I was just using my PC in a quiet room and heard this sound coming from my desktop chassis. I was freaking out for a few minutes thinking it was like electrical arcing on the motherboard or something until I found out about coil whine. I wanted to be sure though so I looked up a video of it and turns out you had posted it 10 years ago. It's crazy how your older videos are still helping people today. Thanks for the video and it is amazing to see how far your channel has come in the last decade.
i just paid 2.3k for a laptop from another country and the same happened to me, i almost shit myself lol. thank god it's normal. LTT is a fucking legend. what gpu do u have?
No R2-D2 speaks a machine language. It's like an advanced bios beep language. Imagine if your motherboard had that, it would be like "dude ur a fukn noob you put the ram in wrong!" But it would sound like beeeep, beep beep-beep Bop bleep blop blip whistle whistle bleep! You would know exactly whats going on.
Chris Martin "Hur durrr somebody made a witty comment wit lotsa likez so I gotsta tell them dey are wrong b-cuz i couldn't think of something funny!" That's you, in other words, pull the stick out of your bum.
Some Tips on Coil Noise: The noise corresponds with frame rate. It will give you a high pitched whine when you're playing HALO 1 at 200 300 or 700FPS when you look at the floor. The higher the FPS the higher the pitch of the whine. Force VSYNC on to limit your FPS to the refresh rate of your display. You should hear a steady and much quieter hiss instead of a whine. If your frame rate ever drops below 15 you will notice that there is a distinct CLICK sound for every frame rendered. For most people 60Hz is low enough that the cap keeps the FPS locked at 60 without dipping below and the noise is quiet and monotone instead of reacting to your movements in game.
Thanks so much for posting your comment - certain apps were making this annoying sounds and thanks to you it's gone! I limited FPS to 144 and enabled V-Sync
Dude Thank you so much. I have a new gpu for a month and it only happened in some games. I capped my fps on bg3 and it immediately stopped. Thank you and Linus so much for the comment and the video
I used Linus' old NCIX videos and early LTT vids to help me with my very first build. So awesome to see how he's grown it over the years. I have much respect and admiration for him and the channel.
Coil whine usually happens with the more powerful CPUs. They tend to do it when your FPS reaches over a thousand. A quick solution is to just cap your frame rate. It's worked for me.
@@justinjuarezmason3188 limit it to 144fps this will look a lot better than 150 fps on 144hz display. Always try go hit the HZ of your monitor or half of that
+Tommy59375 That is easy,but the user needs to unplug the monitor if the user is prone to seizures,because to do that,you need to render a specific amount of polygons to get a specific tone.
+maggru91 also bought GTX 980 ti, it makes a noise corresponding to what i'm doing ingame (it stops on loading screens) but it's much quieter than this and it's more metal-sounding rather than screechy, like metal scratching against metal at a really low dB. Is it the same for you?
Getthe Foplss Well the whine corresponds to what I do in game, and it is not exactly like the sound in this video. Maybe more like how you describe it yeah. I have since I made the comment bought a Fractal Design case with good sound dampening, not because of the whine but high fan noice. But as luck would have it, it shields out the coil noise as well. And been running the card for close on half a year, not had any problems.
+Bboy RagnarouS well, I RMA'd mine recently & got a replacement card. The new one still has the sound I described & it becomes a squeekier coil whine during loading up Far Cry 4, then it settles back into it's gratey-metallic sounding self. Honestly, after looking around on the net, it seems the GTX 980ti is just a noisy card generally, badly designed as far as cards go.
Coil whine can literally drive you past insanity. I had a gtx 770 that produced coil whine, and i used the pc it was installed in quite alot. my family told me i was acting strange and even distraught at times and persuaded me to see the doctor. I explained the coil whine and he told me that the high frequencies could drive me to suicide and total psychosis and urged me to stop using the pc. the symptoms did go away but at the expense of my then-badass gpu.
There ARE ways to fix this though, the inductor itself is physically resonating. That is what is causing the whine. Your goal is to change the reactive power/power factor so it vibrates outside of the audible range. (20Hz-20KHz) Here are some solutions: 1. The easy way to do it would be to overclock or underclock something tied to the component with the whine. Essentially just find a way to draw a different amount of electricity. Note: Depending on the frequency it is vibrating at you could make it worse, but this is easily rectifiable. Just clock in the opposite direction, and hope you can A. Not overheat the component B. Have to underclock to sucky levels C. Have enough range to fix the whine. 2. Change the PSU, the reason why they say this is because every PSU has a different capacitance and inductance. It is the relationship of capacitance vs. inductance that determines if something resonates or not. Since the resonation is vibrating the inductor which causes the whine. This can fix the problem, depending on the capacitance vs. inductance values of the new PSU. So getting a PSU of the same brand/model most likely won't help all that much. 3. Changing the values of the capacitance or inductance. (If you change both make sure you don't increase BOTH or decrease BOTH.)This is the most unlikely way for normal people to go about fixing it(at a component level). Although it is the sure fire way.
I have never heard coil whine in my life. This is literally my first time hearing it. I must be really lucky to have never owned a card that has done this.
@@katame_no_shi Most people "with coil whine" blow it way out of proportion while most people don't even notice it when the card is in their case, if it happens at all.
Oh shit I didn't know about coil whine and I was just curious. Now I can realize the coil whine from my graphics card... I wish I had never watched this video.
hey bud i have the same issue before i changed my psu last night, Now my zotac gtx 760 doesn't have coil whine anymore, try games like nba 2k16 and witcher 3, can't hear coil whine anymore, i have a 500w psu before and i upgraded to a ocz 1250w zx series psu!
i don't know, but if you have same psu in a different case where you put a lot of upgrades to the new case like adding more fans, led lights, probably it might! cause there is a hunger for power going through your gpu now... sort of.....! if you could borrow one of your friends higher end psu with higher wattage rating probably coil whine will stop!
@@Jdogg4089 I just discovered I have this sound coming off my RTX 2080ti AMP today, I always thought my my CPU's liquid cooling pump had air bubbles or something. I just overclocked my i9 9900k tonight and it feels great! I actually havent heard no pump like noise. But that GPU though, OOOOO that needs replaced, i can hear it very well in a dense case. Makes me nervous to play games in case anything happens
@@velocityfragz_5840 I'm pretty new to all this stuff , but in terms of noise , fans / coil whine... which one is significantly audible ? And which one affects lifespan of your system if they do it at all ?
@@Zeegoku1007 Don't worry about it. Coil whine, the thing you can hear in this vid, is absolutely harmless and nothing to be worried about. Fan noise? That's just your fans doing what they are meant to do. If the noise disturbs you, you can invest in better fans, all in all better cooling system or soundproofing your case.
@@velocityfragz_5840 I have the same issue with my gigabyte rtx 2070s and now I regret investing in super quiet fans. Noisier fans would help drown it out at least. Maybe I'll wrap my case in mattress foam and see if that helps lol
For those who has this issue, you can cut some slices of thermal pad(2mm thick or more), fill in the gaps of the coils, put one extra layer of 0.5-1mm thick thermal pad on the coils and screw on the vapor chamber to compress the thermal pad. If its still whining, put some thermal pad on the back of the pcb where the coils fit, and screw on the backplate. Just clean out those extra thermal pad when sent for repair and you will be fine without breaking the warranty. It's caused by the vibration of the coils, so if you compress the coils firmly with thermal pads, it surly will stop.
