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ASUS Says Audible Coil Whine Is Not A Hardware Defect, Rejects Warranty On Four-Month-Old RTX 5080 TUF OC No Matter How Loud It Got

Summary by Wccftech
The TUF RTX 5080 OC from ASUS was purchased as a second-hand GPU from Amazon U.K. for a steep €1,340 (almost $1,500), and for a PC part that’s only four months old, you’d expect it to work flawlessly. Unfortunately, one owner shows proof that the graphics card is giving off a rather loud and irritating coil whine that would likely distract him even while he was busy in his gaming sessions, prompting him to reach out to ASUS for a warranty claim.…
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Spending more than €1,300 on a graphics card and listening to an annoying electrical noise while playing is not what you expect when you hit the power button on your PC. For that is precisely what the owner of an ASUS RTX 5080 TUF OC denounces, who claims that ASUS rejected his entry ASUS considers normal the coil when a RTX 5080 and rejects his warranty: does he wash his hands next to Amazon UK? appears first in The Computer Shaps.

A Reddit user fails with its four-month-old Asus TUF Gaming Geforce RTX 5080 support: Despite video and invoice, Asus rejects the warranty because of coil fiepens. For buyers in Germany, a deadline is above all crucial.

You might think that a graphics card costing thousands of zlotys should provide not only high performance but also user comfort. However, ASUS apparently disagrees. One Reddit user bought a used... Full version of the page: https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/asus_rtx_5080_odmowa_gwarancji-55528.html

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Wccftech broke the news on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
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