Thinking about getting a 970...

[Graviityy]

I sold my 780 to get one of the new 970s but now im hearing a lot of people having issues with coil whine. The whole reason i sold my 780 was because it had EXTREMELY bad coil whine. Is there really that many problems occurring with them now??

[WhiteSkyMage]

I sold my 780 to get one of the new 970s but now im hearing a lot of people having issues with coil whine. The whole reason i sold my 780 was because it had EXTREMELY bad coil whine. Is there really that many problems occurring with them now??

 

It's kind of hit and miss - you can get a card with a lot of coil whine, u can get a card with little coil whine. The main issues are however in the driver - you might get a black screen when booting or some games might crash. That's the thing you must be mostly worries about - when are they going to fix DP issues.

[MegaDave91]

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-GTX-970-Coil-Whine-Concerns

 

From MSI:  

The coil whine issue is not specific to 900 series, but can happen with any high end GPU and that MSI is looking in to ways to minimize the issue. If you still have concern regarding this issue, then please contact our RMA department.

From EVGA:

We have been watching the early feedback on GTX 970 and inductor noise very closely, and have actively taken steps to improve this. We urge anyone who has this type of concern to contact our support so we can address it directly.

From NVIDIA:

We’re aware of a small percentage of users reporting excessive “coil whine” noises and are actively looking into the issue.

[Johannes_Lazor]

I have only heard about some coil whining, If it starts whining or are whining send it back.

[Chelsi_Gamer]

I run 2 970s in sli with a 4690k at 4.5ghz on an evga 650w psu and my coil whine at 60 fps isn't bad but at 100+ it's noticable.

[Graviityy]

Hmm i might just hold off a bit and wait and till i hear more from them about further improvements on the problem since it sounds like they are trying to fix it.. sort of.