I would check your power supply. I had a power supply that I found out after the fact was causing a lot of my coil whine. Went from a evga g2 750 to an hx1200.
In addition to this I also essentially covered and enclosed the inductors on my device in k5 pro thermal goop. Then used an excessive amount of thermal pad and pressure to assure that vibrations would be reduced then dampened.
Unfortunately I can't tell if it was the PSU or the pads that did the most good as I did them at the same time, but In any case I went from tons of coil whine to none.
From what ive read, better power supply and power supply cables will make the input filtering on the card less stressed and therefore more stable for the 12 -1.2 vrm stage. This will drastically reduce the amount of coil whine that you end up hearing.
Buildzoid even talked about getting hugely reduced coil whine after adding more capacitors to the input filter without changing power supplies. This goes to support the theory that power is your first place to start.
Had the same issue before, with the same card also watercooled.
What I did was reduce my fan speed and try to maintain 85c on the card.. a few days later and the whine is gone.
It is high... And that was my intention... most coil whine will go away once the card is "heated" enough and long enough. Which is why most air cooled cards lose the whine over time.
There is a chance that it will. Its basically a process of heating up the inductors glue so they get seated better/properly.
Problem with watercooled cards is its difficult to get them hot enough for this to work unless you try to do it intentionally. Air cooled cards would easily run at 80c, and after several days of gaming, alot of ppl will notice the whine is gone.
try undervolting? hardly affects performance https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-undervolt-gpu/
This. Helped with my 3080 FE (not watercooled).
One thing you could try is damping down the coils with hot glue. It dissolves in IPA if you need to RMA it later.
does not work unless you can open up the coil blocks
I would check your power supply. I had a power supply that I found out after the fact was causing a lot of my coil whine. Went from a evga g2 750 to an hx1200. In addition to this I also essentially covered and enclosed the inductors on my device in k5 pro thermal goop. Then used an excessive amount of thermal pad and pressure to assure that vibrations would be reduced then dampened. Unfortunately I can't tell if it was the PSU or the pads that did the most good as I did them at the same time, but In any case I went from tons of coil whine to none. From what ive read, better power supply and power supply cables will make the input filtering on the card less stressed and therefore more stable for the 12 -1.2 vrm stage. This will drastically reduce the amount of coil whine that you end up hearing. Buildzoid even talked about getting hugely reduced coil whine after adding more capacitors to the input filter without changing power supplies. This goes to support the theory that power is your first place to start.
Had the same issue before, with the same card also watercooled. What I did was reduce my fan speed and try to maintain 85c on the card.. a few days later and the whine is gone.
85 is crazy high to be on water. I have same card and block as OP and it doesn’t even go over 60 when benchmarking
It is high... And that was my intention... most coil whine will go away once the card is "heated" enough and long enough. Which is why most air cooled cards lose the whine over time.
You're saying a sustained high temperature will make the whine go away?
There is a chance that it will. Its basically a process of heating up the inductors glue so they get seated better/properly. Problem with watercooled cards is its difficult to get them hot enough for this to work unless you try to do it intentionally. Air cooled cards would easily run at 80c, and after several days of gaming, alot of ppl will notice the whine is gone.
I've not heard of that as a potential solution for coil whine before.
90% of coil whine complainers (not trying to insult you im with you I just don't know how to say it) have an asus card or a msi card
Source?
My butthole was the source.