GPU coil whine?

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When I change the speed fan on the Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming application to overclock I can hear a coil whine but I'm not sure if it comes from the GPU. At the moment I put so if the gpu reachs 65°C the fan speed would go to 100% but when it's a 56°C the fans are around 70% and it makes a noise that looks like coil whine. if it is, what can I do to reduce or remove the noise completely? or should I send it back?
 
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Sounds nearly identical to mine. These cards are already OC'd pretty close to max what air current cooling can provide. I personally don't believe a few extra mhz is worth the added noise levels.

I've read perhaps hundreds of reviews for the various 1080's on about a dozen sites. Once they get around 1.8-1.9ghz there's usually only 1-2fps difference for any of the cards so...
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As an owner of now 4 Gigabyte cards(2xG1 970's SLI and 2xXtreme 1080's SLI) I can tell you that once above 60-70% they make some noise. At 100% it's like a small vacuum. My best advice is that the Xtremes have a pretty good stock profile OC. If your system is able to maintain a 60-65c temp they will hold 1.8-2.0ghz speed which by most is a pretty good speed for air cooled. The few water-cooled 1080 reviews I've seen rarely top 2.2 for real long term usage specs. Yes there those who say they've gotten 2.5ghz, but I challenge them to speak up on exactly how they did it and how long it lasts for. Most likely, even if they do, you'll find out there's some work ahead of you to achieve the same.

Real, actual, coil whine can happen from an inefficient PSU. There's a HUGE misconception for all GPU's relating to this. Well worth researching even if its not the problem. A inefficient case/mobo can also cause problems if they're not allowing the system to properly breathe and cool.
 
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I forgot to mention. I don't use the Gigabyte software, just the latest Afterburner. I tried some tweaking in my experiments but ultimately now use it for monitoring during heaving gaming or video editing.
 
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I did lower the speed fan and so it hits 70% only when the GPU is at 65°C but now at 56°C it sits at 50% fan speed and makes no noise at all.. my gpu doesn't really go pass the 60°C even while playing Witcher 3 max settings and OW ultra settings. I got 3 fans for intake and 3 for exhaust ( if you count the 2 from the water cooler for the CPU )
 
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Sounds nearly identical to mine. These cards are already OC'd pretty close to max what air current cooling can provide. I personally don't believe a few extra mhz is worth the added noise levels.

I've read perhaps hundreds of reviews for the various 1080's on about a dozen sites. Once they get around 1.8-1.9ghz there's usually only 1-2fps difference for any of the cards so noise/temps/price are the only real things to keep track of.

I did do an experiment in the fall and had my tower directly under the A/C vent in the room. Cranked the card fans to 100%, lowered the A/C to around 63f and was able to keep the clocks around 2.1-2.2ghz all day at ~60c. It was noisy and used what was probably a ridiculous amount of electricity. It was only around 2.2ghz I really began to notice any significant gains in FPS.

I've noticed that at 65c they'll usually keep around the 1.8-1.9 mark which works fine for most things.

It'd really be nice if someone came out with a refrigerated air case instead of all these over-complicated water cpu/gpu solutions. Seeing what my experiment succeeded with its obvious just feeding cold air into the case can accomplish quite a bit.

 
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FWIW, I had fan noise in an old Nvidia 9800GT card I use in my Linux work computer. Replaced the fan and heat sink with an Arctic Accelero cooler. No fan noise but the card buzzed continuously at a low level, and got loud very time a window was moved around on the desktop. There were three large coils I suspected were the problem. I potted them with Gorilla Glue, waited 24 hours for the glue to set, and problem solved.
 
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