Hi Community,
So I'll keep this brief. I've gone through 3 RMA's now with EVGA. 2 of them were me returning my GTX 560 Ti 448 FTW (retail, bad RMA and another bad RMA) and they finally bumped me up to a GTX 660 (although I think a 660 Ti would have been more of a real upgrade, I'm grateful for a bump into the Kepler series). All of the problems have been really bad coil whine.
The retail model had it when I was folding, and it was pretty bad. I have 5 Antec tri-cools on my computer at medium and was hearing it over that. The first RMA card sent to me was defective because the cooling fan was having problems (you would think they would have checked that!) and the second RMA was whining more than my retail card.) The third card they send me was a GTX 660 as I mentioned above.
This new card is just as bad as the last card they sent me, so I decided to try a different power supply (a Antec 500U, which has more than enough power to run the machine, the specs only state it needs a 450W and single 6 pin connector.) Still coil whine. I noticed my temporary card, a GTX 560 SE even whines a little under load (barely audiable) but I'v had it for a year and it never did that. Or at least I never noticed it.
My quesiton is, could "dirty power" be causing this problem? I know that most of the electrical outlets in my apartment are actually wired backwards (had a electrician come to re-wire the safety outlets in the kitchen and bathroom and asked him to test the remaining sockets). I asked my building manager to have them re-wire the sockets up properly and it was shot down. Kinda pissed me off.
Anyhow, I did try the card in another machine with a HX1000W PSU and got the same issue. I am really upset and after having this RMA process be ongoing since September I just want to move forward with this.
The original motherboard and system are listed in my signiture, and the second system is a H61 based MSI Motherboard with a i3 2100.
Thanks for reading and for suggestions.
So I'll keep this brief. I've gone through 3 RMA's now with EVGA. 2 of them were me returning my GTX 560 Ti 448 FTW (retail, bad RMA and another bad RMA) and they finally bumped me up to a GTX 660 (although I think a 660 Ti would have been more of a real upgrade, I'm grateful for a bump into the Kepler series). All of the problems have been really bad coil whine.
The retail model had it when I was folding, and it was pretty bad. I have 5 Antec tri-cools on my computer at medium and was hearing it over that. The first RMA card sent to me was defective because the cooling fan was having problems (you would think they would have checked that!) and the second RMA was whining more than my retail card.) The third card they send me was a GTX 660 as I mentioned above.
This new card is just as bad as the last card they sent me, so I decided to try a different power supply (a Antec 500U, which has more than enough power to run the machine, the specs only state it needs a 450W and single 6 pin connector.) Still coil whine. I noticed my temporary card, a GTX 560 SE even whines a little under load (barely audiable) but I'v had it for a year and it never did that. Or at least I never noticed it.
My quesiton is, could "dirty power" be causing this problem? I know that most of the electrical outlets in my apartment are actually wired backwards (had a electrician come to re-wire the safety outlets in the kitchen and bathroom and asked him to test the remaining sockets). I asked my building manager to have them re-wire the sockets up properly and it was shot down. Kinda pissed me off.
Anyhow, I did try the card in another machine with a HX1000W PSU and got the same issue. I am really upset and after having this RMA process be ongoing since September I just want to move forward with this.
The original motherboard and system are listed in my signiture, and the second system is a H61 based MSI Motherboard with a i3 2100.
Thanks for reading and for suggestions.
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