I bought a 1070 FTW last week to replace my 970 SSC, no noticeable coil whine but if the "silicon lottery" refers to cards that are able to boost to 2+GHz without overclocking by the user well I lost that one. Also being this late I lost the VRAM "lottery" too. Hopefully the BIOS update actually improves things significantly on that end.
 
Also the only time I ever heard coil whine on my 970 was in older games (or non-frame locked menus) where the frame rate would go into the hundreds if not thousands.

hey phoenixzero, I am thinking about upgrading my ssc+
to 1070ftw too , but waiting on that bios fix to see if it works.
 
It's a shame NVidia switched many of the 1070s from Samsung to
micron memory....  
 

joseph305
hey phoenixzero, I am thinking about upgrading my ssc+
to 1070ftw too , but waiting on that bios fix to see if it works.
 
It's a shame NVidia switched many of the 1070s from Samsung to
micron memory....  
 

Again with the Micron issue...   There is nothing wrong with Micron VRAM modules GDDR5 or GDDR5x.  They are 100% on par with Samsung's.  Samsung is not a flawless company making the best  electronics as many people seem to think (heard of their recent troubles with the Galaxy Note 7 anyone?).  As far as overclocking, it's a crap shoot, and not a guarantee.  This is why they call it the silicon lottery.  I have an EVGA FTW 1080 with Micron GDDR5x VRAM and it is awesome.  I still also have an ASUS Matrix GTX 980 Ti and it has 6GB of Samsung GDDR5.  Neither overclock very well.  They're about the same actually.

arestavo
Have you tried the card in a different PC that has a fairly powerful GPU/PSU that doesn't coil whine? That's a good way to check and see if it is your card.
 
If you can't check that, register your card if you haven't - 
 
Then call or email EVGA to start up a RMA -  

I just tried it with the corsair sf600 to see if it made any difference and the coil whine is exactly the same. I am only drawing 250-260 watts with burn-in benchmarking anyways so that shouldn't have been an issue. I will start the RMA process. I hope the next one I get doesn't have this coil whine :(
 

Got an 1070 SC lately, seems to clock very well. Stock core boost at exact 2GHz, OCs to ~2150MHz - RAM +675MHz offset. But sadly it got quite excessive coil whine, even at low framerates. Sometimes noticable through my headphones. :/

No coil whine on my 1070 FTW.

dilla69
Got an 1070 SC lately, seems to clock very well. Stock core boost at exact 2GHz, OCs to ~2150MHz - RAM +675MHz offset. But sadly it got quite excessive coil whine, even at low framerates. Sometimes noticable through my headphones. :/

Send it back, I wouldn't accept any card coil whining out of the box. Unacceptable.When you RMA make sure you post a note in your RMA to make them test the card that they intend to replace it with, they will do this if you ask. I know they have to do it on an Advanced RMA, because its a 2nd time replacement, but all your trying to do is save them time and shipping. Doesn't hurt to send them a note asking them to test. I asked them to test a 2nd replacement 770 SC due to some issues I was having with stability at stock clocks, they did the testing and boom I got decent RMA replacements.

Sean1976

dilla69
Got an 1070 SC lately, seems to clock very well. Stock core boost at exact 2GHz, OCs to ~2150MHz - RAM +675MHz offset. But sadly it got quite excessive coil whine, even at low framerates. Sometimes noticable through my headphones. :/

Send it back, I wouldn't accept any card coil whining out of the box. Unacceptable.When you RMA make sure you post a note in your RMA to make them test the card that they intend to replace it with, they will do this if you ask. I know they have to do it on an Advanced RMA, because its a 2nd time replacement, but all your trying to do is save them time and shipping. Doesn't hurt to send them a note asking them to test. I asked them to test a 2nd replacement 770 SC due to some issues I was having with stability at stock clocks, they did the testing and boom I got decent RMA replacements.

Thanks for letting me know. I'm already in contact with the support. They asked me to do some hours of burn-in, so the coils will eventually be quiet enough. But I doubt that this will help. Had a 980 before for almost two years. The card also had (not such as loud) coil whine and the noise level never changed a bit, even after long periods of heavy load. 
 
But I will ask, if they can test the replacement that it has no coil whine. I'll see if it helps. :)

Now when I try to submit my RMA after being told to do so in a support ticket I get, "Your product is out of warranty. If you have any questions, please contact customer service. (E12)". This is such a drag. The ship date is 8/2016 so that makes no sense.
 
*edit* must have been the cookies, works in incognito mode. Go figure.

Yes I would RMA that card.  I have absolutely zero coil whine in my FTW 1080.  And I have stressed it plenty just to be certain.  I think my PSU helps too.
Coil whine in a card this expensive is a no brainer.  R.M.A.
 
Try using a different internet browser and the RMA will likely go through.