M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Catastrophe

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Originally Posted by zoomee

I was just gunna post in here saying how my board is working perfectly - BUT I take it all back!.

Been getting this really HIGH-PITCHED whining noise coming from what seems like the mainboard when I overclock and stress test.

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Your board is fine

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Originally Posted by Ket

Truth be known, manufacturers know they use crap TIM and do a sh|t job when it comes to choosing the mounting of the mobo cooling. I've never come across a manufacturer yet thats not RMAd something because I took the cooling off and done a proper job of it. Eitherway, doesn't effect you now I guess as you got a new mobo incoming :D

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Trust me, they are fine. The heatsinks on my 890FX board are basically the same and they are suprisingly efficient. NB temps on load are 40c :up: and the heatsinks are very warm (they are transferring heat).

Recieved my Crosshair on saturday - needless to say I was highly dissapointed! It screeches just the same as my M4A89GTD!

A)- Voltages are all over the place! - on stock settings vcore kept jumping around from 1.28 to 1.32 - then as high as 1.42!!! - wooot! - tried latest official BIOS from Asus (1005)- same thing.

B)- At one point the CPU VID, VDDA VID and another voltage sensor stopped working for like 5 seconds!!! - This board is highly unstable!

C)- The board (even though the supplier reckons is brand spanking new) had a hand written white label sticker on it (labelled m14 or somat!) and the mac address label looked like someones been trying to peel it off!!! lol! You'd expect more from a £160 mainboard!

D)- Lastly - i wasn't impressed by how much hotter the chipset is on a 890FX board v's a 890GX one - 5 Degrees C hotter....

Needless to say I've already arranged for a refund and am gunna stick with the M4A89GTDPro/USB3.0 - All is forgiven baby - come back to daddy! :)

lmfao.

lol - I knoes mate - you did tell me ;) :rolleyes:

Spoke to ASUS today and it looks like they are just waiting for a replacement board. It was DOA so I get a new board. :yepp:

OCM :up:

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Originally Posted by Glow9

http://declubz.com/blog/wp-content/u...repair-kit.jpg

I swear.... This pic is so old and yet I'm going to keep posting it until people remember it.

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I swear, i got a very similar tool, but just for Gigabyte hardware. Works on Gigabut's MBO, GPU and any other :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty things they create.

ASUS Repair Status now went form "WAITSWAP" to "Packing" today. Wooo Hooo! lol

Asus received my motherboard on 9/10 and a new board is on its way to me today 9/17.

7 Day turn around, not bad at all.

Looky what fedex dropped off today.

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/r...I/DSC02918.jpg

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/r...I/DSC02923.jpg

I was only expecting a motherboard and I got a brand spanking new retail box from ASUS. Good on ASUS. Now lets see if this thing fires up.

OCM :up:

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Originally Posted by OC Maximus

Looky what fedex dropped off today.

http://i464./albums/rr4/383HEMI/DSC02918.jpg

http://i464.83HEMI/DSC02923.jpg

I was only expecting a motherboard and I got a brand spanking new retail box from ASUS. Good on ASUS. Now lets see if this thing fires up.

OCM :up:

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Glad everything worked out, I told you ASUS is preety level headed with this stuff if user error is not an issue, Looks like you got a spare heatpipe assembly now to. :up:

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Originally Posted by chew*

Glad everything worked out, I told you ASUS is preety level headed with this stuff if user error is not an issue, Looks like you got a spare heatpipe assembly now to. :up:

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Yeah, I probably wouldn't have even sent it out for RMA if it wasn't for your advice in post #2. I thank you for that. ;)

Now I'm just waiting on you to test that spare board before you send it out to me :p:

OCM :up: