GTX 1070 coil whine

[Simon771]

Got my GTX 1070 FE last week and I noticed annoying coil whine with this card.

As I was reading, that's kinda normal for GPUs, but my previous R9 390 nitro didn't have any coil whine.

So I would like to ask if there are any other owners of GTX 1070/1080 and if you also have coil whine.

After power draw is at 50% or more, it starts to get really annoying.

 

And another question: on some forum I read that overvolting card might help me fix this problem. I can't figure out how to change voltage on this card. MSI afterburner has it locked and can't do anything with voltage.

[jjbone1000]

I do not have a 1070 but AFAIK EVGA have a 10xx series compatible overvoltage/clocking software.

[roughavoc]

Sucks to be you I guess, if you can tolerate it for the next few years, keep it. But if its loud send it back asap

[Naeaes]

Un-related but interesting: I recently read an article when scientists had used audio recordings of the coil whine to determine what the CPU was doing. Even to a degree that they broke an open source encryption. And the crazy thing was that they used the microphone on a standard smart phone. The decryption hardware itself was more elaborate but to think a simple smartphone can be used untethered to hack a server is scary AF.

[Simon771]

24 minutes ago, roughavoc said:

Sucks to be you I guess, if you can tolerate it for the next few years, keep it. But if its loud send it back asap

I would return it, but I bought it from caseking.de ... I'm from Slovenia.

So I'm not sure if I have to pay shipping cost, and how is with warranty since I did watercool this GPU.

It's EVGA, and they should allow us to change cooler, but I'm just not sure, since in EU they are strict about doing anything on your own.

[JorithZ]

Just contact evga directly, i had the same trouble with my 980ti. They helped me until all was resolved, really one of the best customer services i have dealt with in years.

[Simon771]

4 minutes ago, JorithZ said:

Just contact evga directly, i had the same trouble with my 980ti. They helped me until all was resolved, really one of the best customer services i have dealt with in years.

But I guess you are from US and you bought card direclty from theire website  

I'm from Slovenia, bought card from German website ... Will try to contact them anyway, but my hopes are kinda low when trying to direclty contact company.

[JorithZ]

8 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

But I guess you are from US and you bought card direclty from theire website  

I'm from Slovenia, bought card from German website ... Will try to contact them anyway, but my hopes are kinda low when trying to direclty contact company.

Nope im from the netherlands, and it really was no problem. They helped me and together we got the coilwhine to stop after running a burn-in test for 12 hours straight, and some other stuff they asked me to do. So hopefully they could help you too, so you dont need to rma ^^

[Simon771]

33 minutes ago, JorithZ said:

Nope im from the netherlands, and it really was no problem. They helped me and together we got the coilwhine to stop after running a burn-in test for 12 hours straight, and some other stuff they asked me to do. So hopefully they could help you too, so you dont need to rma ^^

So all you had to do was to run stress test for 12 hours and it stopped coil whine for ever?

[Simon771]

To update this: @JorithZ provided me respond that he got from EVGA before

 

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We recommend testing your video card with another power supply, as often the power supply is a cause of noise issues. If the power from the PSU fluctuates, it can cause the coils to vibrate resulting in coil whine. You can check if the PSU is providing consistent power to your GPU. Go into your BIOS and look for the +12v reading. A healthy reading is between 11.4v - 12.6v. If you observe consistent fluctuations of more than .05 volts, the PSU is faulty and might be causing the errors.

 

I checked in BIOS and voltage was at 12.00V.

I was also able to monitor that voltage with MSI command center. When PC is at idle and nothing is realy going on, voltage seems to be at 12,000V, but sometimes jumps to 12,096V.

And when I run stress test or play games, that nukber will go to 11,904V. That's still between 11,4-12,6V and should be fine.

But what do they mean with that .05V consistent fluctuations? I'm not native english speaker so I don't realy understand this.

I tried to use differend 8pin connector, differend cable, differend expender, I even used that splitter, so I had pluged 2x 6pin to 1x 8pin cable that came with GPU. Tried every single combination of those cables, and voltage remains the same. 12,000 or 12,096V at idle, and 11,904 when gaming.

Should that be the problem? I mean it still in safe range for that voltage, and I was using it on previous GPU ... never had problems. But I don't know what voltages I had before because I never looked into this.

Also my PSU is pretty decent, so it should deliver power as it have to do.

