GA-X58A-UD3R electrical noises [solved]

[Dark Mantis]

Hi
 You need to have the USB drive formatted to Fat 16 or 32 and have the unzipped file on the boot sector. The drive must be inserted before booting up.

[onemilimeter]

Hi
 You need to have the USB drive formatted to Fat 16 or 32 and have the unzipped file on the boot sector. The drive must be inserted before booting up.

The flash drive appeared as HDD1-0...
I flashed the bios to F6i...
Will update the outcomes in another 10~15 mins...

[onemilimeter]

My earlier problem:
1) [From Windows Welcome screen until Windows XP is fully loaded] Acoustic noise: "squealing" noise
2) [After Windows XP is fully loaded and if Google Chrome (plus some other programs, e.g. Real Temp) is loaded] Acoustic noise: constant "high-pitch" noise

Here's preliminary experience with the BIOS version F6i. After the BIOS is flased to version F6i, I did "Load Optimized Default", then restart the system. I did NOT hear the acoustic noises described in (1) and (2) above!

[Dark Mantis]

Well at least it SOUNDS hopeful!

[onemilimeter]

After a careful check with the BIOS (with "Load Optimized Default"), I find out that the "initial" layout of MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T) is different from F5. A quick check shows that with default setting, the "C1E" is enabled, while "C3/C6/C7 State Support" is disabled.

[onemilimeter]

Well at least it SOUNDS hopeful!

Not to be happy too early... I found something weird... I'm confirming it now before posting... wait...

[onemilimeter]

A further check (with Google Chrome and Real Time activated), I do not hear the acoustic noise I heard when the board is loaded with F5.

[onemilimeter]

The following image of ET6 was captured when the system is idle (with F6i BIOS).
As you can see, the CPU voltage is 1.200V. Do you smell anything fishy here?
Yes... I did. With F5, when the system is idle, the ET6 reported a CPU voltage of 0.928V. And, if you read my FIRST post in this thread, you will find out that my system with F5 also did not emit any noise at 1.200V.
What do you think now?

[Stealth]

I installed the F6i beta bios yesterday and while they are quieter and less frequent, I still experience the noises. The noises usually occur during network copying, although other tasks will cause them as well. I set all the voltages to normal instead of auto in the BIOS.

I have not tried loading from optimized defaults; I will do that tonight and report back.

[onemilimeter]

More to be revealed...

As mentioned earlier, with the default setting of F6i, the C1E is enabled in the BIOS.

I open the Settings of Real Temp v3.4 (see the first image below) and found out that the C1E is unchecked!!!

Guess what after I checked the C1E in the Real Temp... the "high-pitch" noise is back!!! The noise is as annoying as when the board is loaded with F5.




After the C1E in the Real Temp is checked, the CPU voltage goes back to 0.928V...





I guess, although the C1E is seen to be enabled in default F6i BIOS, Gigabyte has actually "disabled" the C1E in the coding, and make (or fool) us "to think" that it's enabled. It's really S-H-I-T! Wasting our time with this stupid trick!!!

Hi Dark Mantis, I recall one of your earlier posts. Do you think Office of Fair Trading and the Trading Standards Agency in the UK is interested about this? I think this F6i is not an attempt to fix the customer problem, but an attempt to cheat the customer.

Gigabyte... Pls stop fooling the customers again and again with all sort of stupid replies and the latest one -- the crappy F6i BIOS !!!

[EliteComputerBuilds]

Here is an update, I returned my X58A-UD3R and got a R3E. Screw Gigabyte as there fix is just a cover up to fool us. I noticed that trick also. That takes real nerve to do that. I will never buy another Gigabyte product again.

[jaicigy]

Well, well, well... what a shame that it all has to be this way but this case.. you brought it on yourself Ggabyte.. 
..am glad I got rid of my Gigabyte board and got an ASUS P6X58D-E that has not let me down once... 

[EliteComputerBuilds]

I am going to have a site up and running in a week about this issue, Be prepare Gigabyte..

[onemilimeter]

Pls kindly note that the F6i is recommended officially by Gigabyte as follows:

[mano]

Hi everyone, I also have a GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 1.0 which is annoingly noisy.

Has anyone tried to connect the hd-audio frontpanel of the case and listened with some headphones?
It seems that the high frequent signal jumps over to some audio lanes, so the mebranes of the headphone are vibrating in the same frequency as the noise creating parts around the CPU.
The routing of the cables to the front panel has no influence on this phenomenon.

So wearing headphones is no option to silence the board. 

Can anyone confirm this?

I use an Enermax MODU87+ 700W, which is noiseless (except for the fan).

Btw:
I search alternatives, so the ASUS P6X58D-E seems a good choice, as many of you mentioned it before.
Has anyone substituted his GA-X58A-UD3R with an ASRock X58 Extreme3 and can confirm the electrical noiselessness of this board?