How to fix/reduce GPU Coil Whine !

[@tomstechtable]

Does your GPU suffer from the whine ?

[@ghostyrain4369]

Yes i cleaned my pc then it started to make that stupid sound 😞

[@ReneHofstetter-fb2qo]

Just bought a Asus rog strix 6900XT LC OC for like 490€ and it has extreme coil whine. I understand why that guy sold the GPU for that cheap😂

[@BetarayBillLover]

yeah its been working fine for a week or two then i got onto fortnite tonight and it started doing it out of nowhere

[@dudeman1322]

Got a 6700 xt just today and when I heard the noise I was so damn scared cuz I thought that I got scammed and the card was broken

[@Warmuro]

Those companies claim "silent fan" etc. but what about the coil whine, if gpu makes sound it's not quite. What's more, it's irritating. Hope in the near future there will be regulations like "zero coil whine guaranteed" because there are monitors like 360hz, 500hz and if we're going to cap the fps , what's the point of getting high fps. It's totally bullshit.

[@silfrido1768]

If it unbearable then I feel you. no one should spend a lot of money & have to deal with that. idk what makes the sound tbh. For my strix 4090 it whines between certain scenes but I deal with it anyway lol. hopefully I fix it

[@Fr33mx]

Don't think you can make a gpu with a 100% zero coil whine. You can make a card that had Coil whine that is inaudible, but not gone completely.

[@FreshPanda97]

@@Fr33mxhow?

[@Frost2599]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I just bought a brand new computer with a 4070 in it. I started hearing really bad coil whine. Turns out it was running like 674 FPS. It was only happing in a non demanding gaming…. Once I capped it to 144 like my monitor. It completely stopped…. Thank you so much !! Earned yourself a sub !!

[@tomstechtable]

Happy it helped 🙂

[@methabuser]

Unfortunately coil whine has to do nothing with cooling system on a GPU, so even on Zero RPM mode graphics card can produce slight coil whine (thats how it is for me). Coil whine is generated by the electrical components (inductors and capacitors) on the GPU and is not related to the mechanical operation of the fans. So basically the only thing you can do is deal with it, wear headphones and forget about the problem.

[@slimsqde7397]

great video thank you, underclocked my 2060 to .9v and the coil whine is probably 50% of what it was. better than nothing, I think I may go into fixing it physically by opening up the card but we will see

[@chrisk3127]

sometimes its just the card, my 1070ti even extremely undervolted had really bad coil whine, upgraded to a 6750xt recently and its dead silent

[@carmoj4121]

I got a brand new 7700 xt and I can’t play without headphones now it sucks

[@alperenylmaz1344]

@@carmoj4121Same for my PNY 4090 too. First 6 month i use without any problem. Now cool whine trigger my anxiety

[@Who_Does]

wait, 6750 xt are silent? how is it now? thought those cards are known for coil whine

[@chrisk3127]

@Who_Does unless it's under heavy load it's still quiet, helldivers 2 makes mine whine a bit

[@breezelight3357]

@@carmoj4121 The last time I had coil whine noises was 20 years ago from some cheap very low end GPU. Just return it bro!

[@burton3516]

I got a new Asus tuff 4070 ti, it had the worst coil whine I had ever heard, sent it back to newegg for a replacement the new card I got is dead quiet. Please if you get a new gpu with coil whine return it, although most manufactures will not accept a return for this reason most big retailers will take return for a defect or just no reason within a small window. Dont get stuck with a whiey gpu this is not acceptable on components this expensive.

[@silfrido1768]

You can get your undervolt to 825-850 lol. just go -300 on the core & set your respective voltage at w.e frequency you got in game while hitting a certain temperature

[@matthewsquires423]

ya'll are saying that i can play games at 144 fps... i reduced all my stuff to 60fps, and the noise is louder than my games. it does go away if i look t the sky... running an 8gb rx 6600. hell this thing uses max power at 100w (the radeon software says its drawing that) and that's on 7 days to die.

[@st4849]

MSI 4060 ti 16Gig here: Huge "modem type noise" during simple Unity game, but no noise at all under FurMark which is the most brutal stress test you can do to your card. How is this possible please? The card hits 70'C during FurMark and regulates its temperature afterwards by spinning the fans at high speed. So it definitely does get stress tested.

[@spawnersiak]

Because FurMark is synthetic test and in most cases it would not cause coil whine. I have the same problem with 7800 xt steel legend. Coil whine while gaming and no coil whine while stress test in furmark, msi kombustor or aida64 extreme.

[@cccpredarmy]

In order to play at over 300fps you need a monitor capable of 300Hz+ refresh rate. Otherwise you won't see any difference becuse your monitor won't refresh as fast as frames are generated. Monitors with such high refresh rate are rare and most probably you don't have it. Cap the games fps at your monitor refresh rate and be happy.

[@summerz4748]

Dude you saved my life.

[@joelfuelling8725]

Great video! What specs are your rig (GPU/CPU)? You mention it in the video but don't state it, which is big for algorithms and general video context (and, accessibility too!) and those that are curious for a general "benchmark" compared to their own systems :) --- (Great channel name!)

