Carbonshape
I buy products from EVGA since 15 years now... I have my content of experience, but I can't blame the company because of a few faulty products and funky individuals... But I understand that you are frustrated. - Good luck with your decision...

I can blame them. when every single purchase I have had has something wrong with it I can completely blame them. I don't know what other decision you are referring to that I have. Keep the card and go deaf?
 
Thanks for the compliment though, I appreciate it, I try to be as funky as I can.

Fix your cable management the card is crying out for help. 
 
Your video is like silence of the lambs but for video cards. 

df2rools 
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But the bigger issue is the NOISE oh my god the noise coming from the graphics card. even when the fans aren't spinning, if im not on the desktop its there.
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This is very odd.  My founders edition cards in SLI have no audible noise outside the case with the fan profile I have set.  Currently running at 1987 mhz with 60-65% fan speed and 73C - 78C (top card) at 100% gpu load.
 
Sorry that you have had this experience with EVGA.  I have bought 2 ACX coolers in the past (750 TI and 970) and have had no issues.  I have also had to RMA 3 different items and had a great experience with that as well.
 
Seriously though, contact EVGA support and see if they have any recommendations.  A quick phone call should resolve the issue and they will work with you to either correct it or get it replaced.

Try again.  Don't give up.  EVGA has the best support in the industry.  Don't go in with such negativity.  Work with them.  They will work with you.

I apologize that you've not had the best experience with our customer support so far. I listened to the call, and while the tech was matter-of-fact about the situation, he didn't sound like he was intentionally being rude to you. I assure you we care about each and every customer, and we are here to support you. As the tech offered, we can certainly RMA the card for you if you like.
 
I would like to explain a bit about coil whine first though. Coil whine is simply the vibration of the copper coils in a capacitor as the power passes through it. Every capacitor has coil whine, but the vast majority of capacitors whine well above the hearing range of humans. On occasion though, a capacitor vibrates at a lower frequency down in the range our ear can detect. It's not harmful to the card at all, so there's no worry about the card failing just because of coil whine.
 
There are a couple things that can be done though to limit coil whine. first off, if it mainly happens under load, try enabling Vsync. Extreme frame rates tend to be a major cause of excessive coil whine, so limiting them to your monitor's refresh rate by enabling Vsync will significantly reduce coil whine in these situations, as well as reduce screen tearing. The overnight burn-in with a benchmark can reduce or eliminate the whine sometimes, there's a few forum members who posted having success doing this, so it can work. But, it doesn't always help as it didn't in your case.
 
Sometimes the specific combination of components can cause an otherwise normal coil to whine. Even adding or removing an add-in card like a sound card or SATA card can change the power draw and thus the way the coil vibrates. Again, this isn't very common, but it can happen. We recommend testing the card in another computer as well, to see if the card whines in various configurations. If it does, there's a good chance it's the card itself and a replacement will solve the issue. If it goes away, then it's probably being caused by the power supply or the hardware configuration you're running. 
 
If you want to RMA the card through us, let me know and I'll work directly with you to get you taken care of. 
 
 

The PCB on this card is an Nvidia reference PCB, so you can just as easily get another card that whines from another company. It's also quite possible that this card you returned won't whine in another PC, so pretesting isn't always an answer.

There have been some reports of coil whine here and there across manufacturers, but that is unfortunately normal.