Coil whine on a card: get another brand or just another SKU from that manufacturer?

[Crowcore]

Greetings,

So I got the Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse. When gaming, half of the time, I could hear various tones of coil whine over the GPU fan noise (rest of the system is silent), which is very unpleasant/irritating to me. I sent it back, and now I'm wondering if going with another brand instead of another same-GPU-based product from Sapphire (the Nitro) would increases the odds of this not happening again.

 

I want a very quiet card, so besides the Nitro the 2 other candidates would be the Powercolor Red Devil & Asus Strix - whichever one is cheaper at the time of purchase. Is the Sapphire Nitro just as good as an option with no more coil whine risk with my configuration that the others?

 

My specs:

• CPU
  Intel i7 6700K (@ stock)
• Motherboard
  Asrock Z170M Extreme4 (micro-ATX)
• RAM
  Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Kit (@ stock)
• GPU
• Storage
  OCZ Vector 180 960GB
• PSU
  Cooler Master V550 (80+ Gold)
• Display(s)
  Samsung C34J791W (3440x1440, 100 Hz, 1500R)
• Sound
  Asus Essence STX II
• Operating System
  Windows 10 Pro - 64 bit

[191x7]

The Nitro can be silent once you manually adjust the fans (a new fan curve in Wattman), but that has issues in the recent drivers (tends to reset to default).

The Strix is warm and loud. The Red Devil is a good choice. And the Gigabyte Gaming OC.

But the Pulse shouldn't coil whine, maybe it's got some issues with your PSU or you simply got a bad example.

[Praesi]

Coil whine can happen on any card from any brand. Its simply bad luck.

[Crowcore]

I know but maybe Sapphire uses specific parts on their cards that don't play nice with my PSU, and components/PCB-configurations used by other manufacturers have a higher chance of being different than Sapphire's from one 5700 XT model to another.