Hi,
Since my build I haven't gamed a whole lot as I am very busy, but recently I played some games that went over 144 FPS and anytime it went over 144 FPS, I'd get a squealing buzzing noise coming from the CPU area on the motherboard.
Before, I thought it may have been the GPU (Gigabyte 980 TI G1) as I only heard it faintly before, but I plopped in my prevois builds GPU that never had that issue (Asus 680 gtx) and I still got the noise. The noise also comes right around the CPU area, not the GPU. There's a clear difference. Sound doesn't come frmo the PSU. I also used my previous builds PSU that never had any issues, and I still heard the squealing around the CPU area. I have reseated multiple times to see if that'd make a difference, but it doesn't. I checked ALL fans. I would stop them and squealing is still present. GPU fans stay off until a higher temp, and squealing is there before the fans even turn on.
Squealing only happens when games give FPS over about 144. Running 3Dmax, ice storm or whatever, I get well over 2K FPS and the squealing gets so loud and fast like a million pigs going at it in the CPU area. This never happened on the Z170 MSI board I tried, as well as the Gigabyte Gaming 7 board. I do recall being in the Arma3 menu (300+ FPS) and a slight buzzing noise was there, but I thought it was just the system, but over-time I inspected closer and picked up what I've mentioned. It's very loud and obnoxious. I saw another thread on this noise issue too.
Clearly something is up with the Asus Hero Alpha board I am using. It's far out of the replacement policy from Newegg, so now what? Am I stuck with a pig squealing board? I really despise Asus RMA as they provide used parts, and sometimes other customers parts that came in faulty, and send those out. I've been swapping boards and replacements since October 2015, and Asus has been mostly liars and trouble to me, except a few who have reached out for minor attempts to help. I really think spending $300 on a board that has pig squealing under normal load for games, should be replaced properly and not replaced with another faulty or used board.
Can anything be done about this? How can I isolate a capacitor if it's a specific one? Toilet paper role? What else?
Thanks!
Z790 Asus Hero Maximus on 0816 BIOS (0914 and 1202 crashes for me on XMP I), Intel 13900k stock clock, Asus 4090 Strix OC edition, FF3D532G720 Teamgroup Ram running XMP I, 16gb x 2, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB x 2, Seasonic VERTEX GX 1200W, Win 11 Pro 64, Deepcool LS720 AIO, NZXT H7 Flow. Comfortably using Armoury Crate for updates/fan xpert.