In my experience many graphics cards will produce coil during 3d applications and games when vsync is disabled and the frame rate is in order of several hundred frames per second or even over a thousand frames per second. Usually enabling VSYNC or limiting FPS by some other means, like turning up the graphic quality will completely stop the coil whine.
Thanks so much for posting your comment - certain apps were making this annoying sounds and thanks to you it's gone! I limited FPS to 144 and enabled V-Sync
Thank you for sharing this. Now that I have a name for it - and am in-tune with it, the whine is all around my house. I find it coming from my LED recessed lights, when I use my laptop to video conference, and my EcoBee. I was honestly thinking I was crazy hearing the whine as I'm the only person in my house who can hear it regularly.
@@marshelene Same here, and it's like yeah it kinda sounds like a space heater, but I don't hear any of the coil whine on my HP Pavilion desktop set-up, neither with the 185W nor the now-installed 400W GTX 1650 combo.
This is actually a huge relief. I thought my 780 was dying, lol. Thankfully it only happens under inye sive DX11 and DirectCompite benchmarks, never hear it in games.
I just noticed my GPU was doing coil whine while I was simply moving my mouse around the desktop, so had to look up what in the world it was. 10 years later, this video is still helping people
Coil whine as in the high pitched squeel is pretty normal while running 3d applications with high framerates imo. You can always force Vsync in your drivers to try and make it stop. There's also the low buzzy sounding coil whine that occurs even while below 60fps, if you don't mind voiding warranties, I heard you can try and fix that with some hot glue to stop the coil vibrations on your graphics card or in your PSU after you've identified which coil the noise is coming from. It can be really dangerous though if you don't know what you're doing, so it's not necessarily recommendable.
Generally a shield over the entire analog portion of the card is best. It really depends on how strong the interference is. Sometimes just using an add-in card is enough to add distance between the analog amplification circuits and the noise source but external sound cards or TOS-Link (optical) is the best way to eliminate interference in a headset or external stereo amplifier. It is also a good idea to re-check or move your cables first to be sure the noise is coming out of the sound card.
It would be up to your brain to be able to interpet it. I guess it might be possible to create a 'system' to describe 3d geometry to some degree, maybe with tones describing the 'distance' or simplified geometry in front of the camera. I suspect the amount of data that can be accuretly transfered is relatively low, but I do not see why this wouln't be possible technically, it'd require a person to be trained to recognize the geometry described, however.
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Echo location data would be more compatible with the ear's internal circuitry. That being said, you can just tap a nerve in the arm to send the data that way given the appropriate normal encoding and safety stuff. The brain can adapt and make sense of the new signal, takes about 30 minutes tops.
LimitedWard This noise probably does not transport much information besides its height. But tones are used in some devices to give orientation to blind people. Different patent based on the sensor used are already claimed.
Thanks Linus for this! I was hearing this for the first time on my system and realized it occurs while under load. For me it helped to enable VSync to reduce the load on the GPU.
Thanks Linus! This is why you can't retire:) I have never had this issue and thought it was my AIO pump whining or something. You're still helping people in 2022 with this video!
Coil whine is generally only noticeable during an excessive load when producing very high frame rates (anything above 100 to several thousand fps). This is mostly experienced for example in older games and titles. The easiest way to fix coil whine is to turn on Vsync or by forcing it on in your application settings in your graphics control panel, so that you limit your frame rate to the refresh rate of your monitor. Not to mention Vsync removes frame tearing issues, reduces heat, saves energy, produces less fan noise, and limits load noise like buzzing and coil whine.
Old comment, but worth its weight in gold.. My PSU JUST started doing this. Had never had this sort of issue before. (Since its my first time needing a powerful PSU). I freaked out and worried since I tend to get hyper focused on small noises. Putting V-sync on literally made it stop.. Thanks dude.
Came to look up what coil whine was because i saw some complaints about it on a video card i'm looking at. And during this presentation, i found it kind of interesting, but my cat freaked the fuck out about it.
It is literally caused in most cases(in video cards) by ferrirte chokes. They change shape on a microscopic level due to magnetic domains in the ferrite material(alpha iron containing) crystalline structure. The domains in the lattice like structure rotate and if the current is variable this can cause a resonance to occur. If your card is no longer under warranty, a dab of high temp RTV running from the bottom of the chokes to the card itself should help to dampen(absorb) some of the vibration until its barely audible, I have horrid hearing at higher frequencies do to war and my old hobby as a guitarist so fans drown out the noise to me. Locking constant current using custom drivers or bios could help or at least help it to keep from alternating its pitch thus making it less annoying. Setting v-sync may help as well. However make sure its the video card before you try and do anything to fix it, older transformers in PSUs can have a ton of it in some cases, or the 12 volt rail could be less then clean or have a ripple under load. This of course in case of a ripple could make the the resonance worse.
for anyone looking into this matter, what solved coil whine in my system was changing the case. the old one was getting rusty in places I couldn't notice. same motherboard, processor, video card and even power supply had nothing to do at least in my case. so have the case in mind too when trying to solve this. be very aware of grounding
my 290x last month was my first one too, they wanted to tell me that its supposed to be normal now, atleast i got my cash back after days of arguing with them
Heh. I had these sounds with my TI-99/4a back in 1982. I used those sounds (along with the computer's 3MHz clock speed) to determine what the computer was doing. Faster programming loops would result in higher pitches. Things like heavy mathematical calculations would result in lower pitches. Nice to see things never change... except for the format of Linus Tech Tips!
Dom Lang Now it's gone for no reason lol :) MSI. It happened when I overclocked my gpu but that means that it would happen anyways sooner or later. Thankfuly its gone but I dont care even if its here. But EVGA and MSI are kinda risky, despite good OC potential from MSI and really silent gpu.
yeah overclocking seems to unleash a lot of coil whining. thats why i believe most of the factory OC'd models have coil whine. Pay an extra 50 bucks so your gpu can scream in your ear. doesn't seem worth it to me.
Crowbcat made a video on this. It's because your game is being rendered at 1000+ fps which is very easy to do on a $400 graphics card with an old game like halo one. Even an old power PC mac from 2002 can run it. The sound of the coil whine comes from the fact that it is generating 1000+ images per second. so just tone down the FPS to 60 fps.
and thats where you are wrong the msi lightning hd 7970/hd5770 hawk/ and my 2 club 3d gtx 580's dont hum and i bet there are several other cards that operate like the should do....
***** my EVGA GTX 470s, 580s, 680s and 780s didn't make any coil noise. ever. at least not enough for it to be audible. and yes, i had two of each. but i just upgraded to the X99 platform and my gigabyte X99 gaming G1 makes a horrible coil whine. it gives me headaches after like 5 minutes. and i'm not even playing games! just browsing the web.
are cards supposed to make ANY noise when u look up and down in an fps for example? is a small noise normal? or are they meant to be silent? I just had a gigabyte gtx 1070 g1 replaced by amazon when i noticed a litte (i had to listen to the case to hear it during overwatchs looking up and down. and i thought it wasnt supposed to do that but the new oen i got today sounds louder tbh .... not sure what i shud do but u cant really hear it unless u have zero sound in the room when gaming, i had to listen in to a vent to hear
wow, 9 years later and I'm just learning about this. I've been fortunate to never have this issue, but just got the MSI 15M Stealth while I'm really happy with overall, but noticed this with the 3060 card it has. I guess it's not as bad when you have a case and other components interfering with the sound, unlike this test bench, but it's definitely noticeable. Not too loud and annoying, but definitely a new experience...oh well...
My Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X has ridiculous amounts of coil whine, especially while playing Far Cry 4. I notice it happens when the last 5 and 6 power phase LED's light up, and the whining corresponds to them, if the power phase LED's are blinking, the whine is fading every time they blink off, and perpetuating when they're on. It almost sound like somebody pushing a quarter into a block of dry ice, it's a pretty unattractive sound.
santeenl VSync is not a solution. It's a band aid at best and a terrible one at it. It increases input lag which is at best an inconvenience and at worst detrimental (mostly for shooters).
***** I've played shooters on Xbox for years on a TV. Xbox obviously has vsync on, and combined with the shitty refresh of my TV at the time. I also recently bought a 6ms 1080p monitor to upgrade from a 720p 3ms. Input lag is something you have to try and find. It's one of those "Wow if I start a private match of CoD and test my controller against how fast I can tell that I already moved the stick'" instances. You won't notice turning on Vsync. Its a good band aid.
my 7900 XT (Red Devil) has really bad coil whine, i was too lazy to send it back. Clearly not PSU related as i got a Seasonic Prime TX-650 that's one of few with true 80+ Titanium, so that's the cleanest power you can get from highest grade electrical components. It's obviously the card, and the whine gets reduced if i lower game refresh rate settings (monitor is 240hz) and whine is also more intense in main menu's with easily rendered frames. But in a high end system overall like mine, high framerates in all scenes and gameplay are expected, so the coil whine is pretty constant during gaming. I'm even more unlucky to need an open PC case for optimal cooling, so im sitting next to noise and fix it by using headphones instead of a speaker. Anyways, it's clearly bound to FPS values, explaining why Vsync, capping FPS and refresh rates make a difference for most users. But that defies why people have a high end system, to get high FPS values.. so what do we do, not accept it and RMA cards?
Power bars, cheap phone chargers... it's never ended and kills my head. When I went to audiology apparently I hear higher pitches than average people so it makes sense
Someone please help me on this, sometimes (not that often) my taskbar turns grey and something in my pc (the gpu i assume) start making coil whine, my screens brightness will start changing too, this usually lasts around 20 seconds and then stops, the coil whine is then gone, the taskbar and brightness returns to normal, someone please explain to me what this is because it's driving me crazy when it happens. Is my gpu dying? Is it software related? What is going on??
OMG i found it! It was actually WinSAT (Windows Experience Index) that was scheduled to run every sunday at 1:00am that was causing this! So i disabled it in task scheduler!
+EaterofCarpets it's static noise. all computer components have it. Some headsets have more than others. You can't really get rid of it. Maybe turn down the amplifier in your astros. That might reduce the static noise
+EaterofCarpets Interference coming through the line. Like LT said, try hooking your headphones into the back instead of the front ports. If that doesn't help, try using a TOSLink/SPDIF connection for your headphones if possible (The fiber optic connector on the back of most gaming motherboards, needs an appropriate amp or converter to use it with some headphones, some include a connector).
lot of people saying "JUST TRN ON VSINK FAG" or something to that degree, okay , how about my 780 that has coil whine with v-sync on and only getting 50fps. hm? oh so that dosnt solve it? "WELL OBVUISLY YOU NEED TO BE AT 60FPS FEG" okay, test #2 forced 60fps with v-sync on in a game id get above 170fps on.. its still there :O holy shit! #3 a game i usually get 60-70 fps with v-sync on and guess what? its. still there. now would you all shut up? if anyone comes back with anything about my cpu im going to kidney punch you. its over clocked to 4.4 and its run it at 3.5 as well, its not making the sound nor are fans or a hard drive.
***** not one single tiny little bit. what toned it down was running at different loads. thats exactly what i was saying, people in these comments are swearing locking the frame rate solves it, it dosnt.
thanks for the reply. I thought possibly if it was tied to fps then it wouldn't be very noticeable after a while because its not changing much and you just get used to it.
***** the main point of my original comment was to disprove everyone who kept crying use vsync use vsync. my coil whine is directly proportionate to the ammount of load on the card.
It seems as if the majority of people in the comments have no idea what actually causes coil whine. Cause it sure as hell has nothing to do with FPS. Edit: Ok I got a little further in the comment section and holy shit, it seems as if fucking know one on here has a fucking clue about coil whine. Really like not a single clue to go around. This is fucking scary for a linustechtips video that so many people have no clue what they are talking about.
Dude, 7 years later, I was freaking out, I have a 5700xt, FINALLY working properly (without blue screens etc etc, I had the stock bios (2018) finally updated it), and I have coil while, I AM CHILLING NOW THANKS PAPALINUS.
i have an evga 2070 super xc ultra with horrible coil whine. Should i take it back to best buy and swap it for another one? Whats better the msi 1070 super or the evga?
Good advice, I was playing D3 with vsync on and decided to turn it off just to see what my fps would be and started to get coil whine. Makes sense though, with no fps cap your card runs balls to the wall, when in a lot of cases doesn't need to. Go Rossi.
@LinusTechTips I'm getting this exact issue in my new workstation build with an MSI C236 motherboard and Xeon E3 1230v5 processor, however it isn't coming from my videocard, sounds like a choke around the CPU and it get's waay worse when under load. The only thing i can think of is that I'm using an ECC compatible memory board with non ECC RAM. My main question is will it have a shorter life expectancy than a board with no coil whine? is it worth trying to claim warranty?
Had it myself today playing wow. Was highest when I selected my Monk on the character screen. Totally befuddled me. I see now a good use for the frame rate limiter.
I can hear "coil whine" sounds but not in the PC case, but in my audio monitors. I hear constantly like a soft robotic murmur, and when I scroll in programs like Adobe Bridge, I can hear stronger noises when the screen is updated. So, it seems to be related to GPU. I don't have a PCI GPU right now, only the iGPU from the 12700k. Is it coil whine? Or interference? My mother is MSI Pro Z690 WiFi (but I am not using WiFi). My audio monitors are connected directly to the integrated sound card. I should try using a USB sound card with balanced cables, but... What do you think the problem is?
Is it possible that a lower pitched "buzzing" sound is caused by the same issue? Happens to my 760 when it's under load in games. Definitely not the fans because I can increase them with no issue; it only makes the sound when under load and doesn't stop until I exit the game or pause it.
10 years later, this video is making me super-thankful that my new Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 is _nowhere near_ this; just a bit of whine during some loading screens. How far we've come-and how far LTT has come!
For those who has this issue, you can cut some slices of thermal pad(2mm thick or more), fill in the gaps of the coils, put one extra layer of 0.5-1mm thick thermal pad on the coils and screw on the vapor chamber to compress the thermal pad. If its still whining, put some thermal pad on the back of the pcb where the coils fit, and screw on the backplate. Just clean out those extra thermal pad when sent for repair and you will be fine without breaking the warranty. It's caused by the vibration of the coils, so if you compress the coils firmly with thermal pads, it surly will stop.
