Z170 woes

maff20

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Hello all,

So where to begin. I've been running an i5 750 with a gigabyte P55a-UD3r board, 8gb of ram and a gigabyte gtx 460 oc2 gfx card for about 5 - 6 years now and fancied an upgrade after reading the astounding overclocks that folk are getting with the new skylake cpus.

I ordered the following:
MSI Gaming M7 mobo
i7 6700k CPU
EVGA G2 1000w PSU
16gb Kingston HyperX DDR4 (2666)
Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980

Money wasn't available for the whole lot at once so a couple of weeks ago I ordered just the PSU and GFX card, which I slotted in to my existing build while I accumulated the rest of the dosh for the build. Fine. Everything working exactly as I would expect, no whine, no fuss.

Ordered the other parts which arrived yesterday morning and got set about building the new beasty. Everything went reasonably smoothly during install, up and running. Installed steam and fired up a game..... buzzzzzzzzzzzz - really quite loud. Oh deary me. First thing that sprung to mind was gfx card but how can that be since it was running fine on the old build? Shut down and installed my old faithfull gtx 460 to rule the gfx card out. Sure enough, as soon as I fired up a game - buzzzzzzzzzzz. I then tried swapping out the PSU to the old Arctic 700 and had the same thing. Pretty confused at this point and suspected something to do with power delivery through PCI-e port. Tried a different port - same noise.

Gutted, I resigned myself to the fact that there was an issue with the motherboard and stripped the PC down to RMA the board. I know that these processes are sometimes not the quickest so I re-assembled my old PC.

Got reinstalled. Guess what noise still persisted? BUZZZZZZZZZ. Both cards doing this now on my old PC, which has been a faithful silent servant for years. Again, tried all combos of hardware, PSU, GFX etc. All to the same effect.

I've now opened an RMA request for the GFX card too.

Could the motherboard have damaged my cards? Whats the beef yall? Anybody had any grief with the MSI M7 Gaming? Is my PSU incompatible with skylake? Im pretty gutted.

On a side note, used ****.com for the CPU purchase - harsh email going their way as they saw fit to post a £300 CPU in a jiffy bag.... fair enough its in its retail box but seriously? A jiffy bag? The ram, in contrast was sent in a sturdy box with ample foam padding, a component that cost a third of the CPU (though ordered through ******** as opposed to ****).
 
can you explain the buzz noise a bit better, could it be coming through the speakers if you own them?
also don't buy from scam and don't mention competitors :)
 
Hi Murah,

Sorry about mentioning competitors - was just annoyed at the way the CPU was posted. Wasn't "scam", but another 4 lettered component vendor.

No the noise is defo an electrical buzzing noise, like really severe coil whine, though not so much of a whine as a buzz. Certainly not coming through the speakers - all too familiar with that kind of interference as the P55a-ud3r is plagued by it. It can be heard at its loudest with your ear at the gfx card. It also only happens when you load a game - basically whenever the gpu has to think about doing something other than showing a splash screen/intro video.
 
Could it be something as simple as a fan being fouled by a wire, dust filter or something, so as the fan spins it rubs against the wire/some other object and creates the noise?
 
Yeah check to see if anything is rubbing, I had an annoying sound after adding my new GPU but it turned out to be one of my front fans rubbing against the dust filter
 
Sounds like a power cable plastic end bit is being smacked by a case fan or GPU fan. Or maybe a fan is not screwed into the case tightly and is racketing lose.
 
I wish it was something so simple slick rick - its definitely not that though. Trust me, I triple and quadruple checked anything of that nature.

I've had coil whine before on cards but nothing like this. I've got RMA requests in for both the gfx card and the motherboard. Been a fun old weekend, spent like 12 hours+ building, stripping, swapping.... exhausted
 
It was a bit of a long shot.

You will get it sorted in the end, its just the trouble shooting and RMAing and waiting for the items to get back to you etc can be very frustrating!
 
I've run it bare, pressed on parts of the case near the noise when it was in situ, checked cables etc etc. Its defo electrical noise when the card is under load.

The thing thats really hacked me off is that it transferred back to the old build. Like I said in my first post - after dismantling the new pc (i only have one case) I rebuilt the old mobo etc, the noise is still there, so whatever having the cards plugged in to the new motherboard has done seems to be permanent.

I've built several PCs over the years, never not once had as much hassle as this
 
Tried setting up sync to limit FPS.

Only time I have had similar is trying to play an oldish game on my 970 (Railroad Tycoon II) as soon as I fired it up the gfx was pumping as many FPS as it could and it made a really loud/scary buzzing sound. I thought it was going to explode!

I think after that I made sure the FPS was limited and it didn't occur again.
 
A small part of me wishes I had run it for a bit longer to see if the noise went away, but then I thought "why should I, I've spend hundreds on these bits". Kind of wishing I had gone the devils canyon route now, least those components are at least a couple of revisions in. Built my mate a devils canyon rig on an msi gaming 7 board only 3 weeks ago and it went as smooth as a smooth thing on a smooth day.
 
You're not wrong. At this point I'm about ready to RMA everything, sell any tech products I own and go live in a mud hut somewhere. Hopefully this isn't a prelude to how the rest of my week is going to be...
 
OMG i also have the m7 motherboard and the g1 980 gpu and the same exact ram!! (i thought i made a good choice :( )

I have had this problem for 2 days since i got my new stuff and havnet been able to tell what it was reinstalled windows twice after the first time checked all drivers everything nothing will fix it!!

I think there is somthing really weird going on as i cant find other people with problem's using the z170 and a 980.

(i also flashed to the newest bios and moved my gpu to every slot)

It orignally was only happening in certain games but now every game has this terrible noise.

o and jsut so you know i am currently using the 6600k and a Corsair AX1200i Digital ATX so the chip and psu are different so it can't be there fault.
 
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I flashed my bios to the beta 1.63 i then reinstalled the latest windows 10 i then proceeded to install the latest nvidia drivers realtek and intel and razer driver's (so bare minimum pretty much on a fresh windows so nothing altered) and installed diablo 3 as a test andddd still the same annoying noise.

So either msi are trolling me cause i am using a gigabyte card... or there is a compatablity issue with my ram and the motherboard eitherway i hope there is a bios fairly quickly that sort's out this issue !!
 
have you narrowed down where the noise is coming from at all? take it as its following the PC its the GPU that is causing the noise?
 
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