4090 - Coil Whine (is it bad?)

ionixct

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Hey, guys! I recorded a video about coil whine on my 4090. Is my coil whine that bad, or still acceptable? What's your opinion on my coil whine? I am quite sad. 😞 In the video, I ran a benchmark where the FPS ranged from 350-400. The GPU: GAINWARD Phantom GS.

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reb0rn

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coil whine, for spoiled kids without nothing to whine about, I hear nothing at all
 

Majcric

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This doesn't sound bad to me and what I would call normal for a modern high-end GPU.
 

gdansk

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Hey, guys! I recorded a video about coil whine on my 4090. Is my coil whine that bad, or still acceptable? What's your opinion on my coil whine? I am quite sad. 😞 In the video, I ran a benchmark where the FPS ranged from 350-400. The GPU: GAINWARD Phantom GS.

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GPU makers have given up. And they can count on blaming the user's ears. I had to go through about a dozen RTX 4090s before I got one that didn't whine at ~240 FPS (it is an Nvidia FE by the way).

If you value your time then this doesn't sound so bad but perhaps the microphone isn't picking it up properly.