FE and ASUS 30 series cards were notorious for horrible coil whine. I had two different FE cards, two TUFs and a STRIX; they all whined horribly. The EVGA 30 series cards I had on the other hand had little to absolutely zero coil whine.I love the look of the FE cards. The high-end ones though can be noisy as hell. The FE 3080 TI and 3090 cards had the worst coil whine by far compared to AIB. Also the FE cards seem to be the most inconsistent when it comes to fan noise as you can take four FE cards and they may all four sound completely different. For example digital foundry had two 3080 TI cards and one of them had a noisy as hell fan and the other one didn't. That was my experience too because I had two FE 3080 TI cards with one of them that was just ridiculously rough and noisy while the other one had a smooth fan. I had an FE 3090 that was by far the loudest noisiest card that ever heard in my life as it sounded like a jet trying to take off when it was under full load. And both FE 3080 TI and the FE 3090 all had ridiculous levels of coil whine. My Asus 3080 TI though is pretty much silent in comparison.
Was hoping the FE and ASUS would fix their coil whine for the 40 series but I’m yet again seeing numerous buyers complaining about it. Not sure what to get now since I detest loud coil whine and EVGA is gone.