GPU coil whine. but only at low usage?

[allmighty_bob]

Anyone know what this is about?`I have an MSI gtx 980ti 6G.

I can play battlefront, bf4, far cry, witcher etc. i use 100% of gpu on my 1440p screen, and yes the fans kick up abit, but it's generally silent.

BUT

 

When i play on a vanilla wow-server, league of legends, cs:go and the likes. which only uses 40-60% of my gpu. the coil whine is unbearable. looking around(on the ground, the sky, on some forests) makes the coil whine pitch change into different horrible whines.

Anyone know wtf. is going on? 

I think my GPU os feeling itself too high-born to deal with these games.

[vanished]

Well, the obvious but stupid solution is to find some way to keep the card fully loaded do it doesn't make the sound.  Sort of like the doctor telling you not to "do that" if it hurts

 

Was it always doing this, or did this just start?

[CapricaBuccaneers]

Wow isn't too GPU intensive so your Ti will be destroying it FPS-wise. Usually when the framerates go bonkers you increase the chance of coil whine.

You're not using V-sync or a FPS limiter I take it?

[allmighty_bob]

i cap my fps at 144hz. and i use g-sync. (xb270hu screen)

[AresKrieger]

This is not uncommon as coil whine has nothing to do with max power draw, it matters what the inductor's resonant frequency is.

 

 

Oh and I didn't give a solution lol, just increase the setting to some stupid high setting to get rid of it.

Edited October 17, 2015 by AresKrieger

[Senzelian]

Anyone know what this is about?`I have an MSI gtx 980ti 6G.

I can play battlefront, bf4, far cry, witcher etc. i use 100% of gpu on my 1440p screen, and yes the fans kick up abit, but it's generally silent.

BUT

 

When i play on a vanilla wow-server, league of legends, cs:go and the likes. which only uses 40-60% of my gpu. the coil whine is unbearable. looking around(on the ground, the sky, on some forests) makes the coil whine pitch change into different horrible whines.

Anyone know wtf. is going on? 

I think my GPU os feeling itself too high-born to deal with these games.

There is a simple solution to this:

Limit your frames to something like 60, 90, 120 or 144 FPS or enable V-Sync.

 

The higher the frame rates, the louder the coil whine. That's why it only happens in titles that don't require a powerful GPU.

[Enderman]

thats how coil whine works

some stuff makes it loud, some stuff makes no coil whine

[Kyzer]

Why is it I see so many threads on gpu coil whine and nvidia gpu's?

I've never had this issue with AMD gpu's.

 

But anyway, see if it's your fans or anything. Use V-Sync and fps_max or max_fps 300, 300 works fine for most games

[CapricaBuccaneers]

I've had this issue with two of my AMD cards - electricity doesn't really give a fuck what badge is on the box I'm afraid.

[Curufinwe_wins]

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Why is it I see so many threads on gpu coil whine and nvidia gpu's?

I've never had this issue with AMD gpu's.

 

But anyway, see if it's your fans or anything. Use V-Sync and fps_max or max_fps 300, 300 works fine for most games

You don't read the same threads I do. And for the record. I have never had an issue with coil whine (on either) with reasonable fps (I did have INSANELY loud coil whine doing the mobile gpu unlimited benchmark but that was literally 1000s of fps).

 

 

 

But anyways, to both of these threads even if you are using a 144 Hz monitor the CORRECT action is indeed limiting your frame rate to at max 2x your monitor FPS (I would personally advocate for 120 fps lock, but I understand some people want 144 Hz).

 

The higher your fps the more coil whine you are going to get. Using a lock then prevents menus or non-demanding games from going crazy.