EVGA 680i VS 780i VS Asus Striker

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dan_plus_o

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Hey, so I obviously know that the 780i is probably the best way to go however I don't want to pay that kind of money for one just yet. I have an EVGA 680i right now hoever it makes some annoying squealing noise when CPU is at high load and sometimes when I just move the mouse. I have a chance to buy an Asus Stirker for $150 + Shipping. It is second hand however apparently NIB. Or I had the idea to just hold on to my EVGA 680i and wait until the 780i goes down in price (if ever). Just looking for opinions on the what you think I should do. THe way I see it is I could probably get $50-$80 for my current EVGA 680i and then pay a bit more to get a NIB ASUS Striker. My EVGA 680i is still under warranty so if I do sell it I will get a RMA one and sell that. Just that I would like to have a motherboard before I ship the E680i off to EVGA so I can still use my PC.

Also: I have 4GB of patriot ram that is not on the qualified ASUS list so I am a little worried that Ram won't work with Striker. I have also heard of other ram issues involving compatibility.
 
one of my favorite sayings:
if its not broken, dont fix it.
that means i wouldnt do it personally, given the fact that your ram wont work with the board according to Asus. you have a nice rig, and it works.....so why take a chance on something that might not?
 
Did you read the part where I mentioned the squealing noise when CPU is at high load. It gets dam well annoying at times.

I could just RMA it but then I would probably have to wait forever to get it back. I live in Canada so I would have to ship it to the US and then have one shipped back to me from the US. EVGA also makes you pay for shipping. It will cost me $50 there and back but last time I talked to someone from EVGA they said they would pay return shipping, so it will cost $25 to ship it there.

And ASUS never said that my ram won't work they just never verified that it works. It still possible the ram will work even though it is not listed on their site.

I will probably just wait until 780i goes down in price.

Also my 680i is the older TR version and not the AR/A1. Not sure whats new since A1 and AR but it must be something worth realesing a new motherboard for.
 
you could ofcourse look into a cheapskate 650i (or 610i) motherboard, wich will do the job while you RMA the eVGA one.
did you ever tried to pinpoint where the squealing is comming from btw? I mean, it would be either a capacitor or a inductor, (if its an inductor a drop of hot meld glue could easely fix the problem)
 
It is coming from one of the black boxes with R50 on them. They are right next to the CPU. Not sure what they are exactly.
 
I would have thought most likely it would be a crappy fan causing the sqeaking. If it happens when the CPU is under higher load, the fan will likely be going faster, and some part of this is causing the noise.

I havent heard of capacitor making a noise like that, unless it blows up...in which case it just makes a loud pop and a hiss (electrolytic), but once its blown its blown, and the elctrolyte is vaporized, rendering the capacitor pretty useless.

I havent heard of inductors making such noises either. Inductors are fairly uncomplicated things in term of physical structure, and I cant see where a source of noise could come from.

My guess is the fan.
 
bit4bit said:
I would have thought most likely it would be a crappy fan causing the sqeaking. If it happens when the CPU is under higher load, the fan will likely be going faster, and some part of this is causing the noise.

I havent heard of capacitor making a noise like that, unless it blows up...in which case it just makes a loud pop and a hiss (electrolytic), but once its blown its blown, and the elctrolyte is vaporized, rendering the capacitor pretty useless.

I havent heard of inductors making such noises either. Inductors are fairly uncomplicated things in term of physical structure, and I cant see where a source of noise could come from.

My guess is the fan.
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both, capasitors and inductors have forces on them from the magnetic field they create tough, and with the high frequenty's, that can actually cause squeeling :)

its a shame its comming from one of those voltage regulators tough.. those are enclosed units, so it wouldnt help I gues. (try putting a pen or so on them tough (1 by 1) when its squeeling) if it stops on one, you might be able to stop it from doing that after all :o (I doubt it tough)
 
both, capasitors and inductors have forces on them from the magnetic field they create tough, and with the high frequenty's, that can actually cause squeeling
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I've never seen this before when building circuits. I've had a few electrolytics blow up in my face though :D

I would have thought most good capcitors/inductors would be well built enough not to be physically internally affected by their own forces. I would imagine to get any audible sound from it would take a relatively high amount of energy, which would mean running the components at levels over the maximums....in which case they break anyway :)

Now how a voltage regulator can produce noises is beyond me....

BTW dan, I missed your previous post, else I wouldn't of suggested the fan :)
 
The 780i will eventually get a lower price variant of it... Just like the 680i does with the LT version of it. I would also suggest for an EVGA board instead of Asus.
 
Archangel said:
you could ofcourse look into a cheapskate 650i (or 610i) motherboard, wich will do the job while you RMA the eVGA one.
did you ever tried to pinpoint where the squealing is comming from btw? I mean, it would be either a capacitor or a inductor, (if its an inductor a drop of hot meld glue could easely fix the problem)
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For the price might as well get a P35-DS3L. 45nm and lots more futureproof.
 
Yeah I am wanting to be able to use SLI in the future.

Thanks for all the replies, as I said above I think I will just wait for the 780i to go down in price. Probably have to live a month or more without my PC while I get my motherboard RMA'ed. That is the main reason why I was considering getting the Asus Striker.
 
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