Coil whine on 4080?

[Tamirel]

I can full Ray Tracing PT cyberpunk smoothly with hardly any sound. But this game is making some mean coil whine. Any settings to change to make it a bit better?

[a profile]

sony's internal shader package is proprietary and they aren't going to share any kind of decoding with arrowhead until they're sure that arrowhead can't or won't share it with the uk. the way capcom did with dmc.

usually downgrading the settings a generation is enough, but because of how shaders are integrated today there aren't many settings insulated from the bottleneck. it kind of affects everything.

[Padds]

my personal experience coil whine happens at excessively HIGH fps, my xtx does it if it goes north of 4k so vsync and frame caps that sort of thing anything that limits the frames.

if its not that and it get worse under load might be a fan bearing

[P.Q.E.D.]

Coil whine is a common hardware occurence, especially with GPU's, and even more so with PSU's.

GPU's that don't whine with one PSU may whine with another, and vice versa.

It's far more common the higher your framerate is, so use a good limiter (like RTSS) and set a limit close to your monitor's refresh rate instead (people complain about this all the time because they play uncapped, which they themselves may even have forced on a driver level).

Some games trigger it with some GPU's/PSU's, whereas others don't (not model specific.
It's an entirely electrical phenomenon.


Long story short: It's not the games' fault; limit your framerate with RTSS to your monitor refresh (or lower, if needed.

There is no guaranteed fix.

[Kashra Fall]

My 4080 super is quiet as all can be.

[Roy]

Since the last update it started happening to me too (never happened before that), it sometimes happens when a mission starts or when a mission ends.

RTX 4080 here as well.

[靐]

I have coil whine on every "high" load game on my RX 6700 XT for like 2 years since I bought it? Zero problems. As far I remember coil whine is totally fine.

[SnowMew]

Coil/inductor whine is perfectly safe. Annoying for sure, but safe.

Some games trigger it, depending on what part is stressing. But its usually any game that is causing 100% utilisation with a very high fps.

Only real fixes is to cap the framerate. Or you can go all in and get some silicon sealant and apply it to whatever coil is making the noise.

[Shadow]

Game also made my PC make some funny sounds. Sounded like back in the day when your HDD would go crazy when reading and writing data. Did that after I shut the game down and it stopped after a restart. Probably that rootkit anti-cheat.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Tamirel:

Coil whine on 4080?
I can full Ray Tracing PT cyberpunk smoothly with hardly any sound. But this game is making some mean coil whine. Any settings to change to make it a bit better?

Limit FPS

[Tamirel]

Thanks for the help all. Changed some settings. It was either coil whine or the HDMI not being fully seated the last time I played. Helped defend from automatons today and the system was quiet.

[shiftbot]

Most manufacturers have one or two models that are less good than the others, like the MSI ventus cards for the 40 series where the memory modules aren't actually in contact with the heatsink leading to sometimes 95-100C hot vram

Maybe your gpu make and model just has a coil whine problem