GA-X58A-UD3R electrical noises [solved]

[Arundor]

Thanks for the information, tracer.

Did you have C1E enabled during your testing?

Edited:  I've just noticed you said that BIOS settings were left at default except for XMP, so I assume that means C1E was on.  This sounds encouraging, thanks for the news.

[tracer]

Did you have C1E enabled during your testing?

Yup. All power saving features were on (as per default).

Slight update though.
Now that the computer is back in case and everything is plugged in. It does make a little bit of noise. Enough that it is noticeable.
So now I don't know what to do. If the Asus board worked properly, I would just use that. <sigh>

Lastly, this board does run much hotten (by almost 10 degrees) then the Asus board. Most likely do to the "premium" heatpipe cooling on the more expensive board. (this is not surprising). I'm assuming the same would be true for the UD5 board.

Note: I updated my previous post to include the fact that I have a Rev.1 board.

[Dark Mantis]

Your findings were not unsuspected tracer, as has been deduced before the noise is down to the motherboard/PSU combination. As far as the UD5 is concerned there are far fewer instances of noise and they definitely run cooler.

[onemilimeter]

Update

I now have two motherboards and two power supplies.
Motherboards are the Asus P6X58D-Premium and the Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Rev.1
The power supplies are the PC Power and Cooling Quad 750 Silencer (the original) and a new Seasonic X-750
All Bios settings left at default EXCEPT turning on XMP profile for my ram.
Here are the test results when Windows 7 initiates power savings.

PC Power and Cooling Quad 750 Silencer
P6X58D-Premium: Coil wine coming from Powre Supply
X58A-UD3R: Unbearable pig frying alive in hot oil sound coming from motherboard

Seasonic X-750
P6X58D-Premium: Silence
X58A-UD3R: very very slight noise coming from the power supply. I have to have my head beside it as it's out of the case to hear it.

The ending
I'm keeping the X58A-UD3R
The Asus board refuses to work with my SLI cards and my x4 raid controller at the same time (either one nvidia card and the raid controller or the two nvidia cards and no raid). That and I have to run the qpi link at 1.4v instead of the speced 1.35v to keep in stable.
PC Power and Cooling has offered to replace my Silencer under RMA and I'll have that as a backup.

So, there you have it. Morel of the story is you need a good, new power supply to run these latest batch of X58 Motherboards.

Your finding is very similar to that found by dkslim and this again proves that there is something "wrong" with the UD3R. When you mentioned about "new" power supply, did you mean "newly designed" power supply?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi onemilimeter, that's how I read it and as far as I can find out this is a fairly new model specs here: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-014-SS

[tracer]

Another Update.

So Once I got everything put back into the case and all my hardrives installed etc. the board started making more noise.
It's pretty much unacceptable again.
The Asus board is dead silent. So I will have to make that board work.

There is something wrong with the X58A-UD3R. Not even a new top of the line PSU like the Seasonic X750 could fix the noise issue, it only improved it.

[Dark Mantis]

Well thanks for that tracer, it was looking hopeful until just then. I thought that at least there was a way forward for all these members who have been suffering.

[onemilimeter]

Another Update.

So Once I got everything put back into the case and all my hardrives installed etc. the board started making more noise.
It's pretty much unacceptable again.
The Asus board is dead silent. So I will have to make that board work.

There is something wrong with the X58A-UD3R. Not even a new top of the line PSU like the Seasonic X750 could fix the noise issue, it only improved it.

Does the Asus board have features like C1E, C3/C6/C7 state, and EIST etc?

[Dark Mantis]

I would be very surprised if it didn't.

[specifier]

I have been following this thread for a few day because I was considering this motherboard.  A lot of good stuff here, but have not seen anything more for a few days.

Are they any resolutions to this noise problem yet?

Thank you

[Dark Mantis]

Nothing new I am aware of, I'm afraid. I don't know if your budget can stand it but the UD5 seems to be noise free and of course is a slightly better board.

[onemilimeter]

Nothing new I am aware of, I'm afraid. I don't know if your budget can stand it but the UD5 seems to be noise free and of course is a slightly better board.

It looks like UD5 has no problem. Could it be due to the number of UD5 users is less than UD3R?

[Dark Mantis]

Obviously the number of boards sold is going to impact on the data but even so I can't say I remember any instances of the same noise. The UD7 and UD9 come under the same canopy. Being more expensive boards they sell less and so you will see less problems reported, that isn't to say none exist but I don't know of any. Even my UD7 board does not have the same noise problems as the UD3 it is entirely different and due to other factors which I am trying to resolve presently. Also as far as I am aware there haven't been any other instances of this noise on this board. I even put out an appeal on my other forum which has 300,000 members and there has been no takers so far.

[bugtraq69]

My replacement GA-X58A-UD3R (a Rev. 2,  ) board running on stock BIOS settings (as in straight out of the box) is as silent as a sleeping baby.

FWIW my setup is:
I7 930, with Akasa Nero S
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB
Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W Modular PSU
Fractal Design Define R2 case

Regards
Peter

[onemilimeter]

My replacement GA-X58A-UD3R (a Rev. 2,  ) board running on stock BIOS settings (as in straight out of the box) is as silent as a sleeping baby.

FWIW my setup is:
I7 930, with Akasa Nero S
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB
Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W Modular PSU
Fractal Design Define R2 case

Regards
Peter

Hi...

Do you mean you had the similar noise problem with your older UD3R (Rev. 1.0 or Rev. 2.0)?

Would you please double confirm the following settings:

Operating system
BIOS version
C1E
C3/C6/C7
Turbo-mode
Number of fans, HDDs, DVD R/RW drive, etc.

Thanks.