petechka
2080 Ti FTW3 fans are very noisy under 4K heavy load, but I don't have coil whine.

James Haskew

chrisdglong
I send back ALL cards for coil whine. If I can hear it at all, under reasonable circumstances (like under 1,000 FPS), it goes back. I am not going to pay 1,000 bucks for a card with coil whine that will annoy me. I would send it back if I were you, 1,000 dollars for coil whine? NOPE!

Well this is exactly how I feel about this issue. I've paid approximately £1400 for this card and while the whine does get "better" with GSync and VSync on in the global Nvidia settings, and by limiting the number of frames, it still doesn't seem right to have such an expensive piece of equipment operating with such a distracting characteristic. The only reason for buying this card is for gaming, and if I can hear an alternating high pitched noise that pierces through the sound the game makes with headphones on, it's simply not doing the job I bought it for well enough. Then there's the hideous sound at idle if the fans start up and stay at 30-50%, and the widely differing heat output that at 3440x1440 sounds a bit like my PC is trying to take off, then you have a recipe for complete disappointment. I'm so distracted by all of these problems that I don't even want to play games on my PC anymore, and that's not hyperbole, I just end up obsessing over the noise and heat the card's putting out that I can't relax and escape like I normally can. 
 
I've contacted technical support with all of my problems and the solutions I've tried, kindly suggested by people like Sajin on this forum, so I'll see what they say. If you won't stand for it then neither will I. This shouldn't be draining me like it has – for this price I wanted it to slot it in and forget about it .

Sajin

SprayingMango
If a card is exhibiting coil whine, does that mean the card is more prone to failure? Does it impact the longevity of the card at all? I am curious if coil whine means inferior quality card, or if it's simply a byproduct of some coils chemical makeup. 

https://www.evga.com/supp...mmain.aspx?faqid=59535

msyltek
Is it normal to get coil whine when idle on windows and then zero whine when playing games, no matter the FPS?

James Haskew  I had to send the G.Skill Trident Z RGB back and swap for Corsair RAM (which turned out to be way better anyway), because they would just mess up all the time, and seem to conflict with the motherboard even though it was supposed to control them. At least it's looking how I want it to now: 

James Haskew
Hey Nuno,
 
I have paid maybe £4/5K for my entire rig and monitor and I've had niggles with all of it, to varying degrees of annoyance. For instance, the Alienware monitor that I bought cost £1100, and while it's okay for the most part, it still has a small amount of backlight bleed in the bottom left corner, and to me, for that price, that item has not passed Quality Control – and this was the second monitor that I had sent out because the first just didn't turn on, it was dead on arrival .
 
Similarly, the Rampage VI Extreme was Asus' flagship X299 mobo, which cost me around £600, and I had to replace it three times because of bent CPU pins; one came DOA; and the other problem I can't even remember; and then add to that when I do get one that works (sort of), I get a 'Detect Memory' error that still happens occasionally, even though I don't use XMP and have entered the memory settings manually. However, what I do remember is having every one of them sold to me as 'brand new', however, when they arrived all or some of the protective cellophane had been removed removed, there were greasy fingerprints all over the 'Indium-plated ROG armor', and a patina of factory dust over the whole board, and apparently this was caused by a massive last minute change to the VRM cooling blocks that needed to be replaced because an independant YouTube overclocker discovered he could fry bacon on them, and Asus are more worried about the aesthetics and "branding" of their tech than they are the functionality: we need Orwell more than we need Wilde, but if we are to have good looks at least have an equal balance between form and function, and not one in favour of how pretty something looks! And believe me, I understand how culpable I am in that department too as I bought that board because I liked the look of it (what a damn fool ).
 
As for the RTX 2080 Ti, I think we're all a bit silly for buying into that really, but I'd waited long enough for the stars to align so I could buy all the parts I wanted, and that card came along at that time unfortunately. TBH, I very rarely use it for playing games on now anyway as I just prefer the convenience and comfort of sitting on my sofa and playing Dark Souls Remastered on my 55" 4K OLED TV with a PS4 Pro, without having to mess around with bad controller inputs, unofficial patches, texture packs, spacecraft takeoff noise levels, a spine shaped like a toilet S-bend, and carpal tunnel syndrome from all the jerking off I do on forums like this . I did find out that a lot of the noise was coming from the PSU: those things are silent just browsing and doing light tasks, but after two EVGA ones, and finally the Asus Thor, I've concluded that those things are just going to sound like a harrier jet taking off while under a heavy load (if anyone knows a solution for this I'd be grateful, but I've kind of given up on the endless tinkering now so actually save your time friend, have a biscuit instead). Regardless, the FTW still isn't what I'd call quiet even when it's just at stock and not overclocked. Plus, I live in England, meaning it's cold all year round, so the temperature shouldn't be an issue but it certainly doesn't stay at 60°C while playing Witcher 3 maxed out on 3440x1440 34" monitor: it was kicking out about 75°C the last time I tried playing it, and when the fans are on auto and keep spinning up there's that clicking noise, which I believe is fixed by inputting fan profiles – but, again, when I've paid £1400 for a f#$&!"g card, why am I having to fart about with fan profiles so that it doesn't click or coil whine, oh the WHINING . Again, this was helped somewhat by enabling G-sync and V-sync in Nvidia global settings, but not in game—
 
Honestly, tech YouTubers and some of the people on the tech forums will roll their square eyes at anyone who claims that PC building and gaming isn't easy as poo from a duck's anus, but it's the endless tinkering and having to find the information in the first place that drive me mad. I have a 2:1 in English Literature and A Levels in Law, History, Psychology, and English, and although it's not exactly difficult to build and maintain a PC . . . I'd call it more a f#$&!"g ache of the testes or vulva. The amount of time I've spent trawling through forums and scrubbing through ponderous tech videos trying to find solutions to and the reasons behind why I have RAM POST stalls using XMP (a thing touted on all the promotional literature and box art as being as easy as clicking a single button).

So, my advice about the noise you're getting is to first check if it's not actually coming from your PSU, that's likely remaining passive until it reaches a certain load/temp, and then the fan kicks in, as the curves on the three PSUs I've mentioned were, and are, atrocious. Also, case fans may need to be configured correctly. I find AI Suite to be a complete pile of sticky, tangy canine ordure, so I've calibrated them in the UEFI instead. Also, check your pump speed and the fans if you're using an AIO CLC, because the pumps can sometimes have a bum impeller, or just bad stock fan profiles.
 
You know, if I could send it all back and get what I'd started with, which was an Alienware 17 R4, I would, because even though it was heavy, I could move it from room to room and take it travelling, and the noise everyone moans about with gaming laptops was near identical to my desktop when on full load, and the performance bump that the RTX card gave me is just not noticeable unless you have a more inferior device adjacent to my PC, but when does that happen? After a while it becomes an obsession for getting the highest frames , or just so you can max out all the sliders in the 'advanced graphics settings' tab. Playing PS4 Pro on my TV I'm just as blown away by how God of War looks, and it plays fine even though it's not running at 20,000 FPS. Sorry, just another digressive tirade but honestly, I was fooling myself into thinking that being on the bleeding edge was going to fill some void, that it would be the greatest tech that corporations profess it is on all of the boxes, and from the mouths of 'screen to screen salesmen' (like JayzTwoCents, LinusTechFilth, and that horrible ginger shill who dyes his hair black and thinks nobody notices [randomfrankp], maybe that's why he's random).

Also, I can't rant relentlessly like this without being fair to EVGA, and giving high praise to their venerable and polite customer support staff, it has thus far been excellent, and compared to some other tech distributors and manufacturers they've been like manna from heaven; they would have – and still will presumably – RMA my card but asked me to try a few things first, and told me that if I still wasn't satisfied, they'd replace the card for me anyway, but by this point I've just become so tired and disillusioned by the whole process, I now just use the PC for work and browsing etc., and use the console for games. That being said, I may have to break out the fresh coffee and industrial grade ear PPE when Cyberpunk 2077 comes out, because that is looking to be the game I've been waiting for since playing Liberation on Amiga CD32 and wishing I could actually play it: and I'll just have to try and get this machine to do what it was built to do, insanity be damned!!
 
Last grievance, I promise. You wouldn't believe how long it took me to get Aura working, and I had to send the G.Skill Trident Z RGB back and swap for Corsair RAM (which turned out to be way better anyway), because they would just mess up all the time, and seem to conflict with the motherboard even though it was supposed to control them. At least it's looking how I want it to now:
 

 
Over and out . . .