coil whine

[andy335e92]

I've had a evga gtx 660 non ti and ever since i got it, it's had some pretty loud coil whine. Contacted evga no questions asked they wanna replace it which is great but i don't know if i will even bother i feel like new one will have same issue.. add in poll or share thoughts 

[Equilibrium_FOOL]

Replace the card, it will be worth the wait even if it isn't 100% fixed, it still may be better.

[TheKDub]

I don't have a graphics card...

 

Hopefully when I get my 970 which will probably be early next year it won't have an issue with coil whine, that is if EVGA fixes the 970 SC ACX 2.0 so there isn't a coil whine problem. (Pretty sure all 970s are having the problem right now except the reference one from NVidia)

[EarthboundHero]

Get the card replaced, even if it does you have a new card. But I don't have it on mine, even if I did I wouldn't know, I wear great headphones.

[Guest]

Yeah, if you can get a free replacement, go for it.

[connorpiper]

Only sometimes. Both cards without V-Sync make a wonderful jet sound. 

[eelnico09]

Sometimes as in when vsync is not enabled, so when launching a new game that has vsync off, coil whine appears, but as soon as i turn vsync on, coil whine is gone.

[I/O]

Over the past ten years I have had to many GPUs to count and none of them had perceivable coil whine.

[I/O]

Sometimes as in when vsync is not enabled, so when launching a new game that has vsync off, coil whine appears, but as soon as i turn vsync on, coil whine is gone.

Vsync makes the video card work at a consistent rate so it's just best to leave it on for max smoothness and as you say to mitigate coil whine.

[eelnico09]

Not activating it just provokes major Tearing too, so yeah, vsync is a MUST.

[andy335e92]

I don't have a graphics card...

 

Hopefully when I get my 970 which will probably be early next year it won't have an issue with coil whine, that is if EVGA fixes the 970 SC ACX 2.0 so there isn't a coil whine problem. (Pretty sure all 970s are having the problem right now except the reference one from NVidia)

 

thanks for feedback so far guys, yeah i think ill just replace the card, why not. and yeah I heard about the 970 having coil whine, I personally love the asus strix but also heard that one has coil whine issues. but again its hit or miss for some people 

[I/O]

I've had over 25 GPUs in the past 10 years and not one had coil whine. Of course I stay away from cards that have known and well documented issues so that is probably why.