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Hello community!

 

Today I discovered that both my gtx 980 have a loud coil whine. I have one gigabite model and one asus model.

 

While idle it`s not hearable at all, but when I go in borderlands the pre-sequel and put the frame cap on 120 or Unlimited the whine is extremely hearable on both cards! Tested with both in sli, and separately each.

 

Is this cause for concern?(I heard coil whine before, but this is loud!) I mean, could it be from something else besides the cards? I will test it with another model and get back.. but for now.. it really seams odd that both have the coil whine, both being new cards.

 

Thanks for any help that comes!

 

Take care,

 

Alex

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Please try more than one game before coming to conclusions. Chances are its just that one game, not because of the high fps on any game.

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I have a few games:

 

~300 fps in League of Legends: almost no whine

 

120 fps in Hearthstone: no whine

 

~120 fps in Starcraft: bit of whine

 

200 fps in Borderlands: extremely audible whine

 

~140 fps in Bf4 : audible whine

 

So it seems to be related with graphical intensive games... oh.. I will have to live with this, won`t I?

 

Thank you,

 

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First, put the cards in another computer to test if it actually is the cards.
If it is, RMA them.

 

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I have a few games:

 

~300 fps in League of Legends: almost no whine

 

120 fps in Hearthstone: no whine

 

~120 fps in Starcraft: bit of whine

 

200 fps in Borderlands: extremely audible whine

 

~140 fps in Bf4 : audible whine

 

So it seems to be related with graphical intensive games... oh.. I will have to live with this, won`t I?

 

Thank you,

 

Alex

 

Maybe you don't if its still under warranty you can take it back and ask for a replacement due to bad coil whine.

And i don't know how it is where you live but here we have sort of like a if your not happy with the product with in 30 days.

You can return it ether for a refund or replacement no questions asked.

 

 

 

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Yep.. I`ll probably send them back next week.. first I want to check in another system for the whine as well .. as TDP_Equinox suggested.

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could it be the PSU?

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limit the FPS to 60. Simple.

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limit the FPS to 60. Simple.

He has a 120Hz screen so that would be doing injustice to the refresh rate.

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He has a 120Hz screen so that would be doing injustice to the refresh rate.

well until he changes the GPUs 60fps and no whine is good

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well until he changes the GPUs 60fps and no whine is good

 

He's getting MUCH more than 60fps. Which is natural with a GTX980

~300 fps in League of Legends: almost no whine

120 fps in Hearthstone: no whine

~120 fps in Starcraft: bit of whine

200 fps in Borderlands: extremely audible whine

~140 fps in Bf4 : audible whine

 

Considering that the whine is very annoying in some games, of course it's up the the OP to decide which he chooses: FPS or whine

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He's getting MUCH more than 60fps. Which is natural with a GTX980

 

and thats why he has the whine: too many fps+faulty card= whine

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and thats why he has the whine: too many fps+faulty card= whine

Coil whine is not a fault. It is just annoying as hell, and some manufacturers let people RMA their cards because of it.

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coil whine IS a fault. some 980s need to play games at much more than 1000fps to get it, others (like this one) at 120fps start making noise

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Thank you for all the help guys, I really appreciate it. I will contact my vendor to see if they accept returns due to coil whine.

 

Have a good day,

 

Alex

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Ok I just tested it with a gtx 780, and I have the same results.. Could it be the PSU?

 

I have a older power supply..  Chieftec cft-850g-df, will it work with my new system to check it out?(with one card, the gtx 780, not the 980) The amperage is pretty low...

 

I very loud noises in Borderlands and Valley Benchmark 1.0.

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Ok I just tested it with a gtx 780, and I have the same results.. Could it be the PSU?

 

I have a older power supply..  Chieftec cft-850g-df, will it work with my new system to check it out?(with one card, the gtx 780, not the 980) The amperage is pretty low...

 

I very loud noises in Borderlands and Valley Benchmark 1.0.

it is most likely PSU then.

Try swapping it out if you can, to confirm .

 

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Ok I just tested it with a gtx 780, and I have the same results.. Could it be the PSU?

 

I have a older power supply..  Chieftec cft-850g-df, will it work with my new system to check it out?(with one card, the gtx 780, not the 980) The amperage is pretty low...

 

I very loud noises in Borderlands and Valley Benchmark 1.0.

I wouldn't trust that power supply to begin with... Looks like a 13 year old made their website. http://www.chieftec.com/super-power.html

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I wouldn't trust that power supply to begin with... Looks like a 13 year old made their website. http://www.chieftec.com/super-power.html

I have that power supply on a older computer.. and it still works :)

 

On my main one( the one that I think has the coil whine) is the  Corsair Professional Series Platinum HX1000i.

 

I have to buy a new PSU to test it out I think.. oh god... or just test the PSU on the older PC, I think that works too, right?

 

Thanks again guys!

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Ok guys.. I have some unnerving news..

 

Took the power supply out.. and put it about 10 cm away from the computer so I could hear it.. It has a faint coil whine sound, but that is normal I guess, the sound still comes from the MB area, but it`s not like a "normal" coil sound, it`s more .. rough as I would describe it(but not too much). I`ll put everything back in till I see more suggestions.

 

Could it be part of the MB? If so how would I test that?

 

As I said what I`ve tested since I started hearing it:

 

Sli both cards, each one, with a 780.. and with the PSU out of the case... still the sound exists when I enter games/benchmark software, at idle, no sound. what do you guys think? What should I do?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

p.s. the 780 is in an older computer, and I ran benchmarks on it, and it does not have coil whine, only when I put it in the new one... any suggestions? Maybe USB devices trigger it? I don`t even know

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