Msi gtx 970 coil whine and fsb up to 100

is this considered normal since the coilwhine occurs when i play medium gpu demanding games
i dont think fsb 100 should be considered normal?

CoD:AW is only 'medium demanding' so long as you don't have lots of AA or supersampling enabled. As soon as i ramp up the AA or turn on supersampling, GPU will easily hit 100% and get really hot.
Also, FB is frame buffer usage, so VRAM/memory usage. CoD deliberately uses 100% of VRAM available to it at any given time - i forget the reasons but all the PC reviews mention this and its beneficial in some way - i suspect its all the pre-loading of textures it does to reduce hitching as you go from area to area.
So 100% FB is normal, and 100% GPU usage in general may also be, depending on settings.
As for coil whine, most MSTI GTX 970s seem to suffer with it. My Asus GTX 970 (got it after RMAing my msi one) has none, thankfully.

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