Possible issues with my EX58 UD5
Over the past couple of weeks I have been putting together a new pc as I am selling the one in my signature to my brother minus the GTX 280.
Over the past couple of days I have installed Windows 7 Pro along with the various drivers (chipset,GPU,Sound Etc.). The Spec is listed below.
The problem that I am having is that I am getting noise from what I assume are some of the capacitors in the PSU especially in intensive stuff e.g. Crysis especially on the menu, but also when browsing the web more so when a download progress bar is in use. It is definitely coming from the PSU rather than the mobo or GPU.
To try and troubleshoot this I have swapped out the GTX 280 with an 8400 GS I have kicking about. The noise is still present. I first noticed it during the tests for the windows experience index.I have also swapped out the PSU with a spare Coolermaster Real Power M620. The noise is the same.
I know in general the advice is that it is just capacitor squeal and it just an annoyance rather than a problem.
However I have been looking at the Main Phase, RAM Phase and Northbridge Phase indicators. During Post all LED for the CPU and NB phases light up, but none of the Ram phases light up. Once in windows there is one light on the Northbridge phase and none on the other two. The only way to get the main phase indicator is to turn on the Dynamic Energy Saving Utility in Windows (This does not lessen the noise).
* Intel Core i7 920 D0
* Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58
* Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7
* Zotac GTX 280
* Asus Xonar DX PCI-E
* Antec P183
* Corsair H50-1
* 2 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB - RAID 0
* LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW
* Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 550w
Any thoughts?
Over the past couple of weeks I have been putting together a new pc as I am selling the one in my signature to my brother minus the GTX 280.
Over the past couple of days I have installed Windows 7 Pro along with the various drivers (chipset,GPU,Sound Etc.). The Spec is listed below.
The problem that I am having is that I am getting noise from what I assume are some of the capacitors in the PSU especially in intensive stuff e.g. Crysis especially on the menu, but also when browsing the web more so when a download progress bar is in use. It is definitely coming from the PSU rather than the mobo or GPU.
To try and troubleshoot this I have swapped out the GTX 280 with an 8400 GS I have kicking about. The noise is still present. I first noticed it during the tests for the windows experience index.I have also swapped out the PSU with a spare Coolermaster Real Power M620. The noise is the same.
I know in general the advice is that it is just capacitor squeal and it just an annoyance rather than a problem.
However I have been looking at the Main Phase, RAM Phase and Northbridge Phase indicators. During Post all LED for the CPU and NB phases light up, but none of the Ram phases light up. Once in windows there is one light on the Northbridge phase and none on the other two. The only way to get the main phase indicator is to turn on the Dynamic Energy Saving Utility in Windows (This does not lessen the noise).
* Intel Core i7 920 D0
* Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58
* Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7
* Zotac GTX 280
* Asus Xonar DX PCI-E
* Antec P183
* Corsair H50-1
* 2 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB - RAID 0
* LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW
* Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 550w
Any thoughts?
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