W PSU (to replace my PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750). I already had a cyber power UPS, so I was good there. I installed the new PSU and my original card and viola, coil whine was gone. Not even a peep. Tried it out with the RMA card, same story. The whine was gone. Went SLI just for fun, used PrecisionX to run some benchmarks windowed at 515x515 (for high frame rendering) and I still couldn't get the cards to squeal when rendering at over 1200fps. No more whine!

So I was able to correct the coil whine by changing out my PSU. YMMV; I only have a sample of two, but fixing two out of two seems fairly promising for those of you who are stuck with whining GTX Titans.

Other system information: Asus Z77 Sabertooth, Corsair Vengance 32GB, Samsung 840 pro 512 (x2), i7 3770k (delidded running @ 4.8Ghz w/ a Kraken x40), Asus DVDR/W.

 
Really helpful bit of information there, I have coil whine with one/both of my Titans and thought it was just the cards. Using an ageing 1100W Tagan PSU so I think it might well be time for a change! 

Just looking at a possible PSU upgrade for my rig, and the PSU article suggests a EVGA Supernova 750W would be enough for SLI Titans. http://eu.evga.com/articles/00722/

Little concerned it might not be enough with my added lighting, pump and power hungry processor.

Thoughts?

Johnny_Utah

Shadowsong

Just looking at a possible PSU upgrade for my rig, and the PSU article suggests a EVGA Supernova 750W would be enough for SLI Titans. http://eu.evga.com/articles/00722/

Little concerned it might not be enough with my added lighting, pump and power hungry processor.

Thoughts?

I know that we as enthusiasts and monster rig builders tend to have an affinity for overkill...especially with PSUs.  However the truth of the matter is that PSU's are most efficient when operating closer to 50-60 percent of max.  With a 980 overclocked to 4.4 and two Titans, I would really suggest a quality PSU such as a Corsair, Seasonic, Enermax, (EVGA) rated at around 1000W.  Looking at the +12V rail (amps) is also a great indication of how well the unit will perform since like 80 percent (sometimes more like 90 or more)of total will be drawn on that rail....including those beautiful Titans.

Yea I think your right, was thinking about the new 1000W Evga PSU. Just need to find a UK supplier that has stock!

rjohnson11

Try to get those temps down by getting more cooling air into your rig. Then see if the whine continues.

Big +1 to that.  I'm running a micro atx setup (Maingear F131) and my Titans were idling at 60 and 54 degrees respectively (+/- a couple).  I decided to take the side panel off just to see what the idle temps would change to, now they idle at 38 and 36 degrees.  The cooling in this system is pretty good for the size and number of fans but I was shocked to see how much cooler they run now, needless to say I'm leaving the panel off for good.
 
Apologies to the OP for not offering anything constructive about coil whine but thought it was worth mentioning.

xxthe_remedyxx

After installing 320.18 drivers, my Titan seems to be making more noise now. Anyone else experience this?

Had it on both drivers, it might just be because your Titan is now loading up more then it was before, hence the noise. 
 
 

Shadowsong

FYI -

Just installed an XFX 1250W PSU into my case and the coil whine has stopped completely. Was definitely the PSU! 

Glad you got it resolved.