Termie
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...so why again exactly did you sell every 670 and 680 you had to buy yet another 7970?
...so why again exactly did you sell every 670 and 680 you had to buy yet another 7970?
My ears are deaf to coil whine anymore. I just learn to accept it now. As long as it wasn't like my Sapphire Dual-X 7970, I am good. That thing sounded like a machine gun!
I actually found a good deal on this 7970 and its going to be my last card for about a year. Oh wait, I think I said this before :sneaky:
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Your fans must be loud! I was just running benchmarks one night and I heard this. At first, freaked me out. Opened the case to find out it was the graphics card. I have a very quiet place
.Btw, how are you clocking so high on your FTW? I am getting only 1228/3402 before it goes unstable in Heaven.
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Termie
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Your fans must be loud! I was just running benchmarks one night and I heard this. At first, freaked me out. Opened the case to find out it was the graphics card. I have a very quiet place
Btw, how are you clocking so high on your FTW? I am getting only 1228/3402 before it goes unstable in Heaven.
It totally depends on the actual chip you have, and then only secondarily on the model you have. I've owned three GTX670s. The first vanilla would do 1210, the second vanilla would do 1270, and now my FTW will do about 1228, like yours.
By the way, are you sure that you are getting instability from your memory clock? What if you leave the GPU offset at 0 and move the memory up? What kind of errors do you get? I have yet to actually see a memory error, as far as I know, but I've certainly locked up the GPU many dozens of times.
That's interesting...a +85 offset should probably take you to 1274, but you say you're at 1250.
cmdrdredd
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Base clock speed is 1006 and boost 1085 default. I have set to base clock 1091 and boost 1170. I see up to 1250 in my games and benchmarks.
Cookie Monster
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To the OP, I dont think you can do anything about it. Every video card can suffer from this (due to a variety of reasons, often a combination), but its quite unacceptable given the amount of money your paying. Maybe you could RMA it.
So got the new replacement PSU. The WEI noise is still there, but its as half as loud now - I think. Good enough...will stop paying it attention now.
So while pulling the FTW card out during my testings, I accidentally knocked off a surface-mount capacitor (or resistor, couldn't tell without any markings) off my Asus P8Z77-V Pro mobo right below the card. I managed to solder it back on - good thing I found it! However, in the process, I also managed to get tiny bit of solder on the adjacent IC that the capacitor was based around. It was the ACL892 chip, which is associated with the RealTek sound hardware that I use. Cleaned it best as I could but the pins are so small, it was very difficult to see how good of a job I had done. When I thought I was done, I powered it up, and sound seems to be working. At least for what I am using it for. Whew!
Talk about being careless.
Termie, the Heaven benchmark just crashes when one of those offsets are too high, saying the card was disconnected or something along that line - don't remmeber. When memory gets too high, I also start getting blotchy artifacts, at which point I lower the memory clock back down until they disappear.
So while pulling the FTW card out during my testings, I accidentally knocked off a surface-mount capacitor (or resistor, couldn't tell without any markings) off my Asus P8Z77-V Pro mobo right below the card. I managed to solder it back on - good thing I found it! However, in the process, I also managed to get tiny bit of solder on the adjacent IC that the capacitor was based around. It was the ACL892 chip, which is associated with the RealTek sound hardware that I use. Cleaned it best as I could but the pins are so small, it was very difficult to see how good of a job I had done. When I thought I was done, I powered it up, and sound seems to be working. At least for what I am using it for. Whew!
Talk about being careless.
Termie, the Heaven benchmark just crashes when one of those offsets are too high, saying the card was disconnected or something along that line - don't remmeber. When memory gets too high, I also start getting blotchy artifacts, at which point I lower the memory clock back down until they disappear.
On my llano system, I have a Powercolor HD 7750 and a CX430 PSU. You wanna talk coil whine? I can hear it emitting through the onboard sound on the computer. Thats when you know you have bad coil whine. It happens only when I game, anything else, its quiet as can be.
I can hear it emitting through the onboard sound on the computer. Thats when you know you have bad coil whine. It happens only when I game, anything else, its quiet as can be.I never had any whine until I got an AMD 5xxx (I forget now), and in that case, I decided to go with the off chance that it was PSU related and got a new PSU, and that got rid of the whine. *shrug*
hokies83
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Man i just ordered a Gtx 670 FTW from Newegg After getting 2 7970s with horrid choke whine.. it was so bad i could hear it over the games i was playing...
I hope to god the 670 i get has none... getting tired of these RMAs... I have 4 out in the mail now....
I hope to god the 670 i get has none... getting tired of these RMAs... I have 4 out in the mail now....
what kind of PSU do you have? Many corsair PSUs have these issues (Channel well and Seasonic builds)
Zanovar
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That blanket statement is wrong.g cards can whine,screech and make all kinds of noises on there own.regardless of what psu you own.
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The_Golden_Man
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I have a MSI GTX 670 reference. Moved it from my primary system to my secondary system. Still the same annoying coilwhine. Primary has Corsair TX 750W, secondary has Corsair VX 550w.
Primary rig now has 2x ASUS GTX 670 Direct CU II, which has no coilwhine. So it has nothing to to with the PSU's. It's the card in itself. In my case, that MSI card. I should have RMA'd it instead of messing with it. But now it's too late. It has a really annoying coilwhine when gaming. But I don't care much now, since I game on my primary rig.
Primary rig now has 2x ASUS GTX 670 Direct CU II, which has no coilwhine. So it has nothing to to with the PSU's. It's the card in itself. In my case, that MSI card. I should have RMA'd it instead of messing with it. But now it's too late. It has a really annoying coilwhine when gaming. But I don't care much now, since I game on my primary rig.
General concensus is nothing is silent. It will have coil whine, just not as loud. It really depends on your other hardware as well.
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