GA-X58A-UD3R electrical noises [solved]

[Dark Mantis]

I just received an answer from Gigabyte technical department after about ten days of waiting, absolutely outrageous! It just said: 

"No definite answers for you I’m afraid. It's one of those cases that would need to be physically checked.

Please return to your dealer for 2nd opinion or RMA."

So they still won't accept that the problem exists and is their responsibility.
Another minus for Gigabyte!

[jaicigy]

very frustrating, I know..

I just picked up my noisy board from the dealer that was sent to Gigabyte service and nothing has been done, everything seems to work fine and they simply advice to disable C1E if I find it annoying to hear these pitching noises... that is all, no echange, no Rev. 2.0 nothing, all is working fine so this is clearly a case of .. if the hardware works fine then Gigabyte cannot help you since noises are not hardware related malfunction but secondary indirect insatisfaction and that does not cover the warranty I suppose... what a dissappointment..

[onemilimeter]

May be customers should consider to launch a campaign worldwide to avoid buying the motherboard.

[jaicigy]

well, I think everyone should do what he wants but I hope that everyone who has a problem with this board reports it first to the dealer, then to the Gigabyte technical support service and then publically on the web. That way just searching in Google all the problems will come to light and a potential buyer is warned.. too bad nobody warned me from these issues before buying the board

[onemilimeter]

Don't buy Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R or other GA-X58A-XXX!

Buy ASUS P6X58D-E...

[jaicigy]

now that is an excellent board, the ASUS P6X58D-E, no noises, no reboots, excellent for overclocking, excellent BIOS layout and not too expensive with also SATA-3 and USB-3 integrated... you got my vote!

[onemilimeter]

Let's start the campaign:

Don't buy Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R or other GA-X58A-XXX!

Buy ASUS P6X58D-E...

[Dark Mantis]

Yes, I would also vote for it! I left Asus to try Gigabyte but wish I hadn't and paid more!
Don't buy Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 or other GA-X58A-XXX!

Buy ASUS P6X58D-E...

[jaicigy]

guys, I don´t see the point in repeating the same message in the same topic in the same forum... at least do it in different forums so that the news is more spread and as soon as someone Googles this motherboard, these messages of dissapointment will appear..

[Dark Mantis]

Valid point I guess.

[Spiffy G.]

i'm sorry you guys are having these troubles.  I guess i'm very lucky to have a x58a ud3r board that is completely silent. 

I hope you guys are able to resolve your issues.  Overall its a very nice board

[jaicigy]

mayby if you informed us of the rest of your hardware and BIOS configuration we could find out something Spiffy G.

Thanks in advance!

[Spiffy G.]

mayby if you informed us of the rest of your hardware and BIOS configuration we could find out something Spiffy G.

Thanks in advance!

exact Hardware detials (most probably useless info):
Rosewill extreme 750watt PSU
ga-x58a-ud3r board
i7 930 @ 2.9 (Stock)
corsair h50 cpu cooler
g.skill ripjaws 6gb 1600mhz 8-8-8-24-2N (white dimm slots)
55nm Palit gtx 260 sonic (216)
55nm EVGA gtx 260 superclocked (216)   both cards matched clocks in SLI
2x 250gb WD drives and 1x 500gb WD drive (No raid set up yet)
IDE connected DVD/burner (will upgrade to bluray once price drops)
Abit Wifi card in first pcie x1 slot  

USB wireless mouse and USB wired keyboard running out of front I/O port
Optic cable out
headset/mic in rear I/O,  Front speakers in Front I/O (Mic would freak out when plugged into front audio I/O)
5ft wifi antenna
24in Monitor pluged into first graphics card

Bios:
Performance mode is set to turbo
Memery profile is set to extreme profile 1 to activate the 1600mhz memory
all voltages are set to auto
all cpu features are set to default, nothing has been turned on or off.  

I have not changed anything besides the memory profile in the bios at this time.  I plan to overclock in the future but first had to make sure the board is stable for at least a month

[jaicigy]

Thank you very much Spiffy G. for taking the time and effort to inform us about this, I at least appreciate it. You did not mention how you have configured C1E and other energy saving configurations, can you please chack?

Thanks again

[Spiffy G.]

Thank you very much Spiffy G. for taking the time and effort to inform us about this, I at least appreciate it. You did not mention how you have configured C1E and other energy saving configurations, can you please chack?

Thanks again

I'm at work right now on lunch but as soon as i get home i will give you the full details.  I do know C1E is enabled.   I do not have any of the gigabyte phase engery saving applications active or even installed on my machine.  The only thing i installed off the disk was the driver package.