GeForce RTX 5090 with increased coil whine after physical damage reported by Redditor

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It looks like we have an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card experiencing "coil whine" with a Redditor reporting more "loud noises" on the expensive flagship GPU. Check it out:

In a new thread on Reddit, user "MutedMobile3977" said that his ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card was giving out a "coil whine" issue and that he figured the issue out after the GPU began making loud noises when under load. He looked closer, discovering that the TUF RTX 5090 card had a damaged capacitor, something that's rare on a high-end GPU.

Physical damage while the GPU itself is running is something that's not common, especially for a new card like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. The GPU itself is running without a problem apart from the loud noises and coil whine, and if a capacitor is at fault, we should've expected some issues with the GPU running... but that's not happening... so far, that is.

The Redditor explained: "Yes, the back of all GPU cards of the 5090 have it, but in reference photo I don't see the black caps either online. GPU works just has coil whine while watching Netflix and that's when I inspected my PC and noticed my GPU producing coil whine and saw this cap exposed. 4-5am at night beleive me or not".

VideoCardz reports that "the picture doesn't tell us precisely if the capacitors are damaged. The plastic casing may only be physically damaged, exposing the capacitor. As the name suggests, coil whine doesn't really come from capacitors, so this is unlikely the direct reason for teh increased noise. Perhaps other components are also damaged, which would be very unfortunate and very interesting as the card still works".