Do you have other things plugged into the speakers? I get a sound very similar to coil whine coming out of my desk speakers when I also have my PS3's audio cable hooked into them(even when the PS3 is off). So, basically, I have to unplug that cord from the console whenever I'm done using it.
SamEverillTV well.... you either have a shity audio component (speakers, amp, sound card, ETC) or your probably picking up noise somewhere. make sure your audio cables are not running close to any other cables, use no extra connectors, adapotrs ETC... i have a MSI 990fxa GD 80 mobo with corsiar SP-2500s 2.1 speakers. when i turn everything up full blast, all i get is a white noise, and if i played any audio at that level, id probably blow your ear drums!
Strazdas I even have coil whine on my Samsung 226bw monitor while it's idling. It doesn't squeeze that much, but sometimes it's still enough to wake me up just to turn the damn thing off.
Fanta Friday Nvidia until AMD released HD6000 series. Since then I only had a GTX 660 Ti from Nvidia. I have almost every high(er) end card of AMD in the 6,7 and r9 series
It sounds like a drift race going on inside there! Seriously though, had it in my laptop (Lenovo G50-45) and I discovered that it was just a regulation coil. I resoldered it -and broke it- and now it works fine.
Am I the the only fu**ing only one that get coil whine on all my graphics cards? >:( I have tried GTX 670, GTX970 and GTX1070 on Corsair TX650 and Antec TP650 and all whines on both PSUs :( A friend of mine just bought the same hardware as I have, but a GTX 1080 and a Corsair TX750 and he does not have even close to the whine I have. Whyyyyyyyyy....? :'(
Johan Fredriksson LOL trust me. My hearing is perfect. In fact...better than average. I had my ears tested a few years ago and I could hear things most people couldn't according to my doctor.
It's amazing how far LTT has come.
I love this guy
in a few more years, he'll be able to decide who becomes emperor of canada.
@@howtobecomeamillionaire IS THAT HALO CE? IN VID
based on the into art alone haha
You copied that pfp from BeastyBacon199
I was just using my PC in a quiet room and heard this sound coming from my desktop chassis. I was freaking out for a few minutes thinking it was like electrical arcing on the motherboard or something until I found out about coil whine. I wanted to be sure though so I looked up a video of it and turns out you had posted it 10 years ago. It's crazy how your older videos are still helping people today. Thanks for the video and it is amazing to see how far your channel has come in the last decade.
i just paid 2.3k for a laptop from another country and the same happened to me, i almost shit myself lol. thank god it's normal. LTT is a fucking legend. what gpu do u have?
@@aliismail-2254 I have a 4090 and this just started to happen, you can't imagine how my face looks like now
Literally me right now, just built my first pc and got scared af, investigating about the noise I ended up here
i also hear this.. but only my left ear can hear it.. not my right ear.. is this normal..??
same here lol
That explains all the noise R2-D2 is making, he has a severe case of coil whine.
lonerider92 omg haha
lonerider92 ign 10/10 best comment.
No R2-D2 speaks a machine language. It's like an advanced bios beep language. Imagine if your motherboard had that, it would be like "dude ur a fukn noob you put the ram in wrong!" But it would sound like beeeep, beep beep-beep Bop bleep blop blip whistle whistle bleep! You would know exactly whats going on.
Chris Martin
"Hur durrr somebody made a witty comment wit lotsa likez so I gotsta tell them dey are wrong b-cuz i couldn't think of something funny!" That's you, in other words, pull the stick out of your bum.
lonerider92 You have very poor communication skills loner92.
"Do you play any instruments?"
"Yes. An HD 7970 with a gaming mouse."
CUTE ..
omg
HAHHAH
now that's Interesting if you can make a melody out of it like tesla coils lol
Some Tips on Coil Noise: The noise corresponds with frame rate. It will give you a high pitched whine when you're playing HALO 1 at 200 300 or 700FPS when you look at the floor. The higher the FPS the higher the pitch of the whine. Force VSYNC on to limit your FPS to the refresh rate of your display. You should hear a steady and much quieter hiss instead of a whine. If your frame rate ever drops below 15 you will notice that there is a distinct CLICK sound for every frame rendered. For most people 60Hz is low enough that the cap keeps the FPS locked at 60 without dipping below and the noise is quiet and monotone instead of reacting to your movements in game.
Hmm, so that's why it only happens in loading screens when I get like 7,000 fps. (R9 290)
Thanks so much for posting your comment - certain apps were making this annoying sounds and thanks to you it's gone! I limited FPS to 144 and enabled V-Sync
Dude Thank you so much. I have a new gpu for a month and it only happened in some games. I capped my fps on bg3 and it immediately stopped. Thank you and Linus so much for the comment and the video
This solved my problem. Thanks!
7 years late but so happy I found your comment. Turned V sync off in game and instantly stopped 😅
I used Linus' old NCIX videos and early LTT vids to help me with my very first build. So awesome to see how he's grown it over the years. I have much respect and admiration for him and the channel.
coil whine is the most anoying sound a computer can make in my opinion, i rather have constant fan noise then low fan noise with massive coil whine
force your fans to spin faster in bios, fan noise will overtake coil while and you'll be hearing fans instead.
A hard drive screaming as it overheats and dies is worse. Happened on an old crap laptop for me.
Case vibrations caused by fans are pretty annoying too
try audio crackling
You'd rather have constant fan noise then ALSO low fan noise with massive coil whine? You really enjoy the pain, don't you?
Coil whine usually happens with the more powerful CPUs. They tend to do it when your FPS reaches over a thousand. A quick solution is to just cap your frame rate. It's worked for me.
Yea
your right thanks i limit it to 150 since i have a 144hz and its alot more quiet.
@@justinjuarezmason3188 limit it to 144fps this will look a lot better than 150 fps on 144hz display.
Always try go hit the HZ of your monitor or half of that
You mean with GPUs not CPUs?
The system makes noise when it is idle. Does it cause problems?
Someone needs to write a program to make music from coil whine...
*****
I was actually referring to those floppy disk drive music videos ;)
+Tyler D. what about a male bitching about everything?
+Tommy59375 That is easy,but the user needs to unplug the monitor if the user is prone to seizures,because to do that,you need to render a specific amount of polygons to get a specific tone.
I don't need a program... I open a black background and move my mouse around :^)
Too be honest does this really matter if your playing a shooter when your not Gona hear it anyway lol
Bought GTX 980 ti, has coil whine. It's not high, but as expensive as it was I sure would have been happy without it....
return it perhaps?
+maggru91 also bought GTX 980 ti, it makes a noise corresponding to what i'm doing ingame (it stops on loading screens) but it's much quieter than this and it's more metal-sounding rather than screechy, like metal scratching against metal at a really low dB. Is it the same for you?
Getthe Foplss
Well the whine corresponds to what I do in game, and it is not exactly like the sound in this video. Maybe more like how you describe it yeah.
I have since I made the comment bought a Fractal Design case with good sound dampening, not because of the whine but high fan noice. But as luck would have it, it shields out the coil noise as well.
And been running the card for close on half a year, not had any problems.
