Reduce Coil whine

[Tony942026]

Hello all,

 

I want to preface this with the fact that I do not know everything and this is just something that happened to work for me.

 

I upgraded from a GTX 1060 to an RTX 2070 EVGA XC Gaming https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J63W42X/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I had terrible coil whine.. It's overclocked +80 on the core and +500 on the memory but that made no difference. I could hear it over fans turned all the way up.. I looked at buying a new PSU which I didn't want to do because this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079HGN5QS/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is only a month old in my system. I looked at UPS systems but i read that that might not even work so i figured I'm just screwed.

 

I happened to buy a new Motherboard. Going from this https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Z390-P-LGA1151-Intel-Motherboard/dp/B07HCT5GBD/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=asus+prime+z390p&qid=1553182368&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull to this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HCXT591/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 

 

That (mostly) fixed the coil whine!!!!! It's still there but i have to turn everything down and put the game on mute to hear it.

 

This post is not a how to guide on how to fix coil whine but hopefully someone can see this and see that there is another potential cause/fix for coil whine. 

Hopefully people who know more than i do can chime in here. Thanks 

[Constantin]

EVGA  is the worst brand out there!!

[LukeNukem9]

4 minutes ago, Constantin said:

EVGA  is the worst brand out there!!

i call bull-crap

[Bruno_A]

33 minutes ago, Constantin said:

EVGA  is the worst brand out there!!

Stupid statement. "EVGA is the worst brand out there!!". In what, exactly, and why? You can't just make such a statement and give no arguments.

[Eastman51]

41 minutes ago, Constantin said:

EVGA  is the worst brand out there!!

My limited experience with EVGA tells me that this statement is false. The only EVGA product I've seen in person that is faulty/doesn't work/is broken was a used 970 SC that my friend got off ebay (seller did not list it as broken); long story short, the GPU had borked VRMs that coil whined with a primal screech before the GPU stopped giving video output. Something was def wrong because the back of the PCB was roughly 60C to the touch, I damn near burned my fingers taking it out of the system. Neither me or my friend know how that card broke, but it was either the seller or a previous owner at some point; GPUs don't ship like that, they either work or they don't.

[Tony942026]

All GPUs are different and some may have more coil whine than others. I'm not trying to go into who has more issues than who. I just want to start a discussion about Motherboard affecting coil whine. In my research i found no link between motherboard and GPU coil whine but mine went away with a different motherboard. I want to figure out why and maybe someone will find this helpful.

[TahoeDust]

2 hours ago, Constantin said:

EVGA  is the worst brand out there!!

lol...

 

[ThePD]

3 hours ago, Constantin said:

EVGA  is the worst brand out there!!

You can stop filling the forum with misinformation now.