@EVERYONE: Just went through a rollercoaster with three Asus TUF cards in the past week - all of them were like a choir of disgruntled mice with that super annoying coil whine. 😩 Finally decided to break up with them and hooked up with the Gigabyte Gaming OC, and let me tell you, it's like a breath of fresh air! 🌬 This new card is so quiet; I can actually hear myself think. No more coil whine, and the fans are like stealth mode. Did all the benchmarks again, and surprise, surprise - Gigabyte holds its own just like the Asus TUF. If you're stuck in coil whine hell, maybe it's time for a switcheroo! 🔄✨
With closed side panel you would hear less of it, and i heard a lot of ppl say it fade away as time goes on and that you just have to stress it long enough for it to fade away
@@zzz-vd5rp Gigabyte fans are the worst, because gigabyte always has the worst fan curve. I have the gigabyte gaming oc and it has terrible coil whine. And I saw strix's with absolutely no coil whine. So at this point it's just luck i guess. Goodluck finding a quiet one. And 4000 series are not really suitable for undervolting, you lose too much performance.
I have a PNY 4090 XLR8 non OC card and it sounds just like this video. I find it really annoying but bearable with the glass panel closed. Totally silent when not gaming.@@pedroduran8927
I’ve had several Strix cards, like 10 1080Ti, 4 2080 Ti and 2 3080 and not a single one didn’t have Coilwhine. Especially in higher Hz mode. And i’ve tried different RM750/850x PSU’s to test with, and now a AX1600i. I’m counting on ASUS to give me that sound :)
@@jorgesp4911 i got it brand new for about the same price as a RM850x over here, so i only bought it because of that. Think i paid 200 EUR approx. Not from a store though, but brand new sealed up. Unnecessary? - yes. But a very nice PSU. Love the iCUE feature. Only one minor thing i don’t care for is the fan speed at bootup. 100% for some seconds. But other than that it’s barely working. :)
@@jorgesp4911 got it brand new sealed for the same price as a RM850x, and bought it during the end of mining when some companies started selling them cheap. A lot of people bought them for mining but ended up never using them.
Hi Devar! I watched (and heard!) your video carefully and I have this question for you (or anyone else who complains about it) - what do you mean by coil whine? I've had graphic cards before, including the Asus Strix 980Ti and 1080Ti, that when working at full power, in addition to the noise of the fans working at full speed, there was a sharp and unpleasant sound (especially with the 980Ti). Is it the squeaking and annoying sound that you sometimes hear on some graphics cards that you mean by coil whine or is it the sound of the wind blowing through the graphics card cooler fins? Personally, I didn't hear that high-pitched, nasty sound in your video. I only heard the fans working at higher speeds, a noise that is normal for any fan after a certain speed (in reality, the sound is not even the fan, but the turbulence of the blown air). I also have an RTX 4090 (an MSI Gaming Trio) and my graphics card, if it has to work at its maximum capacity, it also makes the same noise I see in this video. The simplest way to solve this problem is to place the side panel on the computer case, as long as you don't force the angle of the graphics card electrical cables any further. In my setup, the noise is so low that I leave the computer case open and it is on the desk, right next to me! Moreover, along with my previous RTX 3090, this RTX 4090 is one of the quietest that has ever been through my setup and I am amazed at the "noise" that people make because of the coil whine of the RTX 4090, when it was present in the most old graphics cards and it wasn't talked about as much.
@@Arya108X Why do you think the GPU is not delivering the full power? I don't know if you know, but with some games that are not so heavy, the GPU can operate at lower frequencies and lower percentage of use, especially if you are using an 60Hz monitor (even at 4K resolution!) and V-Sync is on. Play Cyberpunk 2077 with all the RT options at max, but without any DLSS option active, and you will see even the mighty RTX 4090 struggling to maintain the 60FPS.
@Let's Play Skyrim LE My setup is: Ryzen 5600x, 32gb 3600mhz, B550 ( bc my old X570 had a burned capacitor). I was thinking of upgrading to a 5800x3d, but i don't know if it is worth having in mind that we have a new generation of cpu that also requires a new motherboard and memory generation. There are a few comparisons and benchmarks using 5600x with a 4090, but the few that i watched show better results. I watched a couple of videos tuning using the Nvidia Control Panel.
@@Arya108X I've also seen videos on TH-cam with values slightly above my system (i7-12700k, on an Asus TUF Z690 motherboard, with DDR4 3600MHz CL 16 memories). Many of these videos are from TH-cam's channels whose seriousness of their numbers is questionable. Some overclock their systems and don't mention it on the video details, and others simply copy or deduce FPS numbers based on videos from other TH-camrs and with that data make fake videos. Others simply don't clearly state all the settings used in the game, and this can greatly influence the results shown. As for your Ryzen 5600X, yes, it might bottleneck a bit at 1080p, but at higher resolutions, especially 4K, the difference is usually not much, if any (it always depends on the game you're using). I've also seen videos from big TH-camrs (I think from Hardware Unboxed), where they used the Ryzen 5800X3D. It's an excellent processor for many games, but not for all games! If you want to keep your DDR4 memories, I would advise you to switch to the i7-13700K, with a motherboard that uses DDR4 memories. For the price, this is an excellent processor for everything! However, if I were you, I would only do that if I really needed it in a certain game. If the game runs well with your current setup, ignore the videos on TH-cam, just keep playing your game and having fun, and wait for the next generation of processors, as the current Ryzen 7000 and intel 13000 weren't a significant leap over the corresponding previous generations. And don't overclock your RTX 4090! I've done some tests with overclocks and, except for Time Spy Extreme, the difference in results is almost none (sometimes even worse!), for a much more noticeable increase in the graphics card temperature, that it only shortens its lifespan. Heat is the worst enemy of graphics cards.
I am very sensitive to this as my older cards had this 1080Ti, 2080TI. My 3090 MSI suprim x and 4090 auros master have zero coil whine. Clearly not all cards have this and I personally consider this as a lack of quality control.
@@Pandemonium088 I had a 4090 AOrus Master and it had too much coil whine, A buzzing sound in games that is easily audible and annoying. I was disappointed as I heard they were supposed to be good cards for coil whine. I also tried 2 Gaming OC and a PNY XLR8 and the first Gaming OIC was probably the least though they all had too much. The current Gaming OC just as bad as the Master.
@@tomaszrzeznik3444 What motherboard and power supply? Is it connected directly to top PCIe slot or use an extender? And is rom quiet and all fans quiet and can you hear none under full load in Timespy and AAA games at 150 FPS or less?
A good test to let hear coul whine noise better is use the far cry 6 playable try version or full game if you have. in menu, card use not much power and no coilwhine. in game it is loud. you can then do videos that record the whine 5 sec in game scene and then press esc to go to menu and hear the diffrence
Limit your GPU FPS to be the same as your monitor refresh rate via GPU software or with in game settings. That helped with my coil whine and I didn’t notice any difference in gameplay or visuals.
yes, but it's not normal for me to pay 2000 dollars and also limit my fps for the GPU to work well, normally quality coils should be installed, other GPUs don't have this problem
My ROG 3080Ti had this issue like crazy I sent it to warranty and changed a new one but the problem still exist. is driving me crazy and i switched back to my old 2080S I think I have to sell it and get and 4080, what you guys think?
Undervolt your card a bit, it helps to mitigate the coil whine as your card is not running at 100% capacity at all time. Also, capping your FPS further lessen the coil whine. Your human eye is not able to distinguish between 120 or 240 FPS anyway but running 240 FPS will be more taxing on your card which generate more coil whine.
It soudns like electricyty noises. Intensivity changes when your fps goes up or down. Just try vsync or close your case and make wind inside it may help :)
thought the same way. its how it usally works but with ada lovelace, the whine is different. its not depending on load or fps. it depends on powerdraw. i had 3 msi cards here, that were all the same. coilwhine start as soon as the cards draws 80+ watts. which is basically every game, at any number of fps at any load. you can force it: take an old not demanding game. set it to max settings, limit the fps to 60. cards draws 92 watt and you have loud coilwhine. lower the settings to lower, card goes to 74watt draw, coilwhine is gone
I think it hates the dell monitor its plugged into
oi the u3821dw is awesome except for everything that isn't
@EVERYONE: Just went through a rollercoaster with three Asus TUF cards in the past week - all of them were like a choir of disgruntled mice with that super annoying coil whine. 😩 Finally decided to break up with them and hooked up with the Gigabyte Gaming OC, and let me tell you, it's like a breath of fresh air! 🌬 This new card is so quiet; I can actually hear myself think. No more coil whine, and the fans are like stealth mode. Did all the benchmarks again, and surprise, surprise - Gigabyte holds its own just like the Asus TUF. If you're stuck in coil whine hell, maybe it's time for a switcheroo! 🔄✨
...but can it handle Tetris?
