Question Coil whine, the new norm.

[ItzEcliptikz]

I have now gone through a desktop I have personally built, testing 3 different 9070xt GPU’s testing three different PSU’s, two pre built machines (one with a 9070xt, one with a 5070ti) and all produce ungodly coil whine on the GPU. All were using a 9800x3d. Is this just the new norm? My previous i7 10700k + 3060ti builds was whisper quiet. Is this just to be expected with more powerful hardware? I find it’s crazy to have to undervolt heavily or cap fps under 150 to avoid this problem. It’s like buying a Ferrari, but its top speed is 60mph. Don’t know what else to do, as this is incredibly frustrating and disheartening. Is PC gaming simply dying? What have your experiences been? Thank you!

 

[Lutfij]

I have now gone through a desktop I have personally built, testing 3 different 9070xt GPU’s testing three different PSU’s, two pre built machines (one with a 9070xt, one with a 5070ti) and all produce ungodly coil whine on the GPU.
We're going to need context as to the specs to all systems, like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

Is PC gaming simply dying?
No.

What have your experiences been?
I've repaired a couple of system's where coil whine was present. The most recent one I've had to deal with was a Sapphire Nitro + RX 6700XT and the coil whine would show up as soon as you ran CoD: Warzone. Outside of that no titles ever caused coil whine to rear it's head.

Just an FYI, coil whine will be present in practically all parts of a PC that have power delivery areas and lackluster componentry or taxation of the part that it doesn't like causes coil whine to happen. This was seen in EVGA RTX3000 series cards where Amazon's New World came around, not to mention with some of Asus's board about a decade ago. The latter was solved with a BIOS update, mind you.

 

[Teknoman2]

The only case of widespread coil whine i heard of so far are the first batch of Powercolor 9070s because of bad fan bearings that were replaced on their next batch. Also, coil whine can be caused by the PSU on cards that should work fine.

 

[ItzEcliptikz]

I have now gone through a desktop I have personally built, testing 3 different 9070xt GPU’s testing three different PSU’s, two pre built machines (one with a 9070xt, one with a 5070ti) and all produce ungodly coil whine on the GPU.
We're going to need context as to the specs to all systems, like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

Is PC gaming simply dying?
No.

What have your experiences been?
I've repaired a couple of system's where coil whine was present. The most recent one I've had to deal with was a Sapphire Nitro + RX 6700XT and the coil whine would show up as soon as you ran CoD: Warzone. Outside of that no titles ever caused coil whine to rear it's head.

Just an FYI, coil whine will be present in practically all parts of a PC that have power delivery areas and lackluster componentry or taxation of the part that it doesn't like causes coil whine to happen. This was seen in EVGA RTX3000 series cards where Amazon's New World came around, not to mention with some of Asus's board about a decade ago. The latter was solved with a BIOS update, mind you.

Thank you. Will post current specs when I have time, but I feel like at this point it’s so widespread that it doesn’t even matter. Mind you, this was across a total of four different gpu’s (3 9070xt, 1 5070 ti) three different motherboards, four different psu’s, different memory, nvme’s, cases, fans, etc… everything was updated, from bios, to chipset, to windows, so many different configurations and components and still coil whine. I think everything is just getting more expensive, but using cheaper parts and quality control has also gone down the drain. Don’t know how to escape it or which components to put together to avoid this. I feel like it’s simply the new norm at this point.

 

[Ralston18]

Are there any systems at all in the environment that do not experience coil whine?

 

[ItzEcliptikz]

Are there any systems at all in the environment that do not experience coil whine?

Doesn’t look like it, and some are way worse than others.

 

[Ralston18]

Perhaps problems with the incoming electrical power connections.

 

[reeve11]

Someone who's good at it could probably make a business doing after market electronics grade epoxy or silicone coil resin applications to keep the coil from vibrating and dampen/eliminate coil whine. If they wound them tighter initially, it would also help from vibrating like cricket legs.