Capacitor squeal on P5K.

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• Jun 22, 2008

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Just got my P5K back today . I installed a Q6600, and I'm getting capacitor squeal, at that's what I've narrowed it down to. I can't see any bulging, what do you guys think?

 

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• Jun 22, 2008

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I recall the squealing capacitors back in the 965/975 days. I did read some ppl solved the issue by using some type of glue over the offender. There must be some threads about it somewhere in the forum.

 

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• Jun 22, 2008

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is it a squeal, or a tick?

 

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It's defintely a squeal. more pronounced underload. Much like the capacitor squeal made by video cards when running the ATItool fur test, but more on and off.

 

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• Jun 22, 2008

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Are you sure its not the PSU? Is it an always on thing or intermittent?

 

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Are you sure its not the PSU? Is it an always on thing or intermittent?

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It's not the PSU, I'm using the same components, except I just swapped out the MSI for the P5K, so I know it's the motherboard. I can definitely hear it coming from the motherboard.

And it's not a constant sound, it is on and off during idle, but really starts squealing during Prime95. Overclocking doesn't seem affected at all though...

 

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• Jun 22, 2008

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Someone else had the same problem with a squealing p5k over at XS:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=162863

The gluing method seems to be your best bet...