Hi, I've had my sandy bridge set up a while now, but just rcently, say 2-3 weeks. My board now has a very annoying whine somewhere on the board. At first I thought it was my old graphics card, but took a friends to swap and it was still present. I did read somewhere a million different forums away, about someone having the same symptons. The whine doesn't happen until the windows logon screen, and during idle. When programs load windows change it stops, and during games it also stops. So it seems to be an idle problem. It is difficult to pin point the location of the whine, but my system specs are as follows. if anybody experiences this, and has a fix let me know! Mobo: Asus P8P67 Deluxe CPU: intel i5 2500K no OC RAM: Corsair Vengence (2x4GB) 1600MHz GPU: XFX GTX260 Black Edition PSU: Zalman 850W HP SSD: Crucial C300 64GB HHD: Samsung spinpoint 320GB CASE: Antec 900 I Thanks in advance!
I had the same on a 680i board and it worked perfectly well to this date with a small whine! I also have the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe since the 680i has now been relegated from my main gaming PC and it is perfectly quiet. If I were you I'd contact the place you bought it from and explain your problem then seek an RMA for a replacement. It'll only irritate you if you don't! Although I doubt it's anything serious, just a noisy capacitor.
Not heard of a mobo whine? I would be looking at the PSU firstly, i have had some in the past make stupid noises that seem to correlate with the PC doing stuff. (opening windows, moving the mouse etc)
It is most likely the capacitors whining could be from PSU or mobo. Annoying but harmless but i am afraid i don't know how to get rid of it.
Thanks for response guys, I am going to email ASUS see what they have to say. One thing to add, I did read somewhere that somebody with the same issue changed some of the power settings and it fixed it. Tried to contact him to see what he did but with no luck... It could easily be the PSU but I'm sure its not faulty, i had a 780i Sli not long before this and that was perfectly quiet. The deluxe p8p67 is quite advanced for power managment so could easily be causing an issue, if anybody else has any tips, do shout. Thanks guys
You can't get rid of it. You need to buy a new board. You can try to RMA is, but ASUS might refuse it as "It doesn't affect the functionality of the system". But it's a try. If you can return it and get a new board from the retail store, then I suggest to do so. I like Gigabyte boards, as they use high quality solid capacitors, and ferret core chokes, so no whine due to components. To eliminate the problem circuit problem (yes circuit can do a whine noise, as demonstrated with the X58 boards (all brands) due to the poor circuit design from Intel for the CPU power management (Gigabyte found a work around via BIOS to solve the problem). You can try to disable C1E, and Disable C3/C6/C7 feature. Windows 7 will manage the CPU performance, so it will be fine, and won't provide any downside, other than 1-2 possible degree increase on your CPU.
Thanks GoodBytes, I'll try disabling the different C numbers, hopefully will sort it. The whine hasn't been present since I've had the board, happened a few weeks ago just about. Otherwise I'll try and wangle a new board. Thanks for your advice Peoples.
I've had the same problem with my P8P67 (both the original and RMA repacement boards). When the computer is on, it has mildly annoying high pitched hissing sound (could just be what the mix of fans/HDDs + mobo whine produce), but when in standby, it does a super high pitched whine, so I've taken to always shutting my computer off at night, otherwise I can't sleep.
GoodBytes, Thanks again! I've disabled all but the C7 feature? I couldn't find it, but I didn't look particullary hard as I was in a hurry. It has indeed emliminated the whine, though I swear I can still hear just slightly a whine. But that is more likely me being paranoid Hope this helps others, and what are the effects of turning these features off? If any known?
It's ok if you don't see C7.. it could be a Core i7 1st gen feature only. As long as the Whine is gone -> good.
Itll just be a capacitor. I have an LCD screen that lets out a whine due to a dodgy capacitor. It will still work fine. But if it really bugs you ask for a RMA. They'll be fine with it. or just replace the cap yourself Only if you know what your doing thou
It's not a capacitor it's coil whine (and the top maunf. all use the same capacitors pretty much due to cost and feature matching). The coils on all boards - regardless of manuf. - are all completely sealed now so I would look at your PSU honestly. You can try playing with the VRM frequency on the DIGI+ VRM. Change the setting from T.Probe to Extreme and ratch it up from 300Hz to 400 or 500. By loading the CPU permanently you are just pulling more power through the whole system, but it still doesn't pin-point the exact cause
Aha, I wouldn't replace the cap myself even though I'm an electrical engineer , but them baords and damn stupid 16 layers. I work with 1000A 10's of thousand volt power supplies, I think I will stick with them