Man I don't feel comfortable with that GPU cabling Ooof.
It's horrible. STILL waiting for new cablemod cables. The adaptor can die in a fire. Oh wait, they are.
With closed side panel you would hear less of it, and i heard a lot of ppl say it fade away as time goes on and that you just have to stress it long enough for it to fade away
maybe it fade away because they get hearing loss . ultrasonic noise that you can not hear can damaga ears too.
Mine sounded just as bad. It drove me nuts. Sold it and got a Gigabyte gaming oc which has no coil whine and clocks better than what the strix did
is the gaming oc's fans quiet too? I'm looking to buy either the gaming oc or the strix and undervolting them to have a really quiet pc.
@@zzz-vd5rp Gigabyte fans are the worst, because gigabyte always has the worst fan curve. I have the gigabyte gaming oc and it has terrible coil whine. And I saw strix's with absolutely no coil whine. So at this point it's just luck i guess. Goodluck finding a quiet one. And 4000 series are not really suitable for undervolting, you lose too much performance.
@@zzz-vd5rp PNY XLR8 has reports to have a little to none coil whine
I had an Asus TUF which was even worse than this, returned it immediately.
Now I have a Galax which has almost none.
I have a PNY 4090 XLR8 non OC card and it sounds just like this video. I find it really annoying but bearable with the glass panel closed. Totally silent when not gaming.@@pedroduran8927
Putting the panel on might help
Any fix for this shit?
My previous card (EVGA 3060 XC) was much worse than this
I’ve had several Strix cards, like 10 1080Ti, 4 2080 Ti and 2 3080 and not a single one didn’t have Coilwhine. Especially in higher Hz mode. And i’ve tried different RM750/850x PSU’s to test with, and now a AX1600i. I’m counting on ASUS to give me that sound :)
1600w for a 3080?
@@jorgesp4911 i got it brand new for about the same price as a RM850x over here, so i only bought it because of that. Think i paid 200 EUR approx. Not from a store though, but brand new sealed up.
Unnecessary? - yes. But a very nice PSU. Love the iCUE feature. Only one minor thing i don’t care for is the fan speed at bootup. 100% for some seconds. But other than that it’s barely working. :)
Unbelievable!
@@jorgesp4911 got it brand new sealed for the same price as a RM850x, and bought it during the end of mining when some companies started selling them cheap. A lot of people bought them for mining but ended up never using them.
@@breezelight3357 yup
Undervolt the Sh**t out of it, it will soothe the coil whine.
coil wine with an asus card is a feature :D
in german coil is also known and label as "Drossel" it is also the name of a bird called in english trush . see trush sing how it sounds
so maybe asus think that a "drossel" should not be silent and sing loud :-)
Unbearable noise.
I searched for rog strix 4090 and the first title was about coil whine lmao dont buy strix cards
Awesome I hope this helped, ASUS!
Genellikle tüm Rog serisinde cw var
Benim rx580 strix buzdolabına dönüyordu oyunda hahaha
Hi Devar! I watched (and heard!) your video carefully and I have this question for you (or anyone else who complains about it) - what do you mean by coil whine? I've had graphic cards before, including the Asus Strix 980Ti and 1080Ti, that when working at full power, in addition to the noise of the fans working at full speed, there was a sharp and unpleasant sound (especially with the 980Ti). Is it the squeaking and annoying sound that you sometimes hear on some graphics cards that you mean by coil whine or is it the sound of the wind blowing through the graphics card cooler fins?
Personally, I didn't hear that high-pitched, nasty sound in your video. I only heard the fans working at higher speeds, a noise that is normal for any fan after a certain speed (in reality, the sound is not even the fan, but the turbulence of the blown air).
