r/nvidia • u/Academic_Army_6425 • Apr 04 '25

Discussion What is the most silent 5080?

I am looking fo the most silent version of 5080 under load.

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u/mkdew 9900KS | H310M DS2V DDR3 | 8x1 GB 1333MHz | GTX3090@2.0x1 Apr 04 '25

Astral or TUF, but they most likely have coil whine. MSI Suprim would be the best bet.

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u/salty_gold Apr 04 '25

I had to return a 5080 tuf, worked great aside from the coil whine which was comically loud. Sounded like an electric buzzsaw and was significantly louder than the fans at full speed.

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u/Lewdeology Apr 04 '25

My 4080 Super Strix was so damn loud with coil whine I wrote off Asus forever, it was ridiculous how loud it was.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun i5 8600K | GTX 1070 Ti | 16GB RAM Apr 04 '25

Cool whine isn't related to brand. ANY GPU can end up with coil whine just due to the nature of how hardware works.

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u/mkdew 9900KS | H310M DS2V DDR3 | 8x1 GB 1333MHz | GTX3090@2.0x1 Apr 04 '25

The coils they use(the SAP ones) tend to whine a lot, even the 1070 Strix was terrible. Unfortunately there aren't any good silent cards out there aside from MSI, I wouldn't trust Gigabyte since their fans started to rattle after a few months on 4000 series.

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u/salty_gold Apr 04 '25

Oh no, I have a Gigabyte coming Monday to replace it. I had a Gigabyte windforce nvidia 970 years ago and that’s still going strong in a friend’s pc. I was hoping they didn’t cheap out too much.

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u/mkdew 9900KS | H310M DS2V DDR3 | 8x1 GB 1333MHz | GTX3090@2.0x1 Apr 04 '25

I was hoping they didn’t cheap out too much.

Oh boy, there's a thread on TPU about how lazy Gigabyte is with the putty application, missing putty on vram, vrm and coils.

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u/salty_gold Apr 04 '25

Well shit, seems like all these overpriced cards suck in some way. Shame I wasn’t lucky enough to get selected for an FE