+Getthe Foplss Yes this is exactly what i have!
+Bboy RagnarouS well, I RMA'd mine recently & got a replacement card. The new one still has the sound I described & it becomes a squeekier coil whine during loading up Far Cry 4, then it settles back into it's gratey-metallic sounding self. Honestly, after looking around on the net, it seems the GTX 980ti is just a noisy card generally, badly designed as far as cards go.
Coil whine can literally drive you past insanity. I had a gtx 770 that produced coil whine, and i used the pc it was installed in quite alot. my family told me i was acting strange and even distraught at times and persuaded me to see the doctor. I explained the coil whine and he told me that the high frequencies could drive me to suicide and total psychosis and urged me to stop using the pc. the symptoms did go away but at the expense of my then-badass gpu.
holy shit what the fuck my man
I think that is the most funny comment i've read so far this year on RUclips!!! At the same time, that is fucking aweful though!!! :S
Given the fact narwhals communicate on those frequencies I understand that it drove you crazy
The doctor loves creepypasta or? ^^"
I bet he healed many kids that suffered the "Lavender Town"-syndrome.
wow, really?
Coil whine @1:46. Save yourself some time.
Why is this not Pinned up?
God Bless you...
@@meekmeads Because he wants you to listen to his inane bullshit.
Oh god that fucking noise. Thanks for the time stamp.
im here to listen to linus coil whine sound-alike voice just as much as i am to listen the actual coil whine, your comment is useless.
I get it on my Asus GTX680 it's annoying but I kinda filter it out when playing games :)
@willbailey5298 what do u mean?
lol little did we know we'll have 4k 144fps
First time hearing about coil whine and i stumble upon young Linus. Incredible step up in quality!
There ARE ways to fix this though, the inductor itself is physically resonating. That is what is causing the whine. Your goal is to change the reactive power/power factor so it vibrates outside of the audible range. (20Hz-20KHz) Here are some solutions:
1. The easy way to do it would be to overclock or underclock something tied to the component with the whine. Essentially just find a way to draw a different amount of electricity.
Note: Depending on the frequency it is vibrating at you could make it worse, but this is easily rectifiable. Just clock in the opposite direction, and hope you can A. Not overheat the component B. Have to underclock to sucky levels C. Have enough range to fix the whine.
2. Change the PSU, the reason why they say this is because every PSU has a different capacitance and inductance. It is the relationship of capacitance vs. inductance that determines if something resonates or not. Since the resonation is vibrating the inductor which causes the whine. This can fix the problem, depending on the capacitance vs. inductance values of the new PSU. So getting a PSU of the same brand/model most likely won't help all that much.
3. Changing the values of the capacitance or inductance. (If you change both make sure you don't increase BOTH or decrease BOTH.)This is the most unlikely way for normal people to go about fixing it(at a component level). Although it is the sure fire way.
It takes 8 years for me to get this knowledge. Thank you, sir!
I have never heard coil whine in my life. This is literally my first time hearing it. I must be really lucky to have never owned a card that has done this.
Same. Somebody asked about a card I'm selling and I had to look up coil whine. XD
same, i looked it up to "know" what it is and how it sounds. i can't believe i've never heard it before from any pc
@@katame_no_shi Most people "with coil whine" blow it way out of proportion while most people don't even notice it when the card is in their case, if it happens at all.
i envy you
Same, ive never heard it too lol.
Oh shit I didn't know about coil whine and I was just curious. Now I can realize the coil whine from my graphics card... I wish I had never watched this video.
Coil whine it's harmless. Mine, for example, only whines when i reach like more than 3000fps (in menus). Don't worry... ;)
hey does it always whine it reaches like 3000 fps cause i get that frames in menu too
hey bud i have the same issue before i changed my psu last night, Now my zotac gtx 760 doesn't have coil whine anymore, try games like nba 2k16 and witcher 3, can't hear coil whine anymore, i have a 500w psu before and i upgraded to a ocz 1250w zx series psu!
are there cases whereby the gpu suddenly starts having coil whines which it did not had initially?
i don't know, but if you have same psu in a different case where you put a lot of upgrades to the new case like adding more fans, led lights, probably it might! cause there is a hunger for power going through your gpu now... sort of.....! if you could borrow one of your friends higher end psu with higher wattage rating probably coil whine will stop!
vid still comes in handy this many years later. congratz on the quality improvements over the years mate
this is amazing, as I play my games I can listen to the music my graphics card makes.
damn it its awfulll
I doubt it's something you'd hear in a well insulated case. Especially with the fans and stuff running.
@@Jdogg4089 I just discovered I have this sound coming off my RTX 2080ti AMP today, I always thought my my CPU's liquid cooling pump had air bubbles or something. I just overclocked my i9 9900k tonight and it feels great! I actually havent heard no pump like noise. But that GPU though, OOOOO that needs replaced, i can hear it very well in a dense case. Makes me nervous to play games in case anything happens
@@velocityfragz_5840
I'm pretty new to all this stuff , but in terms of noise , fans / coil whine... which one is significantly audible ? And which one affects lifespan of your system if they do it at all ?
@@Zeegoku1007 Don't worry about it. Coil whine, the thing you can hear in this vid, is absolutely harmless and nothing to be worried about. Fan noise? That's just your fans doing what they are meant to do. If the noise disturbs you, you can invest in better fans, all in all better cooling system or soundproofing your case.
@@velocityfragz_5840 I have the same issue with my gigabyte rtx 2070s and now I regret investing in super quiet fans. Noisier fans would help drown it out at least. Maybe I'll wrap my case in mattress foam and see if that helps lol
For those who has this issue, you can cut some slices of thermal pad(2mm thick or more), fill in the gaps of the coils, put one extra layer of 0.5-1mm thick thermal pad on the coils and screw on the vapor chamber to compress the thermal pad. If its still whining, put some thermal pad on the back of the pcb where the coils fit, and screw on the backplate. Just clean out those extra thermal pad when sent for repair and you will be fine without breaking the warranty. It's caused by the vibration of the coils, so if you compress the coils firmly with thermal pads, it surly will stop.
That makes my life so much easier! I was high and I heard this and I freaked out!! Now I know what caused it thank you so much Linus
In my experience many graphics cards will produce coil during 3d applications and games when vsync is disabled and the frame rate is in order of several hundred frames per second or even over a thousand frames per second. Usually enabling VSYNC or limiting FPS by some other means, like turning up the graphic quality will completely stop the coil whine.
Thanks so much for posting your comment - certain apps were making this annoying sounds and thanks to you it's gone! I limited FPS to 144 and enabled V-Sync
PS5 owners coming through
👋🏻 constant with ps5 games on my ps5
Heyoooo. I do hear a whine but it's not that bad. Definitely noticeable though
No whine on mine but I heard they can so I watched this so I know what to look out for. So far it’s quiet as a mouse
not that bad tho
My PS5 luckily doesn't have any at all, my RX 590's coil whine is incredibly annoying
Oh good...I already thought my computer is going to explode
Thank you for sharing this. Now that I have a name for it - and am in-tune with it, the whine is all around my house. I find it coming from my LED recessed lights, when I use my laptop to video conference, and my EcoBee. I was honestly thinking I was crazy hearing the whine as I'm the only person in my house who can hear it regularly.
