My rig is listed at the bottom. Basically I love my rig, except two BIG problems. Both of the problems appear to be related to the mobo and power saving features. I hoping for help. The problems are:
1) Using power saving states like C1E leads to coil whine, an extremely annoying coil whine. My system is near silent by design, except unfortunately when power saving is enabled. This problem seems to be pretty well documented over on the hardforums and on here. Enabling C1E and other power saving features leads to variable coil whine based on CPU load. Any help with this would be great, seems there is a new bios I have yet to try listed on this forum. Are people having good success with this?
2) The motherboard shuts down with windows7 sleep. When put into sleep mode it occassionally comes out of it on its own after 5 seconds, or if not it just fully shuts down. This means that I either need to leave the computer on constantly or wait for it to cold boot when needed. I have had great success with previous gigabyte boards in previous builds, so this leads me to believe there is a actual problem with this individual mobo.
It would be great if I could get one or both of these features to work. Before anyone asks, I currently have everything at stock settings and have never opened up this board to overclock in hopes of solving this first. I have tried everything I know. Hope one of you can help.
Should I return the board for a revision 2???
Silverstone FT02-B - GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD5 - Core i7 930 - Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme-1366 RT Rev. C CPU Heatsink - Corsair 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 RAM @ 7-8-7-20 - SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5850 - SeaSonic X650 Gold 650W Power Supply - OCZ Agility 2 120 GB SSD - Western Digital Black 750GB HDD - Western Digital Green 2TB HDD - Windows7 x64 - HP LP2465 24" S-PVA LCD @ 1920x1200
