Z590-F Sound Issues - Optical Cable

[EncodeGR]

Thanks for that. I have it in the bottom slot as it’s the only I can use! I’ve had to remove my USB card from the slot which is a pain. In essence, I only have one slot in addition to the GPU as the 3090 I have is triple slot and putting anything in the slot below it affects the GPU cooling.Â*

Excuse my ignorance, but what is SATA12?Â*

Yes it's generally a good idea to place any other cards away from the GPU, so that the GPU gets plenty of unrestricted air. And, God the 3090 definitelly needs it

No worries. Sata12 is just the naming scheme for the first and second sata ports. Sata34 and Sata56 is the naming for the rest of the ports (3, 4, 5, 6).
Some configurations disable specific sata ports, but i'm pretty sure the first two ones (SATA12) remain enabled.

[imacken]

Thanks. I thought SATA12 was some kind of new standard that I was missing!

On a side note, it is really weird in this forum that whenever I reply from my iPhone, corrupted characters appear as per my previous post. Wonder why.

[satyrlampu]

I also had same problem (playing youtube, via spdif toslink to my soundbard). It has never happened before (Z370-A Prime and all other boards before). I got this problem whenever use Firefox to play youtube. It never happend when I user Chrome browser)

And I also had issue with RAM with this board .. It always says 32GB Installed (31.8GB Usable) altough I use i7 10700F and discrete GPU .. Try updating to latest bios and this problem still occured

[iisd]

Very similar issue. Sometimes hissing/loud white noise when playing a Youtube video or local video/sound file. Goes away after reloading the video or file.
But I dont use the optical out, I use the analog 3.5 mm output at the back.

Already had a RMA board and a board from a different manufacturer with the same sound chip. Same problem. Clearly an issue with this new chip. Drivers?

[octiva]

check post 27 https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...ge3#post833089