[JorithZ]

I am pretty sure they mean that you have a problem if your voltage keeps changing with more then 0.5volts all the time. So if it were to keep changing while running on a constant load. high, low, high, low... so on.

[Simon771]

28 minutes ago, JorithZ said:

I am pretty sure they mean that you have a problem if your voltage keeps changing with more then 0.5volts all the time. So if it were to keep changing while running on a constant load. high, low, high, low... so on.

well that's not happening here.

Running heaven benchmark now, and hope it will be fixed by tommorow  

[Simon771]

To update this: RMA went through, and received new GPU today.

And once again I received card that have coil whine problem.

This one seems to have a bit less noisy coil whine, but it still there. I can hear it, when I'm using stock cooler at 2400rpm and closed case.

So when I put everything back to water loop, all I will be able to hear will be that damn coil whine.

 

Seems like I'm very unlucky with GTX 1070

 

 

[Nacho Marco Segui]

You can hear it over a 2400 rpm fan? Holy shite

[Simon771]

12 minutes ago, Nacho Marco Segui said:

You can hear it over a 2400 rpm fan? Holy shite

My mistake: 2100rpm.

At 2400 fan is louder so can't realy hear it, unless I put my ear closer to PC.

[-i.nwA_]

i use a zotac 1070 amp edition, i got lucky its without coil whine

[RedJamaX]

I fixed coil whine by utilizing HDMI for the Audio.  Of course I realize that is not always an option.

[Simon771]

7 minutes ago, RedJamaX said:

I fixed coil whine by utilizing HDMI for the Audio.  Of course I realize that is not always an option.

How you did that?

Use HDMI cable from GPU to audio system?

[RedJamaX]

5 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

How you did that?

Use HDMI cable from GPU to audio system?

Currently it goes to my TV... then my TV has an Audio-Out to my stereo.  There are many monitors that have audio-out jacks and would function the same way.

Other then that, I'm fairly certain I've seen converter cables at MonoPrice that have HDMI on one side (Video Card), and HMDI + 3.5mm Audio on the other end.

[Simon771]

10 minutes ago, RedJamaX said:

Currently it goes to my TV... then my TV has an Audio-Out to my stereo.  There are many monitors that have audio-out jacks and would function the same way.

Other then that, I'm fairly certain I've seen converter cables at MonoPrice that have HDMI on one side (Video Card), and HMDI + 3.5mm Audio on the other end.

sadly my monitor doesn't have any audio output, so can't test that

but how the hell does that solve coil whine lol

I just don't get it, why would this solve it.

[RedJamaX]

3 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

sadly my monitor doesn't have any audio output, so can't test that

but how the hell does that solve coil whine lol

I just don't get it, why would this solve it.

Coil Whine is amplified through the Audio...  I don't know the technical reason why routing the Audio through the HDMI works... but it's worked for me on several machines.

[Simon771]

5 minutes ago, RedJamaX said:

Coil Whine is amplified through the Audio...  I don't know the technical reason why routing the Audio through the HDMI works... but it's worked for me on several machines.

So I'm using my monitor with Display port cable ...

What if I buy that HDMI to 3,5mm audio? I just plug it in my GPU and coil whine might dissapear? Do I have to acctually plug something in that 3,5mm?

[RedJamaX]

The HDMI-only side would go into your monitor... and then other end goes into your HDMI-in for your monitor.  The 3.5mm cable coming out of that end would go IN to the input pf your speakers...  of course, this also requires that you have speakers which accept an Audio-In port.  BUT, if you has speaker with their own built in 3.5mm cable, then you could get a 3.5mm stereo-coupling adapter to connect the two.

 

 

 

 

[RedJamaX]

dont use that last link...  that was not the correct cable...

[RedJamaX]

27 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

So I'm using my monitor with Display port cable ...

What if I buy that HDMI to 3,5mm audio? I just plug it in my GPU and coil whine might dissapear? Do I have to acctually plug something in that 3,5mm?

Sorry for the confusion...  I never actually needed to do this before.  But, it looks like you would need a converter like this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4K-x-2K-HDMI-to-HDMI-and-Optical-TOSLINK-SPDIF-3-5mm-Audio-Extractor-Converter-/151879472737

 

Basically, HDMI out form your video card, into the converter... then OUT from the converter you'll have HDMI to your monitor (using an HDMI to DP cable), and Audio out to your speakers...
Again, I've never used those so I do not know if it would cause any video lag or not...  for gaming, that would be highly annoying.  But it might be worth a try.