Coil whine on 3 gpus

[Lemonade]

Hello all, small rant

I am experiencing moderate to severe coil whine on all the gpus I've tested in my build.
Sapphire R9 270X -> moderate to severe coil whine
RX 6700XT Pulse -> moderate coil whine, reduced by 70% by covering the chokes in liquid rubber YET THE COIL WHINE IS STILL THERE
RX 6800XT Reddevil -> current gpu, severe coil whine
I had a beQuiet! Straight Power 11 650W gold which I swapped with a Seasonic Focus GX-850 gold, no difference in gpu coil whine.
I've also tried using a neighbor's power outlet, same result.
Undervolting makes 0 difference on the 6700xt and a small difference on the 6800xt.
Only reducing clock speed by huge amounts gets rid of the coil whine.
I absolutely do not tolerate coil whine since I already have tinitus. I don't need more of it xd.
I can't put the pc in another room linus style since that would mean expensive optical cables and drilling holes in the wall.
I can still return the 6800xt.
Should I just keep buying and returning gpus until I get a lucky card with no coil whine or should I try upgrading my PSU again?
Is the percentage of cards with coil whine that high?

Edit fun fact: my 6700xt whines at ~5khz (and harmonic at ~11khz) and the 6800xt at ~12khz (using osu! pause menu)
6800xt:

6700xt:

You can see by the colour of the spectogram that the 6800xt is worse in intensity.

 

[Toothless]

You're very unlucky.

I have an R9 280 and had a 6800XT with whine, with the 280 being the absolute worst. All my other cards are fine.

Well, the 6950XT has it but can ignore it.

 

[Lemonade]

Ok, time to buy another one. Fingers crossed

 

[Sithaer]

Coil whine is annoying for sure and its one of the things I'm always concerned about when I first start up a new piece of hardware that can possibly whine.
Had a whiny PSU that forced me to power off the entire system 'not just shut down' cause as long as it drew 'vampire' power it made a low pitched noise I could hear even in my bed..

Then I had a EVGA ftw acx 3.0 1070 that had coil whine/more like a buzz whenever the fans were spinning so at least it wasn't doing it idle. 'this wasn't that bad so I just ignored it but when I sold the card on the second hand market I got less money for it cause of that issue'

Current TuF 3060 Ti is all silent tho and that was a relief.

O ye and I once heard my current keyboard coil whine when it was really quiet in my room and I was looking for the source for like 10 mins before finding it. I honestly couldn't belive it but it was coming from the keyboard but I could only hear it from a close distance. 'and the fan/rgb hub controller at the back of my Pure Base FX 500 case whines too but at least I can't hear it with the side panel on'

I wish this issue was taken more seriously tho I'm not sure what could be done about it/more than whats done already during manufacturing and quality control.

 

[hat]

You can try this before spending more money:

How to quickly & easily fix coil-whine(coil choke noise)

A forum user recently asked about Coil Whine, which is the noise a choke coil sometimes makes as it operates. This is almost always a video card problem, but can happen on any other computer or electronics components employing a choke in it's circuitry, including motherboards & power supplies...

www.techpowerup.com

Seems to be a very widespead issue... it's sad we don't have better quality products

 

[Lemonade]

Trust me I've tried with the 6700xt...
1st attempt: super glue under the chokes <- no difference in coil whine
2nd attempt: super glue around choke base (thicker glue that unfortunately turned yellow after hardening) <- no difference in coil whine
3rd attempt: truck load of liquid rubber over and around every possible choke and mlcc <- some improvements but still very audible in high fps games

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Unfortunately spilled over some of the chips
Have I shortened the card's life? Probably.


no inductor was spared