Maybe you have tinnitus.
@@Victorv17 It's really not that uncommon to simply have good hearing.
You're Chuck from Better Call Saul
yes and you are surrounded by bad amounts of radiation in your house.
Interesting..I guess I don't get the coil whine then
lmao me right now
@@marshelene Same here, and it's like yeah it kinda sounds like a space heater, but I don't hear any of the coil whine on my HP Pavilion desktop set-up, neither with the 185W nor the now-installed 400W GTX 1650 combo.
This is actually a huge relief. I thought my 780 was dying, lol. Thankfully it only happens under inye sive DX11 and DirectCompite benchmarks, never hear it in games.
coil whine is just your GPU making music for you, APPRECIATE IT!!!!!!
I just noticed my GPU was doing coil whine while I was simply moving my mouse around the desktop, so had to look up what in the world it was. 10 years later, this video is still helping people
Coil whine as in the high pitched squeel is pretty normal while running 3d applications with high framerates imo. You can always force Vsync in your drivers to try and make it stop. There's also the low buzzy sounding coil whine that occurs even while below 60fps, if you don't mind voiding warranties, I heard you can try and fix that with some hot glue to stop the coil vibrations on your graphics card or in your PSU after you've identified which coil the noise is coming from. It can be really dangerous though if you don't know what you're doing, so it's not necessarily recommendable.
Generally a shield over the entire analog portion of the card is best. It really depends on how strong the interference is. Sometimes just using an add-in card is enough to add distance between the analog amplification circuits and the noise source but external sound cards or TOS-Link (optical) is the best way to eliminate interference in a headset or external stereo amplifier. It is also a good idea to re-check or move your cables first to be sure the noise is coming out of the sound card.
Amazing, fairly new to the master race and found myself learning more about my rig thanks to this decade old video.
This guy is very helpful. I have a good feeling this channel is going to blow up someday... Oh wait
I wonder if they could use coil whine as a means of transferring visual data to a blind person's auditory nerves.
It would be up to your brain to be able to interpet it.
I guess it might be possible to create a 'system' to describe 3d geometry to some degree, maybe with tones describing the 'distance' or simplified geometry in front of the camera. I suspect the amount of data that can be accuretly transfered is relatively low, but I do not see why this wouln't be possible technically, it'd require a person to be trained to recognize the geometry described, however.
Echo location data would be more compatible with the ear's internal circuitry. That being said, you can just tap a nerve in the arm to send the data that way given the appropriate normal encoding and safety stuff.
The brain can adapt and make sense of the new signal, takes about 30 minutes tops.
LimitedWard
This noise probably does not transport much information besides its height.
But tones are used in some devices to give orientation to blind people. Different patent based on the sensor used are already claimed.
titannick
Good idea, but already done.
LimitedWard "A Wiuuuuuu a euhh euhhhh" if you recognice that sound Lol
Wow, here I am, 11 years after this video came out, using LTT to answer another my questions. Love it.
sound starts at 1:44
I lol'd when I saw the box of Twinkies.
+mclightning88 Yeah. Saw that first. xD
mclightning88 It's all I looked at the whole time lol
ok
WOW I just took the time machine in Linus Tech Tips channel, amazing how much the channel format has changed!
I hear a possibility to make music while gaming.
Thanks Linus for this! I was hearing this for the first time on my system and realized it occurs while under load. For me it helped to enable VSync to reduce the load on the GPU.
What did you do to fix it please
Yea
Thanks Linus! This is why you can't retire:) I have never had this issue and thought it was my AIO pump whining or something. You're still helping people in 2022 with this video!
Coil whine is generally only noticeable during an excessive load when producing very high frame rates (anything above 100 to several thousand fps). This is mostly experienced for example in older games and titles.
The easiest way to fix coil whine is to turn on Vsync or by forcing it on in your application settings in your graphics control panel, so that you limit your frame rate to the refresh rate of your monitor.
Not to mention Vsync removes frame tearing issues, reduces heat, saves energy, produces less fan noise, and limits load noise like buzzing and coil whine.
Old comment, but worth its weight in gold.. My PSU JUST started doing this. Had never had this sort of issue before. (Since its my first time needing a powerful PSU). I freaked out and worried since I tend to get hyper focused on small noises.
Putting V-sync on literally made it stop.. Thanks dude.
YOUNG LINUS CANT HURT ME
YOUNG LINUS CANT HURT ME
YOUNG LINUS CANT HURT ME
mind blowing the quality of videos Linus would upload back in the day
Came to look up what coil whine was because i saw some complaints about it on a video card i'm looking at. And during this presentation, i found it kind of interesting, but my cat freaked the fuck out about it.
Necro Nomaken listen to your cat, he knows his shit.
Necro Nomaken I'm literally here for the exact same thing minus the cat lol
It is literally caused in most cases(in video cards) by ferrirte chokes. They change shape on a microscopic level due to magnetic domains in the ferrite material(alpha iron containing) crystalline structure. The domains in the lattice like structure rotate and if the current is variable this can cause a resonance to occur. If your card is no longer under warranty, a dab of high temp RTV running from the bottom of the chokes to the card itself should help to dampen(absorb) some of the vibration until its barely audible, I have horrid hearing at higher frequencies do to war and my old hobby as a guitarist so fans drown out the noise to me. Locking constant current using custom drivers or bios could help or at least help it to keep from alternating its pitch thus making it less annoying. Setting v-sync may help as well. However make sure its the video card before you try and do anything to fix it, older transformers in PSUs can have a ton of it in some cases, or the 12 volt rail could be less then clean or have a ripple under load. This of course in case of a ripple could make the the resonance worse.
for anyone looking into this matter, what solved coil whine in my system was changing the case. the old one was getting rusty in places I couldn't notice. same motherboard, processor, video card and even power supply had nothing to do at least in my case. so have the case in mind too when trying to solve this. be very aware of grounding
Cool
Unacceptable, 1 million years dungeon
I've never had this phenonem before in my life, and i've had a whole lotta cards
my 290x last month was my first one too, they wanted to tell me that its supposed to be normal now, atleast i got my cash back after days of arguing with them
Heh. I had these sounds with my TI-99/4a back in 1982. I used those sounds (along with the computer's 3MHz clock speed) to determine what the computer was doing. Faster programming loops would result in higher pitches. Things like heavy mathematical calculations would result in lower pitches. Nice to see things never change... except for the format of Linus Tech Tips!
Not gonna lie, the graphics card be spitting straight facts.
Sounds sexy.. Anyways I hope that my GTX970 tonight will arrive without this issue for the sake of not having more issues then what I have atm :)
Well I got one.
DSR07Gaming.com
you have a bad coil whine like that? what brand did you buy?
Dom Lang Now it's gone for no reason lol :) MSI. It happened when I overclocked my gpu but that means that it would happen anyways sooner or later. Thankfuly its gone but I dont care even if its here. But EVGA and MSI are kinda risky, despite good OC potential from MSI and really silent gpu.
yeah overclocking seems to unleash a lot of coil whining. thats why i believe most of the factory OC'd models have coil whine. Pay an extra 50 bucks so your gpu can scream in your ear. doesn't seem worth it to me.
