p55A High Pitch Whine

[LoSx]

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Would you recommend an ASUS P7P55D-E LGA or MSI GD65?

[wazza300]

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i dont know how other brands would be,esp msi have you thought about rma?

[LoSx]

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I am waiting for an RMA number now but since the 2nd board I bought had the same problems also a P55A-UD3 then I figured it would just continue occurring..

Unless I try to bump up to a UD4P which has more chokes and therefore maybe less stress on them... but I don't know.

[wazza300]

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if i were you id go for an asus,what chip do you have? have you looked at the h55 boards?

[LoSx]

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i7-875k

the H55 dont do much for me... no onboard video... also I prefer having sata 6 and usb 3

Figured I would sell the ud3 board

[wazza300]

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its up to you,just research for which has the most features,whatever you choose youll have to post back on whether it squeals like a pig or not

[onemilimeter]

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You will find more regarding the squeal/whine here:
GA-X58A-UD3R electrical noises

Gigabyte knew the problem and it's investigated now. Have you tried the latest BIOS release?

[wazza300]

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if you dont want a squealing mb buy an ASUS,gigabyte are terrible for this,no bios's fix it so far,its just cheap coils or bad board design

[Lsdmeasap]

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Better PSU choice also alleviates the problem, I've never heard it on any Gigabyte boards I have

[LoSx]

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I thought the Seasonic x750 was a very good power supply also it is very quiet which I want.

Either way I picked up an Asus p7p55d-e board this weekend and low and behold no whine at all even when overclocked so I guess I am going to sell the current gigabyte board.

[wazza300]

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glad you fixed it,its too common on gigabyte boards for it to be just the psu,they must be using a cheap grade component somwhere that causes this noise,if they could fix it like asus then gigabyte would be untouchable but this is a major pain,even im thinking of switching

[LoSx]

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Honestly they have a great feature set and I would have loved to keep it but I could not stand that whine...

Its unfortunate.

[Lsdmeasap]

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I never hear any noises on my boards at all, and I have tons of them, and NO I'm not just saying that because I support Gigabyte :)

Since you now have a new board, maybe you could RMA that one and see if the replacement also makes noise. If it does borrow another PSU and see if it still does, no noise here using Ultra PSU's, and even one setup I have with a Cheapo freebie "Comes with Case" 450W PSU setup on a P55 board.