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Folding triggers worst coil whine yet - GTX 980 Reference

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Hey all,

I've been contributing to the LTT folding team for the last week and really love the idea. My only issue is that when I start folding, my GPU heats up (to be expected) but it also cranks up with a really terrible whiny noise. The noise is also audible through headphones connected to the motherboards onboard sound card. Could you shine light on the issue? Though it only pops up for some work units, bizarre right?

Will attempt to get a video with the noise in it but will have to wait for it to pop up again.

 

Thanks in advanced!

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Nothing you can do about it and it wont affect the card in any way. Could check with your vendor and see if it's RMA worthy but from what I've experienced most cards have some whine on certain loads, especially extreme loads like folding.

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Nothing you can do about it and it wont affect the card in any way. Could check with your vendor and see if it's RMA worthy but from what I've experienced most cards have some whine on certain loads, especially extreme loads like folding.

Thanks for that reassurance! Might chat to Gigabyte and see what happens.

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Make sure it's actually coil whine and not just the noise of the fans going faster than usual

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My 970 whines on core 15 WU's but not core 17 WU's. See if there is a difference, some coil whine is normal.

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Coil whine sucks. Nothing you can do about it. My 970 does the same thing when folding. But not on anything else.

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you cant fix coil whine

i just depends on what the GPU is processing

 

you might get a new GPU, but it will just coil whine on a different process

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The core 15 units produce coil whine on GPus that don't seem to otherwise have it. the only real way to completely avoid that is to use linux as I believe you'll only get core 17 on linux. 

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My 970 whines on core 15 WU's but not core 17 WU's. See if there is a difference, some coil whine is normal.

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One thing that I've noticed is that Core 15 can also sustain WAY higher OCs than Core 17. And the pitch of the whine depends on the frequency. By increasing the core speed, the whine frequency went up; so much, that it actually sounded quieter, even though the pitch is higher.

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Most coil whine cannot be fixed. But i have seen a few rare cases where part of the contributing factor was actually a crap power supply. Because the card was getting crap power, coil whine would start when under load.

 

So, if you have a spare PSU, you could try swapping, that might help, but again, this was a rare case. If you have a decent PSU to start with, I wouldn't go out and buy one to test. :)

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