[invisibleblue]

I’ll do the RMA afterall, like you proposed. The coil noise is very specific to certain applications and in windows it runs cool and silent like one would expect and like i am used to. however in games it’s not bearable without software limitation. I can still hear the buzz trough headphones after software limitation if i use a volume setting i am comfortable with (louder = a no go)

I am reluctant to send it because it is the holiday season and i really don’t want to use the old gpu because it’s age is really showing on performance and stability but i’ll do it nontheless.

[invisibleblue]

I did not “tune” it, i simply limited the FPS because the games where coil noise was happening i got about 500 fps or more. Ontop of that i simply changed the fan speed curve (how fast it kicks in) to keep the temperature in the regions i feel okay with under full load.

The voltage regulator is at 79 degrees while the card is at 71 under 90% load. The fan speed is 55%. The 2nd voltage regulator is at ~70 too though.

The noise is ok after limiting the FPS and adjusting the fan speed and i haven’t touched any other settings. I assume these are all harmless. On low temperatures i reduced the fan speed it and on higher temperatures i made it scale a bit better. The perfomance was okay so far. Is the voltage regulator temperature something i shouldn’t worry about?

[invisibleblue]

I think i am satisfied with the perfomance for now. Thanks for the help and informing me about “coil whine”. I’ve done a lot of MSI afterburner tweaking and it’s working within parameters that i am comfortable with, with no additional cooling expenses. I am able to sustain a fully loaded gpu under 80 degrees or so and that should leave enough room for the voltage regulator regardless of it’s design. The sound is annoying at times but i do not play a lot of games which fully use my GPU. I mainly play games like dota2 and cs:go which are not very demanding and well optimized.

Thanks again for the patience and your help. If i experience anything i feel unnatural, i’ll revisit this thread i guess!

Double thanks 🙂

[invisibleblue]

Okay i’d like to correct myself. Going into game (leaving the main menu) the coil whine is audiable enough to hear from anywhere in the entire house if there is no sound polution, with the PC room doors open at 100% gpu use.

at 60 fps and 100 gpu use in rome total war 2 it’s like having a bee hive in my computer.

[invisibleblue]

I was able to get the coil whine under control. The rome 2 total war was rendering at 350 frames per second and with third party fps limiting tools (msi afterburner) it’s working within my expectations on 75 FPS.

 

The 2nd question is the weird temperature reading in GPU-Z. Since the main issue has been solved i don’t feel like i need an RMA but i do want to know whether overheating voltage regulators could significantly reduce the GPU lifespan.

The GPU temperature is significantly cooler than voltage regulator 1 reading in GPU-Z by about 10+ degrees. Similarly Voltage regulator 2 is also significantly cooler.

 

Should i constrain my use to absolutely limit the voltage regulator temperature to 95 degrees or is it fine if i simply ignore that and aim at a reasonable GPU temperature of 85 degrees under full load. (which may or may not overheat the voltage regulator beyond 95 degrees)

 

I’ve already made my own, modified fan speed curve which starts off slower but rises much faster to compensate.

[invisibleblue]

[quote author="Paul"]That is the typical coil whine on these cards, it is very much in all vendor cards as we use the same components.[/quote]

 

In certain applications it could easily disrupt sleep of someone in the next room and that’s slightly an issue. It’s bouth loud and has a high pitch beyond what i consider normal. Do you have any recomendations on how to bouth monitor and control the GPU directly. AMD Catalyst is a broken piece of software and nothing seems to work on it. (overdrive deletes itself after hitting accept on bouth old and new gpu – for manually controlling fan speed on more demanding games, Forced V-sync doesn’t work and i’m not aware of an FPS limiter in catalyst)

 

I assume that the whine scales with FPS and not GPU load?

 

Any other non warranty removing way to tackle this issue?

 

Thanks for the help and the time invested so far. Coil whine is a completely foreign concept. The old GPU’s Coil whine is barely audiable while in the same game, on the same fps settings, the new one is several times more audiable.

 

In rome 2 it goes past all boundries and is actually extremely loud. i really can’t put the intensity of the sound into words.

[invisibleblue]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3K4gEjB2jigTU1KLTVWcUtSV0MteVZya1lQQ3AzUHFhSG9j/view?usp=sharing Wrong link? Sorry about that!

 

 Anyone with this link should be able to view.

[invisibleblue]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3K4gEjB2jigTU1KLTVWcUtSV0MteVZya1lQQ3AzUHFhSG9j&authuser=0

I recorded it with iphone 4s by holding it close to the gpu.

After exiting rome2 the left over vibrations recorded after vsync was turned on stopped.

[invisibleblue]

I may also have underestimated the noise with vsycn off. It’s completely unacceptable, having it checked again.

 

Should i remove the GPU and install the old one back?

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