Coil whine, any way to avoid it?

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Few days ago i bought a 1070, gigabyte g1.
Awfull coil whine at high fps, so rma and get a new one.
Surprise, the new one has even more coil whine, so refunded it.

Now i dont have any gpu so im wondering if there is some manufactured that makes gpu with less coil whine than gigabyte :S
 
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There are cards out there that have "better" inductors than others. When I say better, they are potted inside of a plastic case. The eliminates the winding of the coils from vibrating, though the entire thing may vibrate somewhat.

While coil whine is annoying, it's not going to harm anything beyond your sanity. One way to eliminate coil whine is to cap your framerate. Not necessarily use VSync, but use something like RTSS to cap it at some FPS that you are comfortable with. So for instance if you are seeing 200+FPS in CS:GO, cap it at 100 or 150. Games that render at insanely high framerates on your GPU will be more susceptible to coil whine. Coil whine is especially prevalent when the framerate is high and changing drastically...
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There are cards out there that have "better" inductors than others. When I say better, they are potted inside of a plastic case. The eliminates the winding of the coils from vibrating, though the entire thing may vibrate somewhat.

While coil whine is annoying, it's not going to harm anything beyond your sanity. One way to eliminate coil whine is to cap your framerate. Not necessarily use VSync, but use something like RTSS to cap it at some FPS that you are comfortable with. So for instance if you are seeing 200+FPS in CS:GO, cap it at 100 or 150. Games that render at insanely high framerates on your GPU will be more susceptible to coil whine. Coil whine is especially prevalent when the framerate is high and changing drastically, like 200+, then down to 150 and back up and so forth. Capping will stop this from happening. The other benefit to capping will be reduced heat.
 
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