Asus 6900 XT Coil Whine

[Schmo]

Hi all, 

I managed to get a 6900 XT at launch, and had been enjoying it until today when I put it in my new build and it started emitting a high pitched coil whine (watch video). This GPU was used for around 2 weeks in December, in my Asus ROG Strix Z490F build. There was no whine at all back then (there were plenty of other issues with that system though). I had to RMA that board due to a bio/cmos issue, and replaced it with an MSI Meg Unify Z490 board. There was no whine during the windows 10 install or other drivers/software installs. I boot up a game and this is what I hear (watch the video). 

I've not had a GPU with coil whine before, so don't know whether this pitch is normal. It's certainly not what I want from my $1000 GPU though. 

Is there anything I can do to correct this? I'm currently stress testing the GPU using unigine superposition 2017. I still hear the whine though, but it's not as high as it was in game. 

Any suggestions or help is appreciated. 
 

My new build spec is:
i9 10900k @ stock with Noctua NH U9S cooler (this cooler is a temporary solution while I wait for my waterblock) 
Asus Strix Z490-F Bios 0607 (about to test against 0901) I RMA'd this board due to an unrelated issue. I now have the MSi MEG Unify z490 - latest bios installed. 
G.Skill Trident Z 32GB (4x8GB) 3200 Mhz CL16-18-18-38 a.35v (XMP profile enabled/disabled)
AMD RX 6900 XT (reference) @ stock
Samsung M.2 970 Evo Plus 1TB
Samsung M.2 960 Evo 500GB
Samsung Evo 860 1TB

850W XFX Pro Black Edition, Full Modular, 80 PLUS Gold (quite old now but was flawless in my last build) Replaced with Corsair RM1000i 
Corsair Obsidian 1000D (air cooling only at the moment)

[GoodEnough]

15 minutes ago, Schmo said:

I've not had a GPU with coil whine before, so don't know whether this pitch is normal. It's certainly not what I want from my $1000 GPU though. 

coil whine is completely normal for a gpu, although the higher the power draw the more likely its to have coil whine/the louder its going to be.

[Schmo]

1 minute ago, GoodEnough said:

coil whine is completely normal for a gpu, although the higher the power draw the more likely its to have coil whine/the louder its going to be.

The current draw while under stress is 250w. The whine isn't terrible, but like I said, I've not heard it before. 

Why would I not have it on the Asus board, but do have it on the MSI one? Is there something the MSI board does worse than Asus?

[GoodEnough]

2 minutes ago, Schmo said:

The current draw while under stress is 250w. The whine isn't terrible, but like I said, I've not heard it before. 

yeah coil whine isnt generally that loud, but most of it for me at least only happens when my gpu is under heavy load.
every now and then i push my rx 580 pretty far and it can pull 277w, and thats a tad bit above the 185w tdp of the 580 so coil whine is inevitable for me 

[Tristerin]

You changed PSU's, have your old one to test?  (see if any correlation with the PSU power delivery causing whine)

[Schmo]

Just now, Tristerin said:

You changed PSU's, have your old one to test?

Yeah, I have two spare PSUs standing by. I'll have to test when I finish work and report back. 

[Muha93]

Hello, did youbsolve your issue woth the voil whine? Am in the same situation as yours, i changed cpu cooling from coil to water, so had to remove the gpu and put it back in since then coil whine started6

[Schmo]

Unfortunately not. I’m stuck with a very noisy coil whine, even after trying to stress the gpu to reduce the whine. I have to live with it until the 3080ti is out, and then I’ll make the jump to that. 

[guy272]

Hey, has there been any updates to this?  I am having the exact same issue with my 6900xt.  Have you tried to swap back to an ASUS motherboard?