Coilwhine physical fix?
Posted by Benichy@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 20 comments
Hi!
Ive been in the coilwhine biz since ive built my first highend PC (back in the rtx3090 era)
Then i changed to amd wich ended with my current Rx9070xt.
Ive been searching and tester most fixes that comes on the programming side but not physical side.
So now i wanna move to next step.
What i wanna try is:
Applying new pads in the gpu.
Glue the inductors could work to?
And maby buy new cables that are 8 to8 instead of 8to6+2.
Anyone here that tried the above? And results?
Active_Literature539@reddit
Water cooling. It’s the best solution for coil whine as you are physically removing the fans.
Benichy@reddit (OP)
Sure watercooling could help but i belive its because you can apply preassure with the thermalpads to the components thats vibrating. The fans aint the problem with coilwhine
Active_Literature539@reddit
Ok, explain that one…. If it isn’t the fans, what is making the whine? I watercooled mine, and the coil whine went away.
Benichy@reddit (OP)
It wasnt fan noise u har probs with then ? But the short explaination is that coilswhine is from elektrical componenens that vibrates when the electricity flows threw them. That makes a high pitch sound that some ppl hear and some seems to not hear them , sometimes when u apply preassure to them the noise from vibrations lowers, so what i meant is that that could be the case for you if u changed to a waterblock instead of stock cooling system
biker_jay@reddit
The hell is coil whine?
Parking_Cress_5105@reddit
The card (or any power supply) starts whining/screeching when it's under load. You can definitely find examples online. Some cards whine so much you can tell in the next room it's on.
biker_jay@reddit
I guess I've been lucky. I've never heard any of my builds making any such noises. Lucky being the key word here. I am by no means a pc building wizard
Parking_Cress_5105@reddit
Yeah most of my stuff was quiet too, you could only hear it when you with an ear next to he card, but then I got lucky with a 3060ti from gigabyte, that was a screeching monster + it has zero fan function that made the card go thunk randomly several times a minute at idle.
korg64@reddit
It's usually a PSU issue is it not? Although some GPUs are affected worse than others.
Try plugging your headphones into the front aux in on your case. This worked for me in the past.
JhonBorg@reddit
What you describe isn't coil whine, it's interference by everything electronical that's near the port and that's why the front aux port works fine for you since there is much less stuff next to it. Can be also avoided by better isolated cables as well.
Coil whine can be noticeable noisy when under high load (unlocked FPS, benchmark, stresstests, gpu heavy games).
Cold-Sandwich-34@reddit
It's a micro-mechanical issue that has to do with components vibrating at a certain frequency. The PSU or GPU are often culprits because they have a lot of small parts, but it's not indicative of a flaw in any way, it just happens. I don't see how changing aux ports would do anything to affect this. That's like saying switching USB ports will keep your temps low.
korg64@reddit
That's because your chat gpt result doesn't give you any actual understanding into the matter.. Stop trawling internet forums trying to look like a know it all.
Cold-Sandwich-34@reddit
lol what?
Aleksanterinleivos@reddit
Coil whine is practically random, there is no "fix" for it. You could try all the random tricks you can find online and nothing helps. It might randomly go away or get louder.
daanos60@reddit
The GPU that I had and now have both have coil whine, depending on the load, with no load there was no coil whine, and with max load it was pretty loud. Both are AMD GPUs never had Nvidia so can't compare
kurapika91@reddit
My 4090 coil whines like crazy but my 5070ti is nearly silent. Both ASUS TUF. It's just luck of the draw
Seiq@reddit
Yeah, same. My 4090 Suprim wailed like a fucking banshee under load, but my 5090 is inaudible.
RNG gonna RNG
archeybald@reddit
My 3080ti whines under high loads. Usually I just pull the power limit down a bit if it gets too annoying
c300g97@reddit
It's not possible sadly , it's happening because of the coils inside the GPU, nothing you can do will help.
It's not a sign of bad gpu , all you can do is reduce the voltages via undervolt.
PresentCollege6097@reddit
I've found capping my fps helps reduce it but it's still there.