Coil squeal When folding on GTX 580

[infernalrob3rt]

As the title says i have a Gtx 580 overclocked to 850mhz and i can hear a squeal coming from it when its under load folding from the other side of the room.
Its going to be watercooled within a week so will that stop it or is it just the load?
Or is it a sign that im pushing it too much!? (stock voltage)

Thank you

 

[Pickster]

It's not a sign that you are pushing it too far but some people find dropping the clock back a bit will get rid of the noise.

There is nothing to worry about, other than it being annoying, but unfortunately watercooling wont make any difference.

 

[FOX91]

My Palit 560Ti Sonic also has an annoying coil whine but fortunately it only happens with 2 tasks: Furmark and folding. Since I haven't overclocked the card myself, there's really nothing else to do than cope with it.

 

[infernalrob3rt]

Just thought I'd ask as I don't want my card to die on me!

I've heard a rumour that putting nail varnish on the capacitors removes the issue.

Has anyone been crazy enough to do that?

 

[VengeanceUK]

the coil whine has something to do with the shader engines as it kicks in badly on one test on pcmark05 exactly when it states shader engines (coincidentally)
as for nail varnish, i can't really see what that would acheive

 

[Pickster]

I have been lucky and not had o deal with any coil whine.

Which I'm really glad about as it would drive me totally mad.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I have been lucky and not had o deal with any coil whine.

Which I'm really glad about as it would drive me totally mad.

Yup, same here. Although I have only folder on one card so far

 

[CPMFW]

my xfx gtx295 also has an annoying coil whine
its for a good purpose so i try to ignore it

 

[Eru]

Only one of my 570's does this.

One is a stock, the other is an EVGA OC version. When I hope into EVGA precision and set both cards to the stock settings for the normal card the whine goes away. If I OC either of them, including the factory settings on the OC version, the whine comes back.

The difference is that at stock the voltages are 988 mV. The profile on the OC version is set to some where slightly above 1000mV. Using that as a base comparison I would conclude the threshold for coil whine on my card, and likely yours as the 570 is a slightly cut down 580 and would use many of the same parts, is 1v. Try under clocking your card and create a F@H profile with those settings so you could easily switch between the underlock and you OC.

 

[infernalrob3rt]

This is weird. Ive looked into this a bit more more and the noise you hear is from physical moving parts. Generally the coils. Though it can rarely be something in the chips. And loads of people have used a glue gun or something to the same effect over their coils etc to keep everything in place thus stopping the whine.

Lowering the clocks and voltage does remove the sound however i was rather hoping to keep the clocks up for a better ppd.

 

[kup]

The clear nail varnish trick works but obviously voids any warranty. You have to saturate the coils so they have no give at all.

 

[JohnnyHundo]

I had some pretty bad coil whine on my GTX 570's (OC'd to 852 MHz - shader clock at 1704); It seems that over time the volume has decreased a lot - it seems that as the cards get "broken in" it goes away...

I had read about this happening to other cards as well - and then sure enough same thing happened to me. It did take about a month of 100% load though before I started noticing it getting quieter.

(and who knows maybe my brain is just better at ignoring it? - but I don't think so);