zotac Zotac GTX 1070 AMP! Extreme

[Herowar]

Hello guys,

 

this is the first time I've experienced this, so I would like a little bit of advice. The card has amazing cooling and never goes over 60-63C, BUT when the load exceeds 90% an audible hiss sound (coil whine?) starts getting emitted. It is definitely not from the fans!

 

My PSU is around a 4 year old Seasonic 650W M12II Bronze, my mobo is Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 3 with i7-6700K. I think the psu is absolutely enough and is definitely good quality, so I suspect that power it supplies to the GPU (2x8-pin) is not that "dirty". 

This is the answer I got from Zotac (written is very broken english  ):

"

Dear Sir,

The graphic integrated many coils. When the card loading increase, the coils will shake more and generate some noise. 
This is normal behaviour of electronic products

For the card refund or replacement, please check the from card seller.
Thank you. 

"

So is it really normal to have coil whine that loud, mind you it is audible while the PC (note that the PC is absolutely silent!) is on the ground and around a meter and a half away from me ?

[johnt]

46 minutes ago, Herowar said:

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Yes, coil whine is very common in modern GPUs. I have an EVGA GTX 1070 SC and it screams like a wild cat during some games... especially loading screens.