coil whine?

Snow- · March 12, 2017

So i moved my pc a bit higher and the noise it makes is more noticeable and i think i got the infamous coil whine issue. At first i though it was maybe power supply or the AiO cooler, but the noise doesn't happen when i stress the CPU, only when the gpu is involved such as opengl in cinebench.

Anyways here is a sound clip https://clyp.it/j2ovfize Gtx 970 SSC.

SeanAngelo · March 12, 2017

6 minutes ago, Snow- said:

So i moved my pc a bit higher and the noise it makes is more noticeable and i think i got the infamous coil whine issue. At first i though it was maybe power supply or the AiO cooler, but the noise doesn't happen when i stress the CPU, only when the gpu is involved such as opengl in cinebench.

Anyways here is a sound clip https://clyp.it/j2ovfize Gtx 970 SSC.

thats normal, all gpus have coil whine. my brother's 780 which im borrowing has coil whine but only when starting up the game, it goes away after 1 minute or so.

WereCat · March 12, 2017

GTX 970 is known for having a lot of coil whine (at least the earlier batch) so your problem is most likely it.

Snow- · March 13, 2017

14 hours ago, SeanAngelo said:

thats normal, all gpus have coil whine. my brother's 780 which im borrowing has coil whine but only when starting up the game, it goes away after 1 minute or so.

Fired up bf1 campaign and the noise doesn't go away.

14 hours ago, WereCat said:

GTX 970 is known for having a lot of coil whine (at least the earlier batch) so your problem is most likely it.

Well i bought my 970 in july of 2015, and by going off of google the 970 was launched in September of 2014. so nearly 10 months. so don't think i would have an early batch.