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Also, it can't be that bad?
What model is your gpu and what is your psu?
What video card, power supply and motherboard do you have? Are you sure it is the GPU? If you tried two, and are getting the same issue, it may be something else. For example, it could be the power supply causing the sound, due to the ramp up in electricity needed when gaming.
I had it in at a shop and they tried different PSUs as well as different GPUs (all 1070s though), but the whine was always there. It only occurs when gaming when the GPU load goes above 20%. It's a GTX 1070. I had an EVGA 1070 and they swapped me to a Gigabyte 1070, just for the sake of "We tried something" but didn't fix it obviously.
This is my power supply:
https://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=110-BQ-0650-V1
When I take the side panel off and put my ear near the case to see where it's coming from, it's definitely the GPU.
I wouldn't say I was considering giving up gaming over it if it was "no big deal". Not just the sound but the time wasted troubleshooting, in the shop for a week with their in-store replacement plan no solve but here's a new card, then take it back because hey that didn't solve it, they get mad and just stress-test my system with fans at the lowest setting until it overheats (the first overheat of its life), having it back and trying to just ignore it but nope I dropped it off the first time for a reason. This is obnoxious migraine-inducing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, on both the hardware end and the social end of trying to get it diagnosed, since yeah there's some support here but for the most part people give me the "that's just PC gaming baby" mentality.
It seems it just so happens that both Gigabyte and EVGA 1070s have tendency for coil whining. But usually nothing extreme.
Also, your PSU is on the low-end of PSUs, the quality of it isn't quite up to par so it might be also one cause for the coil whine.
Both of them most likely are at fault. A higher quality PSU might fix/lessen it.
Could try installing some sound dampening material inside your case.
If your case has the ability to install a side fan you could install one and an intake. While it will predomnantly be for cooling your card it will also be mixing it's sound with your GPU fans and the coil whine. Coil whine will still be there but it will be less noticeable.
Choose and install a fan then play with it's speed to hopefully find a balance between the extra noise it creates and the sound of the coil whine.
I have a case with sound dampening.
The reason I don't think it's the card is because I know others that have it and no whine. I don't know how a shop would be unable to isolate it.
It isn't a temperature issue. That's 100% certain.
But no one knows what kind of PSUs they tried. They might have used something as low if not lower in quality.
If they swapped out the GPUs and PSUs and it still made the sound, then it isn't the GPU or PSU but something on the motherboard.
7 days is very long time for troubleshooting something like this...it sounds like the store employees might be a bit of an amateurs despite working in such store.
And they might have used psus of similar quality in their tests.
These problems should be easily diagnosed within couple of work hours. Meaning 1 or 2 days depending how busy the worker is.
Failing that, enable Vsync.
I took a system to store near me last year due to hardware failure I couldn't be 100% sure what was the cause. Turns out the motherboard failed. Long story short as I had to paid for the diagnostic I may aswell have them do the rebuild. I opted for a AIO (yeah I'm lazy) for them to fit too. Got it home to find the lead technician hadn't even checked his work.
The fans on the top mounted rad were positioned to push air downwards. Previous fans there where exhaust. I never even turned it on to see that because I couldn't even plug my mouse or keybopard in because the moron placed rad below the fans. The rad was higher than the rans and was forcing the motherboard to back so the whole back panel didn't line up. Thats the quality of some 'Experts' out there.