Yeah you need 2 8pins, so 2 6+2's should be good.

Thanks Harrykheepal
Appreciated mate.

Hi Adger, I've had the graphics card for almost 2 weeks now, I think I have 28 days to return it to Ebuyer. I had originaly a 1080 ftw on order from Amazon but they still haven't had it in stock yet and I'd been waiting almost 2 months so I got fed up and ordered a 1070 ftw from ebuyer instead. I had been hoping Amazon would get the 1080 ftw sent out to me soon and perhaps  it would have had less coil whine but no luck yet and I'm running out of time to return the 1070 to Ebuyer. I'm not sure about returning it as I'm worried I might get a card with worse coil whine and/ or other issues (Everything is pretty much fine except for the electric buzzing and coil whine) People on here say they get coil whine but they don't say if this still happens with vsync on capped at 60fps, I wouldnt mind if I had coil whine with vsync off since I always play games with it enabled on my 60hz hdtv.

If you do get a 1070 ftw let us know how it goes :) hopefully you get a card that isn't too bad.

DarkStarchild
Hi Adger, I've had the graphics card for almost 2 weeks now, I think I have 28 days to return it to Ebuyer. I had originaly a 1080 ftw on order from Amazon but they still haven't had it in stock yet and I'd been waiting almost 2 months so I got fed up and ordered a 1070 ftw from ebuyer instead. I had been hoping Amazon would get the 1080 ftw sent out to me soon and perhaps  it would have had less coil whine but no luck yet and I'm running out of time to return the 1070 to Ebuyer. I'm not sure about returning it as I'm worried I might get a card with worse coil whine and/ or other issues (Everything is pretty much fine except for the electric buzzing and coil whine) People on here say they get coil whine but they don't say if this still happens with vsync on capped at 60fps, I wouldnt mind if I had coil whine with vsync off since I always play games with it enabled on my 60hz hdtv.

If you do get a 1070 ftw let us know how it goes :) hopefully you get a card that isn't too bad.

I just got my 1080 FTW from Amazon today (dispatched on the 8th)..unfortunately my card also has the coil whine issue. Been looking around and it seems others that bought an EVGA G2 850 helped solve their coil whine issues. Going to order a G2 myself and see if it helps, if not ill be sending it back.
 
Edit:
Yes, I also get coil whine with vsync on capped at 60fps...normal desktop use its fine, only when gaming.

dasa43
my 1070sc only has coil whine at high fps
gets rather loud when overclocked for benchmarking
but at stock clocks with 60fps cap i dont hear it
may be a problem if i had a 144hz monitor

I honestly couldn't tell you whether I have coil whine with my 1080 SC or not. The machine itself is watercooled, and the fans are quiet enough, but some work computers on the other side of the room make enough background noise that I've simply never noticed. Which means for me, whether I have it or not, it's irrelevant. I also always have either headphones or loud speakers on when gaming, so even if it did produce coil whine that could be heard over the fans, I'd still never hear it.

I do believe people who say it can be a problem with some machines, but it's not a problem I've ever experienced, with any of my computers or video cards, ever. 

To the OP: enjoy your new card!

 



"I just got my 1080 FTW from Amazon today (dispatched on the 8th)..unfortunately my card also has the coil whine issue. Been looking around and it seems others that bought an EVGA G2 850 helped solve their coil whine issues. Going to order a G2 myself and see if it helps, if not ill be sending it back.
 
Edit:
Yes, I also get coil whine with vsync on capped at 60fps...normal desktop use its fine, only when gaming."




Hi J0NOX, That's not good to hear. Amazon have just dispatched my 1080 ftw (its arriving in a day or 2 and I will compare it with my 1070 ftw. The EVGA super nova G2 850w is the power supply that I have. My coil whine problems started when I brought and installed that power supply (changed from OCZ ModXstream) < Note that PSU does not have 2x 8pin graphics card plug recquired for 1070 / 1080 FTW. 

If you do get the EVGA super nova G2 850w PSU Please keep in contact and let me know how it goes with the coil whine/ electric buzzing as I'm starting to believe my PSU is making the noise worse. Sure the 10 series nvidia cards have some noise issues but maybe that PSU is making it worse. 

Yea my normal desktop is fine also. The noise happens when gaming at 60fps for me too (even the slightest load)

DarkStarchild
 
Hi J0NOX, That's not good to hear. Amazon have just dispatched my 1080 ftw (its arriving in a day or 2 and I will compare it with my 1070 ftw. The EVGA super nova G2 850w is the power supply that I have. My coil whine problems started when I brought and installed that power supply (changed from OCZ ModXstream) < Note that PSU does not have 2x 8pin graphics card plug recquired for 1070 / 1080 FTW. 

If you do get the EVGA super nova G2 850w PSU Please keep in contact and let me know how it goes with the coil whine/ electric buzzing as I'm starting to believe my PSU is making the noise worse. Sure the 10 series nvidia cards have some noise issues but maybe that PSU is making it worse. 

Yea my normal desktop is fine also. The noise happens when gaming at 60fps for me too (even the slightest load)

Oh, so you have the EVGA supernova G2 850 PSU and still have the coil whine buzzing?...I'm feeling doubtful a new PSU will help me now.
 
I'm going to be taking my computer down to my local computer shop tomorrow and gonna throw some things in and out to see if it makes a difference to the coil whine.
Prob try putting the 1080 into one of the owners machines and see if the coil whine is still present. If all else fails and the whine is still there, ill prob be looking at getting a replacement.
 
All in all, the luck of the draw seems to play a big part with these 1080's.
 
I'll keep you posted once I know more.

Ok so I got a helpful reply back from the Evga team about the coil issue.
 
Basically saying "Coil whine is common throughout all electronic devices, the causes of it can be affected by many different variables. It is not something that determines whether or not a product is going to be faulty. It is just an indication there is a current going through your component. One possible solution is to leave a benchmarking program like Heaven Benchmark 4.0 on overnight. This has helped some people but it may not work for you."
 
As suggested i tried a burn-in-test to see if it would get rid of the noise. I left the benchmark on for only 30min (was running around 150-300fps) and then I decided to cap it to 60 and leave it on...soon as I went to 60fps vsync the coil was hardly noticeable. As i mentioned before the coil was happening at 60fps but it seems maybe the burn in technique might have helped out in my case.
 
There is still a lot of noticeable buzzing @ 80-100fps, my last card was a Asus 970oc and that didn't make any noise when fps was high during any benchmarking software I used (Valley Benchmark + Heaven), I'm still going to see if another PSU will improve things.

My 1070 sc has coil whine, only with vsync off though, with vsync on it seems to not whine much at all. It's more like a buzzing noise not really a high pitched whine type noise. Have a EVGA G2 750w psu that I literally just got not long ago. Seems it's really 50/50 like others have said. Have tried burning it in with valley benchmark for about 7 or 8 hours, didn't really make a difference. I'm probably just going to keep it though, there is no advanced rma option in Canada, only an option to pay full price for another and then get your money back...don't have that cash :S. Good luck. 

Just got my 1080 SC, and so far, no coil whine. Very happy so far.