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Question fior 680 owners..

titaniumx3

titaniumx3

titaniumx3

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I get a little, but only in certain scenarios such as some game menus, extremely high fps scenes and certain applications such as 3dmark. Even then, it's not that loud.

During actual gaming though, I can't hear whininh apart the a slight increase in fan speed. Also under normal windows desktop use it is completely quiet.

Honestly it is not a big issue unless you're using speakers at very low volumes or the rest of your system is very quiet.

I wonder what actually causes it though. Some people say they can never hear it, but I've had it on the last 5 cards I've had (both AMD and NVIDIA).
 

Rroff

Rroff

Rroff

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Coil whine is very hit and miss and can depend on the card itself, PSU, quality of your mains electronics, etc. etc. so for instance even if you bought a GTX680 that had been tested in a PC already without showing symptoms of coil whine it could become a problem when you fitted it into yours - so basically your gonna have to try it for yourself and DSR it if its an issue.
 

Ziggy4

Ziggy4

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EVGA and no whine. In fact the card is so quiet compared to my previous 470 I initially thought I had coil whine. Turned out it was the hard disks idling which shows how much noise the Fermi was making and just how silent the 680 is.
 
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