Graphics card coil whine
Posted: March 11th, 2015, 1:45 am
What is coil whine?
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I had been using a GTX 560 Ti and I was getting coil whine while playing halo. I just upgraded to a GTX 960 and I had thought that since it was a brand new card (whereas my 560 Ti was purchased used) I wouldn't be getting coil whine anymore. Although the coil whine while playing halo was less, it was still there. Now I don't really care but I'm using a Razer Tiamat 7.1 headset with the built in mic and people in teamspeak are saying that when I'm playing halo or minecraft they can hear what sounds like a dying baby when I talk. For some reason they don't hear the coil whine when I use my webcam mic (which picks up more background noise than the headset mic) but the webcam mic can't be used unless I have push-to-talk enabled because it picks up pretty much everything (keyboard typing). I decided to google this and the above text is what I found. According to the above text the reason why I have it is because of how many fps I get in halo and minecraft with vsync turned off. I turned vsync on in halo and people in teamspeak said that they couldn't really hear any coil whine.
According to the above text coil whine happens (mostly) when you have a higher end GPU and the GPU is working harder. Most people here probably have never had a problem with coil whine but this is most likely because most everyone has mid to low performance GPU's and most people here play with vsync on I think. Turning vsync on makes mouse movements in halo feel similar to that of mouse acceleration which makes it impossible to play at the level I usually do. One potential fix that hopefully will work for me (and for anyone else if they have similar problems or just want to try this): right click on your halo icon and right after -console you can put the following: -vidmode 1920,1080,120. 1920,1080 is the resolution that halo will run at and 120 will be what your locking your fps to.
T7HsXHqtxrI
I had been using a GTX 560 Ti and I was getting coil whine while playing halo. I just upgraded to a GTX 960 and I had thought that since it was a brand new card (whereas my 560 Ti was purchased used) I wouldn't be getting coil whine anymore. Although the coil whine while playing halo was less, it was still there. Now I don't really care but I'm using a Razer Tiamat 7.1 headset with the built in mic and people in teamspeak are saying that when I'm playing halo or minecraft they can hear what sounds like a dying baby when I talk. For some reason they don't hear the coil whine when I use my webcam mic (which picks up more background noise than the headset mic) but the webcam mic can't be used unless I have push-to-talk enabled because it picks up pretty much everything (keyboard typing). I decided to google this and the above text is what I found. According to the above text the reason why I have it is because of how many fps I get in halo and minecraft with vsync turned off. I turned vsync on in halo and people in teamspeak said that they couldn't really hear any coil whine.
According to the above text coil whine happens (mostly) when you have a higher end GPU and the GPU is working harder. Most people here probably have never had a problem with coil whine but this is most likely because most everyone has mid to low performance GPU's and most people here play with vsync on I think. Turning vsync on makes mouse movements in halo feel similar to that of mouse acceleration which makes it impossible to play at the level I usually do. One potential fix that hopefully will work for me (and for anyone else if they have similar problems or just want to try this): right click on your halo icon and right after -console you can put the following: -vidmode 1920,1080,120. 1920,1080 is the resolution that halo will run at and 120 will be what your locking your fps to.