claytonma
I'm more interested in a gtx titan 2.0 or a 980ti right now. I think long exposure to this coil whine is messing my ears up.:(

Start wearing ear plugs then because I'm thinking you're going to be waiting for quite a while. The gtx 960 hasn't even been officially announced yet and it's already near the end of Jan., let alone AMD's response to the whole 900 series.     

Yes I do, but only in instances when my frame rate is above 144 (MY monitors refresh rate). So in loading screens and stuff like that.

No.
 
Maybe we should post our PSU to see if there is a coloration there as well. 
 
EVGA  04G-P4-3975-KR GTX 970
CORSAIR  HX750 PSU
 

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Maybe we should post our PSU to see if there is a coloration there as well.

That has been suggested and it's not the answer, unfortunately.
 
I tried mine with two different PSUs (a fairly new EVGA SuperNova G2 750 and PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610), and in two different systems. It had whine in each scenario.
 
Meanwhile, no other graphics card in either system has, or has ever had, this behavior. Yet, four out of four GeForce GTX 970s have done it, the last of which was supposedly tested for it beforehand (and at least the first of which was said to have been tested after the fact and had passed on EVGA's end).
 
Three out of three people could hear it.
 
The above are my observations/behaviors, but anyone is free to draw their own conclusions.

Illusion_of_Progress

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Maybe we should post our PSU to see if there is a coloration there as well.

That has been suggested and it's not the answer, unfortunately.
 
I tried mine with two different PSUs (a fairly new EVGA SuperNova G2 750 and PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610), and in two different systems. It had whine in each scenario.
 
Meanwhile, no other graphics card in either system has, or has ever had, this behavior. Yet, four out of four GeForce GTX 970s have done it, the last of which was supposedly tested for it beforehand (and at least the first of which was said to have been tested after the fact and had passed on EVGA's end).
 
Three out of three people could hear it.
 
The above are my observations/behaviors, but anyone is free to draw their own conclusions.

There are several VGA plug ports on your "EVGA SuperNova G2 750."  Have you tried different combinations to see if isolating the VGA connection helps. 
 
As I understand it, (which is subject to error) coil whine can be kind of like harmonics with sound waves.  With multiple rails on the PSU and changing the speed the video card runs at, you could find some sweet spot where you deaden the coil whine.
 
My card overclocks it self at 1442mhs sometimes 1455mhz, maybe that is a sweet spot.  I'm sure I will find some game at some card speed that will cause coil whine but I have no desire to go looking for it.
 
I'm not an expert nor have I slept in a Holladay Inn Express resently 

t3chn0m0
GTX 970 SSC (3975, 6+8 PIN) YES, even at 60 FPS. Asic 69%

PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 850W

Mainboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero

CPU: Intel i7 4790K @ 4.9Ghz

Custom h2O by Phobya

You have Coil Whine on your GPU's under Water?

ofgarzas
I have a GTX 980 ACX 2.0 FTW and my system is dead silent, except for the whine coming from the video card, it's driving me nuts, whenever I open up a game it is like I home-in on the noise and it's the only thing I can think of.
 
I'm using a mini ITX case made of glass, so I was super careful to pick the fans, everything is great except for the gghihieeiiieiiheihehghieiii coming from the video card.
 
My PSU is a Seasonic 520W platinum rated, brand new.
 
Here is a recording where you can compare my system noise to the video card noise (most noticeable is at 1:10):
Hm.. it won't let me post a link or embed a video.. go to youtube and open video  watch?v=-uh8KOmDvW0
 
 
I tried under clocking to reference speeds, but the noise is still there. I regret my purchase.

RMA. 

I wonder if EVGA is taking notice of this thread? A lot of coil whiners EVGA... I think demand is to NOT have these cards squealing like pigs. 

Same here.. Even changed PSU, invested in better grounding, bought the back-plate (well, this was not for coil noise, but for aesthetics) and put the card in prolonged sessions of FurMark and Heaven benchmarks and still the same ..
The support team was helpful, but besides: are you sure it's not the PSU causing this, we didn't get much further.
To be honest, the system I have for the moment is dead silent (three Noctua fans with Ultra Low Noise adapters) in a 250D enclosure and this is not felt in all applications.. I had no coil whine in Borderlands I and the Pre Sequel, however Borderlands II, just by launching it and it starts whining like someone bit it ... 
The only thing that gets this noise reduced are the fans when are put in Extreme mode (>60% speed), but that defiles the whole purpose of having a silent system unfortunately..

*sigh* I'm really just about done. I've tried different PSUs, PCI Express slots, removing sound cards and extra hard drives, and even trying other systems and using different outlets. I am completely dumbfounded as to why every single GeForce GTX 970 behaves with coil whine, suggesting it's something other than the card, yet changing all of those factors fixes nothing, and any other graphics card does not do this in my system. This really suggests to me an issue with the GeForce GTX 970s by default, but... I do not enough about that sort of thing to make such a claim (especially with the matter that others claim they don't have the issue). So... count me as completely lost...
 
I wish I could just get my money back. I originally had a bad feeling in me when I got the first bad one, but figured "hey, rather than return it to Amazon and get my money back, why not try support?" and here I am months and multiple cards later with a growing price investment on a product that will only drop in value, and worse yet, with no end seemingly in sight! How absurd. Count this customer hopeless and frustrated.
 
The only way out of this nightmare seems to be to take the next one I get back from RMA and sell it second hand, cutting my losses. If it comes to that, this will be the last nVidia and EVGA product I buy. All this started because my EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti failed with a burnt chip. I would have still been happy enough with that at least. I figured I'd actually a higher end card for a change, and this is what happens, and I just get told that coil whine "is a thing that exists" when I have never had any other nVidia graphics card do this like this! I don't know what happened this generation (or the last), but this is it for me. It is not acceptable for a graphics card to be singing you a song while you use it, not at any price, and especially not for close to $400.

No coil whine on my 970 SSC (3975-KR). Asic 66.6%
Antec 650W PSU,
 
Even running at 1200 fps, I can't hear any with the side on.
 

I just have had a 970 SSC (3975-KR) Asic 69.5 for a 2 days now and have not once heard coil whine. I have had the side of my case off and put my ear near the card and heard nothing but fan noise from my case fans.

I have an EVGA GTX 970 FTW 2.0, and mine has major coil whine im going to run some stress testing on it to see if it will eventually go away other than that this card is a beast!

I don't unless my ear is 1 inch away from the fans. 
 
Straw Poll:

I had coil whine on both of my GTX 970 SSC (3975) when I had them. Mainly when running benchmarks or the MS WEI.