Gigabyte squealing - WTF!!

So for some dumbass reason I decided to switch from my trusty P6T Deluxe V2 to a Gigabyte. Well I bought the old X58 Extreme by mistake, thinking it was the new A7. I went ahead and installed it and noticed it made a strange squealing noise whenever there was any system activity. I thought it was maybe a bad hard drive or something, but after swapping all the parts I had, nothing fixed it.

So I figured it was a bad board and decided to buy the board I really wanted and upgrade my PSU at the same time. So I got the Gigabyte X58A UD5 with USB 3.0 and SATA 3. I've spent all day putting this system together, making everything super clean, sleeving wires, etc. And the son of a bitch makes the same squealing noise!!!!!!

So I do some Googling and apparently this is a known issue with Gigabyte X58 boards. Some people said it goes away when they over clock, so I tried that and it definitely helped, but the noise is still there. So I'm gonna sell this POS and buy another V2.

Really pissed off and disappointed

Odd - I've never had a noise from my UD5 motherboard.

Found some info -

Set your vcore manually
Turn off all power saving features in your bios such as C1E Halt State

Power fluctuations are the cause of this issue.

I've had that issue with other boards. It's beyond annoying. RMA time.

noteworthy said:

Odd - I've never had a noise from my UD5 motherboard.

Found some info -

Set your vcore manually
Turn off all power saving features in your bios such as C1E Halt State

Power fluctuations are the cause of this issue.

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I already raised the vcore all the way to 1.4 and it didn't get rid of it

just tried disabling C1E and EST, no change

Must be the power supply then, because my old Antec power supply made an annoying whining noise, you might want to check that one first.

John Vuong said:

Must be the power supply then, because my old Antec power supply made an annoying whining noise, you might want to check that one first.

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He's using the same PSU he used with the P6T which made no whining noise.

I've always heard Gigabyte had the best quality control but this would annoy me to no end. (I'm an SPCR type.)

Well, my old Antec did not make a squealing noise with my old P45 Gigabyte board, it did it with my UD5 and UD7 X58 Gigabyte board, its really strange really why it did it.

eddieck said:

He's using the same PSU he used with the P6T which made no whining noise.

I've always heard Gigabyte had the best quality control but this would annoy me to no end. (I'm an SPCR type.)

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Corsair HX620W + Asus P6T Deluxe V2 = no whine
Corsair HX620W + Gigabyte X58 Extreme = whine
Corsair HX850W + Gigabyte X58A UD5 = whine

me too
ordered another P6T Deluxe V2
what sucks is the main reason I switched boards was to get more SATA ports and then I made some changes so I ended up only needing 6 anyway

John Vuong said:

Must be the power supply then, because my old Antec power supply made an annoying whining noise, you might want to check that one first.

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pretty sure it's coming from the CPU area on the motherboard

I just changed vdroop to regular, and turned on c3/c6/c7, c1e off
back on my hx620w since my hx750w blew a capacitor
whining is down to about 90-95% of what it was originally, I may be ok with this once I get the side panels back on my P182

I'm running auto tune right now in the ATI catalyst center and it's making some whining, but it's a bit deeper, not as shrill as the original noise, and if it's only when using heavy 3d graphics like gaming, that's not a big deal - my headphones should easily drown it out