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GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering

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Hello! I just recently purchased the X58A off newegg since it was at a good price and after setting it and my system up (specs to follow) I thought that at first I was having audio problems, because whenever I sound would play, a good majority of the time, it would pop, not all the time, but occasionally, so I thought the sound drivers might be incorrect, so I reinstalled them etc.

After playing games and reorienting my case so I can look into the system at the mobo parts etc, I noticed that whenever the High Temp LED would turn on, or off, either the red or the green one, I would notice popping in the audio and if I was streaming video or playing games, I would get a very very sharp frame drop, for example; World of Warcraft runs beautifully with VSync off at approx 250 FPS, when the LED turns on, the system essentially hangs for a split second, dropping framerate down to 10-15 and stalling the system temporarily (if you were entering in a command when the LED was being switched on or off, you would lose that command or a portion of it, for example, when typing, losing letters). I tried looking in the BIOS to disable the LED's or online to see if anyone was encountering the same problems and had a solution but alas, it seems like this plight is my own. Any suggestions? Is this potentially a bad board that I am going to have to RMA?

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 07:26:18 am »
Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

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(specs to follow)

I think you might have forgotten something. ;)

The first question I would like answering is why does your red temperature  LED light up?
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Kyrzon

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 08:37:20 am »
Right, sorry bout that, got distracted of course :)

Mobo: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0
CPU: Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz (stock, no OC)
RAM: 3x2GB Kingston HyperX 1066
GFX: PNY GeForce GTX 470 1.25GB GDDR3
Audio: Onboard w/GA-X58A-UD3R

And I'm not sure. I'm utilizing the fan that came with the cpu, it turns green (+60C) just about any time I've been playing games for more than about 5 minutes, and it randomly flashes red sometimes, but when it flashes red, i don't think I've ever actually seen it above 80C like it says it's supposed to be, it's been in the 71 range.

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2010, 09:00:34 am »
Well obviously the stock cooler isn't really up to much and needs replacing with a decent third party cooler like the Noctua D14 or something similar. Connect this straight to the PSU not the motherboard header and disable the fan alarm in the BIOS.
 
But for now just make sure that all the four legs of the stock cooler are pushed fully home and tight as it is common for them to come adrift causing overheating.

The other thing is what case you have it all in. Does it have a good cooling system? It will need it with your hardware.
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Kyrzon

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 09:06:50 am »
I was planning on getting a Noctua actually, just lack of funds at this point. It's in an Antec 1200 full tower, with 7 case fans running full

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2010, 09:11:59 am »
Ok well the case is suitable and plenty of fans so that's good.

What program are you using to measure your temperatures?
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Kyrzon

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2010, 09:17:45 am »
EasyTune6, it's part of the software suite included with the motherboard drivers.

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2010, 09:27:59 am »
Download and run RealTemp from here:
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp

I am not keen on EasyTune and personally would uninstall it.
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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2010, 03:43:22 pm »
The stock cooler should be okay at stock speeds. Maybe the heatsink just needs to be reseated? :)

Although the NH-D14 I would definatly reccomend. And will enable you to have a quieter system (if that bothers you or not)
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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2010, 01:35:20 am »
Hello, sorry for bumping this tread up but I have same problem.
When NB temp reaches 65C, led starts to flash and high latency (stuttering) occurs (DPC Latencu Checker shows ~28K). As soon as it drops to 64C, latency is normal (below 10). I'm running i7 930 @3.8GHz with Megahalems and all temps (CPU, HDDs etc) are ~40C and lower at idle, only NB is above 50C. On load (while gaming) NB temp slowly rises to 65C and high latency occurs.
I've found out on some other forum that NB gets hot (in my case) because there is no airflow over its heatsink. This is due to Megahalems that is only cooling CPU and not surrounding elements. So, solution is to cool NB. I can't place any fan to blow direct on NB (no room) but PCI Slot cooler (XILENCE COO-XPF-SL.B PCI slot) will do the job by placing it above NB and pulling out hot air above heatsinks.. at least I hope :D
 I'm writing this cause OP can get same problem with Noctua (not sure, just guessing). Hope it helps :)

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2010, 10:28:25 am »
Thanks for your input galeb and I am sure you are right.  However I think that as long as you have good airflow through the case it should be enough to cool the northbridge. You could of course add a heatsink to it to help or point  a fan directly at it, it wouldn't need to be on top of it just pointing in that direction.
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galeb

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2010, 07:37:03 pm »
Well I have CM Cavier 3 case and not much place to put extra fan, so this PCI slot solution look like elegant solution :)
I'll let you know if that solved the issue.

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2010, 05:27:39 pm »
 >:( >:(    exact same problem cpu temp light flashes  green randomly even when im doing nothing excessive  as it flashes it causes a stutter ??? fans are all on full, CoolerMaster Cosmos S tower liquid cpu cooling system... firstly it was when i was gaming now its all the time like when i have itunes on i get popping through the speakers its getting soooo annoying. Have u resolved the problem yet?????

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2010, 06:20:14 pm »
Well extra fan did the job for me. Temp of NB not hitting 65C anymore so no more stutter. What is the temp of NB when it starts to flash?

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Re: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0 CPU Temp. Indicator LED's cause stuttering
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2010, 06:48:46 pm »
>:( >:(    exact same problem cpu temp light flashes  green randomly even when im doing nothing excessive  as it flashes it causes a stutter ??? fans are all on full, CoolerMaster Cosmos S tower liquid cpu cooling system... firstly it was when i was gaming now its all the time like when i have itunes on i get popping through the speakers its getting soooo annoying. Have u resolved the problem yet?????

It is quite possible that your problem is being caused by a different thing than galeb's and that is why it is'nt working for you. Just because the symptoms are the same doesn't mean the cause is.
Have you run DPC Latency checker to see what results you get?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
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HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
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Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy