GeForce GTX 970 Coil Whine Concerns

[Techhog]

This makes me glad that I can't buy until June.

[sof006]

Not had an issue with mine. I have the Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming. Only time I have coil whine which I have heard is when I ran a benchmark and the FPS hit something stupid like 5000 FPS (PerformanceTest 7.0).

[Redpalmtree]

I ran my monitor at 120hz to achieve 120 visible foa. Coil whine wasn't audible.

But why aren't you running it at 120 hz standard if you have the monitor for it?

[Lewellyn]

Started folding today and... the whining....WHY? It sounds like a kettle on a stovetop.

 

 

edit: If anyone has a glue solution that would work and a link to a good guide that I could use for fixing this, that would be great.

[Maudima]

Only in menus and when running synthetic benchmarks. And even then it's only audible if I turn off all computer and game audio. 

[FireFox]

My GTX 650 Ti and GTX 660 both from MSI isn't audible. In two weeks when I get a new motherboard and PSU I will see if both GTX 780's have it though limiting the fps does sound like sound advice so certainly will be giving it ago.

[Sintezza]

with elektronics coilwine will allways be there.

But its not allways noticable.

[tobben]

oh.my.god. Started folding today and omfg, the whining....WHY? It sounds like a kettle on a stovetop, do they even test these cards at all for loads before they sell them??... I don't... I don't understand... it's ... it's a ... it's a 380 dollar card....

 

 

edit: If anyone has a glue solution that would work and a link to a good guide that I could use for fixing this, that would be great.

not sure what you are working on, but certain core 17 wu's aren't being shipped to maxwell atm because they don't work.

so we get core 15-16 frequently. coil whine is alot more common on core 15-16 than it is on core 17 wu's.

[Chelsi_Gamer]

But why aren't you running it at 120 hz standard if you have the monitor for it?

I don't want it to die.

[Lord Baal]

Well considering I built my pc to be near complete silence this puts me off 970s hell I chose the PSU I did because it's 100% silent, has no coil whine and has never needed to use it's fan in my system, my 770 is dead silent during windows and pretty damn hard to hear in games with all the sound absorbing foam I added to the inside of my case well everywhere but the window of course.

[bcredeur97]

Coil wine... Gosh how much I hate it. My 6950's luckily don't coil whine at all. But they are getting old. I have to deal with terrible fan noise instead

Dem bearings cry out for help everytime I play BF4

[Kamina]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUhwFpPKnXI

hahaha that's hilarious. I don't suffer from coil whine but if change some settings it does create an annoying coil whine with synthetic benchmarks.

[Lewellyn]

not sure what you are working on, but certain core 17 wu's aren't being shipped to maxwell atm because they don't work.

so we get core 15-16 frequently. coil whine is alot more common on core 15-16 than it is on core 17 wu's.

 

I don't know what this means, can you explain?

 

edit: Ok, I read that there are certain types of FAH work units. I guess certain structures are better optimized for certain processing architextures.

[Faa]

I don't know what this means, can you explain?

 

edit: Ok, I read that there are certain types of FAH work units. I guess certain structures are better optimized for certain processing architextures.

Every kind of workload will have a different behaviour on the VRM's, the switching frequency isn't static.

[TheBaken]

My ASUS 980 (reference) has no noticeable whine while idle or while under heavy load, fortunately. That said, I'll be keeping a close eye on this to make sure it doesn't pop up. Did the people who have these issue notice it off the bat, or is it something that has developed over time?

[kei7t9]

So far I have no Coil whine's from my 2 G1 Gaming cards.

 

And no Coil whine both on my old XFX 750W and my newly installed 1000W G2

 

Tested on software's that allows me to produce 300+ fps (which usually is the trigger from my old MSi GTX 770 Lightning which had Coil Whine, when I hit alot of FPS OCd at 1431 Core clock).  Tested the same for the G1 Gaming at core clocks, 1401, 1566, 1601, 1701. No Coil whine at all at high FPS. Hopefully it stays that way 

[Admire]

Nope with Asus Strix

[Redpalmtree]

I don't want it to die.

So, the wording 'overclocking' was not a joke, you actually overclocked a screen?

 

How do you do this?

[Chelsi_Gamer]

So, the wording 'overclocking' was not a joke, you actually overclocked a screen?

How do you do this?

So evga precision less me do it and all I do is go into NVIDIA Control Panel and make sure it's selected.

[GoodBytes]

So, the wording 'overclocking' was not a joke, you actually overclocked a screen?

 

How do you do this?

Yea it is simple really. All you do, is open the Nvidia or AMD graphics card control panel, and you create a custom resolution which matches the native one that you have, but you increase the refresh rate. That is all. Basically, you are just pushing a higher refresh rate, and hope it works. It usually doesn't. Fancier the monitor, the more likelly it won't work.

And, you usually don't go far, maybe 75Hz tops in most cases, if we ignore all cases where it doesn't work.

The monitor may experience frame skipping, or colors won't be as good as before, or teh image will be distorded in some fashion, in some cases.

[Redpalmtree]

So evga precision less me do it and all I do is go into NVIDIA Control Panel and make sure it's selected.

 

Yea it is simple really. All you do, is open the Nvidia or AMD graphics card control panel, and you create a custom resolution which matches the native one that you have, but you increase the refresh rate. That is all. Basically, you are just pushing a higher refresh rate, and hope it works. It usually doesn't. Fancier the monitor, the more likelly it won't work.

And, you usually don't go far, maybe 75Hz tops in most cases, if we ignore all cases where it doesn't work.

The monitor may experience frame skipping, or colors won't be as good as before, or teh image will be distorded in some fashion, in some cases.

Very interesting! Thanks for the info

[Lewellyn]

not sure what you are working on, but certain core 17 wu's aren't being shipped to maxwell atm because they don't work.

so we get core 15-16 frequently. coil whine is alot more common on core 15-16 than it is on core 17 wu's.

 

Is there a way to skip certain WU's or to backlog them for later? I would much rather leave my computer running WU's with coil whine while I'm at college or out and about instead of pausing them indefinitely while I browse the internet at home.

[tobben]

Is there a way to skip certain WU's or to backlog them for later? I would much rather leave my computer running WU's with coil whine while I'm at college or out and about instead of pausing them indefinitely while I browse the internet at home.

As far as i am aware you have no control.

Most functionality would be prone to abuse

if people wanted to avoid certain wu's. 

So you can't really cherry pick. 

[Lewellyn]

As far as i am aware you have no control.

Most functionality would be prone to abuse

if people wanted to avoid certain wu's. 

So you can't really cherry pick. 

 

Yeah, that's what I thought when I first looked at point calculations and how long each would take. Skipping those that don't yield enough reward seems like it would be abused and people might be more inclined to take the shorter WU's instead of the longer ones.

[evinta]

i never buy hardware when it first comes out because of this and many other issues that came up, i hope that when i get my stix that its all resolved