Severe coilwine

[feena]

Does anyone else experience significant coilwine while running Starfield? I recently picked up a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 xtx and it is beyond annoying. Once the loud buzzing starts it doesn't even go away after exiting the game. It takes like 2 minutes after quitting for it to stop.

My brother has a Sapphire Pulse 7900 xt but it's whisper quiet. I've only heard great things about the Nitro+ but am seriously contemplating returning this gpu.

UPDATE: The coil whine issue is now "fixed". Apparently, the problem was my power supply. I have an EVGA psu and it seems people experience this problem more when pairing graphics cards with this brand. The solution was to use different VGA ports on the back of the psu when connecting the 8-pin cables. Coil whine is still present, but it's so much more reasonable now. Anyways, thanks for your suggestions and input guys. Cheers!

[Luther]

you could over clock or under clock the voltage and that would fix it

[Lackadaisy]

Most high-end gfx cards appear to have some coil whine when running newer games on high-end settings. I only learned about it recently with the 4000 series NVDA cards but appears to be in other manufactured cards too.

If it's really bad, most places will allow you to return them for a new one which might have less coil whine, but will likely still have some.

[Pocahawtness]

It takes like 2 minutes after quitting for it to stop.

Sounds (forgive the pun) more like a fan.

[morikaane]

Coil whine is common at high loads and varies from card to card (and brand to brand). The loudest I've ever owned have always been ASUS. If you believe its very severe, you could RMA it or return it to your place of purchase and get another.

I've read somewhere (long ago when I had that squealer of a 4970X2) that painting the coils with clear nail polish will stop it but I don't recommend it.

Perhaps shoot Sapphire an email and describe your problem. They might be able to assist you.

[feena]

Publicado originalmente por Sabishii:

you could over clock or under clock the voltage and that would fix it

I'll try undervolting when I get a chance. Thanks for the suggestion.

Publicado originalmente por Pirate☠️Pocah:

It takes like 2 minutes after quitting for it to stop.

Sounds (forgive the pun) more like a fan.

That's what I thought at first, but the noise I'm hearing is not fan related. I experience coilwine with this particular gpu when I get high fps in other titles but it's hardly noticeable. In Starfield however, the sound is similar but much louder by many magnitudes. I can hear it even with headphones on, this is ridiculous.

[lalala]

Every upper mid - high end GPU has coilwine under load.

Your GPU is under load because the game is very optimized for profit, by saving money on content quality and perf. optimizations.

[SIX]

You will get use to it it's normal on high load.

[Lackadaisy]

Publicado originalmente por SIX:

You will get use to it it's normal on high load.

I returned my GFX cards until I got one with quieter coil whine. There is 100% a difference between individual cards, even of the same vendor.

[Izuzul]

I've never noticed coil whine but I do have tinnitus in both my ears so I have like a permanent coil whine I guess.

[SIX]

Publicado originalmente por holystarfish:

Publicado originalmente por SIX:

You will get use to it it's normal on high load.

I returned my GFX cards until I got one with quieter coil whine. There is 100% a difference between individual cards, even of the same vendor.

My 3080 sometimes on specific games start having coil. Still i wouldn't start RMA a perfectly fine working card for that but that's just me.

[hk_prometheus]

I have a rtx 4090 and that sucker starts roaring during some of the cutscenes and I can feel the heat coming out of my case like it's trying to crack open and lava start pouring out.

According to Todd this is totally fine though, this game is perfectly optimized and we all need to upgrade our equipment.

[Dyna]

Put a limit on FPS in driver to fix.

[Caolán_The_Wolf]

the hell is coilwine?

[Dyna]

Publicado originalmente por Caolán_The_Wolf:

the hell is coilwine?

Something you have the first 5 minutes after building a PC i guess.

[Ellis_Cake]

When i had coilwhine on this system after building it,
i followed some info online to tune settings like sleep-states for the cpu/mobo, and spread spectrum in the bios, that solved it

(isnt starfield specific tho)