Dom Lang It's gambling. Mine is gone now :)
For YEARS I've been concerned about that noise. Finally an answer! Thanks!
Crowbcat made a video on this. It's because your game is being rendered at 1000+ fps which is very easy to do on a $400 graphics card with an old game like halo one. Even an old power PC mac from 2002 can run it. The sound of the coil whine comes from the fact that it is generating 1000+ images per second. so just tone down the FPS to 60 fps.
you are explaning it like it is the fault of the amount of fps the card is pushing wich makes no sence....
believe me less fps doesnt make the whine go away... only th pitch of the sound will change
and thats where you are wrong the msi lightning hd 7970/hd5770 hawk/ and my 2 club 3d gtx 580's dont hum and i bet there are several other cards that operate like the should do....
if that is what you think it is....YES
***** my EVGA GTX 470s, 580s, 680s and 780s didn't make any coil noise. ever. at least not enough for it to be audible. and yes, i had two of each. but i just upgraded to the X99 platform and my gigabyte X99 gaming G1 makes a horrible coil whine. it gives me headaches after like 5 minutes. and i'm not even playing games! just browsing the web.
Thanks for the video, I always wondered what exactly this coil whine was. I have actually had this with my old pc.
are cards supposed to make ANY noise when u look up and down in an fps for example? is a small noise normal? or are they meant to be silent? I just had a gigabyte gtx 1070 g1 replaced by amazon when i noticed a litte (i had to listen to the case to hear it during overwatchs looking up and down. and i thought it wasnt supposed to do that but the new oen i got today sounds louder tbh .... not sure what i shud do but u cant really hear it unless u have zero sound in the room when gaming, i had to listen in to a vent to hear
Holy shit, that would drive me crazy.
I just kick my PC and it stops
Is it still alive?
Stops coil whine or stops stops?
Matt Shaw the whine obviously
@@mattshaw6329 LMFAO
@@mattshaw6329 You made me laugh out loud. Thank you stranger.
OMG. Seeing this again after all these years -- WORTH!!
wow, 9 years later and I'm just learning about this. I've been fortunate to never have this issue, but just got the MSI 15M Stealth while I'm really happy with overall, but noticed this with the 3060 card it has. I guess it's not as bad when you have a case and other components interfering with the sound, unlike this test bench, but it's definitely noticeable. Not too loud and annoying, but definitely a new experience...oh well...
At least it's nothing to be concerned about, it's not like your pc is malfunctioning or something. I was relelieved to have learned that :P
Ah! man... this is so annoying and funny at the same time xD
***** yeah i laughed when the sounds corresponded to his movements in-game
annoying, but funny
This guy has a video for every question I have
Sounds like 8 bit bagpipies
I was searching the comments to see if anyone else said this already. lmao. damnit.
The intro lol. So cool
I have never experienced this before getting my 6900xt... and I'm just now watching this 9 year old video about it!!! Thanks.
My Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X has ridiculous amounts of coil whine, especially while playing Far Cry 4. I notice it happens when the last 5 and 6 power phase LED's light up, and the whining corresponds to them, if the power phase LED's are blinking, the whine is fading every time they blink off, and perpetuating when they're on. It almost sound like somebody pushing a quarter into a block of dry ice, it's a pretty unattractive sound.
speedevil22 Put VSync on? Maybe it helps
santeenl VSync is not a solution. It's a band aid at best and a terrible one at it. It increases input lag which is at best an inconvenience and at worst detrimental (mostly for shooters).
***** I've played shooters on Xbox for years on a TV. Xbox obviously has vsync on, and combined with the shitty refresh of my TV at the time. I also recently bought a 6ms 1080p monitor to upgrade from a 720p 3ms. Input lag is something you have to try and find. It's one of those "Wow if I start a private match of CoD and test my controller against how fast I can tell that I already moved the stick'" instances. You won't notice turning on Vsync. Its a good band aid.
Here to see what Coil whine is for the 7900
lol same
my 7900 XT (Red Devil) has really bad coil whine, i was too lazy to send it back. Clearly not PSU related as i got a Seasonic Prime TX-650 that's one of few with true 80+ Titanium, so that's the cleanest power you can get from highest grade electrical components.
It's obviously the card, and the whine gets reduced if i lower game refresh rate settings (monitor is 240hz) and whine is also more intense in main menu's with easily rendered frames. But in a high end system overall like mine, high framerates in all scenes and gameplay are expected, so the coil whine is pretty constant during gaming. I'm even more unlucky to need an open PC case for optimal cooling, so im sitting next to noise and fix it by using headphones instead of a speaker.
Anyways, it's clearly bound to FPS values, explaining why Vsync, capping FPS and refresh rates make a difference for most users. But that defies why people have a high end system, to get high FPS values.. so what do we do, not accept it and RMA cards?
Power bars, cheap phone chargers... it's never ended and kills my head. When I went to audiology apparently I hear higher pitches than average people so it makes sense
Someone please help me on this, sometimes (not that often) my taskbar turns grey and something in my pc (the gpu i assume) start making coil whine, my screens brightness will start changing too, this usually lasts around 20 seconds and then stops, the coil whine is then gone, the taskbar and brightness returns to normal, someone please explain to me what this is because it's driving me crazy when it happens. Is my gpu dying? Is it software related? What is going on??
OMG i found it! It was actually WinSAT (Windows Experience Index) that was scheduled to run every sunday at 1:00am that was causing this! So i disabled it in task scheduler!
***** thank you so much this happened to me literately 10 mins ago i thought i had some crazy virus, thanks heaps :D
Albino Rhino No problem :D
all demonstration, no explanation...ahh, i love the old Linus videos
your 10 years old video is helping us
I have a noise kind of like this, but it only comes through my headset? What is it?
+EaterofCarpets That's static. It's in all PC components. Some headsets have more static noise than others.
MiniZaid It happened with my astros, and it still does it with my krakens? I'm not sure if it's the headsets themselves.
+EaterofCarpets it's static noise. all computer components have it. Some headsets have more than others.
You can't really get rid of it. Maybe turn down the amplifier in your astros. That might reduce the static noise
+EaterofCarpets Interference coming through the line. Like LT said, try hooking your headphones into the back instead of the front ports. If that doesn't help, try using a TOSLink/SPDIF connection for your headphones if possible (The fiber optic connector on the back of most gaming motherboards, needs an appropriate amp or converter to use it with some headphones, some include a connector).
That sounds like a grounding issue
lot of people saying "JUST TRN ON VSINK FAG" or something to that degree, okay , how about my 780 that has coil whine with v-sync on and only getting 50fps. hm? oh so that dosnt solve it? "WELL OBVUISLY YOU NEED TO BE AT 60FPS FEG" okay, test #2 forced 60fps with v-sync on in a game id get above 170fps on.. its still there :O holy shit! #3 a game i usually get 60-70 fps with v-sync on and guess what? its. still there. now would you all shut up? if anyone comes back with anything about my cpu im going to kidney punch you. its over clocked to 4.4 and its run it at 3.5 as well, its not making the sound nor are fans or a hard drive.
Was the frequency of the whine connected to fps? Did just locking it at 60 make it a tone with a fairly stable frequency?
