Okay,
some of you might remember me from this thread:
http://forums.evga.com/GTX-980ti-Hybrid-70c-m2522976.aspxI got my replacement 980Ti a while back and everything was fine. Until a few days ago when my 980Ti suddenly started having ridiculous coil whine.
Let me explain: A few days ago I got my new table. I put my case on my table. It's next to me now.
Why do you care? Well I was playing project cars and everything was fine. The day after randomly during my time playing project cars it suddenly started. The ridiculous coil whine. At first I thought it was just the pump of my H100i GTX ramping up. It made sense to me because the PC was under my desk the whole time which could be the reason why I never noticed but something was off. My PC was idling louder than before.
I then wanted to clean out the case because some dust accumulated there (mostly because it was sitting below a desk for the whole time) and I took the opportunity to check out where exactly the sound was coming from. I started several benchmarks (Prime95 26.6, cinebench, unigine heaven) and put my ear next to different components. Blahblah testing testing the sound is coming from the GPU.
Okay this is no normal coil whine I think. Do you know that part when you exit unigine, you get to a frame and your PC spits out tons of FPS? Yeah coil whine there is normal. It's the normal high pitched sound, limiting the FPS to say 100 makes it dead silent there. When playing games though the coil whine gets ridiculoius. It's not the normal high pitched coil whine but more a buzzing. Sounds like a pump but I don't think it's the pump. The coil whine is related to FPS. I limited the FPS to 5 in heaven, which resulted in the sound only appearing whenever a frame got spit out. Basically each frame produce one sound. Hard to explain.
https://youtu.be/pikLEVzLbS4 -> Idle. This sounds like it might just be the pump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloK316j0WU -> Coil whine starts at around 0:20. I started Unigine Heaven.
https://youtu.be/-DGyEdfGkz4 -> Me rambling about the issue.
Some private words towards EVGA: Hey EVGA. I purchased this GPU a while back, it wasn't particularly cheap. I'm not mad at you for me having to RMA the first card, stuf happens but really... a 2nd RMA is kind of pushing it. I paid how much...? Something around 700€ or 800€ I think. This is a lot of money and honestly for that price I'm expecting a premium product. I think everybody can understand why this is making me kind of mad, this is not just a matter of RMAing the card. This is a matter of reliability and trust.
Not all is bad though. I commend your RMA process / support team. My last RMA went really well.
I will wait what you people have to say but I think I'll have to RMA this card...again. Let's hope it'll be the last RMA this time...
Edit: Update okay I can hear water flushing...I removed the radiator from the case and put it outside the case in such a way that the hoses are on the bottom but there still was some flushing sometimes. I checked the radiator and the system for leaks but found none, everything is dry.
I don't want to risk it though. I'm gonna RMA this card ASAP.
Edit: A few minutes ago it even sounded like the pump was completely dry or something. Really loud kind of grinding noise. The GPU is NOT leaking though. Gonna remove it from the system now because honestly this card is scaring the crap out of me right now lol. Might be the pump failing or the loop not being filled enough. The coil whine thing is still confusing me though -.-
Really EVGA... I originally purchased this card 1 year ago and I currently am in the process of requesting the 2nd RMA.... I honestly am not sure what I should think of this. Reading up the issues other users are having with your cards I really am thinking twice about buying another one of your products. This whole situation is making me rather angry.
post edited by Exidrial - 2017/03/17 08:12:14