3080 or 3080Ti?

Ugg...that sucks.

Shell out $2500 Auss and you get substantial coil whine.

Yeah, I'd for sure complain and warranty that thing.
 
It's not that bad, it's just more noticeable than what I was used to the past 4 years. Kinda odd that the in game menus don't exhibit the annoyance at the same FPS, same goes with a benchmark. Perhaps it's a PSU problem instead.
 
Do you have another system to test in?
I would also suspect the PSU if it is too old and Corsair PSUs have a habit of crapping out.
 
I have rarely had coil whine and most times I was able to sell the card and buy a new one. :bleh:
 
The card is dope! Smashes everything I throw at it with max settings including ray tracing and DLSS set to off.

I’m noticing more heat dumped into the room, should be sweet for winter usage.

Would love an Alder Lake setup to gain full potential of the GPU as I’m CPU bottlenecked now.
 
Grab a 12700K and a DDR4 motherboard and roll. Prices are honestly extremely fair for the performance.. I would recommend the ASUS Z690 TUF or an MSI. Avoid Gigabyte like the plague.
 
Megaman said:
The card is dope! Smashes everything I throw at it with max settings including ray tracing and DLSS set to off.

I’m noticing more heat dumped into the room, should be sweet for winter usage.

Would love an Alder Lake setup to gain full potential of the GPU as I’m CPU bottlenecked now.
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I feel buying a 12900k would be perfect for your winter needs :D
 
I dunno. Alder Lake has excellent performance per watt - my 12700K was rarely hitting 100watts while gaming at 5.1 P/4.1 E @ 1.285v.
 
As for the coil whine megaman, I had a gtx680 that was bad. I took it back a few days after purchase and they replaced it at scorptec
 
The coil whine ain't that bad, just more noticeable than the 1080 which is how I picked up on it. I actually think it's the PSU. I bet a replacement of that will sort it out. Still confused why Cinebench OpenGL run at 170 FPS I hear absolutely no coil whine what so ever. It's dead silent.

As for the Alder Lake upgrade, that will be one expensive gig. A PSU upgrade will be needed for sure but also a new AIO cooler for 1700 pin as the H150i isn't optimal from what I have read.

The 8700K in BF 2042 128 player servers, is getting a beating.
 
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What about just upgrading the CPU to a 9700K and maybe a PSU?

Then wait for Meteor Lake and let DDR5 mature?
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The latter is what I'm aiming for, with a Windows 11 upgrade too. Who knows, maybe I'll upgrade to Alder Lake a week before Meteor Lake release :bleh2:


Also, using GPU Z render test, 800 FPS, dead silent.....interesting.
 
The coil whine might be coming due to PSU and in games where both CPU and GPU are working hard. Just a hunch. Throw that Corsair PSU out and you will be happier.

Also you have elite capillex which has a bracket available from Corsair so you don’t need a new AIO especially for 12700K which runs reasonably cool. Also if you go with ASUS TUF you don’t even need the bracket since it has two holes :bleh: that allow previous coolers to fit as is.

I used to think that I made a mistake going from 8700K to 5900X but now the recent crop of games really do need extra horsepower from CPU. A couple of recent examples are COD V and Halo Infinite. I would argue even Far Cry 6 had more smooth gameplay on my 5900X compared to 10700 setup but that might be the 3070 with 8 GB causing issues. BF 2042 also for sure loves some CPU.
 
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