***** not one single tiny little bit. what toned it down was running at different loads. thats exactly what i was saying, people in these comments are swearing locking the frame rate solves it, it dosnt.
thanks for the reply. I thought possibly if it was tied to fps then it wouldn't be very noticeable after a while because its not changing much and you just get used to it.
***** the main point of my original comment was to disprove everyone who kept crying use vsync use vsync. my coil whine is directly proportionate to the ammount of load on the card.
It seems as if the majority of people in the comments have no idea what actually causes coil whine. Cause it sure as hell has nothing to do with FPS.
Edit: Ok I got a little further in the comment section and holy shit, it seems as if fucking know one on here has a fucking clue about coil whine. Really like not a single clue to go around. This is fucking scary for a linustechtips video that so many people have no clue what they are talking about.
Dude, 7 years later, I was freaking out, I have a 5700xt, FINALLY working properly (without blue screens etc etc, I had the stock bios (2018) finally updated it), and I have coil while, I AM CHILLING NOW THANKS PAPALINUS.
On my laptop the coil whine was a great was to measure fps.
its like there's a mini scottish bagpipe group playing
i have an evga 2070 super xc ultra with horrible coil whine. Should i take it back to best buy and swap it for another one? Whats better the msi 1070 super or the evga?
I’m glad I’ve never owned anything that makes a sound like that.
Set yr maximum fps to what yr monitor is capable of displaying - 60, 120 or 144. That should get rid of coil whine noise. Worked for me anyway.
Good advice, I was playing D3 with vsync on and decided to turn it off just to see what my fps would be and started to get coil whine. Makes sense though, with no fps cap your card runs balls to the wall, when in a lot of cases doesn't need to. Go Rossi.
Haha nice one.
@LinusTechTips
I'm getting this exact issue in my new workstation build with an MSI C236 motherboard and Xeon E3 1230v5 processor, however it isn't coming from my videocard, sounds like a choke around the CPU and it get's waay worse when under load. The only thing i can think of is that I'm using an ECC compatible memory board with non ECC RAM. My main question is will it have a shorter life expectancy than a board with no coil whine? is it worth trying to claim warranty?
Had it myself today playing wow. Was highest when I selected my Monk on the character screen. Totally befuddled me. I see now a good use for the frame rate limiter.
FYI, Gigabyte GPUs tend to have coil whine.
which is best?
MrBazsi888
These brands rarely have coil whine
#1 for Nvidia: EVGA
#2 for Nvidia: PNY
#1 for AMD: Sapphire
@@louiefriesen I think I'm going for 3070 or 3080. I heard MSI is good for 3080 in this regard.
I can hear "coil whine" sounds but not in the PC case, but in my audio monitors. I hear constantly like a soft robotic murmur, and when I scroll in programs like Adobe Bridge, I can hear stronger noises when the screen is updated. So, it seems to be related to GPU. I don't have a PCI GPU right now, only the iGPU from the 12700k. Is it coil whine? Or interference? My mother is MSI Pro Z690 WiFi (but I am not using WiFi). My audio monitors are connected directly to the integrated sound card. I should try using a USB sound card with balanced cables, but... What do you think the problem is?
It's singing!
Here because of the PS5 noises
Have you exchanged ?
Is it possible that a lower pitched "buzzing" sound is caused by the same issue? Happens to my 760 when it's under load in games. Definitely not the fans because I can increase them with no issue; it only makes the sound when under load and doesn't stop until I exit the game or pause it.
That coilwhine is so annoying for me.
What's the game?
nvm its halo 1
10 years later, this video is making me super-thankful that my new Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 is _nowhere near_ this; just a bit of whine during some loading screens.
How far we've come-and how far LTT has come!
Still useful 10 years later, my 6950xt makes this noise.. amd come on man 10 years and u still cant fix this?!
For those who has this issue, you can cut some slices of thermal pad(2mm thick or more), fill in the gaps of the coils, put one extra layer of 0.5-1mm thick thermal pad on the coils and screw on the vapor chamber to compress the thermal pad. If its still whining, put some thermal pad on the back of the pcb where the coils fit, and screw on the backplate. Just clean out those extra thermal pad when sent for repair and you will be fine without breaking the warranty. It's caused by the vibration of the coils, so if you compress the coils firmly with thermal pads, it surly will stop.
PS5 brought me here
I have it in my speakers and when I play games, It annoys the fuck out of me. No idea how to get rid of it!
Do you have other things plugged into the speakers? I get a sound very similar to coil whine coming out of my desk speakers when I also have my PS3's audio cable hooked into them(even when the PS3 is off). So, basically, I have to unplug that cord from the console whenever I'm done using it.
I only hear it when playing games such as League of legends. It only happens when I play with vertical sync off so my FPS is around 250-300.
SamEverillTV well.... you either have a shity audio component (speakers, amp, sound card, ETC) or your probably picking up noise somewhere.
make sure your audio cables are not running close to any other cables, use no extra connectors, adapotrs ETC...
i have a MSI 990fxa GD 80 mobo with corsiar SP-2500s 2.1 speakers. when i turn everything up full blast, all i get is a white noise, and if i played any audio at that level, id probably blow your ear drums!
I have the same in my headphones and for me, it's a dumb way of front panel audio connectors getting fibration from the hdd's
Remove any connections near the audio port and you will not hear them anymore. Had them on my laptop and my Xbox 360.
I have used TONS and TONS of different GPU's in my life, and honestly I have never ever experienced this. Maybe european power is better for this lol
Am European, can confirm Coil Whine exists here too.
Strazdas I even have coil whine on my Samsung 226bw monitor while it's idling. It doesn't squeeze that much, but sometimes it's still enough to wake me up just to turn the damn thing off.
To me, it has only happened with my cheap Toshiba tv
Always nvidia cards or did you also have some amd cards? my only experience is with amd cards
Fanta Friday Nvidia until AMD released HD6000 series. Since then I only had a GTX 660 Ti from Nvidia. I have almost every high(er) end card of AMD in the 6,7 and r9 series
Been owning PC's for 18 years and been lucky enough to *never* have heard that sound.
Thank god I don't have this problem, dunno how I got here
Pray to fucking god you don't cause you might have it
And it's a 3060ti, you're fucked
Sounds like dubstep
nope
It sounds like a drift race going on inside there! Seriously though, had it in my laptop (Lenovo G50-45) and I discovered that it was just a regulation coil. I resoldered it -and broke it- and now it works fine.
Ha! It's like playing with a theremin.
Am I the the only fu**ing only one that get coil whine on all my graphics cards? >:( I have tried GTX 670, GTX970 and GTX1070 on Corsair TX650 and Antec TP650 and all whines on both PSUs :( A friend of mine just bought the same hardware as I have, but a GTX 1080 and a Corsair TX750 and he does not have even close to the whine I have. Whyyyyyyyyy....? :'(
yeah it seems like it lol. I have built many PC and use both ATI and Nvidia graphics card and never had this issue.
So incredibly strange... And annoying!! It's not just that you have bad hearing or something? :P
That is unfortunate dude. Sounds like you should move to AMD :)
Chang Jinsoo Is that a joke or are you serious?
Johan Fredriksson LOL trust me. My hearing is perfect. In fact...better than average. I had my ears tested a few years ago and I could hear things most people couldn't according to my doctor.