Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Coil whining - RTX4060ti - ACEMD3
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Erich56 Send message Joined: 1 Jan 15 Posts: 1146 Credit: 11,204,516,611 RAC: 12,135,287 Level  Scientific publications      | |
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I am experiencing an interesting behaviour with one my two RTX4060ti in one of my hosts: | |
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Ian&Steve C.  Send message Joined: 21 Feb 20 Posts: 1081 Credit: 40,247,837,595 RAC: 1,557,196 Level Scientific publications  | |
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I always experienced this with the ACEMD3 app. | |
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Erich56 Send message Joined: 1 Jan 15 Posts: 1146 Credit: 11,204,516,611 RAC: 12,135,287 Level Scientific publications | |
I always experienced this with the ACEMD3 app. well, besides the two RTX4060ti, the following GPUs are crunching ACEMD3: 2 RTX3070 1 GTX980ti 1 Quadro P5000 none of those produce coil whining. According to all I have read about coil whining so far, it should NOT be harmful to the GPU. Is this correct ? | |
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 Retvari Zoltan Send message Joined: 20 Jan 09 Posts: 2362 Credit: 16,498,098,920 RAC: 4,574,119 Level Scientific publications | |
According to all I have read about coil whining so far, it should NOT be harmful to the GPU. Is this correct ?Yes. It is harmful only to human ears and nerves :) Every GPU can produce coil whining, if the adequate load (workunit) is present. The same load (workunit) is not necessarily cause coil whining on different systems. You can try to lower the power limits, that may help a little. | |
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Erich56 Send message Joined: 1 Jan 15 Posts: 1146 Credit: 11,204,516,611 RAC: 12,135,287 Level Scientific publications | |
You can try to lower the power limits, that may help a little. I had done this already: lowering the power limit to the minimum possible of 60%, plus lowering the GPU clock by 500 MHz (now running at 2235 MHz). Both measures helpled A LITTLE :-( Lowering also the memory clock did NOT yield any effect. | |
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William Albert Send message Joined: 22 Sep 24 Posts: 3 Credit: 149,655,289 RAC: 370,714 Level  Scientific publications  | |
Searching in the internet, among others I got the advice to turn on V-sync in the NVIDIA control panel. Vsync itself doesn't have anything to do with coil whine. What enabling Vsync does in that regard is to serve as a natural frame rate cap for whatever is using the GPU to render, which generally results in the GPU doing less work (because its operating in conjunction with the monitor's refresh rate, rather than as fast as it possibly can). CUDA applications don't render anything, so Vsync isn't actually doing anything. Rather, you need to slow the application down some other way. It sounds like you've already attempted to power-limit the GPU, as well as reduce its clock speeds. If that's not enough, you can also limit the maximum temperature the GPU can reach (at which point the clock speeds will throttle), and you can "help" the GPU reach that point by reducing the maximum fan speeds. Alternatively, if the main issue you're having with the coil whine is an objectionable noise, you can try moving to a case that can dampen high-pitched noises coming from the computer. The Fractal Design "Define" line of cases (specifically, those with a non-window side panel) has sound deadening material that can help absorb and dampen this noise. | |
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Erich56 Send message Joined: 1 Jan 15 Posts: 1146 Credit: 11,204,516,611 RAC: 12,135,287 Level Scientific publications | |
It sounds like you've already attempted to power-limit the GPU, as well as reduce its clock speeds. If that's not enough, you can also limit the maximum temperature the GPU can reach (at which point the clock speeds will throttle), and you can "help" the GPU reach that point by reducing the maximum fan speeds. unfortunately, I can't do anything with help of the temperature: I am running the GPU with 60-62°C, and the lowest temperature limit the Afterburner lets me set is 65°C :-( | |
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Ian&Steve C. Send message Joined: 21 Feb 20 Posts: 1081 Credit: 40,247,837,595 RAC: 1,557,196 Level Scientific publications | |
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coil whine is always more a function of the GPU and the manufacturing and/or quality of the inductor coils on the GPU itself. | |
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Keith Myers  Send message Joined: 13 Dec 17 Posts: 1367 Credit: 7,967,038,047 RAC: 3,060,293 Level  Scientific publications | |
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I think I've only ever heard any coil whine over the fans in a PC when I had 1070's in use. Those sang like a choir. | |
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KeithBriggs Send message Joined: 29 Aug 24 Posts: 33 Credit: 1,397,690,047 RAC: 6,400,388 Level  Scientific publications | |
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That is an interesting problem. I've never heard of coil whining. My 4060Ti is also an MSI (8gb ventus3x) and quiet as can be. ATMML run at 98% and 119W and ACE run the same 98% but at 133W. Power? First thing I'd do is unplug the quiet one and see if Mr Whiny still whines. Swapping GPU power cords would be another quick test. The whole thing here runs at 220W +/-5W currently with an ACE task. I'm on a 600W Corsair. Are you running CPU tasks? If so, I'd halt them and see if anything changes. | |
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