--- title: Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine | daily.dev description: A new community-driven database, the Coil Whine Database, lets people report and browse coil whine levels for PC hardware like power supplies, GPUs, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine | daily.dev og:description: A new community-driven database, the Coil Whine Database, lets people report and browse coil whine levels for PC hardware like power supplies, GPUs, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hhxy6ZNyZ.png og:image:alt: Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new community-driven database, the Coil Whine Database, lets people report and browse coil whine levels for PC hardware like power supplies, GPUs, and cooling pumps. Reports use a 0-4 scale based on audibility at idle or under load, and a device won't show up publicly until it has at least 5 reports, with silent-hardware reports weighted more heavily to counter reporting bias. Submissions are made via a GitHub issue form, and the project's files are open on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Coil Whine Database and how does it score hardware noise? It is a community-run project that collects user reports on coil whine levels for PC hardware like power supplies, GPUs, and pumps. Reports use a 0 to 4 scale, where 0 means inaudible in a quiet room, 2 means audible at a desk under load, and 4 means audible even at idle. Submissions are made through a GitHub issue template, and its files are hosted publicly on GitHub. _daily.dev surfaces community hardware projects like this for PC builders chasing silent setups._ ### Why does the Coil Whine Database wait until a part has 5 reports before showing results? Requiring at least 5 reports per device helps account for natural variance between individual units of the same hardware, since coil whine can differ from one sample to another even within the same model. The project also weights reports of silent parts more heavily, reasoning that people happy with quiet hardware are less likely to bother submitting a report than those annoyed by noise. _anyone comparing GPUs or PSUs for a quiet build can follow projects like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [It took one weekend to make my gaming PC dramatically quieter without spending a penny](https://daily.dev/posts/it-took-one-weekend-to-make-my-gaming-pc-dramatically-quieter-without-spending-a-penny-20absgqts) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz"},"datePublished":"2026-09-01T11:10:14.201Z","dateModified":"2026-09-01T11:10:35.027Z","description":"A new community-driven database, the Coil Whine Database, lets people report and browse coil whine levels for PC hardware like power supplies, GPUs, and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/469198edf56195f869dc4f32041e80a5?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/469198edf56195f869dc4f32041e80a5?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hackaday","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hackaday","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JhDfhy70--/f_auto,q_auto/v1767541814/logos/hackaday","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,hardware,gpu","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hackaday","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/crowdsourcing-an-investigation-into-coil-whine-hhxy6znyz#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is the Coil Whine Database and how does it score hardware noise?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It is a community-run project that collects user reports on coil whine levels for PC hardware like power supplies, GPUs, and pumps. 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