I also have an RTX 4090 (an MSI Gaming Trio) and my graphics card, if it has to work at its maximum capacity, it also makes the same noise I see in this video. The simplest way to solve this problem is to place the side panel on the computer case, as long as you don't force the angle of the graphics card electrical cables any further. In my setup, the noise is so low that I leave the computer case open and it is on the desk, right next to me!
Moreover, along with my previous RTX 3090, this RTX 4090 is one of the quietest that has ever been through my setup and I am amazed at the "noise" that people make because of the coil whine of the RTX 4090, when it was present in the most old graphics cards and it wasn't talked about as much.
Yes
I have the same MSI TRIO 4090, but it looks like the gpu isn't delivering the full power. Do you have any tutorials or configs ?
@@Arya108X Why do you think the GPU is not delivering the full power? I don't know if you know, but with some games that are not so heavy, the GPU can operate at lower frequencies and lower percentage of use, especially if you are using an 60Hz monitor (even at 4K resolution!) and V-Sync is on. Play Cyberpunk 2077 with all the RT options at max, but without any DLSS option active, and you will see even the mighty RTX 4090 struggling to maintain the 60FPS.
@Let's Play Skyrim LE My setup is: Ryzen 5600x, 32gb 3600mhz, B550 ( bc my old X570 had a burned capacitor). I was thinking of upgrading to a 5800x3d, but i don't know if it is worth having in mind that we have a new generation of cpu that also requires a new motherboard and memory generation.
There are a few comparisons and benchmarks using 5600x with a 4090, but the few that i watched show better results. I watched a couple of videos tuning using the Nvidia Control Panel.
@@Arya108X I've also seen videos on TH-cam with values slightly above my system (i7-12700k, on an Asus TUF Z690 motherboard, with DDR4 3600MHz CL 16 memories). Many of these videos are from TH-cam's channels whose seriousness of their numbers is questionable. Some overclock their systems and don't mention it on the video details, and others simply copy or deduce FPS numbers based on videos from other TH-camrs and with that data make fake videos. Others simply don't clearly state all the settings used in the game, and this can greatly influence the results shown.
As for your Ryzen 5600X, yes, it might bottleneck a bit at 1080p, but at higher resolutions, especially 4K, the difference is usually not much, if any (it always depends on the game you're using). I've also seen videos from big TH-camrs (I think from Hardware Unboxed), where they used the Ryzen 5800X3D. It's an excellent processor for many games, but not for all games! If you want to keep your DDR4 memories, I would advise you to switch to the i7-13700K, with a motherboard that uses DDR4 memories. For the price, this is an excellent processor for everything!
However, if I were you, I would only do that if I really needed it in a certain game. If the game runs well with your current setup, ignore the videos on TH-cam, just keep playing your game and having fun, and wait for the next generation of processors, as the current Ryzen 7000 and intel 13000 weren't a significant leap over the corresponding previous generations.
And don't overclock your RTX 4090! I've done some tests with overclocks and, except for Time Spy Extreme, the difference in results is almost none (sometimes even worse!), for a much more noticeable increase in the graphics card temperature, that it only shortens its lifespan. Heat is the worst enemy of graphics cards.
Seems all models of 4090 can have this issue.
My PNY 4090 doesn’t do this
I am very sensitive to this as my older cards had this 1080Ti, 2080TI. My 3090 MSI suprim x and 4090 auros master have zero coil whine. Clearly not all cards have this and I personally consider this as a lack of quality control.
@@Pandemonium088 I had a 4090 AOrus Master and it had too much coil whine, A buzzing sound in games that is easily audible and annoying. I was disappointed as I heard they were supposed to be good cards for coil whine. I also tried 2 Gaming OC and a PNY XLR8 and the first Gaming OIC was probably the least though they all had too much. The current Gaming OC just as bad as the Master.
Zotac Amp extreme airo coil free
@@tomaszrzeznik3444 What motherboard and power supply? Is it connected directly to top PCIe slot or use an extender? And is rom quiet and all fans quiet and can you hear none under full load in Timespy and AAA games at 150 FPS or less?
Stirx product line have a tradition to have coil whine. Typical result of ASUS’ smart a** designs…
Its so quit, its ok !
it never went away with my PNY 4090.
