On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:52:56 -0000, sndive@gmail.com wrote:

>I bought GigaByte GeForce 8600GT Video Card GVNX86T256H recently
>due to its silentpipe tech.
>Well, there is no definitely no fan noise since there is no fan.
>But gigabyte seems to have used the cheapest condensers they could
>get ahold of and they whine(hum) when the card is doing any 3D
>(Civ IV, Sid Meyer's railroads, you name it).
>
>is there a 2600XT or 8600GTS that uses condensers that don't suck
>like the ones on the girabyte card?

IIRC, condensers translates into capacitors in modern
engrish.

Capacitors don't whine(hum), unless severely failed which
couldn't be the case with the card still working. Instead
it would be the inductors whininig if anything, OR the power
supply making a noise at this changed power output level.

Either way, it is not a matter of condensers that "don't
suck". If your card truely has inductors that whine,
instead of the PSU making the noise (which is more common),
your options are RMA/replacement or coating the inductor
coils with something ( remove them and dunk in laquer or
leave them on and put a liberal coating of epoxy on them to
still the coil resonant vibrations).

Otherwise, replacing the card to reduce this kind of noise
is a crapshoot/lottery, any slightly different card will
have a different inductor resonant frequency depending on
the load, power, PSU output and ripple. It's not like there
is one solid variable to recommend a specific card which is
why I mentioned the factors involved. You could randomly
choose a different card and resolve this "problem", but many
are reference design cards in same GPU family so if that
doesn't help it would be time to consider either replacing
the PSU or coating inductors with epoxy/etc as mentioned.

Key is to first be certain of where the noise comes from.
Perhaps you have already, but adding a video card and then
noticing inductor whining noise does not automatically
implicate the video card as the source of that noise.