[@tomstechtable]

Thanks ! You're right, my specs are now in the description 🙂

[@idk_ext1168]

Amazing video as always ❤

[@diegogbox]

An important tip you missed is to use multiple PCI-E cables instead of a single one, that alone almost eliminated the coil whine for me.

[@erby13]

hi, what psu do you use?

[@diegogbox]

​@@erby13Hi, I have an Asus ROG 750W PSU

[@DigitalKurisu]

What you mean multiple

[@HelamanGile]

No my 1300w PSU just does it as soon as I turn it on...

[@DigitalKurisu]

Did you manage to fix it?

[@Tirga]

Hi Tom, I've got 4070 FE and coil whine immediately starts when I use ultra graphic settings on a game, as soon as I drop to high graphic settings coil whine stops. Always used ultra, coil whine started as of last few days.

[@tomstechtable]

Sorry to hear, coil whine can develop over time, however if dropping the voltage, which lowers the power consumption doesn't make a difference in noise then it could possibly be noise from the fans. On ultra the GPU will produce more heat causing your fans to spin faster. Also if by any chance you've recently changed the case, the old one may have just been more noise proof.

[@Nikx-youtube]

My 4080 super has insane coilwhine... i wanted an FE model so I bought it second hand from someone who decided the benchmarks werent enough for him on launch day. Since its bought in his name I cant return it to get it replaced.... i hope it goes away....

[@tomstechtable]

Ah that sucks... If it really is that loud maybe you could contact Nvidia and see if they'll agree that it's way too much to be considered normal or hopefully the undervolting helped.

[@jakekarma]

heres a wild one. Brought a new PSU and it gave my 6950xt coil whine. Went back to my old PSU and the coil whine still persists. Put my old 5700XT in and that has it also... IDK what to fix

[@tomstechtable]

Could potentially be your motherboard making the noise?

[@JustinBakerDeDav]

At 3:55 you state "in NVidia Control Panel, I was a t 1.1 volts" where in the control panel does it show this? And are you able to safely adjust frequencies while you have a game open and running?

[@lufty7551]

Really hard to distinguish which one it is , the psu or gpu , because in my pc they are really close together , and to be fair , I think it s both , but yeah , thanks for the tutorial anyway

[@nicholasdailey502]

I did mutiple wires and it didn’t work for my 7900 xt

[@knowwork9]

when i press on the curve editor im not getting the same one you have!!!! i have for sure the last version

[@gingeek4776]

my noise comes from the psu is it safe ? when I run a game it's the exact same noise in the vid

[@oktc68]

Ancient Gameplays has an (old) video on this, if your PSU is an ATX standard but low quality you could always change it for a better quality one, it's always a good idea to use a quality branded PSU, preferably a Gold standard (efficiency) They are usually a solid investment and should last you 10 years or so assuming your power requirement stays the same.

[@DigitalKurisu]

@@oktc68I have the Corsair 1000w and it does this under high load

[@officialzeroninja]

Anyone know why I have pretty loud coil whine even while not running any games?

[@powersource1988]

I completely removed coil whine by downloading a AMD driver from 2023......

[@crusader-sama8806]

Is this legit?

[@powersource1988]

@@crusader-sama8806 Yes but i was lucky in the silicon lottery to start with! icm with another PSU. Changin my psu did the most. I tried to RMA my Beqeuit psu but they just send it back saying it is ok. Even after i told them my coil whine was gone after using another one which fixed the exessive coil whine. I even has coil whine with youtube or scrolling a webpage. So a better PSU and the right driver version made my PC silent even when running Furmark ect. I wish there was a company that made a few non whining GPU's, because from what i have learned looking into it, it seems possible.

[@coldguy]

​@@powersource1988what amd gpu is that i have sapphire rx 6700 xt and it has terrible coil whine

[@powersource1988]

@@coldguy 6750xt from AMD itself.So do i with certain drivers!

[@dexter8962]

You cant end of story

[@jokerbeatzholyjesusinspira7581]

I got coil whine at 120 fps man . I am so mad right now man😭😭😭😭

[@driftkon]

Gpu become a transformer?

[@ryce80s]

I just built an amd build so I noticed the coil whine happening while idle when moving mouse it stops… dunno if it’s gpu related

[@powersource1988]

Driver. Same happened to me. Get 23.3.1

[@ryce80s]

@@powersource1988 thanks for reply. Sold pc built new intel nvidia build now I have issues with heat lol… oh man

[@powersource1988]

@@ryce80s They keep us busy :p Heat is even worse haha now you have a tornado sitting on your desk?

[@ryce80s]

@@powersource1988 lool yeah but it’s really the i7 14700k cpu has high temps max load figured a way to keep it not pushing 90dagrees

[@powersource1988]

@@ryce80s How did you manage? Thats a lil too much indeed

[@unitor699industries]

just bought a rtx 4080 super it has coilwhine

[@tomstechtable]

Unlucky 😞

[@tomaszcodasz]

what model?

[@unitor699industries]

@@tomaszcodasz asus rog strix but i fixed it i undervolt it

[@christianriddler5063]

I limited the FPS of my game and the coil whine stopped. Problem solved!