Yes I cleaned my monitor after seeing how dirty it was thanks to the light... you don't realise how quick they get like that. Gross.
Damn brotha, you need to pour some dem wate on it.
Had mine for years neve had those spots like that
th-cam.com/video/qmyLMsWWSx4/w-d-xo.html 猫头鹰4080电感啸叫，俗称电流声
i had coil whine on my rog strix 3080, theres no fix, tried everything. Had to resell it and buy another brand in the end.
all videos i've seen about coil whine has the same thing in common, that old psu cable...
A good test to let hear coul whine noise better is use the far cry 6 playable try version or full game if you have. in menu, card use not much power and no coilwhine. in game it is loud. you can then do videos that record the whine 5 sec in game scene and then press esc to go to menu and hear the diffrence
Spit on it, works every time. POOF! No more coil whine. 💧
undervolt it and problem solved
Unbelievable!
I have same problem it's very noisy never have like that gpu. And send back to shop. RMA
4×8 pin
Really not hearing much. Those fans are so quiet.
Eiyher this card or the msi liquid cooled one either will work for me
I also have these strange sounds
After a week the coil whine is the same in my strix 4090 oc ...
WHAT XD XD XD
rip
Sounds like a Strix RX 480 I had a while back. Got rid of it
that's good
How you been mate? ...im the Secretary of our Field and Service rifle club for the last three years so, gotta behave myself...for now...
@Brendan ...sex with your mum has been great. She's not a bad root for an old duck...
Thats super unlucky, i have the same card as you and i have no coil whine (knock on wood)
Is it still going on?
I don't notice it anymore at all
Has the sound remained or has it increased or decreased since the first day you uploaded the video?@@Devar
@@kayhanbaba544I don't hear it anymore since the case panel is finally on...
how did u manage to break in the coil whine ?
Is Coil whine normal should i Rma my gpu??
Yeah unfortunately it's quite normal. Some parts are just louder than others.
What software are you using to control the gpu rgb?
I'm not yet, OpenRGB still doesn't support it.
Limit your GPU FPS to be the same as your monitor refresh rate via GPU software or with in game settings. That helped with my coil whine and I didn’t notice any difference in gameplay or visuals.
yes, but it's not normal for me to pay 2000 dollars and also limit my fps for the GPU to work well, normally quality coils should be installed, other GPUs don't have this problem
My ROG 3080Ti had this issue like crazy
I sent it to warranty and changed a new one but the problem still exist.
is driving me crazy and i switched back to my old 2080S
I think I have to sell it and get and 4080,
what you guys think?
Just ignore it man, all of these cards have coil whine just cap your fps
Lol 4080 is overpriced crap
try undervolting, the stock setting itself is overkill for current games so not like you'll get bad experience with minor performance loss
@@AdamantMindset no don’t do that just cap fps
Undervolt your card a bit, it helps to mitigate the coil whine as your card is not running at 100% capacity at all time. Also, capping your FPS further lessen the coil whine. Your human eye is not able to distinguish between 120 or 240 FPS anyway but running 240 FPS will be more taxing on your card which generate more coil whine.
Well, when you have the mic right on top of the gpu it's noticeable, but when you pull away it's not.
It soudns like electricyty noises. Intensivity changes when your fps goes up or down. Just try vsync or close your case and make wind inside it may help :)
thought the same way. its how it usally works but with ada lovelace, the whine is different. its not depending on load or fps. it depends on powerdraw. i had 3 msi cards here, that were all the same. coilwhine start as soon as the cards draws 80+ watts. which is basically every game, at any number of fps at any load. you can force it: take an old not demanding game. set it to max settings, limit the fps to 60. cards draws 92 watt and you have loud coilwhine. lower the settings to lower, card goes to 74watt draw, coilwhine is gone
What’s the motherboard you’re using? And what’s the card beneath your GPU?
ASUS Dark Hero
The other card is a Xonar sound card. Yeah I still rock a sound card in 2022.
Everybody who overpaid deserves coil whine.
That’s a childish comment.. you must be jealous
Entry level cards get whine too lol
Try undervolting it, it solved my issue.
not healthy for gpu
@@niexyr?