Gpu RMA for coil whine, how was your experience ?

[hix123]

Hey people,

 

So I bought an rtx 2070s asus evo OC dual edition and it is sadly plagued with coil whine when I run my games at 100+fps only i have a 144hz monitor so I am not willing to play at 60fps, I changed the psu for a seasonic prime gold 850w and it did not help at all, the high pitch buzzing is not too loud but enough to be audible in a silent room while gaming or if I really focus on it while there is ambient sounds.

I am still in the gap for an exchange at memory express and they are willing to send me a replacement.

Could anyone please share their experience about how it went, does your replacement gpu still have coil whine ? Is there a higher chance to have a new gpu that will still have whine or even more whine than the original one ?

the real question is, is it worth it to embark myself into the ship back the card, wait for the replacement and hope it's better ? because if it's worse than the original one i'd be dead pissed to have to go through an other 2 weeks without my gpu.

Do you think I will get used to it eventually ??

Thanks !!!

[TheNaitsyrk]

9 minutes ago, hix123 said:

Hey people,

 

So I bought an rtx 2070s asus evo OC dual edition and it is sadly plagued with coil whine when I run my games at 100+fps only i have a 144hz monitor so I am not willing to play at 60fps, I changed the psu for a seasonic prime gold 850w and it did not help at all, the high pitch buzzing is not too loud but enough to be audible in a silent room while gaming or if I really focus on it while there is ambient sounds.

I am still in the gap for an exchange at memory express and they are willing to send me a replacement.

Could anyone please share their experience about how it went, does your replacement gpu still have coil whine ? Is there a higher chance to have a new gpu that will still have whine or even more whine than the original one ?

the real question is, is it worth it to embark myself into the ship back the card, wait for the replacement and hope it's better ? because if it's worse than the original one i'd be dead pissed to have to go through an other 2 weeks without my gpu.

Do you think I will get used to it eventually ??

Thanks !!!

My ones whine like crazy. I had 1080 Ti SLI they did same thing. 780 Ti SLI same thing.

 

It's rare to get one that doesn't scream at high FPS. I just crank fan speed to muffle the sound and I'm golden.

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

Coil whine is caused by the electrical components, and the design of the PCB. Unless the new card has revised components you will likely get the same amount of coil whine with an identical card.

 

From my experiences with trying to quiet down commercial power supplies the solution was to swap out the loud components for better quality ones. So unless you want to get more hands on with the GPUs PCB you are probably stuck with the whine.

[SpookyCitrus]

You can try breaking it in and see if it gets quieter or goes away. Use a GPU stress testing software and let it run at 100% load for a few hours or until the coil whine stops. If it doesn't then RMAing isn't a bad idea but you may get one with the same issue or even worse. My Asus Rog Strix 2080ti has coil whine but only in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, no other games just SOTR. It doesn't really bother me because I have a headset, but I can see it being bothersome to those who don't. Coil whine is pretty common and usually isn't a big deal unless it bothers the user.

[hix123]

Thanks a lot for the awnsers, I will try benchmarking/stress testing, do you have any good suggestions ?

 

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

5 minutes ago, hix123 said:

Thanks a lot for the awnsers, I will try benchmarking/stress testing, do you have any good suggestions ?

 

Anything that can fully load the GPU, as that will push the power delivery as hard as possible. Also anything that you can have loop for hours, my go to free option is Heaven or Valley.

 

https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven

https://benchmark.unigine.com/valley