WTF R9 290X Coil Whine!!

[Theo]

Wrong, while they may all be to reference designed PC's does NOT mean they are all using the exact same quality componentry. An example with the 290x's was some manufacturers were using elpida memory and some where using hand, generally the habit was of much better quality and over clocked much further (general consensus).

Well you just blew my mind, im surprised linus or anyone else has actually talked about this

[hehehehhehehehe]

Well you just blew my mind, im surprised linus or anyone else has actually talked about this

Hynix* sorry.

My phone didn't recognize the word.

 

And there are actually quite a few threads around with people going ape shit because there card has come with Elpida memory and they can barely overclock 10%.

[Askew]

Oh my I haven't heard a card with coil whine louder than the fan before.

[Askew]

Sounds like a XFX problem

 

It's a Sapphire card, although with reference I'm not sure that the brand makes any difference.

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It's a Sapphire card, although with reference I'm not sure that the brand makes any difference.

Something as simple as different capacitors can cause coil whine...

[Youbetternot]

It's a Sapphire card, although with reference I'm not sure that the brand makes any difference.

I mean't that XFX cards are known for coil whine

[grayperview]

I have it on my 7970, when it runs games at stupid fps (500+) especially on loading screens.

 

Limit the fps to 60 and the coil whine goes away,

[lhikari]

hmmmm considering 780ti

[hehehehhehehehe]

hmmmm considering 780ti

Why? There is just as much chance of the 780ti coil whining as there is a 290x coil whining..

[xAcid9]

The guy was running Cloud Gate, many cards will coil whine because it generate >9000 fps. 

 

My Sapphire 7950 did.

My friend's MSI GTX 680 Lightning did.

My friend's MSI GTX 760 Gaming did.

My friend's Asus 280x DCU2 did.

My customer Zotac 770 AMP did.

 

My friend's Asus GTX660 didn't.

My customer Zotac 760 Ref didn't.

[maazster]

If the PSU has enough amps to feed the card then no you will not get coil whine.

[hehehehhehehehe]

If the PSU has enough amps to feed the card then no you will not get coil whine.

Not how it works...

[Dragontail]

If the PSU has enough amps to feed the card then no you will not get coil whine.

 

Its about how well the components are made and soldered to the board, japanese capacitors usually dont whine much(could happen but unlikley) because they are solid, open capacitors often whine(used often on cheaper made electronics). Age can make a capacitor whine because of the heat/cold of turning the device on and off. The whine is a vibration caused from the capacitors not seated properly or its of low quality.

 

My 3 7990 that I tested and returned had so bad whine it was unbearable, the worst I have ever heard actually, so I am guessing AMD is still suffering from whine....

Although Nvidia is not all roses they have it less frequently, maybe better quality control, dont really know. Although my 2 780 whine in some games its just really small whine can only notice it if I stick my ear inside the case and near the cards.

[Vic9mm]

Sry but that sounds like a fan bearing going out to me. I would stop the fan for a second and see if the sound goes away. I think you will end up RMAing the card either way.

[TheMail]

290x is a boss for coil whine, if I was gonna get one, I'd wait for one with an aftermarket cooler, IE: Gigabyte Windforce, MSI TwinFrozr, etc...

[HoZy]

My first card had BAD coil whine, After a month it's completely gone. Just put in my second card for XFire & the coil whine is as bad as the first one was. Now I wait.

 

But it does tend to go away after some use most of the time.

 

Cheers

Mat

[Applepienation]

Neeecroooooooooophiliac!

 

Also, I made it through 9 seconds of that video before the sound got to me.

[THIRSTYLOTUS]

get a rm power supply my card did the same thing and swapped out the power supply and all my problems with coil wine was fixed

[Gunjob]

See plenty of the fan boys rolling into this thread. But lots of people who speak sense, this can happen to any card with any PSU. And the problem doesn't lie in either the Red or Green camps. But if it makes you feel better my Asus 290x has no whine, but that means nothing since it could happen to any PSU/GPU.

[DeathSentinels]

I can confirm my 780 Ti does indeed get coil whine much like my 660 ti did,

my 660 ti main coil whine game was starcraft 2, my 780 ti's main coil whine

game is world of warcraft, I swear it has something to do with just blizzard games,

give my 780 ti a game like bioshock or BF4, absolutely no coil whine, give it world

of warcraft, and it cry's like a damn baby, it doesn't bother me tho, not loud enough

to cause me to RMA or anything like that

[WoodenMarker]

Have a Sapphire card, can confirm this doesn't happen on Sapphire. 

Unless you have handled every single of the Sapphire cards, I don't think you can.

Coil whine can happen to any card.

[AC-3]

780s have coil whine too.

[FluffyNuggets]

My 780 Classified is the first card I've owned in a while to barely have coil whine. It's there when I'm hitting 500fps but it's barely audible under water. The 670 FTW's I previously owned had god awful coil whine and it was even worse once I watercooled them!

[Kamina]

That's music to my ears.

[Ja Krispie]

My 780 did it for a a short time, I heard it running 3dMark but it stopped and haven't heard it since.