GPU coil whine Issue

[tim the enchanter]

Hey, so I had a 1080ti in my system for about a week before it developed coil whine, forcing me to resell it. I then bought a 2080 super which worked fine for about a day, before also developing coil whine. I heard it is possible that my PSU which is this one:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07DTP6QKG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
could be the cause of the issue. I doubt that both GPUs developed coil whine themselves.

Do you think that replacing the PSU could solve the issue? Or could it be another part? Any help at all would be much appreciated.

[Illusion of Progress]

I don't think I've heard of coil whine developing when not being there initially. Coil whine is the byproduct of vibrations of certain parts involved in the power delivery/regulation of certain electronic PC parts (namely, PSUs, GPUs, and motherboards). It is when they vibrate at frequencies humans are capable of hearing that it becomes noticeable.

It's unlikely the PSU is causing the GPUs to develop coil whine, but I'm not versed enough to say this is impossible (to me it souinds more likely some "break in" period passes causing them to do so and it would happen on any PSU). More modern, especially mid/mid higher end GPUs tend to simply have it these days. I never heard it on a GeForce 6800, GeForce 8800, or GeForce GTX 560 Ti. When I tried to upgrade to a GeForce GTX 970 though, suddenly coil whine city. Even my GTX 1060 somewhat had it, but it was very minimal (and seems to have possibly slightly lessened over a very long time).

[Zangato]

That what helped me with my 1660ti coil wine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoPVM4aTTA4

[tim the enchanter]

Do you guys have any idea what the cause of the coil whine may be? Because I just dont find it likely that both the gpus I have purchased had coil whine.

[_I_]

it could also be the psu

nothing can stop coil whine, but it does change depending on gpu load and tasks
different scenes will whine differently
as the video above shows limiting power can help, but will reduce performance

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What can help lower the whine is capping your FPS to something more reasonable, it will also reduce CPU loads in many games and help lower CPU and GPU temps. Or play games with Headphones and don't worry about it. There is nothing wrong to which you can fix regarding coil whine and it's not harmful to the hardware, just annoying. If you get a GPU, always stress test it with benchmarks that can push a FPS above 60-100 ranges to really see if the coil whine is there. As at lower FPS often you might not even hear it. As it will increase the pitch based on GPU loads and actual FPS. If you get a GPU with it and its too annoying, return the GPU and buy a different model entirely.

[Magma Dragoon]

Cool whine is caused by inductors, transformers and capacitors. All video cards have coil whine, some at more noticeable frequencies than others. Other than replacing components with new ones encased in epoxy a la Jurassic Park there is nothing you can do.

[Illusion of Progress]

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Do you guys have any idea what the cause of the coil whine may be? Because I just dont find it likely that both the gpus I have purchased had coil whine.

I mentioned it; it is simply a byproduct of some of the power regulation/delivery parts (chokes, coils, inductors; can't remember which). This is why GPUs, PSUs, and motherboards (but especially the first two) tend to exhibit it most. These parts vibrate in a way that causes noise, but it's not always audible to humans. Some hardware configurations exhibit it worse, certain load levels exhibit it worse, and certain people notice it more. It is NOT directly affected by frame rate; however, limiting your frame rate will OFTEN lower the load in a way that changes the amount of power being used, which may indirectly reduce or eliminate the noise. Some parts have glue on them, and this helps reduce this noise.

It is not in ANY way harmful to be operating it in a way where the noise occurs, by the way, but it sure can be annoying. I gave up on trying to upgrade to a GTX 970 all those years ago when like 4 samples had the issue for me (and again, shout outs to EVGA's great customer service for going through the effort of not actually sending me that many, but fully refunding me in the end).

I also had a socket 478 motherboard years ago in a secondary system. The area between the CPU socket and I/O back panel would faintly exhibit whine when, and get this... the mouse was moving on the Windows desktop. That is what caused it. Thankfully it was both faint (really only noticed in a near silent room or with ear nearby it) and not in a primary system, or a system I kept long.