Coil Whine Explanation & Demonstration Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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475 words · ~2 min read
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now coil wine is something that I've complained about and talked about a lot
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on lineus Tech tips in general but I don't think I've ever actually
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demonstrated what it is so this is a
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graphics card this is a 7970 reference card and my observation with the
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reference cards for 7970 has been that there's a fair amount of coil wine so
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I've had a lot of people kind of well suck it up Princess um so I but I think
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I should leave it to individual users to decide if it's something that will
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bother them or not bear in mind guys this card is on a test bench it's not
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installed in a case right now so the case will help to reduce some of this
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noise and it's particularly offensive if
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you do have a high sensitivity to high-pitch noises whereas if you don't
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have that sensitivity then coil wine is a lot less bothersome once you have it
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there's really not a lot you can do about it some combinations of power supplies can help um that's that's
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pretty much it like some power supplies will react worse with the power delivery
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system on a particular video card and cause it to wind more or less um but
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that's pretty much all there is to it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to position the graphics card itself uh
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about as far away from the microphone as my voice is now so I'm going to turn my mic
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around very ghetto solution for doing that okay sorry about that guys so I'm
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going to position the mic right there and I'm going going to launch a game in
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this case it's not a particularly demand demanding game this is Halo
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1 see there you go there's some Halo 1
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and I'm going to let you guys listen to the noise and you all can decide what
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you think of it
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so this is why I don't like coil wine it's particularly bothersome in
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applications where it fine-tunes its whininess to whatever you're doing so
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check this
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out so you can see it actually corresponds to my movement so there you
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go guys that's coil wine that's what it sounds like there's not a whole lot you
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can do about it unless it's really really bad uh you usually won't get an
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RMA for it so um just try and find a card that you know doesn't really whine
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