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Getting rid of coil whine? (Video)

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August 8, 2014 10:25:25 PM

Hello,

Basically, my gpu started making these buzzing noises a week ago and I believe that it is coil whine based on the stress test I ran on it, and it definitely seems to be coming from my gpu when I put my ear next to the case. The coil whine is bad when playing games such as bf4, bf3, and planetside, I guess it's because at that time the gpu is under a decent amount of load. The coil whine occurs after about 5 minutes of playing the games mentioned. When I turn vsync on the noise sometimes goes away but not in bf4, and when I alt tab the noise will go away, so it only happens when I am gaming.

It didn't used to do it before but now it is. If it is coil whine, I think it is one of the worst cases of coil whine I have ever heard in my life, heck, I think it can set a world record for loudest coil whine.

My gpu temps are ok around the 60-63C when playing bf3 on ultra and my cpu temps are normal too. It's funny because on the MSI kombustion gpu stress test, the noise came back when the card hit 70 C which is pretty hot, however in these games I am only at around 62C so I don't think it shouldn't make the noise when at 70C it started to make the noise in the stress test.

Anyways, take a listen: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=vd0fie&s=8#.U-Wva_ldU31

Make sure to turn your sound up and you can hear it really well, now imagine that way louder and that's how it is in real life.

I'm not sure if I can RMA the card because I've heard people say that they will not RMA a card because of coil whine since it is normal, but this is really loud so I'm not sure.

And even if I can RMA, I want to know if there is any other way to potentially fix it or if it will go away with time since I don't want to wait months without a video card and not be able to game until they can send me a new one. Sometimes if I play long enough, the coil whine actually goes away or gets a lot quieter.

PC Specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZjygs

Thanks.

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a b U Graphics card
August 8, 2014 10:33:38 PM

A lot of the Sapphire 7870 GHz cards do this from about 60% to 80% load. Here is a video of mine before I sold it awhile back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFL725RvB0I

There really isn't a way to fix it. Whenever I had mine, I downloaded MSI Afterburner and set the fan to run at around 80-85% and that fixed the whining. Not coil whine by the way, it's fan rattle that is pretty common on Dual-X coolers.
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August 8, 2014 10:42:09 PM

Blaise170 said:
A lot of the Sapphire 7870 GHz cards do this from about 60% to 80% load. Here is a video of mine before I sold it awhile back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFL725RvB0I

There really isn't a way to fix it. Whenever I had mine, I downloaded MSI Afterburner and set the fan to run at around 80-85% and that fixed the whining. Not coil whine by the way, it's fan rattle that is pretty common on Dual-X coolers.


Oh wow, thanks for clarifying that its fan rattle. So this is normal right? And also, would there be a point if I RMA? And if I set the fans to 80-85% would that be harmful to my computer or anything or should I only set it to that degere when I'm gaming? Sorry if its a silly question, I'm not much of a techie.
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a b U Graphics card
August 8, 2014 10:53:06 PM

No, it won't hurt the system. I actually run my R9 290 at 100% but I'd make a custom fan profile in Afterburner since 80% is a bit loud for some people.

For example, imagine the fans hit 60% when the GPU gets to 50C. When you set the custom profile, make it so that whenever you hit 50C, the fans instead go to 80% instead. That way, the card still gets cooled like needed, but whenever you are idling (browsing the internet, etc) it isn't running quite so high.

I don't really think an RMA would help.
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August 8, 2014 10:57:10 PM

Blaise170 said:
No, it won't hurt the system. I actually run my R9 290 at 100% but I'd make a custom fan profile in Afterburner since 80% is a bit loud for some people.

For example, imagine the fans hit 60% when the GPU gets to 50C. When you set the custom profile, make it so that whenever you hit 50C, the fans instead go to 80% instead. That way, the card still gets cooled like needed, but whenever you are idling (browsing the internet, etc) it isn't running quite so high.

I don't really think an RMA would help.



Oh good idea, is there a way I can do it in the catalyst because I don't really like downloading msi afterburner. My biggest concern is that do I need to keep msi afterburner open and running after I set the fan profile because I don't like things running in the background when I am gaming/idling?
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a b U Graphics card
August 8, 2014 11:08:53 PM

As far as I know, you can't use CCC. Afterburner can be set to run at startup and has to be left on, but it is very light on system resources (only 3.9MB of RAM on my PC).
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August 8, 2014 11:39:55 PM

Blaise170 said:
As far as I know, you can't use CCC. Afterburner can be set to run at startup and has to be left on, but it is very light on system resources (only 3.9MB of RAM on my PC).


Oh ok, will it impact any like fps drops on my gaming performance? I use vsync so I need as much fps as I can get lol.
Also, is there an option that I can make a profile in the BIOS?

What I'm saying is, having it open in the system tray, will afterburner cause any fps drops in gaming, even if its by a few, if any?
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a b U Graphics card
August 8, 2014 11:41:18 PM

I don't notice a difference in FPS when using it. In fact, Afterburner can display things like GPU temp, FPS, GPU usage, and a lot of other things in-game if you are interested in that. A lot of overclockers use Afterburner too, since you can overclock with it.
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August 8, 2014 11:49:45 PM

Blaise170 said:
I don't notice a difference in FPS when using it. In fact, Afterburner can display things like GPU temp, FPS, GPU usage, and a lot of other things in-game if you are interested in that. A lot of overclockers use Afterburner too, since you can overclock with it.


yeah, I've used it before to monitor things, I was just wondering if it takes any performance away. I don't want to lose even the slightest frames because my cpu is quite bad (fx 6300) and basically get 40 fps in bf3 maxed in 64 maps.
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